jrootabega

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by jrootabega 2y ago
(George Edward Stanley, 1987)
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by jrootabega 2y ago
for kids, there's The Codebreaker Kids
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by jrootabega 2y ago
I had one of those 3D-only cards on my first computer. I didn't know about the passthrough and got pretty annoyed that my games sucked and never worked with the hardware 3D stack. I don't know if they didn't document it corre
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by jrootabega 2y ago
The ancestor post is neither a "Complete injustice" nor "derision" nor an "insult", and it doesn't warrant a hostile mocking reply. Its tone could have been gentler, but it wasn't that bad. And the st
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Hell, I'd say it's an 0<=N<1 because it involves subjective mood reporting, and there was no participant who was not contaminated by flaws in the methodology.
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by jrootabega 2y ago
If the author felt good on a particular day for whatever reason, and then learned they had taken the active substance, their reports are contaminated forever. It works the other way, too. It works any way you slice it.
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by jrootabega 2y ago
If he said unblinded at some point, it could have been because the study author looked into the cup to determine which substance had been taken too soon. The subject should have had no knowledge of what was taken until the entire 16-month t
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Analog has been an all-around pain in the ass. I subscribed to the paper version and didn't receive an issue within the timeframe they advertise. It's bimonthly, so it was quite a while. When I wrote them, they said "Oh, we
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Do you think that the technique of using the last 4 bits to choose a further pseudorandom 31 bits from the rest of the hash MIGHT mitigate SOME future weakness as a PRNG? Or do you have confidence it is completely useless? Or neither, of co
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Might be begging the question. Perhaps it's not really that random. We common people don't usually get pictures that convey depth and orientation, and probably wouldn't care even if we did. Might only be as random as a solar
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Seems like the correct answer to me. Let's assume henceforth in this post that the code still does what the original vs code authors claim it was intended to do, and nothing more. If you launch the IDE from a shell, or launch ANY progr
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by jrootabega 2y ago
There is no voluntary system which can't be sabotaged by your own feelings. Performance anxiety, overthinking, fear of success, etc. And if you let things pile up without processing them, that becomes another snowballing reason to avoi
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by jrootabega 2y ago
One possibility is that they only use a small amount of time, mental effort, and context size to go over all of the messages at a relatively shallow level. If there is anything that lets them send the ball back into somebody else's c
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Seems to me that formal studies would have more of an effect looking at how to manage crowds that are already too dense without making things worse. If you want to avoid the density in the first place, you decide on a maximum density within
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by jrootabega 2y ago
And as a higher-level configuration you can set most, maybe even all, of the relevant invisible characters (still not sure how 0x34f grapheme joiner fits in) at once with something like: (custom-set-variables '(glyphless-char-di
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Here is the bare minimum this is built on, which you can type in yourself if you're paranoid or want to start from the bottom up. Swap in the hexadecimal codepoint of the invisible character after the ?\x (aset glyphless-char-displ
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Here's a POC that works in emacs. Doesn't cover all of the relevant characters, but: (setq ;;some other invisible or interesting characters unicode-zero-width-space ?\u200b unicode-zero-width-non-joiner ?
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by jrootabega 2y ago
That's why one says and does those trivial things if one is going to post a hoax. Bullshit alarms have false negatives, and we'll never find out about most of them.
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Their value is not imaginary, unfortunately, even without money ever being involved.
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by jrootabega 2y ago
The one review I found with the word "melting," or anything conceptually close to this, was "My Favorite Scissors have Died!" The person is not describing melting in the heat or deformation sense, which I think a lot of
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by jrootabega 2y ago
There is a lot of superficial and structural burn damage to the desk there. (Not that I believe the mouse story is true.)
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Yep, the page does, but the specific section you named, suggesting it was an answer, does not. At least it does not alone address the issue. But leaving that section aside, I'll say that these ads are paid. They're paid by the com
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Can you copy or screenshot one? Amazon requires login to sort through reviews for some people.
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Yeah, there are many motives to fake this: - derive personal amusement - embarrass the credulous - drive traffic to the subreddit - serve as an experiment on credibility/marketing (to which we are contributing data, even here) - reddit
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by jrootabega 2y ago
I think that section only covers promotions on the Steam platform itself, or other platforms, not in-game advertising content.
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by jrootabega 2y ago
I think Borderlands: Game of the Year Edition Enhanced violates this ban, then. There's an ad for Borderlands 4 when you start up the game, and you have to start up the game in order to play.
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by jrootabega 2y ago
In my experience, anywhere there is heavy semi truck traffic will have significant problems once there are enough cars around ("enough" being far less than it should be). 2 lanes, 3 lanes, 4 lanes, hills, it's all bad. But ye
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by jrootabega 2y ago
I agree that clumps usually end up blocking passing lanes, but they're also bad when in any lane(s).
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by jrootabega 2y ago
Unnecessary clumps are bad. They make merging and passing harder, desensitize you to nearby cars' presence, cause night vision problems, etc. A good driver will first notice they are in an unnecessary clump, and a bad driver probably w
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by jrootabega 2y ago
The traffic waves mentioned in the other replies are not the same as clumping. People clump up while driving, even on the emptiest of highways, because they are bad drivers. This was happening long before automatic braking, but that has mad

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