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by topherclay 3y ago
Must be hard to target an audience that self-identifies as not needing your product. You can read more in our blog post: 5 reasons a self taught person will be teaching themselves instead of reading our blog post. It feels like reading horo
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by topherclay 3y ago
Interesting write up but maybe Iissed where the name comes from. Is "Wi" the name of a monster or a location in the game or something?
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by topherclay 3y ago
Not only that but nowadays they also no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
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by topherclay 3y ago
What do you mean by this? If they just wanted to make an example out of him then he gave them a very easy way to "find" to do so, considering we are observing it via satellite maps.
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by topherclay 3y ago
The novelty is that they tested this one theory instead of just proposing it as an explanation. The introduction of this paper lists some other explanations that you may or may not have seen in the past and it says some have been disproven
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by topherclay 3y ago
>they need to cover all events impartially and equally. A 100% accurate map of the territory is just the territory itself, and is useless as a map.
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by topherclay 3y ago
>It gives a standard salutation and signs off with “Thank you, <bot name>.” I thought this was a mistake implying the bot was thanking itself as a way of signing off, but finally I realized it's probably supposed be a format l
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by topherclay 3y ago
Yeah it appears to be.
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by topherclay 3y ago
That's a fun thought experiment: to imagine what level of detail of snowflakes most people are able to discern. Reminds me of a little bit of that one xkcd. https://xkcd.com/2501/
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by topherclay 3y ago
Not strange at all for a history article, though.
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by topherclay 3y ago
"And it probably even runs Crysis." Woah, only one more year and this reference will be old enough to vote.
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by topherclay 3y ago
Is this one of those quirky HN automatic title edits or was this just a typo from the post author?
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by topherclay 3y ago
Why are you telling him what you think the idea is when he is the one who wrote it?
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by topherclay 3y ago
These guys are widely considered the most well-dressed of the entire animal kingdom and here you are claiming "The Emperor Penguin has no clothes."
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by topherclay 3y ago
Funny that the routes and towns map is the same as the in game map, except it's sort of mirrored North-South around pallet town. So instead of starting clockwise out of pallet town in game, you would start counter-clockwise on this gen
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by topherclay 3y ago
That is in no way an update. It is an interview that took place one week ago.
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by topherclay 3y ago
I had to reread this because it didn't make sense to me the first time because it's so insane.
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by topherclay 3y ago
The way they describe the spells makes it sound like the afterlife is a dungeon crawl. Like the book of the dead is the wiki on how to build a Nethack ascension kit.
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by topherclay 3y ago
The Wikipedia page has a quote about brainstorming name ideas that has this snippet, "...I wrote down the Great Gatsby curve because of Gatsby’s trouble trying to jump social classes in spite of his money."
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by topherclay 3y ago
Wouldn't that work just as well as including in the prompt a requirement for it to not make any mistakes?
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by topherclay 3y ago
Maybe your point still stands, but Arkham Horror is pretty popular and it was released 36 years ago.
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by topherclay 3y ago
If you genie-wished the atmosphere away in one instant, I wonder what type of explosion the oceans would do as the new at atmosphere emerges, from the gases and liquids that didn't count as atmosphere before suddenly find a new equili
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by topherclay 3y ago
These ideas gave me a headache. Expect to hear from my lawyer.
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by topherclay 3y ago
It's interesting that you included the funny dentist names that you came up with but you didn't include the funny obstetrician name (that you also came up with).
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by topherclay 3y ago
A crashing wave where the crest leads the trough would be like when you're surfing inside of a barrel wave. The crashing part is going over your head and landing in the trough. In the case of this star simulation they are saying that
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by topherclay 3y ago
To approach a more accurate "actual meaning" of the phrase, it wasn't originally the second full moon in a month, but instead when a season contained a month with two full moons then that meant that the third full moon of the
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by topherclay 19y ago
What's funny is if you told those two thirds that the bible could be put on the head of a pin it would probably change their minds.
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by topherclay 19y ago
Short vonnegut story which i believe relates. http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html also, made into a decent film http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-175006468841636088
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by topherclay 19y ago
Here is the Vonnegut short story on the same subject made into a movie http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-175006468841636088
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by topherclay 19y ago
http://www.useit.com/jakob/photos/jakob_likes_it.jpg

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