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Re:LHCb experiment discovers a new pentaquark on Wednesday March 27, 2019 @09:03AM (#19500394)
Penta = five. There's a picture of a ball with five balls in it. It decays to a proton (which as mentioned has three quarks) and another pair of a quark and an anti-quark. I'd say it's there.
That is, in fact, why it is called "too much".
Re:How random can you be? on Friday March 08, 2019 @09:26AM (#19337692)
That was my experience at first as well, but I think the point (that the page doesn't really get across) is that you should start hammering on the keys rather than methodically choosing your next input each time. I did that and saw my score take a nosedive.
Re:Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:12AM (#19317447)
This is my experience as well. When I don't sleep, I feel terrible. If I sleep a long while in the weekend I might have low energy but that feeling of oppressive nausea goes away.
I know of the Super Meat Boy example (I've seen the Apollo Legend videos too). Was that run streamed live?
Seems like a false dichotomy to me. This run has a fair amount of exploits, but also a lot of plain "being good at Mario". Compare to the any% run of Pokémon Red/Blue for instance (which uses an exploit to warp to the final screen of the game without any "traditional" gameplay).
To an extent I think that streaming has solved this problem, compared to the days of people just submitting videos that they recorded by themselves. Streamers might fake a single run to get a record, but it would be a huge amount of work to fake all the progression they had to go through to get there.
Re:Fritz Haber: A Monster Who Fed the World on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @06:10AM (#16366258)
You may very well declare a war that you don't expect to win if you have even worse expectations for a future war. This was pretty much the situation of Germany in WW1, from my understanding.