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by rdlw 4y ago
I don't really agree with this reasoning, since to make it a fair comparison wouldn't you have to ignore any pleasure you get from the dip? A lottery ticket gets you a "little thrill" of the possibility of winning, and t
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by rdlw 4y ago
See also: "What is the "-->" operator in C++?" https://stackoverflow.com/q/1642028
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by rdlw 4y ago
Computer software came to maturity in 2017 with the release of Fortnite.
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by rdlw 4y ago
That reason makes sense, and there are certainly rules in tournaments against early draws, but I'd never heard of a rule against resigning early. My understanding of Magnus playing one move was that you couldn't resign until the g
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by rdlw 4y ago
What rule is there against resigning?
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by rdlw 4y ago
They should probably confirm the car is stolen when they mark it as stolen.
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by rdlw 4y ago
Related: Joel Haver - "When a character speaks a different language but doesn't get subtitles" https://youtu.be/xK3IYMRZ4EA
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by rdlw 4y ago
The original recordings don't exist.
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by rdlw 4y ago
What is a "data driven opinion"? Do you mean a fact? What data drives your choice of favourite colour?
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by rdlw 4y ago
TeX Live can also be configured to install the bare minimum TeX ecosystem (or just TeX+LaTeX), which only takes a few minutes to download and install but results in hunting down dependencies and manually installing them whenever you want to
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by rdlw 4y ago
MikTeX also supports downloading individual packages, though I wish there was an option to download, say, the most commonly used 1GB or something.
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by rdlw 4y ago
These answer boxes are getting out of hand, you didn't even have to load a page to get the answer!
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by rdlw 4y ago
> open source This is not a criterion of high quality software.
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by rdlw 4y ago
> if we were to transport you there you would not recognize the various objects in visible light at all, too much time has passed. I think this is an old interpretation of the speed of light and spacetime, since it describes travelling v
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by rdlw 4y ago
In SMB, you can brake more quickly by holding L+R, which is impossible with an original NES controller, and as such that input is not allowed in official speed runs. https://tasvideos.org/GameResources/NES/SuperMar
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by rdlw 4y ago
Is that an accurate comparison? I don't know much about biology so I'm open to be corrected, but I thought that flu vaccines are attenuated or dead versions of the virus, which aren't strong enough to transmit, and RNA vaccin
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by rdlw 4y ago
'Fizzy drink' is very common, it's what children call carbonated beverages. In Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory, Charlie and his grandfather drink 'fizzy lifting drink', for one notable usage. Edit: oh, I jus
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by rdlw 4y ago
I did not know about transpose but I am now fully convinced that Emacs shortcuts can be art. Really, I tried it out and giggled out loud. Now how do I go about sharing this joke with my friends? "It all started in 1976... let me tell y
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by rdlw 4y ago
I once said that nobody can distinguish between Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Normans living in Britain today and that no one claims to be one rather than the other, to which an English woman in my class responded "well, except the Neo-Nazis&
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by rdlw 4y ago
"I’m reminded that in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, tourists would travel around with hand-held, slightly convex mirrors called Claude Glass. If you turned yourself away from a beautiful landscape and looked instead at the la
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by rdlw 4y ago
Welcome to speaking about technology in a language other than English! I know that in Icelandic, the Icelandic Language Council is proactive about coming up with equivalents for new words, but even there English words tend to sneak in if th
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by rdlw 4y ago
That's not a natural word, it's a brand. In that case, of course Google decided to make Gmail look more like a word, because they want it to look natural when it's used. For it to be a counterexample, it would have to have oc
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by rdlw 4y ago
Here's another benefit to printing: once a decade, when you migrate storage boxes or move houses, what are the odds you'll look at your printouts and reminisce? Probably pretty good, since it's easy to look at something. Mean
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by rdlw 5y ago
YouTube has a setting to pause watch/search history. I'm sure they still track these things being the scenes, but I've found that removing videos from watch history is enough to keep similar things off my feed.
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by rdlw 5y ago
Where I live, gas is $1.56/L and electricity is around 11¢/kWh. So assuming 6km/kWh and 100km/9.5L, the difference is a factor of 8. Also, my car is not nearly this fuel-efficient—I get about 14L/100km. I assume you
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by rdlw 5y ago
I couldn't find a source that says when YouTube started showing videos in 720p by default, but I did find this circumstantial evidence that shows it was after October 2012, so at most 9 years 8 months ago: https://apple.st
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by rdlw 5y ago
Except for voice [0], any fretless stringed instrument [1], any fretted string instrument with separate frets for sharps and flats [2], keyboard instruments that allow expression [3], keyboard instruments with split flat/sharp keys [4]
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by rdlw 5y ago
Apparently Spotify's 'Very High' means 320 kbps[1]. Tidal uses FLAC, which uses as high a bitrate as is necessary; I've seen flac bitrate as high as 1800 kbps. There is an eternal debate among audiophiles as to whether F
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by rdlw 5y ago
If these colour meanings are older than ~80 years (presumably they are), then maybe the association is between aka (red) for increases and ao (grue) for decreases, or in English, both green and blue for decreases.
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by rdlw 5y ago
Good thing you live in Canada, then, or you'd have to learn to grind faster!

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