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by vikingerik 1y ago
2 being the only even prime isn't really anything fundamentally weird. Every prime is the only divisible-by-that-number prime. 2 has nothing unique about that. We only notice the case for 2 because our human languages happen to defin
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by vikingerik 1y ago
And remember the median number of flights taken by an American in a year is zero. The majority of the population is never affected by it, so they can happily vote and support anything that makes them feel more secure or like they're h
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by vikingerik 2y ago
The postal service has learned and knows to compensate for this. If you mail something with four digits for the zip code, it will be treated as if it had a leading 0 and routed to the northeast.
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Did anyone try the setting for "when laptop lid closes" set to "do nothing"? I've always used that on a half dozen Windows laptops over the years and never seen it not work. Even if sleep is finicky, that will jus
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Same here. The problem, though, is that on the internet the articles stick around past that day and confuse everyone forever.
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Etsy as a private platform banning it doesn't necessarily mean it was actually legally infringing. Like all the content hosting platforms, they would err super cautiously to avoid any possibility of anything even remotely resembling a
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by vikingerik 2y ago
They must be generated. Hand designed levels probably wouldn't have things like pawns on the first rank, or four opposing rooks, or situations where the first move unavoidably loses points.
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Thermodynamically speaking, the energy in tides does come from Earth's rotation. The moon raises a bulge in Earth's crust and ocean. Earth's rotation carries that bulge ahead of the Moon's position. The bulge pulls the
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by vikingerik 2y ago
There's a cusp between them, birth years '78 to '82. We're the Xennials, also dubbed the Oregon Trail micro-generation. We're the ones who grew up playing that on the Apple IIs in the school computer labs, and the
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Uptown can mean anything out of: geographically north, upstream on a river, higher elevation, or higher income and wealth of the residents. It just so happens that for Manhattan which is the most famous uptown, all four of those indicators
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by vikingerik 2y ago
There's also this failure case: I know a pair of sisters who look and sound identical enough that they can unlock each other's phones with face and voiceprint recognition.
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by vikingerik 2y ago
> Something that always bugs me is restaurants that charge $2 or $5 surcharge for takeout. I'm saving the restaurant a ton of money by not using the dining room, why would they discourage that? Because takeout isn't competing w
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by vikingerik 2y ago
I figured that out just from playing Tombstone City. It's the first paired cactus by scanning the board in reading order (each row from the top, left-to-right.) (You mean a cactus that turns into a monster, not a tumbleweed.) And ye
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Same here, I'm in the TI-99 as first computer club as well. 98% of what I did on it was just play cartridge games, but I did have a year or so of trying to type in Basic programs from library magazines. None of them ever came close to
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by vikingerik 2y ago
There's observation bias there - the cheaters that we see are the obvious ones, we never know who gets away with it when they got everything to appear perfectly consistent without any telltales. Like even for RNG, it'd be possible
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Of course, the backlash to that will be "so parking is only for the rich?" Same as when we built express highways and priced the tolls to demand - see the complaints about "Lexus lanes". Capitalism is still the least-bad
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by vikingerik 2y ago
It's not clear if we're talking consistently about the sizes. If 15-20s is referring to a 7800 cartridge that's up to 48kb, that makes sense. This subthread is talking about 2600 games up to 4kb. Also it's not clear ho
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by vikingerik 2y ago
The post office has adapted in turn to that Excel problem. They know it happens. If a parcel has only four digits for the zip code, they'll treat it as a leading zero for routing and delivery.
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by vikingerik 2y ago
The Gameboy one attempts to compensate for clumpiness by reducing the chance of repeating a piece, but it turns out that that's even bugged so that the overall randomization is unbalanced. https://harddrop.com/wiki&#x2F
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Counterpoint, though - this supermarket pretty obviously is using that name because it's known from Nintendo. Something like "Mario Market" would be a coincidence of naming (like nissan.com for example, or MikeRoweSoft vs Mi
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by vikingerik 2y ago
I know you're not exactly serious, but to answer anyway: McMurdo isn't near this flight path, it's at New Zealand's longitude (so 2000 miles east of Australia) and much farther south. Perth would be the closest airport
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by vikingerik 2y ago
It goes the other way too, nouns as verbs, and just as cringy: "you can solution this", "we need to action that". Both ways come from subtle manipulation of language. "Ask" sounds like a polite word while &quo
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by vikingerik 2y ago
To save you a click on this clickbait: the sign is "Maintain Top Safe Speed", and the intent is to tell you to spend minimum time on this road to get out of this area as soon as you can because of nuclear contamination.
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by vikingerik 2y ago
A car turning on a green light can be simultaneous with the pedestrian's crossing light being green. The driver is obligated to see the pedestrian and wait. What's not simultaneous is a green turn arrow with a green ped crossin
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by vikingerik 2y ago
The Great Migration wasn't as real as the headlines made it look, though. It was an artifact of time-shifting from the pandemic. Normal job switching didn't happen in 2020 and became pent-up demand in 2021. So the numbers looke
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Yup. I have my clocks in the house set 30 seconds ahead to counteract exactly this.
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Just to clarify on what actually happened the first time: He wasn't trying to protest the dress code or make a scene, it wasn't on his mind at all. He had been out for an appearance with a sponsor during a break, then came back to
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Just to clarify on the facts, as gathered from reddit threads: He wasn't trying to protest the dress code or make a scene, it wasn't on his mind at all. He had been out for an appearance with a sponsor during a break, then came b
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Yes, Parker used gravity assists, several passes by Venus. The cheapest way in terms of delta-v in the real solar system is actually to use Jupiter, launch to there and slingshot against your incoming velocity to cancel it out and drop towa
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by vikingerik 2y ago
Bit of a nitpick - Jupiter tends to shield the inner solar system from comets that originate far out, but not necessarily asteroids. For bodies in the asteroid belt, there's some thought that Jupiter perturbs as many to a perihelion

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