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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This feels wrong. I love it.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the first time we jumped into the complex domain in an electronics course to calculate something that we couldn’t reach with the equations we had so far.

  … and then popping out the other side with a simple (and experimentally verified) scalar, after performing some calculation in the complex domain, using, bafflingly, real world inputs.

  I suddenly felt like someone from the future barged into my Plato’s cave and proceeded to perform some ritual.

  Like I know what’s happening, I’ve done these calculations before, but seeing them used as an intermediate step in something real in the real world was pretty cool!

  Did not prepare me for all the Laplace et al shenanigans later. Did I test well in those courses? No. Did I have the most fun building the circuits regardless? You bet.

  Oh to be a student again. Why are real world jobs so boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity | Arwa Mahdawi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As we all know, the Warsaw ghetto was an ethnostate, that had to go. The slums still being bombed to the south of Beirut, the thuds which have kept me up all night? Overwhelmingly Shia Muslim. That’s right folks, another ethnostate that needs to be destroyed. By the IDF which is definitely not the arm of an ethnostate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Platypuses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will Wright took one look at this thing in an encyclopedia in 2001 and immediately started planning Spore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alpha⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨a new paradigm⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Y axis: Empoisoned or Swumble’s Big Jumble X axis: Menus or Parkour

  I think we are moving past the outdated genre system and finally finding a way to classify games properly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milky Deadpool⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever expressed this anywhere, but I don’t even consider that place to be a stopped clock. Always saw it as a random number generator with no brakes, which is why all the bad shit gets amplified when it wouldn’t breathing room elsewhere.

  I used to like the musical discussions on there, way way back, and the conversations were pretty interesting.

  Too bad vaguely gestures in every direction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a useful feature (no)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you still think the hardware is pretty good, you haven’t been using their newer hardware.

  I think I wrote a comment about this recently, but their newest mouse with a layout I like (G604) was made with terrible soft rubber that is practically designed to disintegrate with use. All their mouse switches are also short life crappy switches that stop working relatively quickly.

  Soldering new switches into the G604 is an absolute PITA because it was designed by people who didn’t care for repair. Still doable, just annoying. I just wish the rubber was replaced with the grippy hard textured plastic they used a few years earlier.

  At least you only need to use the software at first when you’re setting things up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redbox missed a multimillion-dollar payment it couldn’t afford to miss⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read the title as Roblox and was going to make a joke about finally knowing Mr. Tallarico’s valuation for his sound.

  His mother’s very proud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BLOOD IS BLOOD⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah we don’t really mix blood types at all here in Lebanon, and I really doubt they do anywhere else. Universal donor and universal recipient is just theory, in practice it’s easier to receive O- than AB+ because AB is really uncommon (as is the case everywhere).

  AFAIK the A/B and Rhesus antigens are not the only markers and there are more blood compatibility components that are taken into account if possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Depending on how you count⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kind of nice how everyone is in on the joke now? Like I think if you told the average person 15 years ago that a lot of history “documentaries” are racially motivated drivel you’d get a funny reaction.

  I think I could show this to my (quite conservative) parents and get a good chuckle out of them now.

  Granted I’m from the Middle East and the racist theories we have here have some of the roles swapped around. We don’t have 24 hour electricity but the average person genuinely believes we are the god-chosen enlightened people who are only held back by some combination of hubris, western empire, and “western empire” (this one should have a bunch of parentheses around it, several sets, I don’t want to get caught in some spam filter).