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Re:With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's ... on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:21AM (#50323622)
With the 2136 common use Kanji you get >98% on all shows
Re:Takeshi's Castle on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:18AM (#50040784)
Italy too
Re:My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable on Saturday June 27, 2026 @02:42AM (#48695773)
I miss Stadia

I just had a screen and a internet connection. Bliss.

Re:Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty on Sunday April 12, 2026 @04:10AM (#47737208)
recommendations:

* Our Ancestors (The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Nonexistent Knight)

* The Complete Cosmicomics (Cosmicomics, t zero, + others)

* Invisible Cities

* If on a winter's night a traveler

Re:Music for Programming on Monday April 06, 2026 @03:38AM (#47657977)
same.

before it was a job, I was programming exclusively to trance.fm (sadly gone)

Re:Books of the Century by Le Monde on Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:24AM (#47475500)
Don Quixote is #1

everyone else is in alphabetical order

Re:An Introduction to the Codex Seraphinianus, the Strangest Book Ever... on Saturday February 28, 2026 @02:35AM (#47191742)
A nice overview of the page numbers:

https://www.reddit.com/r/codexseraphinianus/comments/qpy2r8/...

Re:Hollow Knight: Silksong Causes Server Chaos on Xbox, Steam, and Nin... on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:42AM (#45135992)
> Nine Sols was a way easier game

For me it was the other way around. In Nine Sols I got immediately stuck in the boss (mini-boss?) fight against two enemies and the flying gal.

Hollow Knight was difficult at times (Coliseum of Fools, Radiance) but it never felt unfair. Some fights (Mantis Lords, Grimm) are among the best times I've had playing a game

Re:Derivation and Intuition behind Poisson distribution on Saturday May 03, 2025 @02:19AM (#43877202)
An application of the Poisson distribution (1946)

https://garcialab.berkeley.edu/courses/papers/Clarke1946.pdf

Re:Peanut Butter Day: Going Nuts over NIST's Standard Reference Peanut... on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @03:32PM (#42857579)
Mandatory Tom Scott videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJzi0BXcGI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAsrsMPftOI

Re:How did you do on the AI art Turing test? on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:05AM (#42219921)
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202288 (1 comment)
Re:What Made Dostoevsky's Work Immortal on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:00AM (#42219908)
Amazing list by Nabokov, and "strong opinions" indeed
Re:Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts – but worth it on Thursday October 03, 2024 @02:07AM (#41727756)
It reminded me of Southland Tales.

Not a bad thing

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