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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
In Civ I there were resources, for example jungle tiles could have "gems", hills had "coal", grasslands had "game" etc. There was also another resource "luxuries" which is what I think you are talking
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I played a lot of the original Civ but it was in the early 90's so my memories are a little hazy now. Units on the world map had a "zone of control", you couldn't move units through tiles adjacent to an enemy unit, so th
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
My background is material's science so there might be another meaning physicists use that I'm not familiar with but my very simplified understanding/explanation of Phonons are that they are vibrations within a crystal lattice
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
The homescreen recommendations seems to aggressively prioritize what you last searched for. I missed the end of the recent Australia vs India cricket series so I searched for highlights from the final day of play. Since then for the past 2
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Linear Algebra was a first year subject for me as well. I studied Engineering in Australia.
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I'd say Yes and No, there are standardized ways to analyze common engineering problems, for example beam deflection equations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflection_(engineering) or Heat Exchanger efficiency cal
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Netflix was tipping point for me, at the time Chrome was only browser on Linux that let me watch Netflix.
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I don't know if this is a trick but the fast way I did that problem quickly in my head is 20% = (10% X 2) i.e calc 10% of the number then double it. To quickly calc 10% just multiply the number by 0.1 which you can do by moving the dec
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
>"Most iconic" in the Western world is just because, like I argued, the Eastern Front is way less known and depicted in movies. It's almost the definition of "lesser known", of which there are many reasons (Cold
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I had something similar happen to me. But it sounds like my teacher handled it differently. I used to watch a lot of documentaries. There was a public access TV channel that would air educational content, I'd occasionally watch it for
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I don't live in either city, I have family who live in both Melbourne and Sydney so I travel to each city relatively frequently at least a couple of times a year. My experience was Melbourne had their system years before Sydney had Opa
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
It happened in the past in Australia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Dalfram_dispute ) Union workers on the docks refused to load Pig Iron which was being sent to Japan, this was whilst Japan was committing atrociti
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I'm Australian, that screenshot is from the State election in South Australia, it is an example of how the Upper House ballot paper looks, it is similar in my state New South Wales. The vertical columns (labelled as Group A to E in scr
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
> Reality is that the kid will be a loser / outsider due to no phone I grew up in the 90's and my parents were strict, particularly compared to a lot of my peers. Things like watching television was heavily restricted. I rememb
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I don't necessarily know if it is diet America but a lot of the Australian holidays and celebrations do feel to me (as an Australian) as slightly odd. I suspect it is because Australia is a relatively young country so there isn't
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
As an Aussie cricket comes to mind, you run-up from a standing start before releasing the ball. I think equivalent for US would be "Wind-up" (at least I think pitchers in Baseball performs a wind-up before releasing the ball)
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I think more Aussie way to say that would be: 'I'm heaps keen to chuck that saying into the old tucker bag'...
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I ported some Algol code into C years ago, despite being completely unfamiliar with Algol I found code very easy to understand. Found the paper with original code here, it's for a Reinsch spline: https://tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu&#
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I think Perl today is probably closer to COBOL it was massive for a time, felt like it was everywhere. Nowadays it is increasingly niche. Like COBOL there is still a lot of perl code out in the wild.
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I'm also Australian I experienced an overly attentive waiter recently when I was eating at a steakhouse with a few friends. It felt like every 5 minutes they would come up to the table interrupt the conversation to ask something like &
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I edited the link once to a graph that better illustrated what I meant both results came from a google image search.
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I'm sure it can work but I've found it hard to slot into our use cases. Power BI's trending is one thing I have really struggled with the limitations it has. For one of my use cases (industrial plant data) we often want to tr
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
My Org has been heavily pushing us to use Power BI, I have found it has a lot of pain points. I expect how useful it is depends a lot on your use cases. If you want to throw a couple of KPI's on a dashboard it fulfils that requirement
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I would say it depends a lot on environment the children are raised in, I grew up in the 90's my family had one television set in the house (in our families living room) and it was only turned on if someone was watching a program. Ther
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Not sure how helpful this advice is for students I'm in my late 30's have programming experience but had never touched Python until about 6 months ago. What made Virtual environments work for me was switching to a different Editor
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
It might be related to mobile phone users, as far as I can tell the chrome browser on Android does not let you install extensions. I imagine a huge swathe of chrome users are using it on their phone.
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I presume native advertising on youtube has more strict vetting (i.e. needs to comply with advertising regulations unlikely to be out and out scam etc) then creator sponsored content. Some sponsored content seems like borderline scams to me
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
Does a browser need to make money? Chrome is mostly open source as far as I know. Maybe it could move to a model like Linux where you have a benevolent dictator overseeing things and if a company wants something supported in chrome they can
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I don't think we disagree (Report and dashboards are useful decision making tools), but in practice hiring external people to come in and build them causes more problems then it solves. In my experience processes on the ground can and
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
One thing I often see in data people (particularly consultants) is that they are very focused on building reports and dashboards in my experience (manufacturing plant) Analytics should be the focus - if you get the analytical part right - m

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