SamBam

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by SamBam 2y ago
What do you mean when you type in '"1/2" + 1'? Unless you just want to keep that text as plain text, it's going to be doing some interpreting.
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by SamBam 2y ago
The game ought to make it explicit that proper names are allowed. But, personally, I would remove proper names, to make it more like most other word games (wordle, spelling bee, jumble, etc.). Crosswords do have proper names, but they'
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by SamBam 2y ago
> The pass-and-play use case is valid but seems pretty rare. The NY Times Mini Crossword specifically has a "Clear" button for this very use-case.
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by SamBam 2y ago
But if they have an online view, why not make it readable? The suggestion above about the line height is presumably a 1-line CSS change.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Weird. Why the explicit rule against them? I understand if the existing editors can't personally proofread the submissions, but that's why peer-review exists. Or an open-source project in general where people can post corrections.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Are there any non-English books? When I go to the search page, language isn't even a pull-down option, so I'm guessing not. There is a huge world of out-of-copyright non-English texts, and Project Gutenberg has many thousands of t
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by SamBam 2y ago
No, greenhouse effect is mostly controlled by CO2, although water vapor plays a role. But clouds mostly act to reflect sunlight back to space, so fewer clouds will mean more warming, not less.
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by SamBam 2y ago
So much humor in the Space Quest series. I loved them. I should work out how to get them running from GOG for my kids.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Your argument seems like it might confuse cause and effect. Would adventure games have gone away anyway because no one played them after the 90s, or did no one play them after the 90s because their biggest creator, Sierra, got pushed out, a
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by SamBam 2y ago
> "is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it." Does this not explain why you just got your PhD in this? ("This" being broad, but "NLP and creative text generation" sounds
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by SamBam 2y ago
That wad the good thing about the old Eliza program: no cloud, no memory between conversations. Heck, barely any memory within the conversation at all, except the last one or two sentences.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Does this "reduce draws" purely because it randomly gives one side a small (or big) advantage? If so, that doesn't seem to be an improvement at all. It would be easy enough to test if one side having an advantage is common: h
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by SamBam 2y ago
But it's also not a joke. Pomodoro timers are designed to increase productivity. But once of the things that many people who try to increase their productivity discover is that they sink so much time into these tools that they are less
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by SamBam 2y ago
> By legibility I mean that the Piranesi distortion is easier to read, and that to anyone unfamiliar with photographs, that hasn’t grown up with TV, photographs and magazines, the Piranesi version would look much better, and the true per
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by SamBam 2y ago
It would have been nice to show a few more easy-to-understand comparisons. The "street view" image was nice, but blurry. Ditto with the map. I think if the last image of the two buildings had been shown side-by-side with the &quot
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by SamBam 2y ago
Hmmm, I wanted to do that tic tac toe example, and it failed to create a 3x3 grid, instead creating a 5x5 (?) grid with two first moves marked. https://chatgpt.com/share/67e32d47-eac0-8011-9118-51b81756ec...
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by SamBam 2y ago
Can either game be played on a modern Mac? Steam says it's only for 32-bit Macs.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Depends very much where you are. In a medium city many/most middle schoolers are walking to school.
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by SamBam 2y ago
The one that doesn't make sense to me is "Days per $1000," because it's the only one (that I saw) where each line has an order of magnitude plus an addition unit, and that unit is often different from the one in the he
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by SamBam 2y ago
Agree that having something in there for how to use it will make it make sense for 10^1 times more people. Show one simple calculation. I don't know: Probability that at least one person on Earth gets struck by lighting twice in a ye
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by SamBam 2y ago
Nice double-meaning.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Kind of. Though it doesn't need to be in the imperative. "Cats sleep" is a fine descriptive phrase of what cats do. "Police police" is similarly a description of what cops do. But the original article seems to have
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by SamBam 2y ago
I'd argue that that post isn't quite correct. They say you can't always add one and have it be correct, I think you can. One word: "Police!" This is the odd-duck, you can have a one-word imperative statement telling
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by SamBam 2y ago
I think in some places one is pronounced "noo" and one is "niew," although honestly I could see either one for either meaning.
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by SamBam 2y ago
The list is precisely words with multiple meanings of the same spelling, but there are only two meanings of "buffalo" that aren't proper names, and this list is about words with three or more meanings. (As an aside, I've
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by SamBam 2y ago
You have to click a square of land first, and then space will add a building (or whatever you cycle to with the arrows). (Edit: at least in fantasy mode. I haven't yet worked out what to do in reality mode.)
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by SamBam 2y ago
The point isn't to make people feel guilty. Just do the rest and it will probably be fine. Honestly, I worry that in the US there was a reaction against the "breast is best" movement because of the worry that people were bein
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by SamBam 2y ago
Nice. It took me a few times to realize that I could do bombs or slingshots by clicking in empty space. The tutorial makes it look like you have to click on a bubble. Maybe the black circle in the tutorial should be removed? I also got a li
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by SamBam 2y ago
I assume if your weights are resting on the floor, and the pivot point of the swing arm is resting on the floor, then the floor deflecting may cause the arm to swing even in the absence of an attraction to the weights.
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by SamBam 2y ago
Not only that, but the whole section on "Consider these scenarios" simply described the same thing as an API each time, but added words like "smoothly" and "richer" to make it sound different. I honestly think

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