Epicurus described human pleasures as either "kinetic", meaning they diminish to the the degree they are satisfied, or "static", meaning they increase as they are enjoyed. Hunger is the typical example of a kinetic pleasure, eating when you're very hungry is very pleasurable. But the more you eat the less pleasurable the activity becomes. On the other hand things like friendships or the arts are better appreciated the more you're exposed to them. Friendship naturally grows over time, and the majority of artistic endeavor happens in response to preexisting cultural and artistic currents, understanding that background heightens the appreciation on any individual work you might take in.
So basically no, that's a dumb idea.
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Why do you eat like an impoverished African family? You have money.
Cuz lentils are actually pretty dank. Dal dishes are good more because of the spices than the lentils, but less cooked/more firm lentils are really good with a nice piece of meat, in a casserole, pureed with spices, or even on their own. Also they've got a pretty excellent nutritional profile.
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Originally posted by Cootehill
Something I never got is if you don't need a lot of computing power just to manipulate text, then why are things like Python and NodeJS so slow?
"so slow" is relative, but the reason they're significantly slower than something like C is their dynamicity. The model for thinking about python/ruby/node is that every object you make requires instantiating a hashmap. Every time you access a member or call a method you have to do a lookup in that map. This is what lets you stick arbitrary properties or methods onto instances at runtime. Sometimes it involves a number of hashmap lookups because you have to go up something like a prototype chain. Verses compiled, statically typed languages you can burn in addresses (sorta, there's OS magic in there but it doesn't count) during compilation. When you access a member you calculate an offset (usually free on x86) and off you go instead of having to go through a hashmap that may or may not be in a cache.
Of course it's more complex than that, things like GC, loop unrolling, blood magicks or worse UB all play a part too. And intrepreters/VMs can do their own sorts of sourcery to make the situation better (the v8 blog has a pretty interesting post on JS arrays and how basically it lies to you and gives you real arrays and then swaps them out for a hashmap once you start doing something stupid like defining non-numeric indicies) but that dynamictic character of these languages is the generally cited as the central thing that makes them difficult to impossible to optimize.
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Season after season for more than 20 years, totse and subsequent spin-offs ended each with more questions than when they started. The "everyone is jesus in purgatory" conclusion was unanimously loathed by critics, being described as "an unmitigated ass pull" and "worse than the holocaust", leaving an enraged viewership with nothing left to argue over except wether the site jumped the shark when Spectral led his survivors to the temple only to be promptly attacked by a pillar of black mod abuse, or if in fact the death knell come much earlier with the introduction of image embedding.
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Originally posted by stupid noob
ITT:Broke bitches.
Didn't you just say you make less than $15 hourly? Bitch, that's below minimum where I live. You ain't got to room to be calling no one broke you peg legged lil nigga.
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Also if "internet freedom as we know it" is the right to upload our content to the servers of for profit companies and be unable to access distribution without the blessing of google/facebook/twitter then we fucking deserve to for it to end. It's wrong that we're being fucked like this but we brought it on ourselves by vesting these companies with atrocious business practices with nearly unlimited power over what we were pretending was some democratic and open medium.
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Soldered ram and a battery that's infeasible to replace are annoying but fuck it, at least you can buy your way out of that problem by just replacing the whole damn thing.
Keyboards are abysmal, ibm/sony/apple figured out a good thing with the split key design (I mean still low travel but at least you can touch type better) sony is schizophrenic and can't keep a line in good shape for more than a couple years, apple went full retard with their "butterfly switches" and associated hardware, and lenovo can't make a display to save their fucking lives.
On the topic of displays, 1080 is still considered good despite apple shitting all over it for like over 5 years now. Phone manufacturers figured out how to get their display shit together, I'm not sure what metal deficiency keeps laptop manufacturers from doing the same.
Missing hardware radio button and indicators is annoying but I can deal. The obsession with weight/thinness is cancer though.
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Originally posted by Enterita
Ive always found Mario fun, but Zelda has been VERY shit recently. IGN gave Skyward Sword a 10/10, which was an awful game, and then gave a 10/10 to Breath of the Wild, so I dont know what to believe.
I will be so dissapointed if I hate BotW.
I thought it was amazing, better than (what I've played of) skyward sword by a mile IMO. It's a very different game than OOT and it never reached quite the same highs as I remember in that game but it did have some really amazing moments that reminded me of that sense of wonder I experienced in OOT. There are things to complain about in terms of difficulty ramps and puzzle complexity but the world building and exploration mechanics were so good it more than made up for it. On of very few games in recent history that treats exploration as a core element of the game as opposed to something you put in for completionists or people who need to scavenge some resources that are really just dead end appendages to the central corridor that is the game.
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