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by opium_tea 7d ago
That sounds a lot like that Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup approach of randomly generated floors/levels with designed "vaults" emplaced within them
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by opium_tea 4mo ago
The caption declaring him chairperson is absolutely perfect.
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by opium_tea 1y ago
what styles are contained in folk tradition choral music? I know of sacred harp singing which can be really spectacular.
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by opium_tea 1y ago
That suggestion feature actually exists on ADO. It was introduced in the last year or so.
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by opium_tea 2y ago
Yeah excellent point. When presenting numbers for reading/interpretation then talking in terms of cubes with a certain side length has to be the easiest to interpret. Its important to be specific about the units and not say "5 me
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by opium_tea 3y ago
I'm so confused. Blog author said this: > You can stash everything, create a new branch, switch to it, fix the bug, commit and push it, then switch back to what you were working on. And OP said this (snarkily) > Why couldn'
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by opium_tea 3y ago
That's the third bullet point. I was talking about this one: > You can stash everything, create a new branch, switch to it, fix the bug, commit and push it, then switch back to what you were working on. OP said this (you and a few
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by opium_tea 3y ago
How is it different from the second bullet point? Except the second bullet point is more specific in that it says what to do with uncommitted changes.
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by opium_tea 4y ago
How strange that it took someone saying that for you to realise you didn't like the show! It might warrant further introspection.
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by opium_tea 4y ago
I'm not sure anyone is claiming Seinfeld invented the words but he presented them in newly humorous contexts that become widely used. Shrinkage became a word used in a comical attempt to quash rumours of small penis size as well as to
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by opium_tea 4y ago
Pretty sure the image at the top is of Wistman's Wood in Devon, UK. In case anyone was wondering! https://www.google.com/search?q=wistmans+wood&rlz=1C1ONGR_en...
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by opium_tea 5y ago
I've seen this as an LPT or similar posted on Reddit. I think it helped save a life in the New Year pre-pandemic. I'd stopped at a picnic location near a rocky Atlantic (European) coastline with my partner. It was a picturesque lo
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by opium_tea 5y ago
It's amazing what different people take from articles. That someone would read through this page and instead of appreciating the effort and craft their response would be an absolute textbook example of tedious internet pedantry.
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by opium_tea 5y ago
I thought that looked pretty dubious. Do you know of anywhere to read up on it? edit: some reddit discussion here https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/44gfpz/astonishing...
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by opium_tea 6y ago
Is there a subset of these constrained optimisation techniques that work when the constraint bounds are unknown before evaluation time? This applies to certain physical engineering problems where, due to the complexity of the environmental
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by opium_tea 6y ago
Switch the view so it shows reported deaths (drop down in top right). Those numbers should be more reliable comparable.
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by opium_tea 8y ago
One method I use fairly frequently is to combine ipdb and importlib. You can set a breakpoint in one module, after some time intensive task, and pause there in your console. Write some code in another module - your working module - and th
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by opium_tea 10y ago
Any idea why a surround feature isn't in vanilla Vim? It seems to follow the Vim philosophy, i.e. enacted with a command that has action and movement components.
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by opium_tea 10y ago
I'm confused. What's the relevance of this to the posted story - "Antibiotic resistance: The grim prospect"?
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by opium_tea 11y ago
Couldn't you go to the bank with your passport? That's the fallback solution in the UK.
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Hamburger icon: How these three lines mystify most people(bbc.co.uk)
23 points by opium_tea 11y ago|17 comments
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by opium_tea 11y ago
Sometimes these crackpots are people of high social status (well, sort of...) http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/14/science...
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by opium_tea 12y ago
From this link: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/in-home-depot-breach-inve... "The malicious software that unknown thieves used to steal credit and debit card numbers in the data breach at Home Depot this y
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by opium_tea 12y ago
Mapcodes also have to be combined with some context. In most places it's just the country name, but in large countries it also requires the state (or equivalent). So if you go to the interactive map on the mapcodes site, there's a
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by opium_tea 12y ago
This video suggests their early prototypes required some further calibration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSy5mEcmgwU
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by opium_tea 12y ago
This is harsh. I read the comments here before reading the article and so found the article much less narcissistic than I was expecting. Fair enough, he does toot his own horn a bit but then it sounds like he's very much justified i
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by opium_tea 12y ago
In my experience most civil engineering organisations use spreadsheets for the majority of design calculations. Some large organisations even still insist on engineers writing out calcs by hand. For example, a calculation that determines w
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by opium_tea 12y ago
I'm of the impression that concepts only have fundamental meaning to us because we can relate them to sensory input. For example, initially a child is taught what a boat is by seeing pictures, it eventually learns that boats, cars and
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by opium_tea 12y ago
It's the latter. By only displaying the domain name users are more likely to notice a scam domain name, e.g. the Halifax.co.uk case in the parent blog post.
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by opium_tea 13y ago
I've witnessed exactly that kind of informal public transport system in cities in Africa. Interesting that it's taken hold in New York. Doubtless it occurs in numerous other cities, though i'd always assumed it was a develop

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