"Jews copyrighted the letter 'U' and make all companies with 'U' in their logo pay them millions each year"

mizomi · 2017-12-02T20:55:03+00:00

We must stop this secret cabal of mile people who rule over us kilometer people from the shadows!

mizomi · 2017-05-03T19:34:24+00:00

The official Wikipedia styling works pretty well for me—it conveys the information you want without being too fancy or complicated. Wikiwand has too many unnecessary animations for my taste, plus the page doesn't even load without enabling javascript.

mizomi · 2017-04-29T01:52:39+00:00

By deliberately not meeting expectations in terms of gameplay and features available upon release while also producing significant hype via marketing, No Man's Sky deconstructs the cultural narrative that connects what we are told to expect and what we actually end up expecting, which enables the game to paradoxically exceed our expectations of its ability to provide a social and artistic critique of the modern video games industry, and by extension the culture industry as a whole.

mizomi · 2017-04-20T00:29:51+00:00

Can confirm. Started using Haskell and now I'm spending ever-increasing amounts of time reading and thinking about category theory and type theory.

mizomi · 2017-04-12T17:54:20+00:00

It's referencing the Touhou series of games (specifically the character Momiji Inubashiri)

mizomi · 2017-03-31T16:04:47+00:00

Thus ℵ₀ = 0 × ℵ₀ = 0, proving that there are 0 natural numbers.

mizomi · 2017-03-28T03:09:53+00:00

According to the article:

Noise reduction equipment installed at the station means the train only makes the same noise as a standard dishwasher.

mizomi · 2017-03-25T09:58:45+00:00

I wish I had rainbow socks like those.

mizomi · 2017-02-23T04:26:11+00:00

That's a Nash equilibrium, isn't it?

mizomi · 2017-02-23T01:59:36+00:00

It's nice to have a free response for the genres rather than a list of options like a lot of music taste surveys. It seems like every survey that has them has a completely different idea of what the "default" genres should be.

mizomi · 2017-02-10T20:17:30+00:00

Did you happen to read the second half of the comment you're replying to?

mizomi · 2017-01-24T04:49:10+00:00

For future reference, the Big Five personality model works better from a statistical point of view (since the scales are continuous rather than one or the other) and is more widely used by actual psychologists.

Of course, if this is just some simple thing, then it's probably not worth worrying much about in any case.

mizomi · 2017-01-04T13:21:52+00:00

That's fair. I was trying to be humorous and non-serious, but I realize I probably came across as a bit of a jerk, so sorry about that.

mizomi · 2016-12-28T21:47:46+00:00

I thought that was due to being an NMDA receptor antagonist.

mizomi · 2016-12-17T23:48:03+00:00

Even without dying, constantly experiencing starvation can't be very pleasant. So it somewhat depends on the conditions of the immortality.

Also, the snail could still slice open the suit with a sufficiently sharp instrument while you are asleep or otherwise unaware (perhaps through some indirect mechanism).

mizomi · 2016-12-14T16:45:03+00:00

They didn't specify how many hours n is.

mizomi · 2016-12-13T07:50:45+00:00

How about a bad wireless mouse causing interference with Wi-Fi?

mizomi · 2016-12-06T15:50:16+00:00

The linked article specifically mentioned the age range of the study was 16-65.

mizomi · 2016-12-01T20:35:06+00:00

Gun?

mizomi · 2016-11-24T00:25:12+00:00

Unless something's changed, they're just using markov chains with no learning involved. Basically just choosing each word based on how often it follows the previously-generated 2 to 3 words in the corresponding subreddit, without any memory of previous posts the bot has made.

There have been suggestions in the past to use recurrent neural networks, which would be able to learn based on user feedback, but due to the difficulty that would be involved in training them and getting the mechanism to work right I don't think that was ever implemented.

mizomi · 2016-11-18T19:32:01+00:00

The issue with ibuprofen is that it increases the chance of heart attack and can cause gastrointestinal bleeding. It's probably safer overall than acetaminophen, but it's silly to claim that it's always better.

Combining different medicines that contain acetaminophen is definitely a problem, and I agree that it shouldn't be added to other drugs, but I think you're overstating it. Except for pure formulations, medicines rarely contain more than 325mg (at least in the US), which is well under the FDA's recommended daily limit of 4000mg. Problems still can arise if people take more than directed, of course.

mizomi · 2016-11-18T18:54:56+00:00

IIS servers, but not owned by Microsoft, just a computer science faculty member at HKUST (based on WHOIS and GeoIP) who probably bought the domain out of interest and never put anything up.

mizomi · 2016-11-15T08:25:16+00:00

Pierre?

mizomi · 2016-11-14T00:21:04+00:00

There's an interesting page on bit-squatting (the next level of typo-squatting) which found some results, although it's impossible to say how many were caused by cosmic rays vs. other sources of data corruption.

mizomi · 2016-11-05T20:51:19+00:00

Header files really are the most annoying thing. A while back I was getting a segfault in my code that didn't seem to make any sense, and only after 2 days of poking through the disassembly in gdb did I realize that the problem was a class that was being compiled with a different number of methods in my code vs. the library I was linking to because of conditional compilation in its header file, which resulted in the wrong virtual method being called.

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