onorton

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by onorton 7y ago
Some people are working on an open source spiritual successor [0]. If you were in awe of the original 2005 demo and what could have been you should definitely check it out. The cell stage is in early stages (heh) but is already quite enjoya
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by onorton 7y ago
You can exclude search terms on google with a "-" prefix including websites e.g. "-twitter" "-bigthink"
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by onorton 7y ago
Has happened to me in London a few times as well.
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by onorton 7y ago
I believe it's a premium article. There's a star next to the expected read time.
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by onorton 7y ago
I remember that I couldn't be bothered to learn the algorithms for the middle layer so I just learnt F2L (First 2 Layers) to solve that part. Never learnt the advanced stuff beyond that though.
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by onorton 7y ago
"praying on" You could mean "preying" but I've realised that either could work. Is there a term for a malapropism that still makes sense?
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by onorton 7y ago
The more common term I've seen (and used myself) is LARP which is a bit closer to the intended meaning.
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by onorton 7y ago
Looks to me like the Gizmotron is only for bowing while this can do both bowing and plucking.
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by onorton 7y ago
Specifically, these are image macros[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_macro
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by onorton 7y ago
"Can you rephrase that?"
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by onorton 7y ago
It's probably because they are at a music festival and don't want to come across as people not "in the know" at said festival in front of thousands of people. I'm sure if it was just a newspaper reporter or a random
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by onorton 7y ago
> I don't understand the thought process that leads to Calvin publishing (well, submitting to his editors for review and publication) King's quotes in a negative light when he has said similar. Wouldn't you just chalk thos
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by onorton 7y ago
I'm assuming you can't get Irish tea where you live? Because Punjana would be above all of them.
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by onorton 7y ago
You missed English Bulldog -> Winston
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by onorton 7y ago
Keep in mind that those samples are tiny and C++ devs probably skew to more senior roles based on the age of the language alone.
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by onorton 7y ago
I would always take notes on paper as others have said as I think it helps with retention, at least for me. Even then I would only take notes of equations to memorise them and things that the lecturers said that were even not explained prop
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by onorton 7y ago
For those who don't know, it's a play on "Anime was a mistake"[0] which is a quotation jokingly attributed to Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli). [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/anime-was-a-mistake
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by onorton 7y ago
"If your ratio of down votes to up votes, falls below 50/50, then your comments will be hidden" This is just Reddit (and I think HN) but even worse. At least with Reddit it's a certain threshold below 0 before it becomes
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by onorton 7y ago
It did happen and it was solved by changing the amount in the pint glass over time as the GP says.
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by onorton 7y ago
I remember reading that in a book when I was about 6 or 7 and it turned my childhood obsession of dinosaurs into one of ants.
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by onorton 7y ago
> So the solution is to design a product which suits to the elderly but seems like its designed for young generation. Aren't a lot of products you see on infomercials exactly that? I've seen people argue that it's a market
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by onorton 7y ago
Presumably if it's the same house she grew up in, there are probably spare rooms if she had siblings that moved out. Also her and her husband probably shared a room.
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by onorton 7y ago
Yeah it's to do with heat retention and surface to volume ratio. Bigger things have a lower surface to volume ratio so lose heat more slowly. I wonder if the particular study controlled for weight/height.
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by onorton 7y ago
It does in fact contain the word "man" though in a (normally) non-gendered idiom. > rather abbreviated poor man’s guide to the field edit: just realised that there wasn't a space between "poor" and "man&quot
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by onorton 7y ago
The first thing I thought of was a callback to those old books targeted at near-adolescent boys e.g. The Boy's Own Guide to Fishing. Obviously, it comes off as clumsy and inappropriate today or 16 years ago judging by the date on the f
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by onorton 7y ago
In Northern Ireland handguns are still legal but you can only have a license if the police service here deems that owning one is reasonable for the protection of your life. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms
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by onorton 7y ago
Kind of tangentially related but this compilation of TV footage in the morning before the 9/11 attacks [0] is always slightly unsettling to me. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMVTB2aVUg0
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by onorton 7y ago
Skimming over it it seems that she's talking about people who don't want to be project managers but end up doing some of the work associated with project managers/scrum masters. Obviously you can argue "why not refuse to
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by onorton 8y ago
I definitely agree with this too. Even imageboards like 4chan, in the smaller boards at least, you can get a decent discussion as there is no concept of upvotes nor automatic hiding of posts and replies are always in chronological order. Th
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by onorton 8y ago
> They explained derivatives to us on the first year of UK university CS degree That's done partly as a refresher for those who didn't do maths at A-level (so would be 2 years out of not doing maths at all) and to take into acc

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