IntrepidWorm

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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   > You can. My understanding is that this will be reflected in credit reporting as delinquency- seems like a lose-lose in that sense. Can someone who has done this weigh in?
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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   You are correct- but they do complement each other very nicely, and Minecraft as a game has many properties that encourage both creative and analytical thought.
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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   This is probably an intentional oversight by Microsoft. Nobody wants to have to deal with Windows 7 anymore, so leaving an option for people to upgrade for free allows the continued obsolescence of that OS (yes, I know the official support
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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   The way I understood the myth is that history tends to distill what were at the time collective achievements, and gradually ascribe them to one or two deified figureheads. It's not to say that those individuals were not geniuses, simpl
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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   Considering that you very clearly understood the intent from context, it seems rather petty to point this out in an otherwise completely unrelated discussion.
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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   I fail to see the problem here.
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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   TL:DR; The phrase "A bird dropped a large splat on my head" generally implies a much more upsetting prospect than simply "A bird dropped a large splat in my general vicinity."
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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   Underrated comment.
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   by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

   Agreed- the psychological and physical health benefits attributed by several studies to regular exposure to wooded and rural outdoor spaces is almost certainly worth the risk.
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    by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

    Yup! My family owns a restaurant, and I can confirm this is true in my area (northeast US). My sister worked as a server for a summer (2017, or thereabouts), and averaged about $46 an hour. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it helped t
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    by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

    This is just the sort of product to invoke the ire of "big pencil." Mark my words, and watch as the insidious cabal of global pencil subsidiaries (Ticonderoga, Staedtler, Mitsubishi, and others) slowly smothers this product in its
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    by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

    I agree- as pestilent as mosquitoes are to humans, there's no denying that they represent significant insect biomass, to be consumed by multiple other species - honestly, with everything else happening to the climate, birds and bats ar
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    by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

    The Weave has a nice mouth feel.
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    by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

    I do the same, after noticing I carry my stress in my jaw. Occasionally something will break my concentration on a task and I'll notice that I have my teeth clenched so tight, that whole mandibular muscle group is positively aching (th
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    by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

    I do suffer insomnia, and though I haven't relied on using this particular phenomenon to fall asleep, I have noticed it, usually between sleeping and waking. Typically, I notice it upon being awoken by soft stimulus but not feeling the
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    by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

    > I’m no longer a programmer, but I wondered why it wasn’t “return (__builtin_popcount(x) == 1)” - just out of interest. == is a boolian comparison operator. Therefore, we are returning true or false depending on how the expression evalu
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    by IntrepidWorm 5y ago

    It sometimes gets easier if you first define a negative number as an "opposite positive." You can then engage in a discussion of what the opposite of an opposite is. Ultimately though, finding multiple approaches for the teaching