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How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border.
  • They speak what their parents and neighbors speak. This is constant even when borders shift.

    The formal language they conform to is the nearest administrative region, usually in the country controlling the town.

  • Today's mystery: Do I have a cold, or did I socialize too much this week?
    • Saturday: Event in town, with small kids, socializing
    • Sunday: Teambuilding event
    • Monday: Work strategy meeting
    • Tuesday: Held a presentation and socialized
    • Wednesday: Work strategy meeting
    • Thursday: Course w/group sessions, parents over for dinner
    • Friday: Work event, work event
    • Saturday: Museum trip, family visit

    Throughout the week, slow buildup of joint pain, feverish feeling, lack of appetite, swollen throat, buzzing head, torpor, lack of focus. Today I am just broken.

    These are all (for me) normal physical reactions to overextending myself socially or spending time in sensory intense environments for any amount of time. They are also symptons I would get if I caught the head cold that is going around.

    It feels extremely silly that I have literally zero idea if I have a cold or not.

    Anyway, treatment is same either way: Take it easy for a while. Mostly wanted to share my frustrating confusion and maybe hear if others have similar experiences and how they manage. :)

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    What letter has the best games?
    • Satisfactory
    • Starcraft / 2
    • Slay the Spire
    • Saints Row
    • Sam & Max (tons)
    • Serious Sam
    • Scribblenauts
    • Shadowrun
    • Shadow Warrior
    • Shapez / 2
    • Shovel Knight
    • Skyrim
    • Soma
    • Slay the Princess
    • Space Engineers
    • Spelunky
    • Sid Meyer's Everything
    • Stanley Parable, the
    • Stardew Valley
    • Stronghold Crusaders
    • Subnautica
    • Sunless Sea
    • Sonic (all)
    • Super Mario (everything)
    • Superhot
    • Super Meatboy
    • Surviving Mars
  • How do I make my own internet?
  • Can you give an example of a possibility you think of? In its simplest form it's exactly your house wifi if you disconnect your internet uplink. Anything bigger is also exactly a subset of the current internet disconnected from the rest, plus you having to maintain infrastructure.

  • Fern Brady's book "Strong Female Character"

    This is part strong recommendation and part wanting to know thoughts of others who have read it. :)

    Fern Brady is a scottish comedian who grew up with undiagnosed autism in a very catholic small town.

    It's a brutally honest and personal story, and she manages to write everything in a way that I found captivating. She can describe situations of absolute torture in a way that makes them seem both heartbreaking, and almost funny in their absurdity. Like a scene where she got recommended an app to help her with meltdowns and describes how she is crying and punching her fist bloody against her living room wall, while with her other hand opening an app and seeing suggestions like "think of a puppy!", "count to ten and think of the last nice thing you ate!"

    For me, the description of a years long struggle to push through a medical system with little and outdated understanding of autism resonnated deeply.

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    Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA?
  • there are many details in one image, and the chances of some player recognizing one of those details is an instance of the birthday problem?

    That would be a valid model. But you are still right that it doesn't apply: It would give the effect that a different geoguesser would get the picture right every test, while we are seeing consistent results from the top geoguessers.

  • Are those top tier Geoguessers that do crazy stuff like figure out a location from 4 pixels and a mcslurry contracted by the CIA?
  • I see your point, but the Birthday Problem would apply differently.

    It is the chance of "collision" between randomly picked elements from two large enough sets of comparable random data. If I understand correctly, the random data here would be "geographical fact" like bush density and road width. Set A is geoguessers' geographical knowledge, and set B is pictures' geographical features.

    So if we picked hundreds of random picture and hundreds of geoguessers and asked them, the chance of one guessing one image is high. And the person would be largely dfferent every time.

    In this case, we can give one specific geoguesser a large amount of pictures and that same geoguesser would get most of them right.

  • Tactical Breach Wizards is out today!
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    Norwegian Sesame Street Was Insane!

    ILJ at det ikke går repriser fordi NRK lisensierte konseptet og ikke har fulle rettigheter til showet. :(

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    SLPT: No wine glass? Jam a bundle of uncooked spaghetti into the bottle.

    Make sure they stick out a bit on the top. The capillary acton from the tightly packed spahetti draws the wine up so you can drink it.

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    ...thanks

    Alt text: Anyone: "You look nice today" My anxiety: "They are making fun of you"

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    Shapez 2 to enter Early Access: August 15

    Space trains yesss

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    Friday Facts #413 - Gleba | Factorio
    factorio.com Friday Facts #413 - Gleba | Factorio

    IntroductionAlbert Making a new world in Factorio is relatively "easy", just create a new set of tilesets for the ground, add some new models of trees, create a bunch of new decoratives, some decals (optional), a new skin for the cliffs (optional), and bam! you get a new planet. Well, to be fair,...

    Friday Facts #413 - Gleba | Factorio

    Music reminds me of Terraria!

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    Any Factorians excited for Shapez 2?
    store.steampowered.com shapez - shapez 2 – Play the Demo NOW! - Steam News

    You can finally give the game a go and let us know what you think

    shapez - shapez 2 – Play the Demo NOW! - Steam News

    I read about Shapez going 3D a few years back, and it initially sounded silly and pointless, but tried the new demo, and now I'm very excited for it to release in early access.

    Gameplay-wise it's pure distilled optimization puzzles, and the 3D graphics give it an abstract surreal vibe that I find very comforting.

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    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)DE
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