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by math-ias 10mo ago
They are referring to how there’s a belief in some parts of Massachusetts that the police are trying to frame Karen Reid for the death of John O Keefe (0). At its climax it was all over the news, it was discussed at a lot of water coolers,
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by math-ias 1y ago
It measures PutObject[0] performance across different object sizes (1, 8, 100MiB)[1]. Seems to be an odd screenshot of text in the terminal. [0] https://github.com/good-lly/s3mini/blob/30a751cc866855f783a1...
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by math-ias 2y ago
I use YouTube in 3 contexts, mobile, laptop and TV. Since the remote slows down my inputs the most I watch longer content (e.g 20 minute or longer videos) on TV. I do notice that YouTube plays longer ads, somewhere around a minute’s worth,
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by math-ias 2y ago
I believe knowing a proof exists will bring us closer to elegant human proofs. I wanted to justify this with the “Roger Bannister Effect”. The thought is that we’re held back psychologically by the idea of the impossible. It takes one perso
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by math-ias 3y ago
The Minecraft comparison is really good. Roblox is for kids. That audience of children attracts seedy actors who want to make money. I’d like to draw an analogy from redstone (Minecraft’s imitation of circuitry) to the ability to create gam
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by math-ias 3y ago
I would guess that this drives a non-negligible number of people to playing the game for the first time. My personal anecdote is tab completing `apt-get install` by mistake and figuring I should research this 0ad package more to make sure I
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by math-ias 4y ago
Minecraft sells their own hosted servers called realms that bill monthly [0]. The key difference here might be that it was rolled out well after the game’s release around the 1.5 update [1]. [0] https://www.minecraft.net/en-
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by math-ias 4y ago
Emulators don’t always challenge developer profit. Minecraft is incredibly successful because users can play on alternative server implementations (e.g hypixel).
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by math-ias 4y ago
I was surprised that the story of Gauss's schoolboy arithmetic tricks was the guy himself. Per Sartorius, Gauss "often related [the incident] in old age with amusement and relish". I suppose it makes sense. I cannot imagine b