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Mark Chimes
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Mark Chimes
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Feeling brillig, might gyre and gimble later.
South Africa Katılım Eylül 2012
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@alanfresco666 @depthsofwiki "Pronk" is an Afrikaans word (i.e., also Dutch) as is "springbok", the South African animal that pronks.
In Afrikaans, pronk means to show off. The springbok "brags" by jumping.
"Stot" I don't really know: It's apparently Scots and maybe also from Scandanavian or Dutch.
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i'm starting a collection of things like this
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@lovecrypt @topynate @chrylis What is "Wario'd" in this context. I was trying to do something like "Wario is to Mario as Shakespeare is..." and going William S. -> Will -> Mill but obviously that doesn't really quite make sense (esp. Since it's Shakespeare's Wario, not who Shakespeare is Wario to)
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shoulda predicted this when i married a cryptic crossword maven
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I simply mirrored the trees on the Z axis and added screen distortion to make it look like they were being reflected in the water. The skybox is just a static image.
Truth is, there was no water from the start.
Cheesepuff44@TheCheesepuff44
@potemki11 How did you get the water to look so good?
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@thomasforth It's like a topographical cross- section; like looking at a mountain or volcano cut in half
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Kicking myself that in all my time of graphing "X at a distance" I don't think I ever thought to graph it like this. It adds no data value, it's objectively a worse graph if you're a robot, but for a human it instantly makes so much more sense. Fantastic. x.com/i/status/20357…
George Marshall@GJMarshy
One way to visualise the UK's largest cities: 👉London is by far the most dense (and huge). 👉Manchester has the densest "core" 👉Birmingham retains high-densities into the suburbs more than Manchester. Other cities notably poly-centric.
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when u watch them fumble only to recover 0.7 seconds later and see firsthand evidence that they have finally absorbed that this isn't a game where you carefully put yourself in position to toss 3s all day long
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when the introvert you've been chaperoning to your parties finally develops a 2- to 3-variable meteorology of the mind, small and fast enough that they can react in real time to the vibe without intimate knowledge of every person involved
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@danae_hudlow This post and this comment section legitimately feel like an example of this XKCD to me
Like wtf
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I need men to understand: at some point in every conservative gal's life, she will have the experience of sitting and listening to the men around her -- men who are her friends -- discuss, in a detached way, whether or not her kind of people (women) should have the right to vote.
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@HarveyBungus @liminal_warmth Yeah, I also had one or two friends in primary / high-school who were compulsive liars. One made up an entire MMO, would talk about how they'd play it and discover cool new features every day, and would make excuses for why we couldn't play as well.
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@liminal_warmth Had a friend who would constantly make up similarly insane lies. Eventually said violent there'd been a violent falling out, and they'd hurt a mutual friend.
Very weird to have the three of us all show up to the same event like a week later and realize it was all lies.
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Just thinkin' about that time my high school girlfriend made up a whole circle of friends and completely convinced me they were real and talked about them all the time and kept lying about why I hadn't met them yet for over a year as I got more and more suspicious
For no reason
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@nosilverv Mmmm... bit of light trypophobia activation from this
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one of these holds the treasure you seek. glhf. oh, p.s.: it's a different one for everyone.
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@MarkJChimes it's correct, wanted to show how to do it right 👌
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please, learn to write correct binary search for once, thanks 🙏
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@onehappyfellow Ah, okay, so this _is_ Python, then.
And Python doesn't have overflow? Didn't know that!
Is the code intended as a "correct" or "incorrect" binary search?
Are you referring to the part where you linear-search the list once it gets small enough instead of continuing the binary?
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@MarkJChimes python integers are arbitrarily large so no
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@autistic_campus @Empty_America Because it inherently isn't SOLVING the problem. It's letting the problem happen.
It's a bit like saying if someone is hungry, you can solve the problem by letting them starve. Sure, afterwards, you don't have the problem any more, but that isn't equivalent to it being solved.
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@Empty_America But there are a roughly fixed number of houses, and everyone needs one. Why would decreasing the number of people by a significant amount NOT solve the shortage?
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The core idea that you solve housing shortage or other problems by causing national population to fall (instead of building) seems inherently erroneous.
If we see history as the struggle of various countries and empires, it just doesn't compute.
Not how things work.
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@Prigoose @TylerAlterman ...to take into account, and the modern world no longer makes this a given. But for those of us who do have the resources and the opportunities to contribute to that, I think it's essential we do.
Remember: You need to BE a good friend to HAVE good friends. You can do it, too!
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@Prigoose @TylerAlterman ...our modern, globalized, isolated, independent, self-sufficient world, I think it's so important to make the effort of gathering or joining a community like this.
I understand it's not an opportunity that is available to everyone, there are so many factors that one needs...
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This is really cool. We should all strive to be and to have friends like these.
Reminds me of the time my parents' house burned down (due to a nearby bushveld fire) whilst we were away for the weekend. They were busy driving home, when we got the phonecall...
priya rose@Prigoose
turned on data after a 5 hour flight only to learn that my house had flooded, my friends had formed a 14 person coordination chat, a shop vac was acquired, all wet items were removed and dried or thrown out, our house has been disinfected...and everything is all good now
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