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by djur 4y ago
Interesting. I've recently (last 5-10 years) noticed New Yorkers complaining about the quantity of cream cheese on bagels and suggesting that there's more than there used to be. (Leave it to New Yorkers to gripe about getting too
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by djur 4y ago
I think the article is somewhat overstating its case. As they mention, "lox" just means "salmon". As far as I know, over time some producers started smoking the salmon in addition to salt curing it (as is done with gravl
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by djur 4y ago
The answer is the same on Saturday as on Sunday, so that doesn't really matter.
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by djur 4y ago
It's a good shape for coasters. And patches, buttons, T-shirts, of course.
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by djur 4y ago
The newer insignia is a reference to the NASIC one. "The majestic sphinx – an ancient symbol of wisdom, knowledge, and the challenges that NSIC analysts will solve – is invoked out of pride in an organization that traces its roots back
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by djur 4y ago
If they had falsified the design or results of the study, this would just be a hoax. But the design of the study was obviously flawed in a way that does not require specialized knowledge to detect. What knowledge it does require should be a
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by djur 4y ago
Where are you shopping? Any supermarket I've ever been to has shelf after shelf of sweet white, whole-wheat, and multigrain breads as well as sourdough, rye, etc. as well as French bread and assorted "artisan" loaves.
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by djur 4y ago
One good and healthy way of using technology is to set it aside when it's not necessary and when it risks being an obstacle to accomplishing your goals. For instance, in the "real world", you should not be using your phone wh
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by djur 4y ago
Unicode doesn't have a character for every illuminated initial, nor should it. I'm not clear on why this character should be considered any differently.
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by djur 4y ago
The project dates back to 2015, and the compiler work started in 2021, well before Carbon was announced.
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by djur 4y ago
Completely fictitious content is bad PR for Wikipedia, but it doesn't really materially affect its usefulness as a reference. Nobody's coming to Wikipedia looking to write their thesis on a band that never existed. The reason fict
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by djur 4y ago
I think you're right to a certain extent -- CYOA and parser-based IF are not the same thing and appeal to different (albeit overlapping) audiences and creators -- but also that the IF community is correct that CYOA is a perfectly legit
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by djur 4y ago
The IF community has included choice-based games in "interactive fiction" for a long time now. They're eligible for IFComp and everything.
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by djur 4y ago
I doubt even a bare majority of HN readers have finished a CS education.
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by djur 4y ago
10 years ago, when I got my first CPAP, they didn't yet have (or hadn't widely released) devices that could upload data wirelessly. Instead, I was expected to bring the device in (or at least the flash card inside it) for regular
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by djur 4y ago
We're talking about a species that spends 2/3rds of its time napping. I've watched outdoor cats and their behavior (when not hunting, which not all cats do) is very similar to indoor cats. They nap, they wander around, they f
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by djur 4y ago
I think people tend to overestimate the desire of most cats to spend time outdoors, because as humans we ascribe human motivations to cat behaviors. So we see the cat repeatedly try to go through the door, and we think of this as persistent
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by djur 4y ago
Interesting. The reason I find it worth pointing out is that the "entity" and "component" parts are not really that interesting by themselves. You could have an object-oriented "entity-component" system where c
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by djur 4y ago
The horse is thoroughly out of the barn on this one, but "an Entity Component System" is a misnomer similar to referring to "a Model View Controller". Sometimes it's written as "Entity-Component-System" to
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by djur 4y ago
TNT is much less sensitive in some important ways. You can heat it up enough to melt and pour it without it exploding, and you can subject it to a great deal of physical shock, too. You need to set it off with another (less stable) high exp
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by djur 4y ago
That's not the process used for a package of bacon from the supermarket, which is the relevant comparison.
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by djur 4y ago
This is a good reason not to let billionaires run companies.
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by djur 4y ago
If we're talking about a casual poker game between friends where money doesn't matter, a verbal agreement that you're staking some additional item should be more than sufficient. Bringing the blockchain into it only makes sen
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by djur 4y ago
Exactly. The incentives are all off here, and it doesn't create any mutually beneficial relationships. The participants who stand to benefit in this hypothetical future are companies making shovelware games who would love to lean on av
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by djur 4y ago
> I think the way this tech takes off is when more marketplaces die because EA decides to start and then kill one, and everyone loses their items they paid money for, because they don't have any sovereignty over their purchase. How
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by djur 4y ago
If I'm running Fortnite, I could be convinced that there's a value in allowing Fornite skins/dances/etc. in other games. The much harder sell is that I should allow _unrestricted_ use in other games, rather than making d
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by djur 4y ago
Nothing about it jumps out to me as obviously "not American". It's not a distinct regional accent to me but that's very common. It sounds mannered, like a TV presenter who has worked on developing a recognizable voice. W
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by djur 4y ago
Bystanders standing around watching and commenting on construction work is so common that there's a name for a specific type of guy who does that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umarell Construction sites are often
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by djur 4y ago
The additional subsidy for free lunches in the US currently is closer to $3.60, and you are massively overestimating how many additional free lunches would be consumed. The majority of school lunches consumed are already free. In 2019[1], 2
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by djur 4y ago
If you have a progressive tax system, excess government aid used by wealthy families is more than made up for by the higher tax rates those families pay. In exchange, you end up with programs that are simpler to operate, have less red tape,

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