lolcatnip

@lolcatnip@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 106 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The real nightmare is the kerning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost every programming language uses 0.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hate to break it to you, but almost every language uses 0-based indexing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just Terrible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mathematicians and computer scientists are natural enemies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badgers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my boss: "no you are in stem now"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re usually end notes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sassyfrazz⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me personally? Probably not. But I’ve read that safrole is a good starting point, and it comes from sassafras.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sassyfrazz⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is someone trying to make root beer? Or molly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mobin' Time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool professors just give you a formula sheet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artifical Intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artifical Intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A more timely example is the people who think they can always tell when someone is trans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can relate.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not literally the Holocaust again yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE DEMONS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the Laundry series by Charles Stross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else is there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because it’s what they’re called in C++.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eureka⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But did they do that in Newton’s time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i need it, soz⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a mountain range separating Chile from its neighbors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Move over Harambe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shadow of the Colossus - The Danish National Symphony Orchestra⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a great game. And The Last Guardian is criminally underrated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda-Inspired Plucky Squire Shows What Happens When A Game Doesn't Trust Its Players⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you have to make sure it’s reasonably straightforward to figure everything out without the tutorial, so then why bother with the tutorial at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to the US, the EU is lightning fast. California probably beats them sometimes, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audubon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re asking a stranger in the internet to do a whole lot of work for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a FREAK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly they’ve never seen a hagfish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unwatchable!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t enjoy it much, but I had a headache at the time, and the three other people with me had a blast, so I think it’s probably not bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really. The left side comes from trying to evaluate the Reimann zeta function at a point outside its domain, and the right side comes from evaluating the analytic continuation of the zeta function at the same point. The deepest truth it reveals is that applying the definition of a function outside its domain can give you nonsense results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not saying the proof is obvious, just that the result is plausible on its face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venom vs Poison⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: a hoodoo is also a kind of rock formation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venom vs Poison⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the flip side of people trying to justify all kinds of obviously incorrect language by saying it’s just the language evolving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Venom vs Poison⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that we’re having this discussion at all kind of proves that either English is losing the distinction, or it was never as clear a distinction as people sometimes make it out to be. Either way I’m fine with it because it doesn’t seem like a very useful distinction to make in everyday language, and you can sidestep it entirely by using a word like toxic instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the secret recipe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clueless about Biology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also there’s plenty of precedent for everyone being wrong, like everything revolving around Earth.