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by lores 2y ago
Someone receiving a large chunk of cash from Meta, no doubt.
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by lores 2y ago
Get Old World! Made by Civ IV's lead dev, Christopher Tin soundtrack, great mechanics, and a team that's still dedicated to improving the game years after release. It's my favourite 4X of all time, right besides Alpha Centaur
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by lores 2y ago
That particular series was presented with very heavy emphasis on how "accurate" it was to real events, though, and many, many people thought it a documentary.
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by lores 2y ago
That's the kind of pun the guillotine was invented for.
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by lores 2y ago
It's the traditional appreciative answer to a terrible pun, and it's a great tradition!
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by lores 2y ago
Yes, publishers have not proven to be particularly civic-minded in the past. I'm having a hard time picking who to root for, but it's probably slightly better to have a world of many cartels than a single one - and it gives a chan
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by lores 2y ago
They include executive pay of all their suppliers :P
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by lores 2y ago
A 13.5 oz box of Kellogg's frosted flakes is $11 at Walmarts. A BIGGER box of 16.5oz is $4.4 in Tesco in the UK, and store brand is $1.25. Salaries are higher on average in the US, but the minimum wage that will include many in the sup
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by lores 2y ago
Amazon has publishers over a barrel - it makes up a large proportion of book sales, but it's so aggressive in negotiations that publishers hardly make any profit at all. They hate Amazon like a shopkeeper hates the local racketeers ext
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by lores 2y ago
I was working for his publisher in 2016, and the whole company was geared towards a September release for the Winds of Winter - editing, marketing, physical printing, everything. It was not the first time, but they had extracted a cast-iron
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by lores 2y ago
It's apparently not awful; it's variously reported at 60 to 76dB depending on where you look: https://www.geonoise.com/train-passes-through-an-apartment-b... Although this paper indeed finds it can be a lot higher
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by lores 2y ago
I see what you mean, difference in floating time expectations between remote vs in-person appointments. A case of choosing your default poison, I guess. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by lores 2y ago
The point is that it's far safer to assume that an unspecified time zone means 'local time wherever I am at the time of the appointment' than not. If I'm flying to Japan and meeting someone at 7pm, I'm going to make
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by lores 2y ago
I'm in awe that in 2024 the first introduction to programming can be a turtle in Python, just like it was in 1982 when someone came to my primary school to show everyone a turtle in Logo.
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by lores 2y ago
It's trivial to consider any event that did not specify a time zone to happen at local time, wherever that is, and not change its time when the phone's zone changes. Business software will set a zone, self-entered or casual appoin
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by lores 2y ago
What? No. The Napoleonic Code (Code Napoléon) is for civil law in contrast to criminal law. The penal code promulgated under Napoleon is called... the Penal Code, and is not the one that was adopted across Europe. https://en.wiki
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by lores 2y ago
I remember forest fires yearly in northern Spain in the 80s. Are they more violent now?
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by lores 2y ago
You don't signal when entering. If you are on the inside lane of the roundabout and prepare to exit, you signal to warn people already on the roundabout, and tell people waiting to get in that they shouldn't get on the outside lan
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by lores 2y ago
The Napoleonic Code is a civil code, not penal, so presumption of innocence is not part of it. Regardless, all European countries have presumption of innocence, except in very specific cases (like England's libel law).
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by lores 2y ago
You're indeed signaling that you are about to change lane or exit. People waiting to get in know that they can do so if you're in the outside lane, or that to the contrary they should not take the outside lane if you're insid
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by lores 2y ago
The EV market remains roughly the same size, Tesla is independently tanking.
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by lores 2y ago
I hear from people who did both that smoking is harder to quit. It's just not the nicotine itself, from experience.
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by lores 2y ago
Nicotine is addictive, but not for long - somewhere between 3 days and one week. I don't smoke cigarettes anymore, but switched to vaping. Despite using no-nicotine liquid for ages, I still have cravings - not at all for real cigarette
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by lores 2y ago
This thread is making me nostalgic for my 30k Perl files repo.
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by lores 2y ago
Good. Not catching a simple multiplication error is a terrible indictment of their peer review process. On the other hand, peer review is doomed and getting more doomed by the day, and I expect more and more journals will fail if the qualit
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by lores 2y ago
Those pubs are seriously lovely, though. A bit too busy, but they look grand.
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by lores 2y ago
A talk by Brian Eno convinced me that there is no meaningful difference between the two, and I've yet to see a definition of art that does not end up in self-contradiction if we try to make the distinction.
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by lores 2y ago
It was a little meta-joke, but I think the world could use a lot more expressions of doubt. Very few things are certain or universally true, and those that do tend to have Greek letters in them. I find highly confident people highly suspici
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by lores 2y ago
I know you jest, but I think it wouldn't be a bad idea at all. There are languages whose grammar forces the speaker to explicitly clarify the source of information; Eastern Pomo, for example, has different verb forms for whether it&#x2
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by lores 2y ago
Eh, I'm nothing of the sort, I'm only advancing in years and have made it a point to exist in as many segments of society as I could. I was that cocky engineer once, my words are only anecdote from first-hand experience and observ

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