NemuriBaku

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   by NemuriBaku 4y ago

   "The human is almost extinct in the wild. A captive breeding program has been phenomenally successful. Sometimes humans say they eat nachos like an animal, as though they aren't one." -> "A man disappears in the fores
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   by NemuriBaku 5y ago

   I suspect the k in kWh leads to the occasional factor of 1000 error.
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   by NemuriBaku 5y ago

   If you're terrified of drones, that's an interesting feedback loop.
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   by NemuriBaku 5y ago

   When I was an undergraduate, I suggested some ideas to my classmates that would now be called "static analysis". About 1/4 of them would reflexively respond with "That won't work: halting problem". They were va
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   by NemuriBaku 5y ago

   Referring to a "need" in a pointedly vague way whose meaning had to be inferred from context used to be a euphemistic way of referring to all kinds of biological imperatives. It is important to remember that this use isn't co
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   by NemuriBaku 5y ago

   When a player rolls 38 6-sided dice in a tabletop game, I'd like to have something similar.
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   by NemuriBaku 5y ago

   Jeff Goldblum visited a game developer for his eponymous TV show. Even as a musician, he was surprised and enchanted by the idea of an "audio reward".
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   by NemuriBaku 5y ago

   Some people are thrown off when the time goes 10AM, 11AM, 12PM, 1PM. The "12" is used more like a 0. So 0 hours and 30 minutes post meridian is 12:30PM.
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   by NemuriBaku 5y ago

   This reminds me of the issue of clocks starting at 12 instead of 0.