sushibowl

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[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

According to wikipedia, 15-24 age group is about 13% of the population. 18-29 is a slightly older and wider range, so could be 14%. Then obviously only half of those are men, so we end up at 7%. That's totally plausible

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 7 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

It's just saying that 7% of the total people they surveyed fall into the group "men 18-29". Without knowing how many people were actually polled and how they were selected we cannot say anything about the statistical validity of the sample.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think people exaggerate how bad QWERTY is. Studies have not consistently found an advantage for one keyboard layout over another, and some studies even show that typists can reach equivalent speeds even with randomised layouts. This suggests that experience and practice with a particular layout is far more important to typing speed than the particular placement of letters. Which is a good argument for keeping qwerty around.

(reducing the risk of mechanical typewriters jamming by not having two hammers next to each other be pressed at the same time),

This story is quite common but there is little evidence that it's actually true. The designer of qwerty actually made a late adjustment to move R next to E (swapping it with period), even though ER is the second most common letter combination in English.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

It sorta depends on the ingredients you're working with, some tomatoes are sweeter or more acidic than others. Where I live tomatoes tend to be somewhat watery and lack a bit of intensity of flavour. If I'm making sauce at home I'll taste a bit and add some sugar and/or red wine vinegar to balance out the flavour.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey bud, i think this is actually quite good. And I think it's really cool you're dedicating time and effort to learning a skill you enjoy.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

DIN 4271 is the number of the standard that describes how to build manhole covers of type B125.

The correct manhole cover should probably state something like DIN 19584, which I think is the standard covering the B400 class manhole covers.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

How the mighty have fallen eh? Prince of Persia was a big franchise once upon a time. Like, the Sands of time trilogy was AAA tier.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The big reason I'm hearing in this thread is "Denuvo and I don't trust Ubisoft." However I doubt that is the reason the mainstream audience skipped over this game. Ubisoft franchises generally sell like hotcakes, and for the most part only nerds care about DRM (like the type of person who knows what a lemmy is).

It's hard to say why it didn't sell more units. Certainly it seems their internal expectations were sky high:

similarly to the biggest Metroidvania’s in the market, with millions of units sold in a relatively short space of time

The game is good, but metroidvania is not exactly an easy market; there's some juggernauts in that genre, and they came out with a completely new and unproven concept. Apparently it sold a million units or so still, to me that's not unimpressive.

On PC, it initially launched only on Epic afaik, which certainly doesn't help. And by the time they brought it to steam it was much too late.

What I don't really get is, why disband the team? They've proven they can produce quality stuff. Just hand them some other promising projects? I suppose that's too much of a risk for a publisher like Ubisoft.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Then again, I thought 1+1=2 is axiomatic (2 being the defined by having a count of one and then another one) So I don't understand why Bertrand Russel had to spend 86 pages proving it from baser fundamentals.

Well, he was trying to derive essentially all of contemporary mathematics from an extremely minimal set of axioms and formalisms. The purpose wasn't really to just prove 1+1=2; that was just something that happened along the way. The goal was to create a consistent foundation for mathematics from which every true statement could be proven.

Of course, then Kurt Gödel came along and threw all of Russell's work in the trash.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But python has GIL and you can't just remove it so

https://docs.python.org/3/using/configure.html#cmdoption-disable-gil

The GIL appears to be slowly going away.

[–] sushibowl@feddit.nl 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You are right, originally they did. The answer is catholicism happened:

A religious purist, Jón made it his mission to uproot all remnants of paganism. This included changing the names of the days of the week. Thus Óðinsdagr, "day of Odin", became miðvikudagr, "mid-week day" and the days of Týr and Thor became the prosaic "third day" and "fifth day".

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