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Comment · 20 hours ago
Thanks for sharing, very cool!
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Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you! That makes sense to me.
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Comment · 1 month ago
I agree that it's not great style for just conveying information clearly and plainly (e.g I'd hate to read documentation written like this) but I'd argue that here, the medium is part of the message.

It's supposed to sound dry and depressing and somewhat sterile.

> It's hostile to the reader with the side of flaunting author's superiority.

I think if someone deliberately obfuscates meaning to sound fancier when the point is to communicate information directly, sure, I'd agree. But writing is often art, and I think demanding effort from the reader is fair in that case. I wouldn't make a blanket generalization like that.

Comment · 1 month ago
I agree!

Both versions are great: the former is poetic and grand and would fit right in in a fantasy text; the latter is dry and informative and requires much less mental effort to translate and extract meaning from (though still more than "normal" text.

I could imagine a third version that's clearer than the second and still nearly as poetic as the first.

Comment · 2 months ago
Is there no measurable quantity in the current state of a magnetized ball that would predict its behavior in a magnetic field then?

I'd be surprised if that were the case: seems like it'd violate some sort of "locality", where the future should depend entirely on the present state.

Is it just that there's unidentified present state that's perhaps more easily characterized by knowing the history? Or is it somehow unidentifiable in principle?

Comment · 3 months ago
Many Kindles have backlights for night-time reading!
Comment · 3 months ago
Pretty sure it's the former!
Comment · 4 months ago
ESC on tap, CTRL on hold is the way!
Comment · 4 months ago
FYI NewPipe allows up to 4x playback; PipePipe up to 10x! And both block ads, while PipePipe also integrates Sponsorblock.
Comment · 4 months ago
Do you think (or care) about the ethics of this sort of behavior? Do you consider it unethical and if you do, under what conditions would you decide to do it anyway?
Comment · 4 months ago
Yeah, completely unintentional on my part, but I do be dumb sometimes.

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