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Dave has a followup post in which he replies to some of the comments here. https://novalis.org/blog/2025-03-26-responses-to-the-hacker-... Love, your low-quality Twitter bot
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This low-quality Twitter bot is very hurt by your cruel words.
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It would have been funnier if you had claimed to have excluded me because of some shadowy conspiracy, or because of the rumors that I am a cannibal. But thanks for fixing.
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Thanks so much for this! I checked last night, was stunned that my blog wasn't there, and went to bed sad and puzzled. This morning I am jolly and cheerful. Thanks again!
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Six mistakes I made in my dioramas-and-felt Steam game and one I didn't(novalis.org)
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Dave Turner is making a point-and-click game with no CGI. All the locations are real-world dioramas he built and photographed. Special effects are done with stop-motion animation of felt. Dave says: Often when you watch videos of people d
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Your machine, and the video, are astounding. The complexity and precision of your design, and the clarity of the explanation were all marvelous. Thanks so much for bringing this to us.
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Useless unless you want to blow it up, maybe. Or steal or sabotage the cargo.
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The article is really lacking all details. Is this a fighting ship, or materials transport, or something else? Is it intended to go from A to B, or to go out and patrol around and come back? How far away does it go from its base?
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I think that's unlikely. My theory is that the voters will prefer to blame immigrants, Muslims, DEI, the Woke mob, Democrats, trans people, Antifa, and RINOs in approximately that order. If Hitler could convince 65 million Germans tha
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Sounds awesome, where do I sign up?
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Thanks for creating this resource that helped so many people build programs for the web so long ago.
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Does it really feel that way? I don't think I've ever lived in or heard of an era where people were valued for being contrarian and independent. In some eras those things are tolerated , when they produce results, and in some era
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Post hoc, ergo propter hoc
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Thank you!
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I thought this was not up to Quanta's usual standards. What's an accessible introduction to modular forms, let's say for a grad student who has the appropriate prerequisites but is about to meet them for the first time.
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Don't you think using the word “harassed” here is begging the question? What does this “harassment” consist of exactly? Are the neophytes calling you at work? Are they camping out on your front steps? Have they kidnapped your mother
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The part of the whole phenonmnon that most puzzles me is how much trouble people sometimes have with “you can always not respond”. “He's wasting my time!” No, you're _choosing_ to waste your time; make better choices. “But I can&#
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Don't all buildings in the UK end up splodged with rust marks, mold, moss, and water damage? I'm not trying to be snarky here, I just wonder why it doesn't bother you the same way and why you're talking as if non-brutal
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I guess it's Collin + son. Conceivably Collin's + son.
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"Harry" didn't actually become a common nickname for "Harcourt" until midway through the 22nd century.
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The first part of the article explains the pattern, where a nickname becomes a patronymic surname, using familiar examples. This sets up the main point, which is that the pattern holds so reliably that when you meet a patronymic surname you
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My own kiddo, at the age of two or three, decided that -o was a productive suffix and started calling me and her mother "Daddo" and "Mommo".
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I once wasted a couple of hours trying to find information about my great-grandmother, Selma Brenner Rauh. I found nothing. ... until I started looking for Mrs. Sidney Rauh ...
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And "-let" like in eyelet, bracelet, rivulet, etc.
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The examples that come to mind for me are Rodríguez, Martínez, González, Nunez, Hernández / Fernández, Sánchez. Rodríguez, Martínez, and Hernández are the 9th, 10th, and 11th most-common surnames in the USA.
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Thanks, I'm going to add these to the article. I'll credit you as "Hacker News user `tibbar`" unless you'd prefer something else.
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Except that Harry isn't a nickname nobody has any more.
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I would add too that these laws often serve the same interests of white supremacy that they have since the Civil War. After the end of Reconstruction the Southern states instituted laws now called the “Black Codes”, forbidding blacks from b
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In many cases, these licencing schemes are put in place by incumbent trade groups, to prevent comeptition. For example, an association of funeral home owners will lobby their state representative for a law forbidding the sale of coffins by

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