HocusLocus

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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Yes, and sulfur isn't the only cloud nucleation trigger. Refineries of ship 'bunker fuel' used to seek contracts from disposal companies to burn their chemical waste at sea. And dirty fuel has lots of natural vanadium. Sou
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Shown are reflectors. Two dishes back to back is possible too. Our telco had such an array on top of a mountain to jump over it.
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Remember when USENET Remember when mailing lists never mind
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Seeking DNS with 'furry exemption' for fully clothed furries.
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Ask HN: AI voice systems that no longer recognize touch tone input?
3 points by HocusLocus 1y ago|0 comments
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
By 1990 Omnipage 3 and its successors were 'good enough' and with their compact dictionaries and letter form recognition were miracles of their time at ~300MB installed. In 2025 LLMs can 'fake it' using Trilobites of mem
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Rotation effects of negative (whitespace) of moiré patterns from multiples of [2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19]. With each increment they are tilting at different 'rates' so the whole represents rotation of straight artifacts at several spee
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
There's a way to warp this in 3D and Contact two sides together to show the framework blueprint of a Portal device.
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
I have found Imagein to be a good general purpose editor and we use it to clean up bitmaps, and adjust black points and white points and curves on greyscale, so it is good for preparing B&W greyscale photographs for print to compensate
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
A txt (rtf in my case) is a notebook that doesn't get messy. Deepest parts go back to 2007. Cell phone alarm for reminders, also acts as a clotting agent for time. After you do what the alarm is for you have choice of setting alarm ag
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Back in 2011 my gut reaction was to treat the embedding of Discus comments and 'roll yourself a quickie comment section' as the end of something good and the beginning of something bad. Completely invisible to your average user,
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
If Slow Code is indistinguishable from malpractice, whose job to call it and pass judgement? Anyone? There are ethical bear traps on both ends of the spectrum.
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
If AI gets us into orbit ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44800051#44804687 ) or revitalizes nuclear, I'm fine with those things. It's true that AI usage can scale with availability better than most things b
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Then AIs will be competing with humans for a thin gruel of energy where even recently remembered things like overnight street lighting and heated schools in Winter, will be dim memories. The 'sufficient' goalpost will slide around
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
AI [companies] are starting to publicly frame AI concerns around grid power demand. They think this broadcasts them as "good corporate stewards" among people concerned about grid energy demand and 'climate change' and &#
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
I know some people who ran a fresh+saltwater retail fish store way past it$ 'cultural due date' and may have appreciated this type of closure.
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
The reason we have a world full of .gif today is that the .png committee rejected animation back when everyone was saying PNG would be the "GIF killer". Just sayin'. Don't hold your breath.
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Yes, epigenetic clocks discovered in 2010 and even the researcher who discovered them might feel insulted by the phrase of a prescription drug declaring "reverse biological aging 3.1 years"
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Go long on Furry Costumes!
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
I guess maybe I'm one of the few who consider "reversing 3.1 biological years" to be a personal insult. Something that polled well in a group of pre-kindergarteners. What happened, some statistical bloodwork metric was tort
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Genie 3 not only groks the Bhagavad Gita, it can generate "Blue & Elephant People: The Movie".
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Why don't you just ask the document creator? Every time I turn around these days I encounter someone ready to use an infinite amount of energy that is being paid for by other people, to 'simulate' some analog process by tempo
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Sea level rise (#2) is a 'crisis' for absolutely no one. I set an alarm for (#1), "Preparing for the low pressure 12ft tidal/storm surge or the 18ft tsunami that could arrive as early as tomorrow and probably will within
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Thanks kindly for this well done and brave introduction. There are few people these days who'd even recognize the bare ASCII 'Postscript' form of a PDF at first sight. First step is to unroll into ASCII of course and remove t
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Who owns it? (an LLC) contracts 'not public knowledge' How expensive is it to operate? How many icebreakers does NSF operate? Is there a US Coast guard icebreaker under construction? Lots of generic "they're sabotaging s
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
I'm glad to see people discussing [zero,infinitesimals,false,emptystring,isnull,unpopulated,missing] as if each one is a thing. They've always been things! We've just been buried in compromises and shortcuts all these years
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
The real reason is that in the 1980s this illustration ( https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/home_page_posts/1/4/2/9/8/DS... ) was not shown to people. And an illustrator, probably who hadn&#x
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Memphis is a warning: AI will be driven off-planet [video](youtube.com)
2 points by HocusLocus 1y ago|2 comments
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
AI is latest process-intensive industry that brings the dominance:energy ratio into sharp focus. Once it was code breaking (which may have raised Virginia a tiny fraction of a degree over the years). Then crypto currency, which China inves
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by HocusLocus 1y ago
Seeing a toddler licking lead paint makes you shudder to think about it. Smart moms renovate before the kids are born and use peanut butter paint.

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