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Comment · 1 month ago
Perhaps you would consider adding that information? That's would be an interesting addition!
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Comment · 3 months ago
Loss leaders only work if they can make the customer spend money to make up for that loss. Commodity hardware can't be sold as a loss leader, because companies will just buy it up at the discount, and then not use it for gaming.

An example of this was the PS3, being able to run linux. The US Air Force bought ~1700 PS3s, and built a supercomputer. At launch, the PS3 reportedly lost Sony about $300 per console sold, so that one example alone could have cost a half million dollars.

Comment · 3 months ago
"The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." - Seveneves

"All this happened, more or less." - Slaughterhouse-Five

Comment · 3 months ago
Similarly, when I moved from the UK to Canada, people often didn't understand what I meant when I said it was "half ten", which is the common way of saying ten thirty, at least where I grew up.
Comment · 5 months ago
What was the game?
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Comment · 8 months ago
Click "Editor", then click "Add a brush".
Comment · 8 months ago
That's an interesting one, because it's misused more often than not, to mean what you are suggesting.

It's actually meant to say if someone provides an exception, e.g. "No parking on Wednesdays", then that proves the existence of another rule, e.g. "Parking is allowed". Since an exception, without a rule, makes no sense.

But, in my experience, people do use it to mean "Oh, this one thing is wrong, but that proves everything else is right", which does not track.

Comment · 9 months ago
267, I was going pretty strong and had about 2 minutes racked up, until I hit a wall, and couldn't think of anything else. Thinking in groups helped the most, e.g. reptiles, flightless birds, african animals, etc.

Extinct animals also work, including the dinosaurs!

Comment · 11 months ago
Is there any chance you'd be willing to share that tool? :)
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Comment · 1 year ago
Moore's Law roughly states that we get a doubling of speed every 2 years.

If we're 6 orders of magnitude off, then we need to double our speed 20 times (2^20 = 1,048,576), which would give us speeds approximately in line with 40 years ago. Unless my understanding is completely off.

Comment · 1 year ago
It seems to me that it comes down to how the day of the week was picked.

If they picked a random day of the week, and there was only one boy, then there is only a 1/7 chance of a boy being born on that day.

If they have one boy, who was born on a Tuesday, and that is why they picked the day, then there is a 100% chance of a boy being born on that day, so no additional information is conferred.

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