NeatNit

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

"its" is comparable to "his" or "her", not to e.g. "Dave's".

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Going to concerts. It's too loud and it's crowded, I just don't see the appeal.

And while we're at it, dancing. It's unnatural, I tell you!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

When a country goes to war, internal conflicts (i.e. left wing vs. right wing) are forgotten, or at least put on hold, and everyone is suddenly on the same page.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

That looks nothing like the Half-Life 2 monster

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

you kid, but there's no shortage of steam games where steam (a launcher) updates the game's launcher

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I haven't seen them, but based on your description, I think this xkcd explains how these movies were conceived:

xkcd

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (12 children)

I don't get it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Of course it still matters, you just take the best case for n as n→∞, instead of the worst or average case.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Really annoys me that this is actually O(n log n) because for large enough n the merge sort will take longer than n*1e6 second. Randall should know better!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Dang, I definitely remember this scene and it's been ages since I've seen this show.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Fascinating!

Nah, my .de means nothing, it was just an arbitrary choice of instance for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Was changing your name not possible back then, or were you just not aware that it's possible?

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