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Chitin posted:Man if that were a thing history would be pretty different. It...is a thing? Caesarion, Julius Caesar's son with Cleopatra, was killed in his teens by Octavian, the future Caesar Augustus, as he consolidated his power.
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Lamech posted:as an aside, the artist of these owns: Hold up, the cover artist for Animorphs also did cover art for a big pile of Zahn, Weber, and Hambly books? And the cover for Downbelow Station? What the gently caress I had a lot of that artwork on my bookshelves as a teenager
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:Alternatively, they’re the person that hacked a pregnancy test to run doom. They cannibalized a pregnancy test to use it as a display for Doom; Doom itself was running on different hardware. They have gotten Doom to run on a lot of unreasonable things, though.
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CitizenKain posted:This was linked with it, the Dahab Blue Hole, north of Egypt. There is this arch in the water that people swim to thinking it will be easy. quote:Many certified scuba divers think they are capable of just going a little deeper, but they don’t know that there are special gas mixtures, buoyancy equipment and training required for just another few meters of depth. This is a bit of a tangent, but what the gently caress kind of certification doesn't cover nitrogen narcosis, oxygen toxicity, the depth limits imposed by those, and the existence of (even if they don't go into details) specialized gas mixes and procedures, and training to use them, for deeper dives?
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cubicle gangster posted:Basic open water doesn't. The people dying ain't divemasters. Mine did  Like, it didn't go into detail but it definitely covered "these are the limits of your training, here's a five-minute overview of the technologies and training needed in order to dive outside those limits, without those this is how you'll die; if you want to do dives like that without dying, come back and get that training after you have some dive experience and your AOW".Son of Rodney posted:Back when I learned 130 feet or 40m was concidered safe for sport diving, did that change? (With acclimatization pauses and only for a short time, obvio) The dive tables I learned on when doing basic (~10 years ago) went down to 130'/40m, but at that depth you spend so much time descending, ascending, and on safety stops that you basically have no bottom time; and for basic open water, while you use the same tables, you're only officially cleared to go down to 20m. Advanced open water training uses the whole chart, although you won't necessarily make it down to 40m during the AOW training dives, depending on where you're diving.
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MisterOblivious posted:You should get your hands on a copy of Shadow Divers. It's about some guys doing record breaking deep dives inside a sunken submarine. Imagine cave diving, but there's way more stuff to get tangled up in, there are strict time limits, and they're completely wasted because of the nitrogen narcosis. It's a great read if you're into reading terrifying diving stories. Shadow Divers is excellent, would recommend.
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freeedr posted:I have a pretty rad Ethiopian / Eritrean place within walking distance and most people I know think it’s weird to even consider eating there. Bro, get on this injera with me Those people are dead inside There's an Ethiopian place within biking distance of me, last time we got takeout from there we accidentally ordered way more injera than we needed An absolutely delicious mistake, I tossed the extra in the freezer and used it in place of naan for the next month
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Morpheus posted:I would hate this man's cubicle but only due to seething envy of this man's chutzpah and creativity. Here is a guy who knows what he wants in his day to day office life and damnit he's going to take it Back in the before times when I worked in a nightmarish open office warehouse without even cubicle walls, someone on the neighboring team asked the IT guys to give him all their excess cardboard boxes and used them to gradually build a floor-to-ceiling wall around his desk, with windows and a door
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Pookah posted:My local Indian takeaway used to do an absolutely killer methi malai, then they changed cooks and the methi malai changed completely and was awful It doesn't look that hard to make, as long as you have a local place where you can score some methi.
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Pookah posted:I bought a box of dried methi to try to recreate and it was bleah:( Disappointing  you can get decent dried methi sometimes but it's a bit of a crapshoot. We usually just get it frozen.
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Dr. Lunchables posted:I googled it and it only comes up as the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. Also the ducati bike. What other poo poo should I be googling to find out what it means? cause even on page two it's just taxes... For me, it comes up as the tax act, but (a) there is a helpful Wikipedia sidebar with the pornographic definition and (b) the image search preview right under the tax act is mostly explicit
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Skwirl posted:In addition to ebony mining, they also had egg mining. "Morrowind is a game about egg mining" hits very differently now that I'm looking at it through the lens of how many trans people of my acquaintance spent hours (or, in some cases, days) installing mods and fiddling with the character creator to design their ideal avatar.
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DontMockMySmock posted:TMiaHM is a weird book because it's about a worker's revolution against profit-seeking imperialist masters to secure the means of production and establish collective bargaining, but it couches it in this bizarre narrative framework of 1960s libertarianism (which, btw, bears almost no resemblance to 21st century libertarianism but still is anti-communist). I guess that's what cold war brain poisoning does to a man like Heinlein. So honestly if you want to get any coherent political message out of that book, or Heinlein's work as a whole, then you gotta ignore a lot of contradictory material. Have Space Suit - Will Travel sucked on toast, though.  While I haven't read a lot of Heinlein, I remember someone in the SFF thread describing his work as something like "all of Heinlein's work consists of him picking a political philosophy and going all on it, with no guarantee that it's consistent with his other books, his own beliefs, or even sometimes other parts of the same book; trying to derive anything about Heinlein's personal beliefs from his books is a confusing and futile exercise". And based on what I have read, that seems pretty accurate. Skwirl posted:The Moon is a Harsh Mistress had way too much influence on my political beliefs when I was younger, never really into linear marriages though. Conversely, I read it as a teen and came away with "these marriage structures are pretty cool but the whole 'everything is for sale including the due process of law and breathable air' thing seems kind of messed up".
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/getfiscal/status/1511764261185495049 
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vyelkin posted:also while we're reminiscing about bad old technology, remember when video games and computer programs used to come on like 8 CDs and periodically an "End of Disc 1" screen would come up and you had to take out the CD and put in the next one to keep going. I swear this is why piracy was so prevalent (and why digital distribution put such a dent in it) Insert install disc. Start installer. Insert disc 1, then 2, then 3, then 4, then 5, then 1 again, then the install disc again. Now you're ready to Now you can play the game, assuming that the copy protection doesn't poo poo the bed because you have a CD-ROM drive model that's newer than the specific copy protection version the game uses. Meanwhile if you pirate it the install procedure is: - start installer - listen to some sick chiptunes for four hours while it re-encodes every single FMV and sound effect in the entire game into a less space-efficient format - play
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I have fond memories of #RomneyDeathRally but it was so long ago I don't remember any of the specific tweeters. I've only posted on Twitter like a dozen times and half of those were #RomneyDeathRally, it was great.
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teen phone cutie posted:if you just want to "own" someone's art because you think it's neat and want to support the artist. that's what the first two paragraphs i wrote were about. Ok, but the NFT confers exactly as much "ownership" as the artist adding "(bought by teen phone cutie)" to the description of the image on DeviantArt or whatever, while being insanely inefficient at doing so. E: like an NFT is literally just a JSON file stored on the blockchain that says "[your user ID here] owns [URL of image here]". It doesn't even guarantee that the URL is valid, or points to the thing you "bought", and it has no legal force. And it costs an absolutely bonkers huge amount of computational power (and thus energy) to create. ToxicFrog has a new favorite as of 20:44 on May 4, 2022 |
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I have ADHD but have also been an avid reader for my entire life and the "bionic" version is if anything slightly worse, but if people find it helpful it would be cool to have as an accessibility option in e-readers. Seems like something Koreader could adopt relatively easily.
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Freaquency posted:Public shaming seems to have worked for a change: I mean, it's "worked" in the sense that they've made available an online conversion tool that only works with a few formats, haven't published the source code, could turn it off at any time, and are probably still going to litigate at anyone else trying to do this. On the plus side this seems to have prompted a lot of interest by other people in implementing the same tech and telling B-R to go gently caress themselves when they threaten litigation, so that's cool.
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Hyperlynx posted:It's making the first few characters of each word bold. That is not hard to do. It's, like, "high school programming class" degree of difficulty, if you just want to do websites. The impression I got was that it was more complicated than that, but since they didn't bother publishing source code or even a description of the algorithm I ended up pulling the patent instead. And it looks like the answer is "it's more complicated than that in principle, but the settings they've released it with are functionally equivalent to 'make the first half of each word bold'". It looks like the actual algorithm, as best I can follow the patent, is: - set a saccade distance between 0 and infinity. This is what density of words to modify (e.g. SD=0 modifies every word, SD=1 modifies every second word, etc). - set a fixation size between 0.0 and 1.0. This is what proportion of each word is bolded. - set a maximum frequency and minimum size. This can be used to exclude very short words (e.g. "a", "in") and/or very common words (e.g. "the") from processing. Then: - compute word frequencies over the entire text - split the text into sentences and each sentence into words - foreach sentence, process the first word, then skip SD words, then process the next word, skip another SD words, etc - do not count or process words that are smaller than minsize or occur more often than maxfreq - to "process" a word, bold the first (length of word)*(fixation size) characters of it The splitting on sentences before words allows you to do things like setting SD=infinity to process only the first word of each sentence. However, the settings they've shipped it with are: - saccade distance 0 (process every word) - fixation size 0.5 rounded down (bold the first half of the word) - maximum frequency 1.0 (do not skip frequent words) - minimum size 0 (do not skip short words) There's also a bunch of stuff in the patent about proper handling of compound words, handling of numbers, and other edge cases which all appear to be absent from the tool as released. Also, even with all of those complications, it's still not at all difficult to implement (at least in English, where both word and sentence boundaries are well marked). Given that they filed the patent in early 2017 and were talking about it online in 2020 if not earlier, there's no reason why it would have taken them four years to release this, so it really does look like they came up with the algorithm ca. 2016 and spent the years since trying to figure out how best to monetize it. Someone on twitter suggested an improvement of bolding the first ceil(log2(word_len)) characters instead, which seems like it might work better with long words, too.
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ultrafilter posted:https://twitter.com/lauowolf/status/1549956032654241792 File 770 is a news blog about SFF fandom. Stephen Jones showing his whole rear end online appears to be covered there.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The founder of Spiderweb Software, a company that makes old-school isometric RPGs looks Avernum, Geneforged, and Avadon has said he doesn't include music in his games because he really doesn't feel like soundtracks ad anything. When gaming, he usually just disables music so he can blast bubblegum pop while crawling dungeons. This is how I played most games when I was in high school & undergrad. Not so much anymore, but Geneforge owns bones so he must be doing something right.
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Read After Burning posted:Thalassophobia test...how does this video make you feel? Deeply envious. Want to strap on my BCD and tank and go hang out with that whale far beneath the waves.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:in the same vein: outboard motors, motorcycles and ... grand pianos? what exactly is going on in corporate japan? This one I actually know the answer to! Yamaha started out as an organ and piano manufacturer, and gradually branched into other musical instruments; this is why their logo is three tuning forks. During WW2 they were tapped by the government to make airplane parts instead. After the war they had all this manufacturing capacity and metallurgical knowledge lying around and retasked it for making motorcycles (and later other kinds of motors and motor vehicles), first as a separate division and later as an entirely separate company, Yamaha Motor Company.
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My first thought was Langford Basilisks but IJ or "Terminally Online" are closer fits, yeah.
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Nessus posted:Yeah I just know he got some heat in the ancient history thread. The point is more "it is weird to be this emotionally invested in whether or not one particular city-state from 2,500 years ago was in fact cool and awesome, or were in fact overrated assholes." It is not even like a modern situation where one might be supporting or passionate about something from the 18th or 19th centuries that has an obvious link to the modern day. I do not believe Sparta has been a meaningful independent political actor since the Roman Empire straddled the Mediterranean. Sparta hasn't been, but dipshits going "Sparta was awesome and we should restructure our society to be more like them" are very much a contemporary issue.
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kazil posted:Have you seen the Cybertruck with the Ford F150 wrap? I don't know which win95 game this is a screenshot from but I'm pretty sure I played it back in the 90s
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Dameius posted:Cruisin' USA 64 See, N64 was my first thought, but the texture's not blurry enough.
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Grassy Knowles posted:Y’all are gonna make me get out my backissues of Yahoo! internet Life magazine  E: awful app living up to its name, let's try this again 
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I feel like there is room for further toxmaxxing here. Like, by dropping the hydrogen from the original hydrogen-lithium-fluorine tripropellant concept, you miss out on the clouds of boiling hydrofluoric acid!
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Flipperwaldt posted:This tarnished metal surely must be gold 14k gold is an alloy of ~60% gold and 40% other stuff, so it seems entirely plausible it would tarnish.
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