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the sequel to the other compilers book doodle. the dragons from both books are girlfriends

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if we all suggest forcefem a little bit - even as little as once a year - we can make up for the shortfall

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anyways, ive talked a lot about how surprised i am that hyperrogue is one of my favorite roguelikes when it's main conception is being a math tech demo, but it think the hyperbolic geometry genuinely creates a really good design space. you can only see 7 tiles away but there's hundreds of tiles that are that distance from you, enemies draw close very quickly but there's so much room to tactically move around them and the pace is always brisk, it is fucking impossible to retrace your steps so you're always moving along to new areas without any reason to have stake in the vast swathes of land you are abandoning, like the hyperbolic tiling just makes it more efficient with its space than a euclidean roguelike would be.

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in physics, you have your words for things that we don't know what they are (dark energy, dark matter, hubble tension, etc) and your words for things that we know what they are but we don't know whether they exist (magnetic monopoles, cosmic strings, gravitons, axions, etc). and of course you've also got your words for things that we know what they are and we know they exist but we don't know why (baryon asymmetry, naturalness, the hierarchy problem)

many people are saying we should just accept the observed fact that we live in an asymmetric, unnatural, hierarchical universe. and as we learn from noether's theorem that conserved quantities arise from underlying symmetries, if everything was symmetric then every quantity would be conserved. if there wasn't a fine structure constant there wouldn't be any structure

these three problems constitute an objection based in the principle of least action. physicists have been trying to explain for years why the universe isn't an indistinguishable and unchanging set of one type of particle with no way to measure the passage of time, a hypothetical idealized state that has probably never existed. and we keep feeding all of our best physicists to these problems and it keeps eating them like some kind of physics problem monster. it's inhumane. there must be some kind of parasitic fungus that leads people to ask questions of why within a rigorous scientific framework. like they're trying to get up to a great height. to get eaten

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which lenox spice village house are you living in? i'm tarragon

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#include <bit>

float approx_exp(float x) {

float xb = x * 12102203; // Magic

int i = xb; // Don't worry, we'll be back in float soon

return std::bit_cast<float>(i + 1064986823); // WTF?

}

This function's output deviates from e^x by less than 3% over the range of all x.

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I'm a yeasayer

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She froze herself for 30 years

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It's time to move the joy to the fridge

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Every time I see the furry meter, I see the version modified by 4chan. This is the original. The artist is かびーにょ; I’ll put a link to the original at the bottom. 

Approximate translation (borrowed from WildCritters). Title: “Climbing the staircase of kemono levels” Model: Fox girl.

Only ears and a tail

Becoming covered in fur

Doesn’t care about clothing now that she’s completely furry

Figure is now only sort of human-like

Likes to run around the hills and fields.

Original picture link: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=11313122

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everyone always says that the word Q is too early in the alphabet and should be further back with all the "weirdo"s and "freak"s. but take a look at this -> p q. They're twin brothers. Would you seperate twin brothers? Just because one is a little artistic?

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Educate yourselves.

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i would not say that to a literal dog. personally.