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by someone7x 2y ago
I saw this on Nova once, it is amazing to see it made. https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/asset/eng06_vid_incabridge/ is the best link I could find for it.
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by someone7x 2y ago
Same reaction here, I just watched a bunch guys playing with crabs in the kitchen sink to the soundtrack of riotous laughter. 10/10 I saw something real online
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by someone7x 2y ago
I generated a classic chess set based on Nowruz and it generated Hanukkah as the opponent x_x
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by someone7x 2y ago
Great article, except for an unexpected reminder of how "gamedeveloper.com" just totally thrashed the history of "gamasutra.com"; the link in their own article to their own past article is broken. Finding all my gamasutr
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by someone7x 2y ago
This strikes me as a pointless refactoring of baking because it mostly serves to make the engineer feel smart. When engineering is applied to cooking, it usually looks a lot more like Kenji Alt-Lopez and his peers when they refactor a recip
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by someone7x 2y ago
> Did I miss something more damning later in the article? Yes. The part where the CEO claims that of all the people seeking anonymity that less than 100 of them aren’t criminals o_O Check out the last discord screenshot.
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by someone7x 3y ago
> Its so easy to put the blame on some amorphous, anonymous abstraction like "Wall Street" because we can feel self-righteous. But things are the way they are because--by and large--we like them that way. Could it be that the e
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by someone7x 3y ago
The Ice Schooner as well, but sadly no wikipedia page for it. > In this far-future adventure, Captain Arflane leads his crew of the schooner Ice Spirit across the endless seas of ice covering Earth. To any survivors of this brave expedit
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by someone7x 3y ago
To chime in further, the battle log would be more legible if it listed the rules that applied. Eg: Defender bonus = 2 Shortest word = 2 (*in*, top, sugar) Attacker word = 5 (*twine*) Attacker wins (5-4=1) At least for me I’m always getting
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by someone7x 3y ago
I fondly remember SciTE from when I first cut my teeth on desktop automation. I’m glad to see it alive and kicking. https://www.autoitscript.com/wiki/SciTE4AutoIt3
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by someone7x 3y ago
> The common consensus seems to be, yeah, it’s obviously stolen, what are you going to do about it? When good sleuthing collides with entrenched forces.
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by someone7x 3y ago
Thanks for the easy steps, they say my data should be removed in 30 days.
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by someone7x 3y ago
They eventually reveal the same conclusion, but with less certainty: > The answers to the “Why so tall?” and “Why not taller?” questions seem to involve water, as is the case for so much about trees. > Ultimately, it’s most likely a m
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by someone7x 3y ago
Have you read the later book Living with Complexity? It is pretty much this topic; how to reconcile complexity and confusion. He talks a lot about reaching designs of irreducible complexity as a way to mitigate confusion. For what it’s wor
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by someone7x 3y ago
A lot of money is right! First word I tried is priced in the thousands! > trash.ing > Your domain is available! > Premium name > 1,625.00 USD
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by someone7x 3y ago
> They see an article that needs correction or a small expansion so they create the account and do the work. > Their work is immediately reverted by an editor. My 2 day wikipedia career in a nutshell, I guess I'm not alone.
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by someone7x 3y ago
Are there some poor unfortunate souls out there that actually prefer their water laced with lead? Is this the next generation of anti-vax dogma? That lead pipes are actually good?
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by someone7x 3y ago
I've given up trying to configure git push the branch I'm on so I type this little dance each time : git switch -c foo git push > did you mean git push --args-with-branch-name? sigh, copy, paste, enter
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by someone7x 3y ago
This tracks for me; I joined Wikipedia after I encountered some juvenile vandalism on a sanitation page. It felt good to actually contribute back. The next day my edit was reversed my account was blocked, and I was accused of the vandalism
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by someone7x 3y ago
This plot keeps thickening I'm eager to see how it all unfolds.
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by someone7x 3y ago
What fun links; it’s comforting to see whimsy is still alive and well online.
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by someone7x 3y ago
As a champion of front running trades via payment-for-order-flow in general, and as a key villain in the GameStop saga in particular, surely there’s no shortage of people eager to tell him as much or worse to his face.
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by someone7x 3y ago
> The real items on it are almost all ceremonial calendars and everyone (who isn't a priest) uses the Gregorian calendar, or at least most people know it. Isn’t this just the “no true scotsman” defense, but for calendars? https:&#x
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by someone7x 3y ago
> Exactly my point. The rest of humanity uses year 1 as the epoch. The rest of humanity uses a variety of reckoning systems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_era
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by someone7x 3y ago
I’ve heard “dice” for singles: you’ll need to roll one dice here. I never asked, but I want to believe their internal representation of “1D6” is one-dice-six. Sorta like reading “1 x 6” as “one _times_ six” instead of “one _time_ six” Word
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by someone7x 3y ago
This reads like some crab mentality; since heroic nurses and factory workers can’t work remotely then we should bemoan those who can and do work remotely. Should we also cancel telehealth programs so those nurses that actually do work remo
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by someone7x 3y ago
By your reasoning, YouTube (like Costco) should ask the actual freeloaders to stop instead of imposing ads on every Costco member in a misguided quest to profit on every single free sample. I’m impressed you saw what should really happen at
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by someone7x 3y ago
Must I buy the product at Costco after I’ve tasted the sample or am I just a freeloader? Am I morally obliged to acknowledge the sponsors for everything I personally don’t purchase? To whom do I owe patronage when I accept something gratis?
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by someone7x 3y ago
> Why would you test it Is this a wrong way to get a right answer?
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by someone7x 3y ago
Given that neither of them “came first” in the topic of inventing the alphabet, what does it matter if Hebrew or Phoenician preceded each other?

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