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by eindiran 6y ago
Dwarf Fortress, as mentioend in one of the comments, is a big counterexample. Other older ASCII art games that remain popular fall into this bin as well (NetHack, Rogue). Not to mention any of the popular Flash games with graphics somewhere
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by eindiran 6y ago
Something that makes the Eastland quite horrifying is that it didn't take place far out at sea: it took place in the Chicago River. I don't know if you've spent any time in Chicago, but the river goes through the heart of the
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by eindiran 6y ago
Who is this test aimed at? It mentions the math GRE, which would make me think that it targets people applying to graduate programs, but it doesn't really have that vibe and I imagine becoming a test that graduate programs would consid
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by eindiran 6y ago
In some countries, non-religious "cultural" circumcision is very common (eg 75% of males in the US [0]). Relatively few cases will be for a medical reason (something like phimosis). Parents in most "secular circumcision"
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by eindiran 6y ago
I assume you intended to link to 108 (Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries and archives) rather than 107 (Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use): https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#
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Why Every Language Needs Its Underscore(hackflow.com)
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Still not working for me in the Bay Area.
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It is a joke about the tendency of archaeologists to classify everything they find as being either part of a garbage dump (aka a midden[0]) or as some variety of religious artifact [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by eindiran 6y ago
Not feces. "Seed" = "semen". See 6 here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seed But its not really clear if this has that interpretation, or if the protesters were just throwing eg bird seed. Calling i
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by eindiran 6y ago
The system I have personally settled on is tracking todo/task related information in a paper notebook, copying the relevant info for each day to a new section each morning. For personal knowledge, lab notebooks, etc I keep them in date
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For a detailed perspective on how the proof works, I highly recommend Ernest Nagel and James Newman's book Gödel's Proof [0], mentioned in the article. Alternatively, Gödel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstader is a classic which s
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by eindiran 6y ago
I highly recommend people read HCF 2002 (and its follow up HCF 2005) to see what precisely Chomsky thinks on this subject. I tracked down a copy if anyone is interested in reading it: * HCF 2002 -- http://psych.colorado.edu/
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by eindiran 6y ago
The word "bank" in the first sentence [0] links to the Wikipedia page for JP Morgan, so I'd wager it is Athena. [0] "There was one remarkable legacy system when I was working in a bank sometime back."
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It's really unclear who they could mean. A few of the people in the History of Robotics Wikipedia article[0] didn't have PhDs[1], but seemingly all of them had some higher education. Maybe they are referring to someone who wrote f
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by eindiran 6y ago
This covers a lot of the issues in question: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/bp102.pdf
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I think the tone is intended to mimic the acerbic and deadpan style of satire of the original "A Modest Proposal".
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Increasingly there are full word TLDs (see here: [0]), so I don't think people will find it that weird, especially since most people don't really spend a lot of time looking at the address bar. The .onion TLD is named for onion ro
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How would the PoW mechanism work?
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That was one of the most unexpectedly crazy Wikipedia articles I've ever read. The level of intrigue seems completely out of proportion with what the project is. Steve Bannon (yes, that Steve Bannon) makes an appearance, a hostile take
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by eindiran 6y ago
Very sad. If you haven't seen them, many of his Numberphile videos are quite interesting: https://www.numberphile.com/videos/ron-graham-playlist Here is the one on his famous, eponymous number: https://
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by eindiran 6y ago
A more Coconutty way to write this might be: [1, 2, 3] |> map$(def (x) -> y = x + 1; return y) Which looks even less Pythonic.
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by eindiran 6y ago
If you have a chance to try it out, "Baba is You" is one of the most interesting puzzle games I've ever played. The puzzles are distinctly programming-like, or at least exercise similar modes of thought. The central conceit i
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by eindiran 6y ago
This is actually how "weeaboo" became a word (outside of the Perry Bible Fellowship cartoon[0]). There was a filter on 4chan that turned "wapanese" into a "weeaboo", and pretty soon the former was completely fo
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by eindiran 6y ago
I am not sure if someone else already posted this in the comments here or not, but the EFF has a form letter available, as well as a way of finding your representatives/senators: https://act.eff.org/action/stop-the
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I can confirm this, having been a recipient of such a letter from her office a few times.
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In case anyone was wondering what this referred to (like I did): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline > Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound conceived by American biochemist and science fiction autho
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FTA: > After several years of losses, Tesla has delivered three straight profitable quarters since the third quarter of 2019 and surprised investors with solid first-quarter deliveries despite the virus outbreak.
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> A team member may encounter something they're having difficulty with that another developer has encountered and solved in the past. You might want to share a problem you encountered or findings that are relevant to others. IME thi
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by eindiran 6y ago
I 100% agree, and think that in general shadowbans are a gross idea. But my point is that if you send out info about why you banned someone, then you are explicitly not shadowbanning them, by definition. The whole concept of a shadowban is
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by eindiran 6y ago
That defeats the entire point of shadowbanning someone. Shadowbanning is used primarily _because_ it is opaque to the person who is banned. If you told them, they might then make a new account, rather than thinking that people aren't e

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