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by Arcorann 5y ago
I was a little surprised to see Fandom.com results come up in one of my test searches, given that they are notorious for being very far from "clean" (I counted 25+ uBO blocked when checking the page in Vivaldi, which is far above
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by Arcorann 5y ago
Curiously, back in 2016 there was a bet very similar to this one posted on Long Bets ( https://longbets.org/712/ ) -- the bet required commercial self-driving cars capable of driving through Las Vegas by 2024. The timefr
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by Arcorann 5y ago
This isn't the first polyabolo version of Tetris I've seen, though I think it is the first one with diagonal movement in addition to horizontal. I find it playable enough for my liking. Comments on the game: * Configurable control
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by Arcorann 5y ago
The Iranian calendar defines its new year based on the exact moment of the northern equinox; if the equinox is before noon (Iran standard time, I believe) then the new year is on that day, while if it's after noon the new year is on th
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by Arcorann 5y ago
Reminds me of zFRAG [0], which I found had an update recently to add bad sectors. The game allows you to both defrag automatically and manually (by dragging and dropping). [0] https://losttraindude.itch.io/zfrag
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by Arcorann 5y ago
There are some non-trivial changes between the draft standards and the final ISO 8601:2019-1 standard, one of which relates to making the use of T stricter, and the mentioned provision was removed. Regardless, ISO 8601 has generally discour
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by Arcorann 5y ago
I remember seeing this the last time it was posted on HN [0] in 2018. The About page seems to be a bit outdated since it actually skips a lot more characters than the 32 mentioned. Running this on CJK text is an interesting exercise. [0] h
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by Arcorann 5y ago
The article is reposted from https://theconversation.com/pseudo-hallucinations-why-some-p... requesting the link and title be adjusted. (I'm not sure if the link should be repointed to the original research study or no
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by Arcorann 5y ago
I was reading an article talking about book translation and translation styles a couple of days ago but I can't seem to find it again. In the meantime, have a link to some quotes on localization and translation: https://lege
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by Arcorann 5y ago
youtube-dlc has been inactive since December 2020. I use yt-dlp instead: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp Not only does it keep reasonable pace with original youtube-dl, it also incorporates several improvements from f
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by Arcorann 5y ago
Something I never see being talked about in these sorts of threads is how Japan switched from the local lunisolar calendar to the Gregorian calendar. In the year 1872 (Meiji 5) the imperial government were paying their officials on a monthl
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by Arcorann 6y ago
As pointed out in the comments to the Know Your Meme article, this was originally generated by a GAN and posted on Instagram by @busyrotting, who isn't credited in the article at all. Unfortunately their profile [1] is gone, and the In
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by Arcorann 6y ago
Not really. Vocaloids are driven by human-written notes; one could argue that converting the notes into singing may involve "machine intelligence" (depending on how much processing is applied to the voice sample bank), but ultimat
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by Arcorann 6y ago
n (n Knuth up arrows) n (n Knuth up arrows) n = n (n+1 Knuth up arrows) 3, so that's not really impressive either. Your function is comparable in size to f_omega(n) on the fast-growing hierarchy. [1] At any rate, it's known that B
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by Arcorann 6y ago
Looking at the "similar items" list gives us quite a number of competing schemes for coding words. The "Anglo-American telegraphic code" in particular seems to have gone all out -- it's 500 pages long, four times th
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by Arcorann 6y ago
The book has a list of users starting on page 118, so evidently the code had some success. Whether everything in the book is used is another matter entirely, but the extra coverage doesn't hurt.
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by Arcorann 6y ago
I remember reading a few years back an article about the most commonly shared views among voters (as in 90%+ agree rates), finishing with a political manifesto designed to incorporate as many of said views as possible (unfortunately I don&#
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by Arcorann 6y ago
There are over ten citations there to real articles about predatory journals, all linked in the paper. Even this: > 28. Stromberg J (2014) ‘Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List’ is an Actual Science Paper Accepted by a Journal. Vox 21: 1
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by Arcorann 6y ago
Standalone emulators are continuing to make progress for each of these platforms, but there's still quite some way to go. Once we get those to a level where most games are playable without issues at full speed porting them to the brows
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by Arcorann 6y ago
I disagree with your characterisation as "horseshit" -- although eleven of the characters were subsequently located in other texts, these texts are different from the sources that were supposedly cited when they were input into JI
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by Arcorann 6y ago
Plus Codes (or Open Location Codes) are simply mappings from latitude/longitude to an alphanumeric string [1], and there are open-source implementations in many languages [2], which means the effect of the project being abandoned would
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by Arcorann 6y ago
"As the Last I May Know" [1], winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Short Story, is based on this proposal. It's certainly a thought-provoking one. [1]: https://www.tor.com/2019/10/23/a
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by Arcorann 6y ago
That question is still open for submissions, and this computer looks to be significantly smaller than the one submitted there. If someone were willing to expand the computer a bit (memory currently seems a bit small) and then port Tetris to
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by Arcorann 6y ago
According to the landing page "If every cell on the game field was as small as a speck of dust it would take 17 billion years at the speed of light to travel the width of the board." 17 billion light years is 1.608×10^26 metres, w
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by Arcorann 6y ago
I thought this was familiar. Turns out it was posted here before but the article was on a different site. Here's the previous discussion (40 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24702678
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by Arcorann 6y ago
The 1/8 dollar was a feature of the old Spanish dollar (hence the term "pieces of eight", the eight pieces being known as "bits" -- "two bits" is then a quarter), which is where the Americans got it in the
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by Arcorann 6y ago
Maybe not the size of Australia, but compare it to this map I generated (Winkel-Tripel projection) [1] where Korea is correctly sized, and you can see it's easily 2-3 times as big as it should be (in terms of scale). [1] http:/&#
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by Arcorann 6y ago
I use youtube-dl to download from Nico Nico Douga, which means having to restart the download every few minutes because the program doesn't send heartbeat requests. There's been a PR to fix this for a couple of years now [1], and
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by Arcorann 6y ago
A few comments: * Sidereal time is different from solar time; sidereal time measures the Earth's rotation relative to the stars, while solar time measures it relative to the Sun, which moves relative to the stars. Thus, UT1 and siderea
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by Arcorann 6y ago
According to the Japanese Wikipedia page [1] it was actually in response to a lawsuit about V30 breaching the copyright of 8086 microcode. The extra speed would just be a bonus. [1] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_Vシリ

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