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by bashmelek 3y ago
I think it should be mentioned that the actual creators of Neopets are Adam Powell and Donna Williams, who apparently were unaware of this connection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopets
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by bashmelek 3y ago
I also remember Internet Explorer allowed for web pages to talk directly to sql server via an ActiveX control. Tried it out once locally. Was both interesting and terrifying.
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by bashmelek 3y ago
Count me in! I’ve been doing a lot of donkey-related reading lately and would certainly be interested in a donkey startup! What fascinated me was how important they were in the past, I never realized.
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by bashmelek 3y ago
That seems to contradict my understanding of Chinese history and culture. Historically they seem to be strongly spiritual like any people, and government support for religions. I admit most of exposure is from literature and not much more.
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by bashmelek 3y ago
The original site that inspired this (linked in TFA) is so much fun to read.
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by bashmelek 3y ago
The article is informative, even eye opening, but to be honest, I get wary of the iconoclastic affect that surrounds it. Truth is, I am attached to certain food traditions and would like to see them continued properly. I know culture evolve
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by bashmelek 3y ago
Thank you. For me, I like making engines. It’s my time off, I can do what I want. I know someone else will make something leagues better with premade engines. But it’s not a race. And I make many of my own art assets too. They’re terrible.
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by bashmelek 3y ago
On the subject of different kinds of happiness, I enjoyed reading Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. He talked of eudaimonia, ie “good spirit”, “good condition of the personal daimon.” A sort of “thriving” or doing well. This is, in his langua
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by bashmelek 3y ago
Can I ask what you do? I feel that it is hard to go outside and do many activities on my own without looking out of place, especially for someone like me.
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by bashmelek 3y ago
I can’t speak for professional development, but for hobby projects I personally had a lot of fun with WinAPI and GDI. SDL is good too. The churn of everything you mentioned was too much for me and it’s comforting playing with something that
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by bashmelek 3y ago
From my own readings, fowl meat was known to be healthy to the Greeks, and Cabbage was a stereotypical prescription to sick Romans.
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by bashmelek 3y ago
This is pretty fascinating…would anyone know of a more comprehensive book on ancient Mesopotamian: history, peoples, religion, and culture? It is so foundational in the west
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by bashmelek 4y ago
Once I was feeling down, had a moment of weakness, I asked an earlier GPT model if I was a monster. It gave a rather convincing argument that I was, and stopped there. It felt bad, made me almost want to anthropomorphize it and hold a grudg
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by bashmelek 4y ago
I feel woefully disconnected from the natural order in this day and age. There is so much variety and beauty out there that we remove for the sake of maximizing material utility. Even in bovines, I recently learned that there is a lot diver
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by bashmelek 4y ago
There is also the other side of the coin that the bot learns from abusive behavior and then repeats those behaviors on other users.
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by bashmelek 4y ago
In Japan, they actually have Shinto services for respectfully burning old dolls that won’t be passed on to the next generation.
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by bashmelek 4y ago
As someone who is generally pro-Mars colonization (and has Zubrin’s book), I feel this. We don’t need to dichotomize this and I welcome advances towards humans going beyond where we have ever been. At the same time, I realize there is a lot
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by bashmelek 4y ago
I recently started that tutorial and this describes how I feel—thought it was just me being unready. The setup is very long and the explanation seems uneven oftentimes, such that getting an idea of what is going on and why has been challeng
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by bashmelek 4y ago
Perhaps the author is right that the media and public perception exaggerate the status of poetry as dead. I can’t say much about contemporary poetry, but, from the old books I read, I can’t help but feel something isn’t there today that use
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by bashmelek 4y ago
Great timing for this article! I just used Flash CS5 this week to make my first animation. I’ll admit that I’m rough with it (made a few games with it many years ago, but that is all, stuck with Actionscript and static images). Some of the
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by bashmelek 4y ago
This is amazing! I’ve fantasized about doing something similar—-what resources did you use to pick up all of those skills?
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by bashmelek 4y ago
I remember Neverwinter Nights 2. Decently fun game, but extremely buggy. It had some strange local lag where it wasn’t that unusual to command a character to move only to have them freeze in place then teleport back where they were 10 secon
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by bashmelek 4y ago
The article mentions pigs wouldn’t be wandering the village streets, but as a counter example there were the “St Anthony’s pigs” owned by the friars that were legally protected and had free run of the city. Dante alludes to these in Paradis
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by bashmelek 4y ago
I realize I’m in the minority here but as a Christian (Catholic) I’d like to draw a distinction between folk customs and the actual religion. For example, with Easter, if we are to believe the Venerable Bede, the word comes from Eostre, an
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by bashmelek 4y ago
One notable “barbarian” group would be the Berbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers whose name might actually be derived from the Greek word for barbarian.
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by bashmelek 4y ago
As interesting as the article was, bringing up such things as the enduring appeal of Rubik’s cubes and he-man, I was somewhat disappointed with its focus on the corporate aspect and trademarked toys, with barely a mention of stuffed animals
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by bashmelek 4y ago
Living in Florida my experience has been somewhat different. Sure, it’s mentioned jokingly for being unusual, but I’ve had it while visiting Vietnamese friends here and we all like it. Though my first time did give me an allergic reaction f
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by bashmelek 4y ago
I would like to see a fun game to help me with differential equations. People still want to learn more advanced topics and I feel that not enough edtech exists for learning beyond the formative years, and even less for beyond high school. A
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by bashmelek 4y ago
I also worry about all kinds of other exploitation that could result from the immigrants’ legal situation.
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by bashmelek 4y ago
That was my feeling as well upon finishing the article. It is interesting to note the influence cultural exchange with First Nations people, some of them quite directly contributing, but the conclusions take it very far for the amount of ev

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