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by fenomas 5y ago
One suspects GP may have been asking "why is it in Italian, do you think?" and not "what makes you think it's in Italian?".
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by fenomas 5y ago
I don't know why everyone's piling on GP here. This isn't abandonware, the game is still being distributed by a company that still operates. And TFA author isn't distributing a mod or a patch, they're distributing t
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by fenomas 5y ago
There is some self-reference, but I suppose I always saw that as fan service. Later in their careers FT did a lot of live shows, where die-hard audiences would call-and-response the famous lines, so to me the presence of self-referential ga
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by fenomas 5y ago
Word to the wise: TFA overlooks this, but Firesign Theatre's humor didn't end in the seventies. Probably my FT favorite album is Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death , which came out in 1998 and is their darkly optimistic take on
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by fenomas 5y ago
Yes, as I said. If you can't have a spectator do the counting then I think most magicians wouldn't refer to it as ACAAN. In your video the person counting is definitely not a stooge (he's a celebrity named Alistair McGowan).
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by fenomas 5y ago
When magicians talk about ACAAN it's assumed that the deal/count is done fairly by a spectator. Without that it would be considered a false count trick (of which there are of course many).
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by fenomas 5y ago
> pet peeves is hearing people using the word "utilize" This battle is lost, but mine is "proceeded to". People seem to feel like it makes them sound more official - "He proceeded to enter the room, and he then p
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by fenomas 5y ago
We're talking about the numbers that show up in the results of a lighthouse "performance" test. The overall score, total blocking time, time to interactive, etc. The spreadsheet has columns for all those values, and it shows
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by fenomas 5y ago
That's the data I asked about. That data shows SFGate repeatedly getting a 1, but when I try the same test it gets 55-60?
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by fenomas 5y ago
I was asking about the lighthouse results in the link in GP's post, is that what you're answering?
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by fenomas 5y ago
How is that data compiled? Just poking around, the worst site in the list (SFGate) seems to have gotten a "1" for performance every time it's been tested, but when I try checking the same link in lighthouse (mobile mode) it s
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by fenomas 5y ago
Even the dark pattern one, where it was "incorrect" for the skip button to look like a button?
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by fenomas 5y ago
That was my thought as well. He's known for trying out lots of wacky random mods, so one could imagine a case where he believes the runs were legit, but actually he had left a mod enabled by mistake, or similar. Or (much less plausib
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by fenomas 5y ago
Sorry, but I don't follow what you're disagreeing with. For the numeric stems there are two systems, and one learns which to use when, as I said. For the sound change, I didn't say it was "regular" (and I don't
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by fenomas 5y ago
I don't think it's as complicated as you're describing. There are just two systems; the regular case with regular numbers, and irregular cases using hito/futa/etc. One has to learn which counters use which system, b
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by fenomas 5y ago
Exfiltrating a bunch of data and then poking around to see how sexy it is and then releasing it seems like a strange way to show that the company you took it from isn't trustworthy with data...
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by fenomas 5y ago
Agreed, this is a really bizarre article. It starts with "following responsible disclosure procedures..", and then you scroll down and the author says they downloaded millions of entries and then... checked to see how much of it w
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by fenomas 5y ago
It's a reference. "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Dijkstra
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by fenomas 6y ago
"A submarine propelling itself through water? Pfft, that's not swimming."
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by fenomas 6y ago
Thanks! The answer is: sort of, but not really. The maker page[1] has an "export data" button that writes out the vertex data (as a big series of RGB/XYZ values), which you could easily convert to whatever format. But if you
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by fenomas 6y ago
Thanks! Actually I just pushed a fix to make the drag work outside the canvas. No idea why it wasn't that way to begin with. The really cool thing someone suggested back in the day was, to have it try to match two different images from
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by fenomas 6y ago
Neat! Reminds me that I once made something similar, except in 3D. https://andyhall.github.io/glsl-projectron/viewer-vermeer.ht... (open the link and then click/drag the image)
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by fenomas 6y ago
In Japanese, character input is basically 100% about readings. As such TFA isn't analogous to an IME, it's just an informational reference for looking up unfamiliar characters. If you wanted to type the character, you'd proba
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by fenomas 6y ago
It's not a reading->kanji search, it's a part->whole search. I.e. search for 人 and one of the results will be 囚 since it has 人 in it.
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by fenomas 6y ago
> not sure if ウ is a bit of a stretch They don't look identical, but the radical is often referred to that way, e.g. when describing a kanji over the phone. Also same thing with ワ and 冖.
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by fenomas 6y ago
This looks cool! One suggestion - when clicking an element on the top page, you might consider treating that as "add this element to the search string", rather than as "show the search results for this element". The idea
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by fenomas 6y ago
Again: kanji tests are vocabulary tests, not just orthography tests, so Kanken is not comparable to first-graders learning the alphabet. If you're familiar with Japanese you must already know this, so I'm not sure what you're
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by fenomas 6y ago
You're presenting this very misleadingly. Kanken 2 is basically comparable to something like an SAT; it covers what people are expected to have mastered by the end of high school (reading and writing, incidentally). As such it's o
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by fenomas 6y ago
Don't know if procedural music counts, but here's an algorithmic (heh) gypsy jazz trio playing the title theme from "Legend of Zelda": https://fenomas.com/2017/12/advent-13/ (If it's
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by fenomas 6y ago
"TFA" is a common usage on HN just to neutrally mean "the article that this comment page is about". It doesn't by itself imply "RTFA".

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