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> Lore and story wise [Oblivion and Skyrim] have incredible depth. As you said, you never played Daggerfall or Morrowind. Just about all of the lore in Oblivion and Skyrim comes fr…

> unfortunately KQL doesn't seem to have INSERT, UPDATE etc. (Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Microsoft, and I use Kusto basically every day) This seems to me to be a deliberate des…

Looking at the Colonial era is looking at slavery ~300 years before it peaked just before the Civil War. Therefore, the numbers you give for the Colonial times don't have anything …

> Demand grows to meet supply. Well, that's where you're wrong (with respect to housing in the USA). Municipal zoning laws mean that houses are not getting built. Apartment growth …

It's due to the Universal Postal Union, which is a UN agreement that governs the costs and subsidies associated with international shipping. The link below explains it well, but th…

> this site is a blast from the past > I'm frequently asked where people can get such a ridiculously large amount of pi. Be warned that 50 million digits of pi takes up 50 megabyte…

> Fortunately it was a granite countertop and not quartz. Granites are primarily composed of feldspar and quartz, which are both primarily composed of silica. Silica is the thing t…

> Hard drugs are not pot or alcohol In point of fact, alcohol causes more deaths per year than all other drugs combined: CDC [0]: Alcohol causes over 140,000 deaths per year accord…

An adaptation of the "narcissist's prayer" for climate change deniers: --- Climate Change isn't happening And if it is, it isn't that bad. And if it is, that's not a big deal. And …

That's what they're saying. It's spelled "lede": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede

Which is still a full order of magnitude worse than the German numbers. Blaming nature for our shit infrastructure is only going to harm ourselves.

The original text has a lot more Islam than the movies do. The most recent film deliberately toned down the Islam.

There's no goalpost to move. Psychologists have been saying that IQ tests are of limited scope and utility for decades. Specifically, it is widely agreed that an IQ test is not a v…

It's not abandoned. Access still has an engineering team working on it, and that team still goes to conferences to talk with their users. Source: I work in the same org as them, an…

"Full Self Driving"

HoloISO is what you're looking for: https://old.reddit.com/r/holoiso/

It's important to mention that Schmidhuber is usually correct, in that his lab has been decades ahead in both theory and proofs-of-concept. The reason his lab is so under-cited is …

> I still think it could have the potential be a really interesting TV show. It's already a movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)

I've been working at Microsoft (in the Office org) for a bit over three years now and this managerial attitude is very common. I'd go so far as to say that managers making sure the…

It's plenty plausible. Every civilization collapses eventually, sometimes totally and sometimes partially. The western Great Depression wasn't all that long ago, historically speak…

> twitter community This is where the disconnect is coming from. Twitter 'communities' are a tiny minority of persons. They do not represent the everyday person. This is particular…