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by gota 6y ago
Are you aware of HASC? http://hasc.jp/
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by gota 6y ago
> ziggurats are just an inevitable step in the development of urban architecture (this is definitely untrue). Are you sure? I'm not strongly in one camp or another, but it seems relatively intuitive that if you are stone age people
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by gota 6y ago
This seems a reasonable and straightforward scenario and I'll prepare accordingly
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by gota 6y ago
Yes - I find myself navigating Channel pages often, in hopes that the content creator took the time to create an applicable playlist But then if I quit a video _that I played from a playlist_ and check my history _the playlist itself is lis
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by gota 6y ago
Not in that time, but in the vein of the other stories under this - I saw a group of people in a web community (comics sharing group in a small town) self-organize to collectively fund a couple of them (one artist, one writer) for printing
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by gota 6y ago
I think that was a major point, too, because a significant portion of the money available for social assistance is spent on deciding who can get it and fighting 'fraud'. A blanket universal give is a lot easier. However - I'v
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by gota 6y ago
I'm also surprised how hard it was for me. All it took was counting up to 8 a couple o times, trying to do it somewhat fast and visually-clear and I feel the strain, particularly on my ring finger. I could use it as a mnemonic device t
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by gota 7y ago
Oh, wow! For anyone that can't see the picture - the historical range shows grizzly bears past Texas and well into Mexico
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by gota 7y ago
>I f the creator cared, he'd make it longer. I'm sorry, and would like to know how to put it another way to not sound aggressive, but this point is absurd[1]. Length (in this case runtime) of the resulting product has little to
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by gota 7y ago
What if the entire piece of media is really short and 10 seconds is most or all of it? I'm not sure there are simple and reasonable solutions like this. Everything will be gamed or cause terrible edge case issues
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by gota 7y ago
Prolog _really_ helps with learning recursion. Much easier to learn the core concepts in a declarative way than in a procedural way
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by gota 7y ago
It is wasteful from the perspective of the taxpayers that funded that highly-specialized, highly-sought after education only to see it move away (BTW the argument is the same even if that education was not strictly paid off by public money.
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by gota 7y ago
> Twitter, aka the comments section they removed from their web presence Oh my, I never thought about it but this is absolutely true
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by gota 7y ago
It takes a very small number of people willing to use nuclear weapons for the bad side of the prediction to come true And 80 years is a long time for mad people to come to power - if our current worldwide political landscape is any indicati
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by gota 7y ago
From the article: > What I love about this show is that it's “realistic” science fiction Exactly what I like in the show, however the very next sentence > There's no faster-than-light travel, no crazy artificial gravity or d
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by gota 7y ago
I don't mean to be derisivs but at that point - testing for reasoning, understanding, personality - Why stick with a software tool? You'd be better off arranging to play a strategy, preferrably collaborative, boardgame. One day I&
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by gota 7y ago
Side comment: I've tried to use Slack's dark mode but had to quit. I was constantly having to download images to be able to read the black-over-transparent background of matplotlib images (that's apparently the default for t
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by gota 7y ago
Debatable at best. 1- Employment is slightly increasing but still tragically low. Whatever gains in employment are coming from loss of worker rights. 2- Record historical inequality and increasing means unavoidable civil unrest in the futur
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by gota 7y ago
> I've been more flexible, going by "A Aaron" I'm sorry, but if I found that name IRL I'd have a hard time not laughing. Have you seen the Substitute Teacher sketch by Key and Peele? https://www.youtub
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by gota 7y ago
Isn't watabou the guy that made the original Pixel Dungeon? edit: yes, it is, it's in his page I've used the code of Pixel Dungeon to teach programming - particularly the vision and path finding algorithms. Of course the code
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by gota 7y ago
Great to hear. I'm finishing my doctorate researching a specialized Process Mining approach and its great to hear there's people doing concrete significant work like that out there
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by gota 7y ago
Do you have anything going on related to process mining?
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by gota 7y ago
I assume you're being downvoted not because what you said os controversial - it is in the spirit of the topic - but because it is not advice at all. Its just misogyny. "Women - make a point of branding yourselves in linkedin, comm
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by gota 7y ago
I was captured by the same thread; I was particularly looking forward for any material on how/if their language diverged from the general population's. Over this long span of time, even in such a small group, do they end up speaki
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by gota 7y ago
I think it's implied that zero percent of normal people want to see society "burned to the ground" Edit: after re-reading that part of the article I'm not sure anymore. I can't tell if the questions were phrased to
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by gota 7y ago
Rest of the post aside, in case anyone is wondering the "blackened skies two thousand miles away" bit is literal truth. We literally saw darker skies in a way that is impossible to take for regular city pollution. I recall ash fal
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by gota 7y ago
> Curiously the private plantations burn often less than the public areas adjacent or the nature parks. Talk about weird statistics. Less people wandering around in private areas than public, smoking, making campfires, or generally just
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by gota 7y ago
If I recall correctly we guessed this as children because the sound made by the rotary thing let go at "N" was the same as pressing the "hang" button N times I mean it was an easy association to make, so at least a coupl
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by gota 7y ago
Those metal bits look big enough to kill a person. I mean, anything havier than a marble falling from high enough will do a lot of damage, right?
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by gota 7y ago
"Thanks to a quirk in the legal structure used to set up the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, known as SPY, more than $250 billion rests on the longevity of 11 ordinary kids born between May 1990 and January 1993." By law funds require

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