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Comment · 2 years ago
or the speed of causality
Comment · 5 years ago
considering typing time isn't even close to the most time consuming part of programming, I don't think this will be relevant to programmers apart from the programmers who want to do it for fun
Comment · 5 years ago
Brilliant game. Also of note is that metroid itself has a recent addition to the series, a side scroller on the Nintendo switch.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think a good text game is actually incredibly complex compared to the simplest types of graphical games.
Comment · 5 years ago
not sure if it's rude to ask, but have you had any buyers of your nfts?
Comment · 5 years ago
I commented on the wrong thread, woops
Comment · 5 years ago
not sure if it's rude to ask, but have you had any buyers of your nfts?
Comment · 5 years ago
I got inspired by a video, Paint like a Sculptor by Sinix on YouTube. I got reinvigorated to do art, so I got a tablet with a screen and started learning to paint in Photoshop starting in may. I'm on a nearly 150 day streak of drawing or painting something every day! I think I've had some good results as well, though I've got no link to share.
Comment · 5 years ago
my first thought was the same, but I still had an intuition that it makes sense to call this sort of thing quantum as opposed to other, say, chemical-based senses which, although still at some level obviously relying on quantum physics, are more readily explained by using higher level concepts.

I suppose it comes down to emergent phenomena: what's the lowest-level concept you HAVE to invoke to understand what's going on here? when you want to explain how taste buds work, you can talk about neural paths and chemical chains, and even though each of those things relies on quantum physics to exist, you don't have to invoke the concepts or objects of the quantum world to understand the phenomenon in question. but with this particular phenomenon, you do. you can't just explain how this works with higher level concepts, you have to get low down.

Comment · 5 years ago
why did you put "donated" in quotes?
Comment · 6 years ago
is that not true of Twitter as well?
Comment · 6 years ago
you probably just haven't used up your free article count yet.
Comment · 6 years ago
I had this thought while I was reading this. when he said the bit about there being so much oxygen in the atmosphere that the whole thing could light on fire, I thought, "maybe there's some planet that that happened on. maybe most planets with live have that happen eventually".
Comment · 9 years ago
Yes, even if you Intuit something or know it from experience, it's valuable to have thus level of certainty through a carefully conducted study. Convincing someone your intuition is true is a lot harder than pointing to the research
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm not. Several of the people in the centre of this drama have a number of Twitter posts saying things like "kill all men" and "all men are terrible" etc. I'm completely willing to believe that these 4 people have a lot of fun, and a lot of invested identity, in being "offended" by things white men do. It doesn't reflect on his character all that much to me.

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