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by jpfed 8y ago
I'm assuming she was born on Jupiter.
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by jpfed 8y ago
Just FYI, calling the Big 5 a system for categorizing personalities would be like calling the coordinate plane a system for categorizing positions.
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by jpfed 8y ago
Consider also Rosetta Code, which should have Java implementations for a ton of simple problems.
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by jpfed 8y ago
I can only wish! "Aardvark Adventures" would finally get its due!
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by jpfed 8y ago
>They need to publish their full article content for search crawlers to read At first, I thought it might be possible to solve this by getting search engines to standardize on a vector format that they could accept for protected content.
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by jpfed 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperCollider ?
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by jpfed 8y ago
>I believe in the future all languages will fork into a simpler novice subset for general use and an expansive language for infrastructure. These will both be valid in the same parser, but the subset will be quarantined at the package ma
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by jpfed 8y ago
One problem with waiting is that as apnea worsens it can cause depression and sap your will. That's what happened to me. I knew I needed to get treatment, but that became totally disconnected from my will to start the process. My wi
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by jpfed 8y ago
This is as good a place as any to ask- what's the easiest way to get a POSSE setup?
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by jpfed 8y ago
>I wonder if that is just my impression because it's not my field, or if maybe color science really is just not developed enough to tackle these kind of questions. I have wondered the same thing ( https://ask.metafilter.c
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by jpfed 8y ago
For people in this thread that are alarmed by the fact that voting records contain information about your party affiliation- note that this is not true in every state! The fact that many states keep records of party affiliation is neither a
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by jpfed 8y ago
Wouldn't the Eru's resurrection of Gandalf count as a pretty clear example of the Universe intervening to make sure that pure good will win out in the end?
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by jpfed 8y ago
Exceedingly minor correction: Lua does use == in the way you'd expect it to.
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by jpfed 8y ago
>How is that even a legal possibility? Walker didn't do it unilaterally; the legislature passed a law to exempt Foxconn specifically. They are considering giving Kimberly-Clark a similar deal: https://madison.com/wsj
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by jpfed 8y ago
It depends on how obvious the lie is. If someone says "The earth is both flat and made of cheese", they are so obviously wrong that you could afford to just rely on the reader's common sense. But if they say "the economy
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by jpfed 8y ago
I have heard that this advice is given for news, and I think that this is unfortunate. "Show, don't tell" is not necessarily appropriate in news. News and writing for entertainment serve such radically different goals that i
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by jpfed 8y ago
I'm not clicking the link, but I'm assuming it's "rotating snakes". If other people are like me, they may have avoided it because it literally nauseates them.
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by jpfed 8y ago
My family definitely rewatches videos all the time. As they grow, my kids become new people every year or so; I like the chance to at least briefly visit every one of the people they have been.
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by jpfed 8y ago
This is a timely post, considering the 2018 Best Illusion of the Year Contest has just posted http://illusionoftheyear.com/cat/top-10-finalists/2018/ .
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by jpfed 8y ago
The great thing about chronic childhood stress is that it paradoxically lowers cortisol levels later in life. Take that, Alzheimer's!
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by jpfed 8y ago
Sounds kinda like Kanban.
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by jpfed 8y ago
In the programming world, another name for the crystal key could be an unshaven yak.
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by jpfed 8y ago
>Third, and most importantly, you've just decreased the amount of energy coming to earth. You've not solved the problem, you've changed it. There's a lot of EM that neither chlorophyll nor existing PV can use. Hopeful
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by jpfed 8y ago
That's one great thing about sunshades- they can be implemented by just convincing a spacefaring billionaire or two instead of having to change policy / steer nation-states.
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by jpfed 8y ago
The original link is inaccessible to me; alternate link: http://members.iinet.net.au/~gregegan@netspace.net.au/SCIENC...
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by jpfed 8y ago
Ha! Hi-res editor mode is on the roadmap: https://github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/issues/723#issuecomment-419...
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by jpfed 8y ago
The all-in-one nature of most fantasy consoles is really appealing. They are also not terribly opinionated, which can be nice. When I tried Unity its 2d story was not good and I kind of struggled with its opinions. I've heard that its
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by jpfed 8y ago
Tic-80 is slightly higher resolution than Pico-8, with a user-definable palette and a more standard lua implementation. The music editor is slightly less intuitive, though. Pixel Vision 8 is more flexible and complex than the other alterna
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by jpfed 8y ago
To be fair, that's how many babies actually sleep.
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by jpfed 8y ago
>All of these are explicit design choices, for example a fixed palette is important to give games a "Pico-8" look and also reduce decisions regarding color choice. Indeed, which is why they won't change, which is why (for

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