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In a lot of these there could logically be someone sitting across from them making them laugh, but the woman with the cherry tomato in her fingers is just smiling for the love of the salad.
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Cool! I've tried (and I guess failed) to build two of my favourite combinatorial games: the ancient "Konane" and the modern "Shōbu". At least the latter's project taught me property-based testing in Erlang. ht
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I wasn't expecting what the inside of the shed would be like!
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I'm the opposite, it drives me crazy! Along with sound effects / music playing.
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The alt-text on this one is particularly relevant: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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We unified the entire CJK space but there was no "x" unification!
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Yeah either you're in some Kafka-esque trial or you learn your friends can lie to your face while smiling!
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Although I've had some fun with deduction games, I'm usually extremely averse to them. Forced to sit down and try to lie while listen to my voice suspiciously, then having the group turn against me and all my friends and randos in
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In that case, it also took a boatload of investor money, keeping on the previous farm staff, and endless volunteer labour by way of WWOOF [1]. Not that any of that's a bad thing, but the whole time I was watching it I was thinking did
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Another comment pointed out that a at least one de-mining expert is skeptical: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680882
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I should mention that unicode.org has a "Unicode Set" query tool so no one gets swindled by a similar service ;) https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%...
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I like running, it's the thing that makes me feel the most "right".
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I only (rarely) get it in the morning, right before I'm about to fully wake up. I always panic because I'm desperate to move on my own, even though I know I shouldn't. But I've never seen a demon or anything, just my roo
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Doesn't work for the other 125 encoded characters that are numerically seven, as defined in the Unicode Character Database: https://www.unicode.org/Public/17.0.0/ucd/extracted/DerivedN... (Viewabl
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Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 . I love his music but could never get into the older or more ambient stuff, but now I'm enjoying it. I love his crazy stuff more but it's difficult to concentrate with, although I u
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7mo ago
> Games are doomed by femininity. Across media, genres marketed toward women are deemed lesser than their masculine counterparts: romance novels are trashy, chick flicks are shallow, and pop idols are embarrassing. I was excited to read
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Plus, 2+2 = 2*2 = 2² = 2↑↑2 = 2↑↑↑2 I only knew the basic ones from this meme, but the hyperoperations are explained in the explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQOv61Gveg
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Then, on the rare occasion where you do use it, you end up with a single finger smudge that lasts until you find the will to clean it.
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You could make it a compile error like Zig (previously) did with tabs!
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The typography and design inside the book is beautiful but the cover looks like an old bargain-store flyer. There's an expression about that, something about judging a book by its cover? I can't remember exactly.
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Which dog bite statistics are you referring to? I would be interested to see data that contradicts these findings: --- Characteristics of 1616 Consecutive Dog Bite Injuries at a Single Institution > Pit bull bites were implicated in ha
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The ban isn't meaningfully enforced in much of the province [1], I see them a lot. I used to live in Ottawa, and their official site directly states "The City of Ottawa does not enforce the provincial ban on pit bulls" [2]. F
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"Should", maybe, but I've seen a pretty disturbing video where a pit bull took a lot more than one hit... it was multiple minutes of hits. And it only let go after it died, I've never seen anything like it.
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I see, it looks like he's the one behind ThreeJS. Well, he had to make ThreeJS before he could make this, and that must have been a learning experience, right? :D
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Beautiful, this must have been an excellent learning experience to make. I've done some very basic rendering code in C from a rendering internals course, and at the same time I'm learning about perspective from the drawing/ar
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I learned these low-level bit tricks by reading TempleOS' HolyC source code. I remember feeling like a genius when I worked out what this line does: dc->color=c++&15; Hint: it's from this "Lines" demo program, who
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Lightweight Compression in DuckDB
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There's an element of competitiveness, too. I worked in a hotel, mostly with women. My supervisor, a woman in her 60s, praised me and the other male workers, saying that the women were jealous, rivalrous, and always fighting amongst ea
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I've always hated trackpads, they always made my fingers extremely sore and I didn't find they worked well. Someone told me "you're just not used to it", like I hadn't been already trying for 20 years! The Mac
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There are also some 'mobile supermarkets' run to help the elderly in some rural villages, as seen at 11 minutes in here: https://youtu.be/IiU3Nk16BLQ?t=664 I know my neck of the woods has a not-for-profit called M
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