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They've definitely grown on me. Also they have a super distinctive design, like the old mail trucks did. With a decade of service, they'd become pretty iconic.
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Something like A could work well for Lapis though
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I prefer B. It looks more like something you’d get dust from. Seems like you’d get redstone nuggets from A and not dust
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She was in the DS Mario vs Donkey Kong with mostly the same design. I’m not sure if there were any appearances between that and Odyssey
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Yeah I guess they see elections like the fat man on the bridge variant, where many more choose to let the people on the track die. They feel that voting makes them morally responsible for the bad things their candidate does but not voting leaves them pure even if worse things happen.
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Biden invested a fair amount in manufacturing most notably with the chips act. It could just be the result of having serious political support for the first time in a while
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Checking back it looks like other patches came out the evening before they were advertised as well. Sizzle season 2024 was for 6/1 and Chara’s patch testing VOD for it is from May 30th.
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Nintendo of Japan advertised it as the 12th, so probably the evening of the 11th here
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The NOAA cuts, among others, also increase the chance people are completely unprepared for the disaster. People who weren’t ready and have no significant help on the way is a very bad recipe.
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Really depends. It’s massive and there’s a lot of ordinary space station stuff to be designed and built. I wouldn’t be surprised if much of the middle level staff weren’t aware of its true function. A giant mobile fortress isn’t a completely unreasonable project for the empire
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Coin coffer, and a really good design choice
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Especially when it's mixing otherwise incompatible genres. You can't have the 1st act be a western and the final act a WW2 film unless it's set in space
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Console releases have slowed significantly. Historically they were every 5 years. Switch 2 is eight years after the Switch 1, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the next one is a decade away
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The central portrait is of Washington at the start of the Revolutionary War
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The lapis lazuli is lovely
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Every 50-70 years the US has passed amendments that have made structural changes to our democracy: Bill of Rights, Reconstruction, Women’s Suffrage, Civil Rights. If we make it through this I think we’re due for a few more. I’m not sure exactly what those need to be, but something is necessary
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They’re also cheaper per byte. The only downside is the slow search time because tapes are linear. That doesn’t matter in an archive scenario where the tape may not need to be accessed for years
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Diving into the blast furnace
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Reportedly, Splatoon and Animal Crossing share a lot of their development team. I think we’ll see one or the other in the first year, but not both
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Dang, shiny stuff is so tricky, and this really coming together now
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Some of this I think is that they’re really unlike anything we’ve seen before. Every other mind we know of experiences the world through the same senses and with the same basic motivations. They exist in a world of text and human language first, and any inferences about the world build from there.
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Tulsi possibly?
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It’d be a 64% chance assuming independence and that they only need one success. Less if they’re not independent which is likely. Seems flawed even as internal reasoning, why would you tell the judge?
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For the past 15 years or so Dems have positioned themselves the party of norms and decency. Being above the mudslinging makes for a decent contrast with Trump in the abstract, but it’s left parts of the party afraid of even truthful attacks on their opponents if they sound too severe
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Depends on which parts you look at. The east coast and inland are of course quite different from Europe, but the west coast is often a good match to Europe or North Africa by latitude
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Can programs be an infinitely long set of arbitrary steps? I don’t know the formal mathematical definition but if an infinitely long program has to be a finite set of steps being repeated that makes them countable
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I feel like you’re significantly overrating Callisto here. Pluto would be solidly in 4th
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People may be more tolerant of long commutes if they don’t have to drive though. So I doubt you’d see a change in distant suburbs with residents commuting into the city in cars.
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I think it’ll change sprawl. There’s less incentive to colocate parking and destinations since every car is its own valet. We may see strip centers and other suburban environments change significantly.
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Probably going to wait a year unless S4 is earlier than that.
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Age might the connecting factor there. Teams that have been around a long time usually have dedicated fanbases since they’d have moved or disbanded by now if they didn’t. As older teams they follow the older naming conventions.
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If we didn’t those languages structures wouldn’t exist. AI gets all its knowledge from the same source, but hypothetically it could know the difference between something recalled from its training data, something it inferred based on that info, and something wholly invented.
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Some languages require an expression of where knowledge for a statement came from. Sure sometimes we confuse ourselves, but generally people know whether something is a half remembered factoid, a recent firsthand experience, or a hunch and can express that difference to others.
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I wonder if there will ever be a point where mass wildlife vaccinations are a plausible option for disease control. Of course it seems like we’re having trouble keeping flu out of our own chickens so probably a ways off
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Also I’m pretty sure the federal government is going to try to recover the full cost of replacing the bridge from the ship’s insurer. They’d just rather pay now to get construction started instead of waiting 5+ years for all the litigation to get resolved.
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A lot of the no fun parts of art were already dealt with in the transition to digital. Filling in an area with a hatch or pattern can be done with a few clicks. A sketch can be on a different layer and trivially hidden later on. There’s not much left that isn’t handled by ordinary programming.
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Enjoy it. I put mine together recently, and it’s a great toy. Lots of fun to drive around and investigate stuff in your house
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I know the second live action Transformers movie started filming with only a basic outline. It shows
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Got a link to a decent video? I haven’t seen one that didn’t look like an ordinary airplane.