Izkata

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by Izkata 11mo ago
There's a fan theory that Grandia II is a prequel to Grandia set in the far, far, far distant past. I think the main basis is from one of the final scenes in Grandia II, involving two people with wings - possibly be very first Icarian
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by Izkata 11mo ago
> Nice comment! How is the HD collection? I bought my Switch because I found out about the HD collection, so this is remembered from 6+ years ago and may be fixed now, but two problems stuck out with Grandia II: One video crossing the Gr
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by Izkata 11mo ago
The very first area at the start of the game actually encouraged this if you experimented even a little: Combo is the default attack but it doesn't defeat those early enemies so they'll hit you back, but the battles start with jus
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Lines of code changed would be a high one as well, though that's already well-known as a bad measure.
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by Izkata 11mo ago
> (i.e. do what you want, it will avoid you) The one I encountered a week ago, when I and another person got near it, it stopped moving. You have to go around them, and there's no way to get them out of the way if they're bloc
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by Izkata 11mo ago
I have an odd suggestion for learning more of vim: Check out gvim. It's vim with a GUI, dropdowns for nice discoverability and most importantly the shortcuts on each menu item are the commands to use it in regular vim. It's how I
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Given the Flynn effect ended in the 90s in several countries, I'd say the western world is close to it.
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Further: In The Next Generation , when Scotty shows up, he mentions to Geordi he anyways padded his estimates because he knew Kirk would do things like that.
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by Izkata 11mo ago
I've expected this same thing for a long time, it's the exact same phenomena as tv/movie cgi special effects looking dated - many that were amazing when the were released just look bad now because we've gotten used to th
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by Izkata 11mo ago
> In Star Trek the cool technology and AGI like computer is accompanied by a post-scarcity society where fundamental needs are taken care of. The Star Trek computer doesn't even attempt to show AGI, and Commander Data is the excepti
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Half a memory - wasn't the Internet Explorer implementation called JScript?
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Yes for normal teenagers in the early 2000s or so (MySpace encouraged experimentation and there were many sites where people would upload copy/pastable javascript snippets for their sites), outside of that group I'm not so sure.
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Piet is mine - the programs are 2D images: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet Primarily because of the note on the "calculating pi" example program: > Richard Mitton supplies this amazing program which calcula
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by Izkata 11mo ago
The main problem with that one is chocolate bar + body heat also leads to melting.
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by Izkata 11mo ago
About 15 years ago I had a Dell, then two Asus, and about 6 years ago I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad (T490), which I still use. The Thinkpad was a major step up in quality compared to everything I had before - I haven't even needed to rep
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by Izkata 11mo ago
No, their concern was specifically over mRNA and how it might screw with the body. Over 2021 and 2022 it very much felt like the pro-vaccine crowd was the anti-science crowd: While they were dismissing all concerns with things like the ove
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by Izkata 11mo ago
You're agreeing with them. Keep reading their comment to understand why that didn't matter.
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by Izkata 11mo ago
This is apparently a mix of myth and misleading information: They can't be used to directly break the glass like these devices were designed to, they were never designed for this purpose as people claim, and even the "lever it be
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by Izkata 11mo ago
I think it's fine for the "sinking in a lake" case too? The water pressure prevents the door from opening, and my understanding was you want the car to fill with water fast enough you can take a breath, let the pressure equa
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Even that sounds extreme. The "Vitamin D Hammer" for people extremely deficient is 50k IU just once, not even for a temporary period.
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Some other old-fashioned-y terms in this context: "strength" and "fortitude". Men generally process negative emotions in private so others don't worry about them. This has led to the incorrect common viewpoint that
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by Izkata 11mo ago
And on the second one, you could use any other unit instead of fr for the image to set its width consistently, then fr on the text to have it use up whatever remains.
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by Izkata 11mo ago
It found problems in the tree - lost files, wrong node counts, other stuff - which led to me finding files that didn't match previous backups (and when opened were obviously corrupted, like the bottom half of an image being just noise)
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by Izkata 11mo ago
I bought a replacement but never bothered swapping it. The weird thing is the random corruption stopped happening a few years ago (confirmed against old backups, so it's not like I'm just not noticing).
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by Izkata 11mo ago
Huh. I wonder if this is why I'd sometimes get random corruption on my laptop's SSD. I'd reboot after a while and fsck would find issues in random files I haven't touched in a long time.
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by Izkata 1y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, 3.3 was when they started re-adding things that were removed in 3.0, to make supporting both 2 and 3 reasonable for libraries. I think it kept going in both 3.4 and 3.5 with more features, but the 3.3 restor
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by Izkata 1y ago
> the splitting of byte strings and character strings alone (an obvious move towards sanity) was plenty annoying for many projects. Python 2 had both, it was a rename, not a split. unicode -> str, and str -> bytes. The "u&quot
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by Izkata 1y ago
> A lot of math crops up in unexpected ways in everyday life. Planning a route through an amusement park or mall to reach the most things in the least time... There's a lot we don't need mathematical perfection on so it never r
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by Izkata 1y ago
Also, they used to start that young. My gradeschool in the 90s would identify gifted students in kindergarten and give parents the option to move them to SWAS (school-within-a-school) starting in first grade.
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by Izkata 1y ago
Chicago's Lake Shore Drive/Belmont intersection has 3 stoplights you have to pass to get out. During rush hour it sometimes gets so backed up my bus has gotten stuck in it for a half hour. The first light is for the northbound on&

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