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You should look into how he destroyed the small indie MMO Darkfall and gave the game 2/10 without ever playing it, in a Eurogamer review a few years ago. The developers had receipt…

It would especially have been useful to see what is recommended in this day and age.

It's also Persian for "money"

Hey everyone! I wanted to share a project I've been working on recently. My fiancée started learning Swedish, and she was looking for a good flash card app to help her study. We ch…

Ukraine has 200k soldiers. But most of them are grunts with rifles. Russia has all kinds of equipment and combined arms. You can't really compare the two.

Satellite imaging is used by a lot of researchers and non-profits to analyze concentration camps in North Korea[0] and it's one of the few sources that we have access to. Would you…

I wish you had some screenshots on the page

I don't think this follows. What you are saying is basically "All Bs must be a subset of A. Therefore dogs like the sun."

> So if you want to color every different part like operators, symbols, braces, with a different color, and you try to do this on C++, it is not going to be a small task... For a l…

Buddhism also talks a lot about purity. It doesn't necessarily follow that those practices should be abandoned or even avoided, just because parallels can be drawn with religion. L…

Unfortunately, you're misunderstanding stoicism. It's a very different way of looking at life, that can take a very long time to grasp. You should read up on Cato the younger, who …

Charles De Gaulle once said: "Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

If you are a technical/rational type, a lot of the information on meditation can seem ...well, wacky. That's why I would suggest listening to a few episodes of Sam Harris' podcast.…

Teaching other people is a great way to learn something yourself, and a lot of times you don't really understand a concept until it's explained in a slightly different way. I reall…

> That last part is madness. Europe has had a lot of bad experiences when it comes to how we've treated our minorities, and the census has often been used as a tool for finding "un…

I think it's an ErgoDox.

> It is extremely unlikely that any post-2008 Intel hardware will ever be supported in libreboot, due to severe security and freedom issues; so severe, that the libreboot project r…

So you've never sent an email to someone with a Gmail account? Or you've never let anyone with whatsapp on their phone, add you to their contacts?

I used it to learn APL, and it really is a great resource.

The military actually opposed PALs. They considered them to be an additional point of failure, and did everything in their power to prevent having them installed. Once you understa…

Emacs can do this using the built-in tramp-mode. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode

> for us to go from writing with only consonants to using vowels for the first time Speaking as someone who has studied cuneiform and Akkadian, I would say that this claim isn't tr…

Assuming that you are somewhat familiar with assembly programming and know how to produce a syntax tree, getting it to output compilable LLVM IR should take you at most a couple of…