PhasmaFelis

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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Good point. If Discord can make billions by essentially reinventing IRC...
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
This song gave Settlers of Catan players the opportunity to spend ore and (exchanged) lumber to buy a city, and then burst into "We Built This City on Rock and Wood." So it can't be all bad.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I think you're conflating "overplayed" with "just plain bad."
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
If T. Herman Zweibel didn't let corporeal death force him out of the Onion, why should Kaczynski?
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Japan was never Soviet, so I'm not seeing the connection.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I really hope they can make it work. We all hate how shitty the big sites have gotten in the name of maximizing profit, but I think it's more insidious than that. It would be one thing if running (say) a news site with decency and inte
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> First, as the cold war heated up in the 40s and 50s, America’s idealistic vision for a democratic and progressive Japan took a back seat to the more practical and pressing need to develop Japan into a bulwark against Communism. Funny
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
That's been the technical definition in the AI research community for at least 50 years. "AI = machines that think like people" is the sci-fi definition.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
There's a story of a fighter pilot, flying on instruments on a rainy night, who noticed his altimeter was reading level, artificial horizon level, but his speed was climbing even with the throttle steady. He immediately pulled the ejec
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> You're grossly mischaracterizing this. To be fair, so was Reaperducer, with the "Only if your taste in music is very narrow" bit.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Keyboard input wasn't working for me on several games, until I reloaded the page.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Until the industrial age, I think fire was less about having more energy to work with and more about things that could never be done with any amount of mechanical power: heat, light, cooking and all its many benefits, repelling nocturnal pr
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I vaguely recall some children's book in which the protagonists spent hours and hours poring over their math textbooks and copying all the important things onto hidden cheatsheets, only to realize--to their horror--that they'd act
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I got a puzzle with (at least?) two valid solutions, but one of them is "wrong" and the game refuses to accept it. Boo.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Link's not working for me.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
It's a one-time thing, it's like $20. They've been doing it for at least six or seven years. You probably selected it when you ordered your current model.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I'm also seeing CBD gummies on the photo link. I don't see a "More" link at the bottom of the main page, though, at least not on mobile.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7637605.stm
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
The thing in this particular case, as you know, is that we have a very obviously biased Supreme Court making decisions based on what's good for the corporations paying them, instead of either settled precedent or the intentions of the
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Can you? It's been a long time since I studied Turing machines, but if a machine returns to an exact previous full state (of both the machine and the tape), then we know it will not terminate but loop forever; and a machine with a fini
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
The price of freedom is ~~eternal vigilance~~ childhood brain damage.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
"Driving into extinction" is an awfully loaded and hyperbolic phrase for "neutering a single colony of feral domestic cats." It makes it sound like an atrocity. Maybe that's not what you intended. Preventing unwante
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
The sole caretaker on the island is getting old and won't be able to look after the cats forever, so the Aoshima Cat Protection Society decided to spay/neuter the cats and let nature take its course. This is going exactly as plann
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Who is surprised? The sterilization program is doing exactly what it was supposed to, and that's a good thing. I think you're misinterpreting the article.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Spaying and neutering cats is not "driving them extinct."
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I don't think hyperbole automatically counts as debasement of the language.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
If the road noise is overpowering your music, you've got it too low.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> The course's instructor really lionized Harrah's for doing this, and loved to talk about how much profit it made for the company. I took a marketing class in the course of my CS degree, and my main takeaway was that a lot of
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
It sounds like the trouble is that people are putting a lot of effort into trying to come up with a detailed lie that will flatter the professor's expectations, when (as I read the OP) the professor has no expectations and actually wan
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I'm not sure why you (and, apparently, several students) are assuming that a simple, straightforward question is actually a trick that demands a complex, rambling answer.

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