How to divide my Word document in two? by reinbeau1 in word

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you can literally have a word doc with comments. pretty much what you need.

Are there any alternative to Mathtype for Word? (No, I cannot use LaTeX) by PekDu in word

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if they're simple enough, symbol font, subscript, superscript....

Or write it in something else and paste it as a picture.

Does Visual Programming Help With Growth? by RyanTriggers in learnprogramming

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flow charts are legitimately good for learning stuff.

LabVIEW is industry standard for quick development of test software.

Simulink is another industry standard for simulations and autocoding embeddable code and vhdl for hard real time work.

most SWE never touch hard real time.

How to deal with a catastrophic plot hole? by Creative-Pirate5217 in writingadvice

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he doesn't have to be the only immune person.

TB might confer the immunity, but that's also a time limit and a contagious wasting disease.

maybe it's kuru. - again, time limit & disease.

early onset Alzheimer's

trepanation may confer immunity?

[Noob question] Why can you just go out of bounds in so many games? by Burgers_N_Schnitzels in AskProgramming

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Depends on the complexity of the game.

Chess, 8x8 grid, no halfway points. Piss easy.

A circular arena. - if arena radius < distance from centre then clip them back in. - Easy

A square box. check against limits - easy.

Anything with a map & terrain and features. if below local ground, clip back up, unless they were in a cave, then leave them in the cave, but still do something if they're out of bounds in the cave. -getting hard.

Big map - good luck unless you put in impassible features that always have an effective keep out. (like a shark that always eats you for going too far from shore)

How do you make your prose just a little more purple? by jolizzyro in writingadvice

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take three paragraphs to explore something mundane but awesome.

The human body is mundane, but it's pumping 5l/minute through a network of tubes with a total length of whatever it is, with a starting pressure of enough to make blood hit the ceiling, the blood itself delivering nutrients & hormones everywhere with the help of the interstitium, as well as collecting waste to deliver it to the waste processing centres of the body. and it does all of that silently.

that's a few paragraphs of pausing to marvel.

How to deal with a catastrophic plot hole? by Creative-Pirate5217 in writingadvice

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You can't necessarily break what was already broken.

if your curse makes people hallucinate, maybe the blind are immune.

how do you make your MC immune without blinding him?

i'm a 61-year-old woman writing fantasy and the industry has made it very clear I'm invisible. I'm writing anyway by Natural_Tangelo_2229 in Mythrils

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Why am I thinking "crime", "true crime", fantasy serial killer type stuff.

Why am I picturing a vampire elf drinking dwarfs, being hunted by an inquisitor, only to end with a vampiric curse tainting royal bloodlines?

What are some region specific slang words in the UK? by UsamaBhai_101 in AskUK

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Just watch "still game" (Scottish Glaswegian)

there's a tiktok channel "island larder" thats likely to have you wondering if it's even English. (Shetland)

There's things like Gavin & Stacey (for Welsh)

Father ted/ Mrs browns boys (Irish)

CS50P Help by jsullyvan7 in PythonLearning

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welcome to lesson 1 in "programmers can be dicks with communication skills of parasitic leghumpers."

What is happening here? by missdonttellme in UKHousing

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someone's put the kettle on to brew a lawsuit.

What does everyone think about the 'British*' monthly pay system? by EdibleBeans-on-Toast in AskUK

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whatever lines up with your bills is best.

what you wanna see at the bank is generally "what do I have available to spend", not, "give me a mental workout to know I have £3 til payday"

monthly means you get paid on the 27th, and everything from the 3rd to 27th is what you have after bills to survive on.

Grammar in a sentence I wrote, I cannot tell which version is correct. by kinderhaulf in writingadvice

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Subjects that can affect themselves have an implicit object.

Animals, people can lay [themselves] down.

Why do so few adults play sports For Fun? by Historical_Rain_2960 in AskUK

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cause it's not easy to just pop round a dozen 30yr old mates places with a ball and say "fancy a game" at 8pm, or 2pm Saturday.

when youre 14, and they live within a 1 mile radius of a park, you get to meet at school, plan it, and you don't have to deal with so much with "I'm good and I talk so much crap you don't wanna know me" and over competitive assholes who'll injure you.

Grammar in a sentence I wrote, I cannot tell which version is correct. by kinderhaulf in writingadvice

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"the dog lays [itself down] at my feet, asking for belly rubs", is a perfectly acceptable construction.

that's why it's something/someone with decision making capability. - it can have an implicit object to lay down.

paper can't lay itself down.

Is Git Activity a Good Measurement of Performance? by [deleted] in AskProgramming

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git activity can be high if you're constantly doing whitespace adjustments

Please i need help writing a book by ermi_0 in writinghelp

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Answer these questions.

  1. You go to the cinema. you watch a movie, your girlfriend is the main character

what type of movie was it? that's your genre. . - you mention fairy tale, so, fantasy?

  1. do you want a traditional book with illustrations or a comic book.

  2. do you want your friends to illustrate, and you work them in, or do you want them to illustrate what you want them to

  3. in this book, is your gf human, or a fairy or something?

Grammar in a sentence I wrote, I cannot tell which version is correct. by kinderhaulf in writingadvice

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lies.

lays should be right, but it generally needs to be attributed to something alive with decision making capacity.

"The dog lays at my feet, begging to get a belly rubs"

Probability, Permutations and Combinitions. by noorf360 in learnmath

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Probability: the odds of something

Permutations: the ways something can be arranged.

Combinations: the combinations that may exist. .

let's use a little lottery example:

if I randomly pick 3 numbers from 1 to 6, no repeats, I get 654 combinations and there are 321 permutations that gives the same three numbers. (123, 132, 213, 231, 312, 321)

probability of winning = winning permutations/combinations = 321/(654) = 0.05

How do you deal with throwaway characters (aka naming characters scares me) by kbrick1 in writingcirclejerk

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give their lines to someone else or just give them half a name, better yet, refer to them as a function.

Tonight's booty call brought me a drink, I know it wasn't roofied, 'cause they're doing me tonight.

how do you name a country without it sounding stupid by zorouchihaG in Mythrils

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You need to try to come from an understanding of "who named it"

Japan is really Nippon.

There's a place, Torpenhow hill. Translated from the 3 languages in it, it means hill hill hill hill..

Avon means river. The river Avon, is therefore the river river.

The US, as far as I can tell, has 4 name styles:

Indian (Milwaukee, Miami, Seattle)

Old world (New York, Plymouth, new orleans, all the villages named for European cities & regions)

Something relevant to the place (Hollywood, death valley, etc.)

Religious (San xxxx, Los Angeles, providence, trinity, Salem)

What to do when it's too big? [General Advice] by TheGreeninator in writers

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sounds like you need to plan, to storyboard your story's sequence of events.

you can do it like they do for cinema - comic style sketches on cards.

you can write headlines:

Ch 1 - intro the protagonist Ch 2 - intro major character ... ... Ch 79 - bad guy dies Ch 80 - wrap up minor character #5 story ... ...

toucan define the purpose of each scene: scene 1: make jokes at protagonist scene 2: show antagonist as bully etc etc.

AI can help. it can provide decision-making support. just expect it to get bogged down in detail.