If you have ADHD or a thing for automation, it is stupidly addictive.

i have both of those things. i’m a bit scared of what will happen if i buy this game. i still want to play it someday when i have a bit more free time, but it sounds like it’s probably best to wait a bit. its already hard enough to resist the urge to start new civ6 games. thank you for the comparison, it was very helpful.

how does it compare with the civilization games in that respect?

i hope that afterwards they petition to cancel oracles javascript

thank you for the notice mr L. Wadmin

i’ve only ever seen tankies complain about the word “tankie” being over used. i guess us non-tankies just don’t hear it very often.

there’s also this false dichotomy i’ve seen many tankies present where they try to argue that people are either liberals or tankies. it is possible to be a leftist and not support authoritarian governments.

it’s not too late to get a sad lamp. they really help me out when the sun starts to set at 4.

best self defense mechanism there is

this was also me in my 20s when someone asked if i wanted to go out drinking

always remember, <=> is the three-way comparison operator. it takes two arguments.

i would disagree that math problems only have one strategy for getting to the answer. there are many things, particularly in more abstract math, which can be understood in multiple different ways. the first example that comes to mind is the fundamental theorem of algebra. you can prove it using complex analysis, algebraic topology, or abstract algebra. all the proofs are quite different and rely on deep results from different fields of math.

i think the same thing holds in the less abstract areas of math, it’s just that people are often only taught one strategy for solving a problem and so they believe that’s all there is.

what about haskell

Treat OR NO Trick

no not like that

that’s what they tell you right before throwing you off the plane

There is only two ways to protect a game against piracy, right? Either you don’t, or use our protection

this is the most denuvo quote i could possibly think of. it’s beyond parody, and yet, they went and said it anyway

disposable vapes come with built in lithium batteries, while (most) disposable lighters don’t. so there is a very real difference between the two. but disposal lighters are also stupidly wasteful, so it would be nice to ban those as well.

i think you’re taking that quote out of context a bit. a few sentences later, the article says

Even physicians have weighed in on the shortcomings of B.M.I. The American Medical Association warned last year that B.M.I. is an imperfect metric that doesn’t account for racial, ethnic, age, sex and gender diversity. It can’t differentiate between individuals who carry a lot of muscle and those with fat in all the wrong places.

“Based on B.M.I., Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was a bodybuilder would have been categorized as obese and needing to lose weight,” said Dr. Wajahat Mehal, director of the Metabolic Health and Weight Loss Program at Yale University.

so the point they seem to be making is that, while BMI is controversial partly because people like to shoot the messenger, it’s also just not a reliable measurement in a medical context, even as a heuristic. the article also goes into more detail on its other shortcomings as well. the article also indicates how BMI was never intended to be used in a medical context. so, there are plenty of valid reasons for wanting a new metric.

but i do think the sentence you quoted isn’t really doing the author any favors in terms of trying to communicate the central point of the article.

i’ve been clutching my pearls for the past 10 years but it’s nice to know i can rest easy tonight

oh man that’s an incredible option. i was already super happy with the “share as image” option they have, but it seems like they just keep outdoing themselves

sovereign citizen

basically people who think the legal system has hidden cheat codes, and if you can say the magic words then all of a sudden certain laws no longer apply to you