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by defen 5y ago
Have you considered that the demo may have been faked (for example maybe they preprogrammed it with room geometry that was acquired some other way)?
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by defen 5y ago
https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/953794118139826176 (Terence Keane was the "ghostwriter" of his novel)
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by defen 5y ago
I asked him about this once. The primary reason it was structured the way it was, was that he wanted to write a novel but couldn't get any publishers to take him seriously as an author. They only wanted a memoir, so he published a meta
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by defen 5y ago
It's worth noting that Norm was a committed fabulist (I say this as his #7 fan). He would lie about anything and everything, to the point that it's impossible for an outsider to tell what is the real Norm Macdonald and what is the
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by defen 5y ago
This sounds suspiciously like the "overpay your traffic ticket by a dollar and then don't cash the refund check so the transaction never closes and you don't get points on your license" urban legend.
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by defen 5y ago
To bring it full circle, the guy who invented the Pringles machine is a famous author (Gene Wolfe)
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by defen 5y ago
The question people are asking is "How would your relative have gotten paid if you hadn't worked at Google"?
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by defen 5y ago
This exact story appears in Gene Wolfe's Peace . Had no idea it was based on an actual legend. The idea of a ceramic pillow seemed so ridiculous that I didn't bother to check if they were real.
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by defen 5y ago
To do this in Zig you would ship a binary + a "header" file that looks like: `pub extern fn foo(c_int) c_int;` etc. then import with `usingnamespace @import("./my_header.zig");` and now you have a function `foo` tha
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by defen 5y ago
I'm struggling to understand your point - is it that so long as that's not happening, people aren't allowed to complain?
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by defen 5y ago
> - Compiled languages shouldn't be using text file imports as modules Zig doesn't use C-style textual includes, if that's what you mean.
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by defen 5y ago
An alternative perspective is that you don't have to give up C to use Zig - they are extraordinarily easy to mix together in one project. So you can incrementally move an existing project to Zig without rewriting the world.
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by defen 5y ago
Someone like Larry Page is extraordinarily wealthy, but it is almost entirely financial instruments (thus, not "real"). In a hypothesized "complete societal breakdown", no one is going to be willing to die for Larry Pa
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by defen 5y ago
How many times do people need to get the football pulled away before we collectively realize that putting content on Youtube is a bad idea?
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by defen 5y ago
> I wore a sword at the time Why? Was the sword related to the content of the pamphlets?
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by defen 5y ago
Isn't the whole point of this ruling that they don't have that right, at least in Germany?
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by defen 5y ago
> Maybe there's a dentist, or maybe you have to drive to the next town over for one. As part of the plan he specifically says "save an excellent spot in the town center to offer at low cost to whomever decides to practice denti
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by defen 5y ago
It's still pretty early for a significant ecosystem to exist, but in general interfacing with C (or C++ `extern "C"` stuff) in either direction - calling C from Zig or Zig from C - is extremely simple. You can tell Zig functi
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by defen 5y ago
> for the Non-Submitters they tended to show a weaker relationship, essentially under- predicting the college GPA I wonder if that's at least partially due to non-submitters choosing not to submit because they did worse than expecte
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by defen 5y ago
OP said a jar of mayonnaise spilled into the server, not food.
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by defen 5y ago
I enjoyed it but I also felt that there was too much of a culture gap (or simply my own lack of knowledge of 19th century Russia) for me to fully appreciate everything that was going on.
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by defen 5y ago
People have been predicting the imminent implosion of Tether Real Soon Now™ for at least 4 years. At what point can we say we are in Q territory?
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by defen 5y ago
Did the model also choose the song names?
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by defen 5y ago
I think this is a good idea, but $5,000 to 1,000 people would probably be even better.
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by defen 5y ago
> There is a word I can't seem to find, and it's for when you take a font or an image and round it to make it seem softer, safer, and less assertive, and so-called "feminine." I don't know the word either, but th
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by defen 5y ago
Did he ever write it, or is this the Fermat's Last Theorem of authorial metacommentary?
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by defen 5y ago
Was there any sort of competitive bidding process? i.e. why did the Fortune 500 company choose your firm over others?
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by defen 6y ago
Maybe it’s a Webistics situation.
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by defen 6y ago
I'm experiencing a weird Baader Meinhof Phenomenon variant right now...I just started reading 2666 , which concerns itself with (among other things) a mysterious German novelist in Mexico. Very odd to see this story here right now.
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by defen 6y ago
> interviews are hard in that they have absolutely nothing to do with your day-to-day job I often wonder why this is legal, especially given the legal concept of disparate impact. It's basically just a disguised test of some combo o

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