oraknabo

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by oraknabo 2y ago
You could maybe tie Nabakov's humor to Gogol or Bulgakov, but he doesn't tell complex stories like Tolstoy or the longer Dostoevsky books. Maybe Pale Fire is like Notes from the Underground or Crime & Punishment in a way, but
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by oraknabo 2y ago
I can't imagine trying to manage this on an e-reader. If the notes popped up in a window over the text it would be an ideal way to experience the book, but every epub reader I've ever used makes jumping around a pain and I have a
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by oraknabo 2y ago
Pale Fire is, without a doubt, my favorite thing Nabakov ever wrote. I've been through it at least 5 times but I don't feel as if I've ever fully read it cover-to-cover like other novels. It's just a rough draft of an ep
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by oraknabo 2y ago
"The ex-grad student had poisoned the compiler to poison itself when it was recompiled" I had something similar to this story happen to a PHP site on shared hosting in the early 2000s that at the time seemed like some kind of curs
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by oraknabo 3y ago
That one has real meaning too. Being naturally inclined to mentally run through all the worst case scenarios for everything has definitely saved me time over the years.
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by oraknabo 3y ago
I don't know why, but I really like soapstone teaspoons.
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by oraknabo 5y ago
For people looking for how far back prior art goes, Looking Glass developed an ECS for the Dark Engine on the Thief games (& Irrational used for System Shock 2) in the late 90s. The version Unity's been building with DOTS was, I be
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by oraknabo 6y ago
How did I read that sentence and 1) not question whether this was a real organization and 2) not catch that reference? Big thanks for pointing this out.
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by oraknabo 6y ago
This has to be a joke. If not, the writer seems to be confused by the difference between additive & subtractive color systems. I admit to not really having any idea what they are getting at in their proposed replacement system and don&#
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by oraknabo 7y ago
Fiber has been one of the top factors in my own weight control. I've been vegan since the mid 90s, but was slowly adding extra pounds each year. I decided to go on an "if it doesn't have fiber, don't eat it" diet a
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by oraknabo 7y ago
I switched from PERL & ColdFusion to PHP back in 2000 and stuck through every version up to 7 for web app development. I've built apps in both Python and C# (mostly game projects) but never got comfortable with either as a web deve
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by oraknabo 7y ago
Not only is this an excellent project, I think this is also an incredible collection of books you've chosen to feature. I also really appreciate the art choices that have been made for the covers. I have many of these in epub from Gute
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by oraknabo 8y ago
While you're right that good breads can be made with both types of yeast, there are definitely flavors you wouldn't be able to achieve with instant yeast because a live starter is often a much more complex mix of microorganisms wh
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by oraknabo 8y ago
I was never a huge Diablo fan, but I could always appreciate the things people liked about it. I gained new respect for it from watching Brevik's GDC postmortem [0] from a couple of years ago. I love the idea that it was originally a d
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by oraknabo 8y ago
Of course there have to be criteria for any course of study that leaves out plenty of artists that have to be considered not significant enough to cover. If you were designing a course in either chronological order or in reverse, niether o
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by oraknabo 8y ago
Wouldn't this limit your study to only musicians that influenced current trends? I've definitely discovered a lot of music from digging into the influences of groups I like, but this seems like a kind of survivorship bias to only
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by oraknabo 8y ago
I literally cried the first time I saw this.