HeraldEmbar

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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
The home page is fairly free of any details about SaC, though I do now know an awfully lot about who is involved. Also, there's no reference manual. Where can I find a tutorial, examples, or any concrete details?
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
There needs to be detailed comments for at least ONE of those examples! Very cool. I've looked into k and J...they look like fun toy languages.
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
> Artifact had in effect a perfectly reasonable economic model, but players did not see it that way. CCG player stockholm syndrome is why we can't have nice things.
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
Now let's put a person talking on the phone and texting at the same time and have that person do the same exercise that AAA conducted..
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
tl;dr: Unicode codepoints don't have a 1-to-1 relationship with characters that are actually displayed. This has always been the case (due to zero-width characters, accent modifiers that go after another character, Hangul etc.) but has
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
It’s a worthy mention that it’s mostly THC vapes. Rarely nicotine vapes alone.
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
This was fascinating, thanks. Made me think about why I used 99 as my max -- I think it's because back in the SNES days, all the RPGs used 99 as a limit.
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
I think I'm going to run 50 volts through all my usb cables when I get home.
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
Is it really 50% though since more than one ball is falling through at a time? Wouldn't a steel ball hitting another steel ball affect it's possible path?
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
Seeing things for what they really are...isn’t that our greatest desire and our greatest fear? I love the voice in this fiction, and the astonishing fact that it is provided to the world in a newspaper. Speculative fiction is where truth ca
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
As I understand it, the "Do 10,000 hours" idea is about achieving expertise. It doesn't mean that you had to have to started specializing and achieving that expertise when you were 3 years old. So I think that the premise of
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
The arrogance of nurses and physicians in constantly waking patients up, completely unaware and uncaring of the health detriment that comes with loss of sleep, is inexcusable. While some people can go back to sleep after being awakened, the
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
Lynx was widely used at my university when I started there in 1993. I remember vaguely not liking Mosaic and other early inline graphic browsers, not because they weren't revolutionary, but because they were too slow on our relatively
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by HeraldEmbar 7y ago
Privacy is not gone. We could set up laws and enforce them. We already do this for medical data (HIPAA). There's no reason we can't do this for other categories of personal data, such as what you buy and where you go. Europe does