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davidjhall
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Comment #45288402
Yes! According to this post, someone tried to find the max rooms in Inform 7 and stopped at tens of thousands. Took long to compile (not run) and used a lot of memory, but not an i…
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Comment #45227160
Excited at first ... until he sold you the hMMM machine, took your credits and flew away, only for you to discover that this machine only programs in little endian brainf*ck!
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Comment #45167310
Quick warning to not play the video in the room with an Echo. Now I have Alexa telling everyone in the house that green hippo is hungry!! Which begs the question, how do they broad…
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Comment #44652071
Legend has it that he was handed a live bat at a concert and thought it was a prop -- was almost more surprised than the bat. Also - animal rights were still gaining traction re: t…
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Comment #44575675
SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory) is awful; we tend to just have blocks of a few years of memories. The only benefit is you can't be gas-lit intentionally because y…
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Comment #44442900
Very cute but wish there was a filter for the flavor of the week ... I feel 60% of them will have LLM because of this bias. Last month would've been "powered by rust."
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Comment #43685155
A wonderful atlas -- my favorite are her trail maps where she depicts a character's daily journey in the book. The article (almost) footnotes her other work which was equally impre…
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Comment #43623276
Congratulations! What was the stack/language you used to make this [ didn't see it in your original post ]?
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Comment #42612856
Are there any other copies of this video out there? Since it's a bogus claim, the video should be able to be posted elsewhere --- YouTube can't be the only source of record.
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Comment #42367777
*Fair warning -- I LOVE Obsidian.md ; not an evangelist, per se, but it's a great tool. Free and practically future-proof ( all markdown; some extra flavor markdown but that's opti…
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Comment #42353090
I have a similar one -- site just sent down a few days ago. A special library....
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Comment #41809284
I think they meant "not unlike" as - we didn't think asbestos was bad, then we thought it could be bad, then yes, after studies, this is really awful. Similarly, we might find that…
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Comment #40534199
Yes! We have it in Call of Duty : Black Ops https://youtu.be/QOgK0sV6RLU?si=5YdNNwbigBEvm9f6
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Comment #40210971
Great work! Noone's asked yet? What was your dev stack?
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Comment #39985419
I wonder if it would be easy to figure out, given a set of coordinates, if there would be a totality in the next 100 years there and when. I cant figure it from the examples but th…
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Comment #39943301
In Connecticut - rattled the windows and shook books off the bookcase.
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Comment #38873392
What are your opinions on the book? I started it, expecting a modern day Poor Richards, and couldn't shake the feeling it was a wealthy person giving advice from a vaulted position…
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Comment #38479634
With Spotify Wrapped, it identified genres for me that I'd never heard of. A quick search found this site which will analyze your Spotify lists more deeply and make recommendations…
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Comment #37892315
It's in What the--? Vol 1, Issue 3 -- last page (36) edit: Here's a partial image : https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Sandman_(Earth-9047)
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Comment #37797162
I can only select 1 story attribute ( but multiple genres.) Is this intended?
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Comment #37556854
At the bottom, it says the book belonged to an amateur historian who went around collecting all the autographs. Cant imagine how easy/hard it would've been to get all if them.
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Comment #37535734
I thought this was neat and went to his repo - he's the lazygit/lazy docker person! Nice to see the prolificacy!
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Comment #34053955
What commercial classes did you take to level up? Were they Coursera, Udacity or university classes?
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Comment #33680944
Missing "I can't view the site on my mobile phone."