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by Luc 9mo ago
This rule is one of the worst ones, often resulting in nonsense titles or grammatical problems. Another one on the homepage right now: "Samba Was Written". Ok, great.
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BirdBot, an energy-efficient robot leg inspired by birds' legs (2022) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Luc 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Luc 9mo ago
It was very thin, sewed into a 'wife beater' undershirt. You wouldn't notice it even if you're looking at it. In fact I'm pretty sure it was sold for the purpose of cheating on exams.
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by Luc 9mo ago
Wow the kids with my new found gift of telepathy. Plugged it into an iPhone mini-jack. It was meant to be part of a roulette wheel prediction computer that never came to full fruition.
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by Luc 9mo ago
Not embedded, just dropped into your ear canal. I bought it maybe 15 years ago on eBay, so it's nothing new.
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by Luc 9mo ago
You can use a 9V battery powered amplifier with a loop around your neck to make a tiny permanent magnet placed in your ear canal vibrate against your ear drum. It doesn't generate hi-fi sound, but speech is remarkably clear. Great for
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by Luc 9mo ago
Press CMD+. a couple of times to bring up a sidebar with more info and other demos. CMD+I will enable Immediate Mode, so that every edit you make is reflected in the output as you type.
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Moiré Explorer(play.ertdfgcvb.xyz)
199 points by Luc 9mo ago|23 comments
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Loading Recommendations for Muscle Strength, Hypertrophy, and Local Endurance(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by Luc 9mo ago|0 comments
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Cultured meat protein has higher bioactive peptides than traditional proteins(sciencedirect.com)
3 points by Luc 9mo ago|1 comments
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Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy(physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
235 points by Luc 9mo ago|354 comments
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by Luc 9mo ago
> Magnetic North: Shortest surface line to the magnetic north pole (simply in the direction of the compass at your location). Magnetic North is the local horizontal direction of the magnetic field. But that doesn't generally coinci
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by Luc 9mo ago
The author has done ~3 years of commercial work porting game engines, so that makes me add a lot of credence to the article. https://www.mobygames.com/person/1368928/antonin-carette/
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Bioinspired wettability boundary stabilizes water sloshing(science.org)
2 points by Luc 9mo ago|0 comments
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They Droned Back(digitaldigging.org)
6 points by Luc 10mo ago|1 comments
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Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu(nature.com)
2 points by Luc 10mo ago|0 comments
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A theoretical upper limit for offshore wind energy extraction(cell.com)
8 points by Luc 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Luc 11mo ago
A font is designed to have certain attributes (e.g. harmony between the letters). It is not clear that this harmony is preserved if you distort the font algorithmically. For this font the designer ensured that it is preserved.
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by Luc 11mo ago
Compiled to bytecode.
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The Source of Europe's Mild Climate(americanscientist.org)
3 points by Luc 11mo ago|0 comments
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Fusion isn't the holy grail of energy(nickmcgreivy.substack.com)
3 points by Luc 11mo ago|1 comments
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by Luc 11mo ago
Are you aware of https://machinations.io/ ?
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There has to be a better way to make titanium(orcasciences.com)
9 points by Luc 11mo ago|0 comments
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Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?(asteriskmag.com)
47 points by Luc 11mo ago|65 comments
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by Luc 11mo ago
They have written some good books too. I especially like 'Quantum Mechanics and Experience' by David Z Albert (he's got a very peculiar style of writing that I enjoy), and 'Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity' by Ti
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by Luc 11mo ago
It helps to set the zoom to 200% in the menu bar.
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130 published cover artworks for William Gibson's 'Neuromancer'(docs.google.com)
4 points by Luc 11mo ago|2 comments
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Aligned, Multiple-Transient Events in the First Palomar Sky Survey(iopscience.iop.org)
14 points by Luc 1y ago|0 comments
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by Luc 1y ago
This would actually be more readable if they'd put the em dashes back in.
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by Luc 1y ago
I tried it and it works. The animation uses belts that are very flexible. With a real belt I needed to give it a shake to make it untwist itself, but it does work. It is indeed easy to twist the belt until you have the hang of it. I think t

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