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4 days agoSorry, I lost the world’s smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕
Melllvar
Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
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8·9 days agoNo, it’s “re” like the subject of an email. “Re: diculous”
16·9 days agoI could write a comment on this if you want.
2·11 days agoThe cars belong to commuters whose car use would be reflected in their home county instead of SF.
30 years ago my music teacher told me that in Chinese-language singing it’s the consonants that are sustained.
The modlog says for being a bot.
The problem is that you’re using Windows 95.
24·20 days agoAre there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?
Ctrl-F“plato”Required reading
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9·1 month agoWhat, never?
A glass of warm tap water.
21·1 month agoForce feedback codpieces.
There’s a movie where the president (actually a decoy) fakes a stroke during a speech to Congress.
20·1 month ago252.6 hours played, last played October 2024.
It’s enjoyable, but I’ve never been really engaged with it. There’s no progression, I don’t feel like my character, equipment, or ships are getting better even though I’m upgrading things. No planet is special, even though they’re all unique.
I think it would be better if you started out in a “settled” region with interesting factions, hand-designed planets, optional quest lines, etc. The infinite procedurally generated stuff would come into play if you push beyond the edges of known space.
I’m assuming the answer was wrong, but as a non-musician I don’t see it.
2·2 months agoYou may enjoy Fritz Leiber’s short story, “A Pail of Air”, which involves the Earth being ejected.
Funny “Haha” or funny “Uh Oh”?
9·2 months agoA .tar archive is basically only the files cat’ed together, with a header and index added, right?
Tar does not include an index. It’s just the headers and data cat’ed together. You have to read from the beginning of the archive until you find the file you want. This is exacerbated if the archive is also gzipped, since you have to decompress all the files leading up to the one you want, as opposed to skipping over them as you could do in an uncompressed tar archive.
So why is there no archive format that just cat’es the compressed files together?
That’s essentially what a zip archive does. Each file is compressed separately and cat’ed together with uncompressed headers in between. Also zip archives do have an index which is what allows for random access and easy changes. The downside is that the compression ratio of a zip archive can be worse than a tar.gz archive.
Halley is the one who predicted its return mathematically. I’d say that’s more significant than seeing it twice in one lifetime and supposing that it’s the same comet.