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windows has had silly emoticons on the bsod screen since windows 8It's just a phase, give em another ten years and they'll get out of it just like mac did
Also, OPM is drawn lazily for character, but overly powerful. Just likeThere is a reason that you can abbreviate the show name as OP-man (i.e. overpowered man).It's the whole Hero theme Saitama fullfills so well to me. He's the hero they need, but not the one they want.Spoiler (click to show/hide)
I will admit I think Bleach is just about the only anime which has a unsurvivable attack that remains unsurvivable from start to finish. It just basically never actually hits (I don't think it ever killed anyone important)IIRC Shiki Ryougi's hits guided by her eyes in Kara no Kyoukai are a truly unsurvivable attacks. Stronger or more resistant beings might have less points that she can see to hit, limiting her ability to use the move, (a very few super strong ones can actually reach the point of having no death points for her to attack at all, making her unable to use it), but if she can see a point and actually reach it to pull off the attack then it's guaranteed unsurvivable. Of course the real difficulty comes in the fact that she needs to:
.Well that is a dog pope that is shooting Beedrills no less. Definitely very realistic. 12/10, would be confused again.Guys, I think blaze is trolling us...Spoiler: Dog Pope (click to show/hide)
My new computer needs to redownload blood bowl, but with any luck I should be able to get both of those applications in tomorrow.
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To reiterate: I can see the potential utility of AI research, and I can see the potential utility of brain research, but as I've said, I cannot comprehend why anyone would want to cross-pollinate the two into the bizarre hybrid that has taken over large swathes of both disciplines in the name of superlative transhumanity.That said this is actually a legitimate idea in a lot of the fields of computer science, the so called "meet in the middle" method, that rather than starting from a top-down or a bottom-up approach starts at both ends and simultaneously works towards the middle. This allows for the algorithms to gain the ability of a bottom-up simulationist learning-based method (where we keep perfecting the lower layers to see the emergent behavior), while allowing for the general guided perspective of an emulationist type of simulation from the top down. Of course this is not without it's drawbacks; until the two views actually both get far enough to meet in the middle you essentially have two different views with half as much work put into them as they could have had, but often in the long run this leads to a much faster meeting than it woudl without them.
Um.. Yeah. I haven't quite seen the angle of this sitation you brought up. I thought she didn't heard what I was mumbling to myself, but apparently she did. Guess this was really a dick move. Not something worth ragequitting class over, in my opinion, but I really have an apology to make nevertheless.For what it's worth I can totally see your viewpoint, though it depends heavily on how loud you were murmuring. Murmuring correct lines to yourself in a foreign language class where you are a student is totally a valid thing as a form of extra review/solidification as long as you were keeping them to a "only I should be hearing this" level, in my opinion. (If on the other hand you were murmuring it at the "me and the 20 people sitting around me can hear" level, or you were a teacher/TA instead of a student, then yeah, dickbag move.
I'm just not used to people actually paing attention t what I do and speak. And the class was boring to the extreme, people telling basically the same overused lines from the textbook on the overused topic from the same textbook, over and over, not even trying to bring up some new stuff - an I know these people were perfectly capable of it, they just decided not to. This was getting on my nerve as well.
)The most we can really say is don't worry, it turns out Josh isn't a horrible programmer who walked into obvious problems. The actual issues are more complicated and more reasonable for a skilled programmer to run into than the AI recursively calling itself.Indeed, as a computer science major I'll say that the problems he ran into are ones that you could still see very easily showing up even in large company-based development. The fact that he's figured out what's causing the problem is very encouraging to see as a programmer; very often those type of bugs are the ones that end up with titles like "The game crashes randomly" and then sit unsolved in the bug tracker for years, since they are usually extremely difficult to diagnose and track down.
I think the idea is that by increasing spending in a particular branch that used all of those pieces of physics we would have stimulated growth in the related areas, meaning that we would have gotten good superconductors, computational plasma physics, resilient materials, and so forth that much sooner along with our working fusion.We WOULD have cracked it MUCH MUCH sooner, had spending been at levels other than "Oh, just give them a pittance to shut them up. We cant afford to unseat Big Oil right now." and more at "Oh, yeah-- We kinda need to actually consider having a replacement ready when we run out of carbon to dig up, huh?" levels.Physics usually doesn't work like this, because it is more intertwined. Fusion requires good superconductors, computational plasma physics, resilient materials and so on. Quite possibly today we have in principle all we need for a economically feasible fusion reactor and we just have to assemble and test everything. But it couldn't be done with 1990th technology.
@Caroline: That's called gaslighting. Don't let them get to you and make you think the bad things are your fault; they definitely aren't. Also, miserable-pampered is a sliding scale, not a dichotomy. Just because you are not absolutely miserable, doesn't mean you are some spoiled bastard. Never think otherwise.Technically it's the fallacy of relative privation (i.e., the "starving children in africa" fallacy, where it claims your feelings are invalidated because someone else is suffering worse). Gas lighting is where your surroundings are changed and everyone acts like it's always been that way to make you doubt your own sanity (and it actually works to). For example moving furniture and then claiming it's always been that it's always been that way would be gaslighting.
Surely you don't stand in front of a tank and go, 'Okay, it's just you and me. Draw.'
I don't see why a sword on your back can't simply be unslung, and then drawn, the same way a soldier unslings a rifle off their shoulder before using it. If you're looking for a "quick draw", you should be looking for a shorter weapon.I could totally see a back scabbard that worked as an abstracted form of this, i.e. it had a much longer draw time and didn't allow for quick draw attacks. Maybe make a customized version with increased ENC that trades a longer time to stash a weapon away when you were done in exchange for reenabling quick draw abilities and a shorter draw time (essentially you building your own custom "snap closed" type of sheath or something similar).
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