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by whtrbt 6y ago
Re: Kalamata, perhaps after the olive? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamata_olive
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by whtrbt 6y ago
Does this illusion work from any angle?
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by whtrbt 6y ago
If it's Permutation City, the character also becomes an entomologist and a skyscraper abseiler for similarly extended periods.
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by whtrbt 6y ago
Was it forgetting - memories fading?
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by whtrbt 7y ago
I participated in a HyperCard game jam this weekend... I'm not much of a programmer and have never made a game before, but it was so easy to get something up and running. I will probably make some more things in HyperCard when inspirat
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by whtrbt 7y ago
Bizarre timing... I am in the process of setting up a forum for the intersection of a few ideas: small sailboats, hacking, low-power computing, living aboard and cruising. Literally started setting up a server last night. The bigger sailing
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by whtrbt 7y ago
Wander, ramble, daydream, experiment.
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by whtrbt 7y ago
The hyperreal.
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by whtrbt 7y ago
"...if the right kind of people begin to believe it was arson, caused by deliberate action, the threat that more arsons will be committed increases drastically. What separates the Stand Alone Complex from normal copycat behavior is tha
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by whtrbt 7y ago
None of the fires in Victoria have been confirmed to be deliberately lit. Police have charged one man in Victoria with _attempting_ to light a fire. Deliberate arson is not new in Australia, don't make out that it's the reason for
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by whtrbt 7y ago
If you don't want to haggle, then you get the listed price.
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by whtrbt 7y ago
> And yet I've bought many items with patience at those prices. There was a bike I wanted originally listed at $1800. I offered 1000 as that's what it was worth. Every week it was relisted $50 lower, every week I dropped my off
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by whtrbt 7y ago
Definitely a lot of tyre kickers. Every time I've marked something I'm selling as e.g. '$500 negotiable' I get tons of messages saying "what's your best price" or "what's your lowest offer?"
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by whtrbt 7y ago
Who are you referring to?
45.
by whtrbt 7y ago
I would say the coverage was fairly limited compared to the size of the protest. You staying at home is hardly newsworthy.
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by whtrbt 7y ago
Yes, I did!
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by whtrbt 7y ago
I attended the protest in Melbourne. There was reportedly around 150k people, which is just over 3% of the city's population... that's crazy to me.
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by whtrbt 7y ago
What do you even mean by that? That you think a job is better than a healthy climate?
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by whtrbt 7y ago
Usually it's because they like the beans the cafe uses, the barista makes the coffee the way they like it and because they've built up a relationship with the people that work there. I'm not fussy about my coffee, I go to the
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by whtrbt 7y ago
Ah, it looks like this is what the graphical version of Community in Halt and Catch Fire was based on!
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by whtrbt 12y ago
The fact that all the characters were written as unisex is interesting, so thanks for that. :)
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by whtrbt 12y ago
Is it feasible to move the content instead?
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by whtrbt 12y ago
Yes, that way of writing it is actually the least disruptive to my reading.
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by whtrbt 12y ago
I didn't even realise it was redundant until you pointed that out. I got what you meant.
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by whtrbt 12y ago
Is the convention you used for a/an in "a (n increasingly long) while back" common? As soon as I saw it, I wondered how I had ever handled the scenario but nothing came to mind. Perhaps I just ignored it and would have writte
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by whtrbt 12y ago
It's not directly related to the original article, but the idea of consciousness arising in any sufficient system reminded me of an essay by Hans Moravec, "Simulation, Consciousness, Existence" [1] (and that essay in turn mak
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by whtrbt 12y ago
I found Dickens' sentence a little easier to follow. Perhaps because it didn't really shift subject/object so much?
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by whtrbt 12y ago
The level with just a vertical drop down a pipe to land on the target below, filled with random obstacles to bounce you off a perfectly straight run. Three of us were competing on that with ultra-close scores... I wish I still had our score
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by whtrbt 12y ago
Meant to post here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882179
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by whtrbt 12y ago
That's sad to hear - Pikhal and Tikhal are fascinating works, and reading them I got the sense that he was a very kind, patient and curious person.

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