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davidgro,

One thing to point out, The floppy thing isn’t due to formatting, the units themselves were screwed up: It’s not 1.44 million bytes or 1.44 MiB regardless of formatting - they are 1440 kiB! (Which produces the raw size you gave) which is about 1.406 MiB unformatted.

The reason is because they were doubled from 720 kiB disks*, and the largest standard 5¼ inch disks (“1.2 MB”) were doubled from 600 kiB*. I guess it seemed easier or less confusing to the users then double 600k becoming 1.17M.

(* Those smaller sizes were themselves already doubled from earlier sizes. The “1.44 MB” ones are “Double sided double density”)

davidgro,

And even more casual than that is their latest game, Honkai: Star Rail. The combat is turn based, so you can just look away and come back later as you wish and don’t need gamer reflexes at all*

I love it.

(* There’s one minor exception - an Ultimate move can be launched after your turn, but before the enemy’s turn or between two enemies’ turns, which does require some speed. It’s not usually important though.)

davidgro,

They could be low level. I certainly remember when a Ruin Guard was a big scary monster that could kill my whole party.

And later when I was playing pretty seriously I still stayed out of Abyss Floor 12 because it wasn’t worth the effort (literally - I never got enough stars to get a reward from it even when I technically defeated it)

davidgro,

Yes it is, and because of who owns it, I would even prefer that to an unsandboxed closed source native binary.

What's the name of the belief that gods/entities are quasi-semtient memes (the linguistic term, not the cultural term) in the same manner that corporations and governments are considered people?

It’s a personal philosophy that I’ve come to use as my own form of religion, and while I’m aware other people have researched the idea, I’m having some trouble finding the name for the concept.

davidgro,

Sounds like my layman’s understanding of the Warhammer 40K universe:

Thoughts and dreams and nightmares of the various races all over the galaxy in the material world create gods and demons in the “Immaterium” (also called “The Warp” for its importance to space travel, for mankind anyway) and those beings occasionally ‘leak’ to the material world.

davidgro,

Wood is found in nature, so that would be ln, “log” is usually base 10.

davidgro,

The upper left dot is pretty close to at least 4 rainforests…

davidgro,

I once found 50 Rupees in some tall grass!

It was in my front yard (in the USA) and had a picture of Gandhi on it. Indian currency, not Hyrulian.

davidgro,

I like campy movies, so I liked this one. It’s so very 80s fantasy/sci-fi.

davidgro,

As one of those people, they might as well have said “Have you ever stubbed your toe and really enjoyed the feeling?”

davidgro,

I seriously can’t imagine a flavor so good that I would be willing to experience significant (let alone severe) pain in order to taste it. (Nor Have I been able to taste any extra flavors in even mildly spicy food.)

I don’t doubt your experience, but I absolutely can’t relate to it, or for that matter comprehend it.

davidgro,

I think it’s incredible how the internet can connect people who come from different planets like this.

I mean yeah, if food is more bitter than it is sweet then it’s unpleasant to me (even the darkest chocolate has a lot of sugar) but that still doesn’t directly stimulate pain receptors like capsaicin does at any level. Very low levels of “heat” (pain) are indeed tolerable to me, but No level above zero is more enjoyable than zero, for any type of food.

I also don’t understand that concept of “too sweet” (for things that should be sweet, I am not talking about pizza for example). The only thing that stops me from just buying sugar in bulk and eating bowls of it at a time is concern for my health/teeth. (Which of course is a strong concern, and so far has managed to keep me from being diabetic)

davidgro,

Meanwhile it disappoints me that their whipped cream isn’t sweet enough…

davidgro,

The Seattle Mariners are the only team in the league to have never lost a World Series game

davidgro,

In DC they actually are moving, but it’s something like a few millimeters per hour on average

davidgro,

This one is great, I absolutely believe that conservatives would (and I’m sure do) pass it around like some profound statement.

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