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You can make the translation, but I'd rather you didn't publish it yourself. If you email the translation to me, I would (in most cases) be happy to host it here myself, where you're free to link to it. This has been done several times before:

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Please read this.

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You can buy my books Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories, There Is No Antimemetics Division, Ra, Fine Structure and Ed, and tell all your most influential friends!

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2022-01-27 15:24:23 by Paul Strickland:

Are you willing to tell us your pronouns qntm?

2022-01-27 15:31:22 by qntm:

He/him.

2022-01-27 16:01:52 by Paul Strickland:

Thanks for that personal information. Beyond the obvious fact that you are less hairy than I am, I can deduce nothing.

2022-02-21 21:23:43 by qntm:

I have cleared out some old questions which I believe have now been answered.

2022-03-16 16:05:20 by Benny Andersen:

Hello. I am very happy to have come across your text about Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes . I am retired an last used Perl in 2006 (for something serious). So it was SO nice to have an explanation without all the edge cases like you say. I really agree with your statement "dislike the official Perl documentation at http://perl.org/ for being intensely technical and giving far too much space to very unusual edge cases ". Tank you so much. :-)

2022-03-28 03:49:32 by Spaceghost:

Any social media? Or just the site? Just read There Is No Antimemetics Division and am ordering more of your books. Absolutely loved the organization and writing of it.

2022-03-30 18:58:27 by George:

From the FAQ discussion about APPLE (guess) and CRIMP (secret word), how can the second P not be marked yellow before the hidden word has been determined to have only one P in it? That would be the case early in the game while there are still many possible hidden words...?

2022-04-04 23:54:17 by qntm:

Spaceghost: I am @qntm on Twitter. George: every possible hidden word always results in the same responses to every guess made so far. If you guess "APPLE" and the first P is yellow then that means the secret word has one P in it, not at location 2 (or location 3). It doesn't mean the secret word is definitely "CRIMP", it could be a lot of things.

2022-06-24 23:49:26 by Jarred Filmer:

I have benefited greatly from things your mind has produced You have made beautiful art that has moved me, and I wanted to say thank you Thank you, Sam, for your writing

2022-11-17 23:45:07 by MOH:

Is there anywhere that most benefits you that I can buy a few physical copies of "Antimemetics"? Amazon seems to be the main option but if there's an alternative that gives you a better percentage I'd rather use that . (Western Europe if relevant)

2022-11-17 23:48:41 by qntm:

Currently Amazon is the only place to acquire new physical copies of my books. However... ask me again in a year.

2022-11-17 23:50:13 by MOH:

Also that's probably the best captcha (sic) I've seen but predictive text on mobile auto changes capitalisation which may lose some comments. Though appreciate that may also be intentional to avoid idle ramblings. So I'll just say thank you for "Antimemetics" and I really look forward to catching up on the rest of your work

2022-12-22 20:58:16 by skv:

Can I give you some money via Monero or another cryptocurrency? I know there are some ethical problems with cryptocurrency, but buying your books through Amazon is arguably worse.

2022-12-27 15:31:29 by qntm:

You can buy my books through other non-Amazon platforms: * https://qntm.gumroad.com/ * https://play.google.com/store/books/author?id=qntm I have no use for cryptocurrency.

2023-01-08 04:59:42 by ultradianguy:

Love what you've written about time travel in movies and tv! Will you ever do Interstellar or Arrival? Or Donne Darko? I recognize those aren't just time travel - lots of multiverse stuff there - but I suspect you'd do a great job explaining these as well.

2023-11-05 02:41:02 by Quaint:

You’ve written about the issues with having continuous time zones and with having a single, global time zone, which are the extreme (and so maybe most interesting) possibilities. Do you have any thoughts on the impact of smaller changes, e.g., time zones which are twice or half the width of current time zones?

2023-11-07 14:11:32 by DrBoBowman:

I believe I have found a sequence that always results in a 5 guess win; can I send you the information as a possible bug?

2023-11-07 14:27:42 by qntm:

No, thanks... Absurdle is deterministic, that behaviour is intentional.

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