I’m guessing the article is about suspiciously large bets placed shortly before important events, mostly Trump’s announcements, in the absence of similarly large losses from the same people — as happened multiple times in the past year.

People don’t typically bet millions at once on an underdog.

That’s not how it works. The handful are taking the money from the tens of thousands, that’s exactly what’s odd.

A mitigating circumstance would be if the same handful lost as much in other bets.

You probably want to pick something supported by the Rockbox firmware, in case the native firmware is so-so.

I have a hard time taking a rant seriously when it includes such a neologistic gem as ‘booku’.

‘The Substance’ was a recent-ish one that’s among maybe two new films that I properly liked from the past five or ten years (I’m picky). It’s like something that Cronenberg might’ve cooked up back in the nineties. Best to go into it blind.

Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Ryuzo and the seven henchmen’ and ‘Broken Rage’ show his trademark humor combined with the yakuza themes, even as he gets up in years.

‘Chungking Express’ is a great older film.

A cowboy rides his horse in the prairies. Sees a canyon and says, “I’m a cowboy, I’ll jump that canyon!”

He directs the horse in a gallop toward the canyon. The horse stops short of jumping, and says “You’re the cowboy, you jump.”

My former boss had trouble buying beer sometimes because he’s short and thin and made the mistake of going with another coworker who permanently looks under eighteen years old. He said he ain’t making that mistake again.

Meanwhile, during covid, my method of verifying the age was pulling the mask down.

We also got thoroughly blazed all together at multiple times, locations, and various configurations of other coworkers and drugs of choice. We were in programming.

Wow, it’s really a damn mess in your head.

How about you reread the thread instead, see that it’s about accurately reproducing existing stars, and realize that you indeed have a comprehension problem.

Remarkable that you can copypaste all that and still can’t comprehend what was done in 1984 and what was done in 2014.

If you find a way to represent our existing Milky Way galaxy with a procedural algorithm and a seed that can be run in a reasonable time on any current computer or even a cluster (say, running for a few dozen years), you’re welcome to claim the Nobel prize.

‘Elite Dangerous’ is from 2014.

Gotta say, for British food, fish and chips are surprisingly decent.

Ok, at what position is the ‘u with an umlaut’ located in the English alphabet?

What number is the letter ‘ü’ in the English alphabet?

I’ve been playing the Android port of OpenTTD, on an old and slow tablet. Input is a bit clunky, but tolerable.

Although, strictly speaking, the performance of OpenTTD and OpenRCT2 doesn’t follow from the original being so streamlined — seeing as they’re both reimplementations in C/C++.

To clarify further, ‘Transport Tycoon’ and its update ‘Transport Tycoon Deluxe’ are the direct predecessors of ‘Rollercoaster Tycoon’, with the latter using largely the same engine and being close in the interface. Both games benefited tremendously from having been made in assembly, allowing them to run on mid-nineties machines while juggling hundreds of simulated units and multiple views of the area.

Both games (and the sequel ‘Rollercoaster Tycoon 2’) were programmed by one dude Chris Sawyer, with art and music by other folks (also one per task for RCT, not sure about TTD).

I’ve only recently and briefly looked into the US law on reverse engineering, which is what OpenTTD were initially doing — and apparently the EULA overrides the law in that case, while a lot of software has stock statements in the EULA that forbid reverse engineering.

‘Harry Potter is antisemitic’

Considering the extent of corpus spongiosum, part of the root of the penis, I don’t see how you could shove it aside and put a hole and the vulva in there. Except if it’s some kinda microvagina.