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by peeters 2mo ago
Tolkien's Earendil was definitely a reference to the morning star, but outside his legendarium I don't know of anyone spelling it "dil" instead of "del". If it was supposed to be a non-Tolkien reference I would
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by peeters 2mo ago
The fact that they're spelling this Earendil, not Earendel, makes me think this is a direct reference to Tolkien's work. It's pretty weird for dystopian industrial initiatives to be named after characters in a work whose most
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by peeters 7mo ago
This comment made a lot more sense to me once I realized we weren't talking about an aggressively marketed weight loss drug.
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by peeters 9mo ago
I don't think you're understanding what OP actually said. They didn't cite the Libya example as an example of bad behaviour; there wasn't any value statement on it at all. They were saying the fact that they intervened i
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by peeters 1y ago
Yeah Taskmaster (which I adore) came to my mind too. I think it's more common when the food in question is an animal product, but still it just seems a bit contrived when behind the scenes the catering company is probably chucking tons
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by peeters 1y ago
Yeah I was going to say, the ACC is basically connected to Union already, you don't need some complex system of tunnels to get from one to the other.
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by peeters 1y ago
The article itself has the title: > The FBI Seized Her $40,000 Without Explaining Why. She Fought Back Against That Practice—and Lost I think it's decent, but still a bit ambiguous. Less ambiguous than if it just said "She Foug
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by peeters 1y ago
Yeah and I think that's the core of the issue here. In a lot of hiring markets, the cost of letting in a bad hire is higher than the cost of filtering out a good hire.
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by peeters 1y ago
Hmm I'll take your word for it that that's true, but I would say the examples are very different. Independence Day is a title/holiday retroactively created to commemorate the event (which apparently might not have even happen
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by peeters 1y ago
> Passports please! British paratroopers met by French customs after D-Day airdrop Err, D-Day anniversary airdrop. That headline has only one correct literal interpretation, and it's wrong (not ambiguous, wrong).
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by peeters 1y ago
> The moment that people ascribe properties such as "consciousness" or "ethics" or "values" or "morals" to these learnt mappings is where I tend to get lost. We are speaking about a big recurrence
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by peeters 1y ago
Yeah that's a very bad idea.
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by peeters 1y ago
Oops disregard this, by "has to be identical" I thought you were objecting to the non uniformity of the surface, not the incongruity of the sides' shapes, so that's where my comment was coming from. The incongruity of th
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by peeters 1y ago
It's a meaningless distinction. A solid is defined by a 3D shape enclosed by a surface. It doesn't require uniform density. Just imagine that the sides of this surface are infinitesimally thin so as to be invisible and porous to a
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by peeters 1y ago
In some ways it's a shame because I love the finesse game as a counterbalance to the focus on power that seemed to peak around the time Brad Jacob's crew was dominating the scene. I don't follow curling quite enough to know w
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by peeters 1y ago
Pulling an object "down" (ie towards the gravitational focus) doesn't lower the energy of its orbit, it just changes the eccentricity. To lower its orbit you have to slow it down.
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by peeters 1y ago
> I think we could solve that problem by removing Jupiter. If we drop it into the Sun, we can gain all of its orbital energy in the process. How did you come up with dropping Jupiter into the sun being a net energy producing operation?
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by peeters 1y ago
> If I’m reading between the lines what you are saying is that ”Andor is actually intelligent and high quality art … sci-fi can’t be high quality art”? I’m exaggerating to make a point. Nope not at all, for example I personally would put
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by peeters 1y ago
Not referring to that actually, I think that was actually a great bridge to Ep 4 that helps put the story in context for casual fans. More the presence of the Force and Jedi lore. They were so close to not having that be part of Rogue One
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by peeters 1y ago
I guess like with all categorization, genres are reductive generalizations. And I'm saying the sci-fi generalization is much less descriptive of Andor than the political thriller generalization is. You could transplant Andor to WWII hi
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by peeters 1y ago
> you are at all open to sci-fi That is to say, a sci-fi setting . Andor would not be correctly put in the sci-fi genre, rather in the political thriller genre.
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by peeters 1y ago
They did a really good job tying Andor into Rogue One, but yeah Andor is just far better in terms of pacing, etc. And because they have to rush the plot in R1 (meet Jyn, she doesn't care about the rebellion, oops never mind now she&#x2
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by peeters 1y ago
It wasn't entirely prescient...the OG SARS virus in 2002 followed a similar path (with a much more terrifying fatality rate). But that game and the movie Contagion certainly felt a little on the nose once the pandemic hit.
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by peeters 1y ago
Parks for a novel game design, gorgeous artwork and tactile pieces. Mid complexity. Pandemic Legacy for one of the best experiences you'll have with the same group of friends over months (cooperative, play through once over 12-24 sitti
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by peeters 1y ago
This doesn't seem to comment on preexisting titles if I'm reading it correctly?
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by peeters 1y ago
> Sadly, the movie really shows it's age when the "cultural attaché" starts lecturing Robert Redford's character that "our countries are friends now". It's hard to suspend disbelief watching it nowadays
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by peeters 1y ago
> One overbearing player can hijack the whole game I tend to just not play with people like that. I find those same people are typically insufferable with competitive games too.
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by peeters 1y ago
It's interesting to me, the shift I've had to co-op games over the years (both board and video games). With one group of friends, we play exclusively cooperative games, whereas another only wants to ever play competitive games. Fo
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by peeters 1y ago
I think they're saying that because it builds on the previous result having any one effort claim a record doesn't really make sense. Like imagine there was a record for longest novel published, and what you did was take the previo
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by peeters 1y ago
Is there a way to do non-scalar multiplication? E.g if I want to say "what is the sum of three dice rolls" (ignoring the fact that that's not a normal distro) I want to do 1~6 * 3 = 1~6 + 1~6 + 1~6 = 6~15. But instead it does

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