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This is great. Another great resource for CHIP-8 is Octo: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo

It's a CHIP-8 emulator with a few extra capabilities and the readme collects a bunch of other resources.

I think that a lot of the assholes behaved that way because they were naturally charismatic and people wanted to be their friends despite their being assholes. They were never socially punished for their behavior because they could turn on the charm at will. In other words, they were assholes because they could afford to be.

That doesn't have anything to do with grammatical gender, it's because of noun declension that that is possible. It's only incidental that nouns of each of the three genders decline differently; case distinctions could still be made even if there was only one gender.

Use the racket #sicp language: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/SICP_Language.html

Isn't the endpoint of that kind of thinking an even more centralized and fragile internet?

They could have a similar phenotype without being genetically similar.

All else being equal, yes, less alcohol consumption is better. But I worry that this trend is related to the decline of in-person socializing in general.

> The probability that the bat had rabies is vanishingly small.

Not really, it's something like 5%. Usually if the bat can be captured and tested for rabies you can wait to get the vaccine, but if the bat couldn't be caught, it makes sense to vaccinate just in case.

I don't understand why you would want to take a chance on rabies. What are the side effects of the vaccine that are so harmful?

The degree to which childhood independence has been curbed appears to be more extreme in the United States than in other countries.

Well yeah, GP's comment obviously only applies in the case that your native language is not standard Italian.

Teaching my toddler to read now and I definitely feel like if we spoke Spanish my work would be done already.

No, that doesn't at all follow from what I said.

Call me a "party pooper" if you will but maybe you shouldn't be having "fun" with an accident that will have killed hundreds of people.

The word "keep" here is synonymous with "continue," implying that this is already happening. It's fair game to ask if that's actually the case.

And this is by the way, but English sentences almost always have some degree of ambiguity; to talk about "well defined meaning" in the context of natural languages is to make a category error.

Another niche could be replacing sight-seeing helicopter trips, especially with all the safety issues the latter seem to be having.

> If you don't cheat, you'll be outcompeted by those who do.

Not sure why you keep talking about cheating. What OP described doing emphatically and unequivocally is not cheating.

I don't think it's really to do with accent, but rather that non-native speakers tend to talk slower and use simpler grammar and a more limited vocabulary (including fewer idioms).

Pretty big goalpost shift from "who believes these cooked up numbers" to "perception matters."

The burden of proof is always on the person making an affirmative claim. It's absolutely not on anyone to disprove every false-seeming statement; there's far too much bullshit in the world for that.

That's really clever, bravo.

The parent commenter misspoke; they meant there was not a fatal accident involving a commercial airliner from 2009 to 2025. Commercial aviation is much more highly regulated, and much safer, than general aviation.

> Granted, I read the Portuguese translations so there might be differences in the “writing style”.

I'm certain that translation could only improve the books; the English writing is quite poor.

Most of Balzac is highly realistic, but La peau de chagrin[0] comes to mind as an example of his work that includes magical elements, in this case a talisman that grants wishes at the cost of its owner's life.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Peau_de_chagrin

It's a pretty well known essay--you should be able to find out in PDF format pretty easily by googling. It's very much on the non-lobster-eating side and touches on both physiological and philosophical arguments.

I think in casual speech "equally possible" usually is taken to mean "also possible." I think most people would say "equally likely" to express what you're saying.

The way I heard this phrased back in the day was, "Biology is really chemistry, chemistry is really physics, physics is really math." Never heard psychology or philosophy added to the chain.

If he was diagnosed in 1983 and lived until 2001, then he is in the 99th percentile in terms of years of life after diagnosis. To say that his illness progressed "very quickly" is probably just incorrect, relatively speaking.

The president doesn't control the money supply. Though it's possible that they're banking on Trump being able to change that, as he has threatened to do.

I think the markets are just happy that it was a decisive outcome, so there's no risk of extended confusion and uncertainty, a J6-style uprising, or worse. If Harris had won decisively there would also have been a bounce.

If you have an axe on board, all wooden masts are retractable in an emergency.