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jmcs,

What if you had to guess a number between 0 and 100 and the other person (or an application) only told you if the number is bigger or smaller? That’s the form that’s usually presented to CS students and most people end up figuring it out on their own. Then the trick is knowing how to generalize it.

jmcs,

If you are used to reading subtitles you can read them almost subconsciously. And you don’t need to understand the language to get things like emotion out of it. I would even go as far as saying that getting used to reading the emotions of someone that doesn’t speak the same language as you is essential to fully develop a sense of empathy.

jmcs,

First eww.

Second, why is he missing coffee when coming back from a coffee producing region? (And I know this is a matter of taste, but I personally think Ivory Coast produces some of the best coffee in the world)

jmcs,

Google does the opposite of “vi”. Some people just like to watch the world burn.

jmcs,

Making the game harder also made a smaller game last longer. If you remove the difficulty factor of lots of most old games, either by tweaking it or mastering it, then it becomes possible to beat the game in a matter of minutes.

jmcs,

Or something that would indirectly kill Jafar, like teleporting him to the moon.

jmcs,

That’s basically what public transport is.

jmcs,

The dude snapped when he’s loved ones were killed, that is considered exculpatory of violent actions in almost all legal systems. The difference is that instead of a knife or a gun he had almost omnipotent powers of destruction.

In an ideal society he would get psychological counseling to deal with the trauma and ensure it doesn’t happen again, but I think it’s obvious he was a bit above Troi’s pay grade.

jmcs, (edited )

Was any of your ancestors a particularly successful mass murderer in the middle ages?

jmcs,

So anywhere between 30 and 60 cubic decimeters and 800kg and who knows what they still consider a baby elephant.

jmcs,

Not giving a fuck would be a valid attitude if the inaccuracies made a better movie. Judging by the reviews, it didn’t.

jmcs,

It sounds like a “there isn’t a single corner that wasn’t cut from design to manufacturing to QA” problem. They should give the management board another bonus.

jmcs,

It’s missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the “story”.

jmcs,

The relationship between statistics and the base facts is the difference between it being a useful tool or the butt of a Mark Twain’s joke.

jmcs,

If by animations you mean smoothly moving the mouse and windows while badly optimized apps and websites are rendering, yes.

jmcs,

To reduce input lag and provide smoother visuals.

jmcs,

How many people could we save if we harvested you for spare parts? You can’t, or at very least shouldn’t, make moral decisions on arithmetic alone.

jmcs,

At a global scale, the Mariana Trench and the Everest are the same depth. It’s less than 20 Km of difference against a mean diameter of 12742 Km.

jmcs,

Ironic that the TOS theme had lyrics as well

Those weren’t lyrics, they were a morally… dubious legal loophole

jmcs,

F’ing starfleet time travelers. Now Daniels has to clean it up all over again.

jmcs,

It’s well documented that Santa exploits a veritable army of slave scouts to keep the list, and then he uses a gazillion slaves to manufacture the toys in the mother of all sweatshops. Dude just waves out of the carriage like a British monarch.

jmcs,

The Vulcan Science Directorate dogmatic views are not logical, and proves that Vulcans are full of shit when they claim to be ruled by logic. In reality their main driver is fear (even that’s what drives them to try to suppress their emotions).

jmcs,

He also has an omnipotent trickster god that decided to make him a better person as a hobby. There’s no way Q wouldn’t turn Picard’s casino trip into one of his “trials”.

jmcs,

Why are they in contact with the family and not with the reporter directly? It’s not like we are 1823 and communication has to be sent on precious missives traversing dangerous seas.

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