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  1. Comment on Setting aside the musical content (if you can), what are the best music videos you know? in ~music

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    Word Crimes is pretty freaking solid.

    Word Crimes is pretty freaking solid.

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  2. Comment on Fermi problem game thread in ~misc

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    I'm going to assume that a gas station will have an average of one customer at any given time during the day. That seems like a good baseline approximation for this level of estimate. I'm also...

    I'm going to assume that a gas station will have an average of one customer at any given time during the day. That seems like a good baseline approximation for this level of estimate.

    I'm also going to say that a given person gets gas one time per week, for a duration of 5 minutes.

    That means that, with 12 hours of operation per day, 7 days a week, there's 84 hours to fill. 5 minutes per person means 12 people per hour. I'll say 84*12=1000 (Edit: Wow, this is actually incredibly close) so that means each gas station serves 1000 people. I think Wyoming has something like 600,000 people, so that would make for 600 gas stations in Wyoming.

    And then if an average day has 12 people per hour, for 12 hours, that's 150 sales made, and if each one is 12 gallons or so, then that's 2000 gallons per day. Wikipedia indicates tanker trucks have a capacity of 6000 to 12000 gallons or so, so I feel like 2000 per day is a reasonable guess.

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  3. Comment on Fermi problem game thread in ~misc

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    Area of Manhattan is 87 km^2. That's 87,000,000m^3 I'm going to say the average building is 10 stories. That's 30m. 90x30=2700 so we have a volume of 2,700,000,000 m^3. I wish with this stuff...

    Area of Manhattan is 87 km^2. That's 87,000,000m^3

    I'm going to say the average building is 10 stories. That's 30m. 90x30=2700 so we have a volume of 2,700,000,000 m^3.

    I wish with this stuff there was an actual value to then compare to.

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  4. Comment on Steam Play recently hit 500 Windows games rated as Platinum on ProtonDB in ~games

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    I do wish there was a bit more "open development". Take a look at the github: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/ Last commit january 2? I'm sure there's been development since then. It would...

    I do wish there was a bit more "open development". Take a look at the github: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/

    Last commit january 2? I'm sure there's been development since then. It would be nice to be able to have the newest developments as they come down, and to be able to have the best, newest compatibility possible. This would also be good for getting new games into the compatibility list - having test cases of games that don't work is beneficial because you can tweak until you suddenly "unlock" bigger compatibility, and having an army of people to test what works and what doesn't is helpful.

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  5. Comment on Maintaining trust and safety at Discord with over 200 million people in ~tech

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    Wonder if they'll ever get the Stallman seal of approval. He's got all kinds of complaints about Discord :)

    Wonder if they'll ever get the Stallman seal of approval. He's got all kinds of complaints about Discord :)

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  6. Comment on Emoji don't mean what they used to - The pictorial language has moved away from ideography and toward illustration in ~humanities

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    Historically, hasn't Unicode always had picture symbols? Things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols have been around for years, I thought, even beyond being compatible with...

    Historically, hasn't Unicode always had picture symbols? Things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols have been around for years, I thought, even beyond being compatible with the historical Japanese setup.

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