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by omegaham 8mo ago
nethack.alt.org still maintains a telnet server!
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by omegaham 11mo ago
See also Uiua, a newcomer to the "extremely cool but completely incomprehensible language" family!
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by omegaham 1y ago
A more obvious setup to the joke is "Is there a doctor on this plane???" "Well yes, but I defended my thesis in comparative literature..."
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by omegaham 1y ago
Since even a phone has enough processing power to make Stockfish play better than a super-GM, the Faraday cage isn't enough to prevent, say, someone tapping the position into a computer on their person and feeling for some sort of vibr
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by omegaham 1y ago
The adjournments in The Queen's Gambit were rendered obsolete after chess engines became strong enough to be useful in analysis. The last year that they were permitted was 1996. Match play at the World Championship (where the two playe
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by omegaham 1y ago
Unopened, a jar of pasta sauce is good basically indefinitely, but as soon as you actually open the jar the clock starts ticking. We don't make enough pasta at a time to use a full jar, (and in fact will usually use a small fraction of
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by omegaham 1y ago
Inversely, I've also seen promotions where the gallon is heavily featured in the ads, and they're selling the half gallon for full price. Neat, you're paying extra to get less milk!
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by omegaham 1y ago
Grade school for me - teachers would say "8.5x11" instead of "letter size" or even just "printer paper." I don't know why they did it, and I assume it's for the same reason that I say it too. It'
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by omegaham 2y ago
You can always play in tournaments to figure out where you rank compared to a larger population!
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by omegaham 2y ago
I don't know about his Spanish Scrabble performance, but when he won the French Scrabble championship, there were players who attempted the French equivalent of "play salirás and see if he notices," and Nigel challenged all o
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by omegaham 2y ago
I just flew through there, it's wonderful.
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by omegaham 3y ago
For me, its finest purpose is to be a buffer that I can paste formatted text into so that it can strip the formatting. There are many programs that do this natively, but there are many that don't or are really inconsistent about the ho
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by omegaham 4y ago
Yep, I grew up in the woodsy part of Framingham up by Route 20. A whole bunch of those roads are outright dangerous. My parents groused about how dangerous it was, but mostly trusted me not to be stupid.
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by omegaham 4y ago
Note that in OCaml, you can't get too screwy with point-free programming because of the value restriction. It is possible to compose functions in a point-free manner, but those functions themselves have to have points if you want them
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by omegaham 4y ago
You'll like the `std::ranges` library that's been somewhat implemented as of C++20 and is getting some more stuff in C++23. It's very Fun! #include <ranges> #include <numeric> #include <vector>
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by omegaham 4y ago
There's always rapid and blitz time controls, where you can't prepare and calculate like that. I know that to a lot of people it's just worse chess, but I think that it's the future of chess as classical OTB becomes more
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by omegaham 4y ago
You can #pray for your god to fill your stomach if you are Weak or worse.
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by omegaham 4y ago
It's less "good intentions" and more butthurt that the tank that they work on isn't as powerful in the game as they think it should be. Think of a sports fan complaining that their favorite player is rated too low by Mad
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by omegaham 4y ago
A Russian tank using Russian "combined-arms" doctrine that sends me into a city completely unsupported? That's going to be a big "no" from me. An American tank using American combined-arms doctrine? Well, it's
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by omegaham 4y ago
This was also our troop. You couldn't make Life Scout before you were 15 thanks to the leadership requirements, and that meant that the earliest you could get Eagle was sometime at age 16. The vast majority of them got it just before
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by omegaham 4y ago
Lodge is just fine. All of the cast-iron snobbery overlooks the fact that it's a big hunk of metal that cowboys used to throw on a campfire to make beans. Keep cooking with it, and the bottom and its seasoning will smooth out.
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by omegaham 4y ago
Unless you're getting Finex or bidding for sought-after collectors' cast iron on Ebay, you can get a plain cast-iron skillet from any big-box store for $20-$30.
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by omegaham 4y ago
I can't speak for the rest of this story, but I will say that where I live, every taxi driver at the airport is also trying to set up their own "livery service" gig - that is, a group of regulars who frequently use them as th
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by omegaham 4y ago
Conscription would spur an immediate and vehement backlash against the military. But more importantly, there is no actual shortage of potential recruits. There is a shortage of recruits who meet the current military standards . You can ver
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by omegaham 4y ago
This is also my experience being married to a nurse. Any story I have about a boss, coworker, or client being a jerk, she has about five stories about someone being bad enough that I'd already be shooting resumes toward anyone who will
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by omegaham 4y ago
I read his snark as being self-deprecating. Rather than insulting the Mario devs, (who, as you note, are building a ground-breaking game on a deadline) he's making a joke about how obsessive someone would have to be to dig deep into a
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by omegaham 4y ago
These days, I see this as a subsidy for us older folks who wait a few years to buy a game. The clueless pre-order folks are funding my gaming experience!
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by omegaham 4y ago
This reminds me of a local business owner who, in the span of a week, * made a big rant on his company Facebook page about Starbucks and law enforcement, advocating for a boycott * made another big rant about the local pride parade * made a
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by omegaham 4y ago
In a world of many, many alternatives, I feel like someone's preferences can be as arbitrary as they want them to be. It's less a statement about the magnitude of the offense and more of a statement of "I have all of these op
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by omegaham 5y ago
The college typically requires a bunch of classes. You can't test out of them. This was a pain for me when I started college at 23; I'd been programming as a hobby since I was 16, but was shoved into intro-level classes anyway. I

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