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I'd assume. 'Mike' is a pretty common shorthand. Feels like it's more of an older generation thing to spell it like that, though.

Thanks for linking the source. > At least on OKCupid, women rate 80% of men as below-average attractiveness, while men rate women at right about 50% as below-average and 50% as above-average is ver…

> Also, women view about 80% of men as unattractive. It is not a normal distribution, as men rate women's attractiveness. No source for a claim like this, on a forum where it's the norm f…

In that case, how should we think about it? Genuinely curious.

Would be interesting to see how well it would fare in situations where you have to prove your knowledge of patterns regarding specific pieces outside the context of traditional chess. What I mean by t…

Just making sure: The last sentence is sarcastic, right? If not, it turns around the point you're trying to make about the fuzzy world of emotions and nuance upside down in a bad way. And going f…

For anyone interested in trying it out, here's a free browser version with sounds sampled from an original Omnichord: https://onlineomnichord.com/ …

I wonder how the legal nuances of unknowingly mailing vintage cocaine to someone would work. Would the seller still be held accountable for this?

Then again, the Apple II cost around $6.5k in today's dollars. [0] My hunch is that people caring less for tricking out their computers for gaming is about people not being all that interested in…

Yeah, I'd imagine you'd always split this into two separate problems of pathfinding and crowd simulation. Making thousands of separate calls to a pathfinding algorithm that returns the same …

C.S. Lewis didn't shun the existence of rings in the article - or act like he wasn't part of one - but describe the distinctions between healthy and unhealthy rings. He ended the article by …

There's definitely a happy medium here. I guess the important point comes at the end of the article. You'll basically end up inside some kind of Ring either way, with the disctinction being …

True, maybe a gif is a bit of an inane ask for a relase of this sort.

The readme page is cryptic. What does 'mature' mean in this context? What is the sample text a continuation of? Having a gif the thing in use would be great, similar to the gpt4all readme pa…

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Was interested to check this out for Helsinki, but site loads blank on Safari :(

Out of all the games that would be closest to WFH, EVE Online takes the cake. Most people who play the game seriously are part of a bigger organization, usually climbing the ladder by being trustworth…

What is the zigzag pattern that starts on May 1958, and why does it start on that date?

One of the classic introductory game design books (Theory Of Fun For Game Design by Raph Koster [0]) attempts to tackle the question of what fun is, and what a game is. It's a breezy read, with e…

This feels like the absolute best way to give an introduction to shaders, given that they're completely graphical. The way the interactive code is embedded within the article, instead of being a …

Reading through that article, the specific Davinci/Curie models they seem to be referring to are called the following: 'text-search-davinci-001', 'text-search-curie-001', …

At least in Finland, self-checkout works pretty well. Stores of all sizes basically have them, at least in Helsinki. If there's over four machines, there's almost always a person standing by…