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that's the cool thing about walking/biking, it has built-in exercise for something that most people did on an almost daily basis (commute)

no need to book 2 additional hours every few days and overcome that inner demon to go to the gym :)

Had a fun conversation about language learning with an American friend who's learning German.

She asked me what "walkable" is in German. Then it hit me, we don't have this word because in Germany this concept is unknown.

Funny how societal factors have such an imprint in language.

As a non-native speaker, I don't understand the exact meaning of being whiplashed in this comment. Online translators only point to the direct translation of someone being hit with a whip.

In here, does whiplashed mean something like being utterly surprised?

I also think in an (enterprise) company context, the sum of all those little things matters more. Corporates need out of the box integrations and processes, built-in auditing etc., and it seems that Zoom catered to those needs well.

tangent, this is the fifth time very recently I've seen the word "entshittifaction" on HN, and it's always quoted as well.

It reminds me of the German word Entnazifizierung ("de-nazi-fication"), which was relevant post WWII.

Where is this new word coming from?

That a specific ceramic pot survives is very unlikely, but some surviving it of a huge group less so. I guess you also have some cups left in your cupboard!

This of course is the statistical view point. On another level, seeing artifacts survive for thousands of years is fascinating and awe-inspiring.

I swear I read this phrase a while ago in a funny HN thread.. can't seem to find it anymore

parent replied to grandparent's statement that Zig is the only language trying to be a better C

And now Minsc and Jaheira are coming into play... I couldn't be happier

The live broadcast at https://steamcommunity.com/broadcast/watch/76561198810986181 shows what I assume are two devs who're having fun right now.

The displayed gameplay looks absolutely incredible, they are in multiplayer and to save his mate one of them just used a spell to knock off a guard down the stairs. Absolutely DnD kind of move.

I love the mix of both real-time and turn-based combat as well. A someone playing BG2 in my childhood for endless hours, seeing this (from what I can tell) top-notch release makes me really happy.

Thanks for staying constructive and on topic. Super interesting tool and amazing video!

Is Sweep also taking in suggestions and then incorporates them with follow-up commits to the PR?

for every difference there is one magnitude such that the difference is one order of the same

/s

haha it was funny to read your comment. I was wondering where the connection was! Thanks for the edit

I wonder if there is a way to let users generate this one-page demo themselves dynamically, rather than via a manual interaction by you.

what's to say you won't add specific optimizations by hand now that aren't included in the product out of the box?

edit: ah, just saw your other comment about being afraid free trial gets out of hand financially

a solution could be to only allow x number of free tokens for a given demo chatbot

As they describe, they literally cannot unsubscribe though, so from that perspective marking it as spam is totally legit

I see your overall argument, however this dilemma is ultimately caused by PayPal's ruthless/unpredictable ban policy

I'm interested too, in particular because English translations of Persian poetry is sometimes closer to hallucination than translation. Admittedly it's a tough challenge though.

Not sure how involved pg was with this post as its stated author Garry Tan

> I am like the Statue of Liberty: I accept everyone, even the wretched and the huddled and people who enjoy Haskell.

The text is so amusing, I enjoyed it even though the typesetting is hard to parse. That says a lot :)

what's an Easel?

what's your answer to 2?

I feel it's hard to fake convincing answers to these kind of "getting things done in the real world" questions.

best moderator, thanks dang!!

from the article:

> I call the tokens like :en or :ja "sigils"; their position on the line doesn't matter, just their presence.

what is an hour of reward? I understand reward in terms of some form of a joyful/insightful/... experience, not in terms of time

may I ask why you would stop maintaining it in this case? aren't you then limiting yourself in your self-expression?

In German it's literally "travel pass"

> It is difficult to convey just how many amazing writers, journalists, and think-tankers—some young and some old, some relatively obscure and others very famous—have privately told me that they can no longer write in their own voices; that they are counting the days until they get fired; and that they don't know where to turn if they do.

Why? Name a number.

> It's just a little annoying thing that bugs you until you do what they want.

Ah, cool then.

These two belong together: https://xkcd.com/221/

Also really interesting to think about that you shared a comic that's almost 20 years old. Where did time go?

Wow, your question led to some Wikipedia research on my end, and I found this:

'In particular, the popular claim "every string of numbers eventually occurs in π" has not been proven.'

I think I claimed this before. Oops!

Quote from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number.