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by rdlw 3y ago
re: arbitrage games with metered things like gasoline, we got rid of pennies in Canada a decade ago so I can tell you how it affected getting gas. Initially, some people switched games from the classic "try to get a whole number of dol
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by rdlw 3y ago
There's a great recent Thought Emporium video where he synthesizes chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals: https://youtu.be/sR8M4zARBXY?si=CFFmCb26yBY1YUlB
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by rdlw 3y ago
Atomic mass 260 != element 260. Bismuth-209 has atomic mass ~209 but is element 83 (123 neutrons add the extra mass). An atomic mass of 260 probably means about... 100-120 protons? That's a guess from eyeballing this chart: https:&#x2
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by rdlw 3y ago
It's not a bad saying, proverbs don't have to be mathematically rigorous to be resonant and get a point across.
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by rdlw 3y ago
I know a lot less about the homebrew community but it's also very cool! Do you know of a big project that would be an interesting entry point for getting into the community?
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by rdlw 3y ago
A decompilation of Super Mario 64 was only completed a few years ago; before that romhackers were indeed using assembly. The homebrew scene makes fully original games from scratch in C, but romhacks are alterations of existing games (althou
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by rdlw 3y ago
From a player's perspective, I do think they tend to be called romhacks if they are based on an existing game, although I agree that's selling the project short as it's based on the decompiled source with heavy changes made.
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by rdlw 3y ago
If anyone is interested in new projects for N64 hardware, Kaze Emanuar has an amazing series about optimizing Super Mario 64 to run incredibly complex romhacks on original hardware. Interestingly, SM64 is usually throttled by memory speed.
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by rdlw 3y ago
Not intuitive but it's the same on HN :)
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by rdlw 3y ago
> Top 3 games by units sold are american Counting Minecraft and Tetris as American games? I suppose Microsoft bought Minecraft and EA licensed Tetris, but that seems to speak more to the business sense of American publishers than quality
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by rdlw 3y ago
> "Driven by" is not the opposite of "innocent" I agree, that's why I didn't say driven until proven innocent. I'm just pointing out that the concept of innocent until proven guilty does not apply, as w
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by rdlw 3y ago
People are innocent until proven guilty. Corporations are driven by greed and profit until proven otherwise.
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by rdlw 3y ago
Sure it does. Even headphones have controls built in to the cable.
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by rdlw 3y ago
Very strange article. > This was the first time our company had ever been asked to pay someone for reviewing our product. We thought it was odd, and had to research what “affiliate program” actually meant. This seems to show the fundamen
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by rdlw 3y ago
What do you mean? If they're both circular orbits, they'll have the same period, so they'll never collide—they'll always be on opposite sides of the Earth. In fact, this goes for any two orbits with identical periods.
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by rdlw 3y ago
The current situation is literally the BOTTOM of a slippery slope.
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by rdlw 3y ago
It's weird, I feel like the people who refuse to use YouTube with an account are the same people who insist all the content is garbage. I use it logged in and ~70% of my recommendations are math videos or other things I would like. Whe
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by rdlw 3y ago
I thought that was the point. There ARE flowers and fruits, but only the ones approved by Apple, and the walls stop you from trying anything else.
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by rdlw 3y ago
"Honest, officer, it's unregistered!" (driving a tank through the park)
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by rdlw 3y ago
Yes, the title is clickbait because you're smarter than everyone else and so are not surprised.
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by rdlw 3y ago
Also when I search, it shows me about 5 search results, 5 videos related to my search that I may like, and then... recommendations?
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by rdlw 3y ago
It's a large amount of water but the anecdote itself is only ~32cm² on my screen :)
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by rdlw 3y ago
Losing a trademark just means that it's not protected, and anyone can use it. Burger King Sweden was directly making fun of the Big Mac in their menu for a while after this case, since they could do it legally.
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by rdlw 3y ago
This is not what happened, they had the trademark for "Big Mac". They took Supermac's to court because their name was too similar, and ended up losing the trademark. For a while Burger King Sweden was selling burgers using th
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by rdlw 3y ago
From the link I posted: John Beck's Monadicity Theorem is cited in "many sources" but a manuscript has been found and "The proof is reproduced for instance in (MacLane, p. 147-150, Riehl 2017, 5/5/)". Fred
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by rdlw 3y ago
I found this, unfortunately it is about category theory: "manuscripts [...] that are cited but never became widely available" https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/list+of+lost+manuscripts+in+ca...
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by rdlw 3y ago
I live in Canada and all the egg cartons say œufs
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by rdlw 3y ago
Why are you doing something that hasn't been done a million times before? Suspicious. You're using it wrong.
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by rdlw 3y ago
Maybe it's different on mobile but I see a moka pot as the first image. I have a 6-cup model, which has a 12 oz. capacity. The point is that no one really uses those as measurements, they're not useful. But almost every coffee mak
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by rdlw 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeemaker

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