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by amp108 2y ago
Everyone wants it to be bigger, but we just have to work with what's there.
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by amp108 2y ago
> It makes zero difference to the movie watching experience if the script line came from the script or the other way around. While you’re watching the movie, the effect is exactly the same. Certainly not true in the case of a work adapte
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by amp108 2y ago
To be fair, 10 years ago the programmer said "I'll need a research team and five years".
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by amp108 3y ago
xp for gold means you get less for killing a monster than you do for robbing it, and encourages a more careful exploratory approach. Modern D&D is much more of a tactical combat game than the original, where encounter design is "ba
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by amp108 3y ago
Dancing is arguably the best (some might say the only authentic) way to cure quadriplegia.
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by amp108 3y ago
I don't know what's inside Mark Wahlberg's heart, but let's suppose it's someone whom, for the sake of argument, we know truly regrets their actions: what are they supposed to do if another person doesn't forgi
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by amp108 3y ago
This may be a definition with several edge cases, but I always thought of a program as something that was compiled and run, whereas a script was information you fed into a running program.
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by amp108 3y ago
There is no universe in which Klaus Kinski is better than either Max Schreck or Christopher Lee. There is a universe where Lugosi is better than Lee; just not this one.
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by amp108 4y ago
Apparently someone missed the word "experimental" in the announcement.
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by amp108 4y ago
But nobody claims that ABABCB is the only song structure.
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by amp108 4y ago
If you're wondering why your comment is so lowly rated, I suggest you actually read the linked article before commenting on it. Or rather, before commenting on a scenario that has nothing to do with it.
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by amp108 4y ago
> It's better in general not to go around judging people's morality, and if you can't manage that, try to keep your moral judgments to yourself. You do realize that this is, itself, a moralizing statement, don't you?
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by amp108 4y ago
I think you're mixing efficiency with effectiveness. It may be more efficient to store your valuables in a breadbasket, but more effective to store them in a safety deposit box, if you measure effectiveness by "keeping everything
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by amp108 4y ago
It isn't that movies like The Deer Hunter are slow, necessarily. It's that the scenes are doing things other than advancing "the plot". Things like revealing a hidden character trait or depicting the quality of the pro
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by amp108 4y ago
I was really confused, and thought I'd missed out on a big chunk of music theory, when I read this. Glad to see it wasn't my understanding, but the author's.
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by amp108 4y ago
> Right now, here's the process for browsing a subreddit on mobile without the (ads and tracking loaded) reddit app: 1. Use rif is fun for Reddit ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu
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by amp108 4y ago
The only place the Socratic Method works is in the fictional dialogues of Plato, where Crito or Meno or Phaedrus or whomever are set up as obvious straw men, answering "yes" or "no" as Plato chooses, to questions most mo
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by amp108 4y ago
This seems like a weird, and possibly untrustworthy, hack. Does Python not have the equivalent of Ruby's `x` modifier?
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by amp108 4y ago
Pretty sure most licenses have a clause stating that, if one clause is deemed invalid, that fact doesn't render the entire thing null and void. Check with your lawyer when in doubt.
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by amp108 4y ago
I think at least part of it has to do with the fact that, if you're a critic, you see probably 500+ movies a year. You are likely to get bored with things that the casual viewer doesn't, and it might even be hard to tell it's
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by amp108 4y ago
> Your ChessBoard class should only be concerned with chess-board-ness. A separate second idea is that your program only needs one board. That’s not a fact intrinsic to chess boards, so it shouldn’t be coded into your ChessBoard class. T
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by amp108 5y ago
"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again." -- Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
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by amp108 5y ago
Interesting, I wrote a quick script to use this: #!/usr/bin/env ruby def is_prime(n) ("1" \* n.to_i)!~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ end num = ARGV.shift $stdout.puts is_prime(num) ... then decided to test it
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by amp108 5y ago
There is a major character named "Piggy" in the book. They kill him in the end. The probability is zero that those events are thematically unrelated.
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by amp108 5y ago
You could just `grep "something" file.
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by amp108 5y ago
Do I really have to contextualize my statements that much? Has reading comprehension on YC sunk that low? Obviously, I'm saying this in the context of things that might work; if there are, say, 12 remedies that have been shown to work
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by amp108 5y ago
> (the opportunity cost of a failed therapy, which generally takes months, is huge) To say that someone is harmed by finding out what doesn't work is a bit of a stretch. You can only talk about opportunity costs meaningfully if th
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by amp108 5y ago
> I don't like reading thick O'Reilly books when I start learning new programming languages. Rather, I like starting by writing small and dirty code. Virtually every O'Reilly book starts out with small (and sometimes dirty
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by amp108 6y ago
Yup, all bad: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pfizer-covid-vaccine-effective-... https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/pfizer-covid-19-vaccine https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020&
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by amp108 6y ago
You elide the parenthesis. They are as unnecessary when speaking Lisp code aloud as saying "comma", "period", or "question mark" are in everyday conversation.

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