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by mcphage 22d ago
> Can somebody explain why not just make a die with 5! sides, and roll it once to decide the order? Hey, that’s a good idea—now we just need to decide who rolls the die . …Well, if we had a set of die that each player could roll one of
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by mcphage 23d ago
> Also I said Sometimes the Adults are scared due to truths, and exaggerations. The "adult scared due to exaggerations" in this situation is you.
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by mcphage 23d ago
Because even beyond this area being safe, your claim that "There is likely too much crime in urban areas for children to walk freely" is wrong.
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by mcphage 23d ago
Actually it said "Beware of the Leopard".
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by mcphage 23d ago
> There is likely too much crime in urban areas for children to walk freely This is very much not true. If there are any urban areas that have too much crime for kids to walk freely, it's a vanishingly small percentage, and certain
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by mcphage 25d ago
> How do you spell words if you can't picture them in your mind? > Have you memorized that "pyramid" is spelled p-y-r-a-m-i-d and that for every word? Yes—I wasn't aware that there was another way.
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by mcphage 25d ago
Video games are profitable as ever, but they take years to produce, and the mass layoffs makes me wonder who’s going to be making the games coming out in 2-5 years. Also it has required a lot of write-offs from closing studios to maintain
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by mcphage 25d ago
> If killing/raping/burning the original inhabitants and stealing the city is good enough for the word to call Constantinople Istambul I don't see why the US which owns part of the lake can't call it something else. W
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by mcphage 25d ago
He also has “The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths”, which is short but perfect.
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by mcphage 26d ago
> today the west doesn't call Constantinople Istambul because it's the correct name but because the Turks are stronger than the Greeks What country is that city in?
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by mcphage 26d ago
What utter cowards they have running Google. No wonder the US tech industry has gone from the shining forefront of technology, to a bunch of weirdos alienating everybody, over the last decade.
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by mcphage 26d ago
> and some other bad actor with political connections (my money would be on Palantir) will just quietly pick up where they left off while everyone's patting themselves on the back for defeating Flock At that point, though, there wil
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by mcphage 26d ago
Right now AI has trouble maintaining coherence over a few paragraphs of text. How long will it be before it is capable of maintaining coherence over something the size of a GTA game? And how much money will that cost?
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by mcphage 26d ago
Yes.
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by mcphage 28d ago
…if you actually looked at the article, you would have seen that the answer was a resounding “no”.
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by mcphage 28d ago
Reading comprehension isn’t something readers of this site are great at.
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by mcphage 28d ago
Satire doesn’t need to be funny, and sometimes it works best when it’s not.
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by mcphage 28d ago
> and even the ancient Proto Indo-European peoples to which European language … is often erroneously attributed Would you mind being a little clearer about what it is you’re saying here?
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by mcphage 29d ago
Yeah, I get what you're saying. I really like their city reconstructions, and they add a lot to do, but I could certainly do without the yet-again-rising-through-the-criminal-ranks storyline.
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by mcphage 29d ago
> It should be, but given the billions spent on development I wonder how much GTA 7 will cost to make, and how long…
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by mcphage 1mo ago
So you took a game about building a theme park, and... took out the ability to build the theme park?
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by mcphage 1mo ago
She’s one of the few people in the US who was loved across the political spectrum.
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by mcphage 1mo ago
> Interesting that Apple quotes performances when playing Cyberpunk 2077 ! Maybe they will want to care more about gaming ? They include game metrics in their marketing often, because they know their customers care about gaming. But no—
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by mcphage 1mo ago
My favorite thing about Abulafia was the description of it on the back as “an incredible computer capable of inventing connections between all of their entries”. Did the person who wrote that not read the book? Did they not understand it?
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by mcphage 1mo ago
> But my memory is that the confabulation they created was real — by accident, yet it was. The confabulation was picked up by people who, for various reasons, wanted to believe it was true. But there was no truth, there was just people
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by mcphage 1mo ago
He got the meaning entirely backwards, though. Or as Eco put it, Dan Brown was a creature in one of his stories.
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by mcphage 1mo ago
Maybe, but that you’ll have to take up with the author of the article.
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by mcphage 1mo ago
> in my experience it was only my one friend who had the literary and dramatic talent to explain Shakespeare well to teenagers. Could she explain Shakespeare to teenagers, or could she explain Shakespeare well to you . If she was in fr
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by mcphage 1mo ago
Why not? Apple would have you download an updated set of weights with OSX / iOS updates. Nvidia could bundle them with driver updates. I don't think either would struggle to get people to keep their weights up to date.
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by mcphage 1mo ago
> Also, the average consumer is not going to be running a local model until they are built into the hardware they already buy and when they are, who is supplying the weights? Apple or Nvidia, presumably.

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