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That's an oddly alien view to me. I'd build a house so I could live in it, not to make money from it.


People used to build their own houses, you could order a kit from Sears. You aren’t going to get away without an appropriate amount of resources to buy land, buy the kit, and labor (your own or purchased) to do all the work.


> You aren’t going to get away without an appropriate amount of resources ...

Of course, that's assumed. No-one seems to be saying otherwise.


> water molecules in food start to vibrate producing heat

That isn't really how microwaves work. Or, perhaps, that's how all radiation heat things work. It's any molecule that will absorb radiation of that frequency. So your grill works the same way, just at a different frequency. At microwave level, it's water, fats, all sorts of things. The difference is really the stuff that doesn't absorb at those frequencies.


Well, young people don't really watch that much TV these days. Why would they? I mean, you have to choose a channel and then you're watching the same thing for ages, like 25 minutes or something. Boring! And you have to sit there with your family for that whole time. I guess it's ok if you're really old and can't move very much, though that seems like a kind of torture where you can't move so you have to keep watching the same thing over and over.


> your best bet is to make an entirely new clone

Or you can just rebase to edit the commits and remove the secret file. If you're really paranoid you can run `git gc` vto ensure the object file is cleaned up also. If you're super paranoid, then you can do:

git hash-object secretpassword.txt

And check that hash isn't an object in the `.git/objects` directory.


From the Glossary:

    binary digit is a digit that may assume one of two values: “0” (zero) or “1” (one)
    10, 11, 14
Those examples of binary numbers are just terrible.


I hate to be the obnoxious guy that explains jokes, but the 10,11,14 are pages where the concept is explained. This made me chuckle.


Thanks, I’ve glossed over the word “glossary”.


That really didn't need examples, it defines binary digits as either 1 or 0, no need for further elaboration


Over half the world are not "believers in Genesis" (by which I would guess you mean biblical literalists).


Literalism has nothing to do with it. Over half the world identify as believers in Moses's God. Less than a sixth believe in Stochastic Gas. Under the Gas model, it would perhaps be strange for us to be at center. Under the God model it would not.

Regardless, to say one way "should" be the answer is a religious argument not a scientific one, and it has questionable place in a scientific discussion.


I was a bigger fan before Peter Gabriel left.


No, scoring 50% on a test is not the same as a coin toss, for very obvious reasons.


The default KDE font is Noto Sans, which is a professionally designed font commissioned by Google and is used in various Google projects, including ChromeOS.


Noto Sans is a "version" of Arial and is inappropriate for a user interface.

I have looked at screenshots of ChromeOS and, for obvious reasons, they don't seem to be using it - they use Roboto and Product Sans just like they do in Android.


It is not a version of Arial! Noto sans is derived from Droid Sans and Open Sans, all by Steve Mattheson.

That said, I don't use Noto and I replaced it with Tahoma. :)


Yes I know it's not a version exactly which is why I quoted it.

What I meant is that this style of font is soooo generic at this point that it screams cheap


Why is Noto Sans inappropriate? Also you can just change the font to your own preference.


I agree it’s not a good UI font, but it’s absolutely not a version of Arial. Arial is a knock-off of Helvetica.

Noto is a variant of Open Sans with a much wider symbol set.

A font specifically designed for UI like Inter would be better choice as it’s a bit more compact and better for information density.


It's still a very-horrible system UI typeface.


I'm not sure how you missed it, it's right there in the summary: "Infinigen is entirely procedural: every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from scratch via randomized mathematical rules, using no external source..."


This is not a critique of what they achieved, but that is not an innovation over existing procgen techniques. Generating assets from maths is basically what the demoscene has been all about for decades.

The sheer scale of what this does, how general it seems to be (instead of a single special-purpose animation like in the demoscene), as well as the fact that the output is structured and labeled assets I would consider novel, and very impressive.


"without using any assets" vs "relying on no external assets" but it's not my area so I may be misunderstanding.


Ok, to clear it up:

"Ours is entirely procedural" == ""Infinigen is entirely procedural"

"relying on no external assets" == "every asset, from shape to texture, is generated from scratch via randomized mathematical rules, using no external source"

If that doesn't make it make it clear, could you elaborate on the part that doesn't click and I'll try and explain further.


Don't worry, I'm out of my depth and I know it, I shouldn't have put my oar in :)


The UK actually has a statutory 5.6 weeks - which is 28 days - for all full time employees. Most companies will split that as 20 days flexible leave plus 8 public holidays, but it's not a requirement.

Many companies offer better than that as an additional benefit. For example, I currently get 24 days + 9 public holidays (Scotland) for a total of 33 days. I think I get an additional day after I've been with the company 4 years.


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