Sharlin

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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Even in the article ChatGPT correctly speculates that the blurry background may reveal another message if you squint or view it at a distance (which, given how common similar illusions are, is not particularly impressive but still).
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Still, they managed to Embrace&Extend the IRC protocol in a way that was annoying to anyone not using Comic Chat.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Microsoft SOP, especially back then.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
It was absolutely not. It easily rivaled (and in many ways surpassed) the contemporary iPhones and was so far ahead of Androids it wasn’t even funny. It was such a fascinating combination of ahead-of-its-time touch UI/UX and power user
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
It’s a real classic. An amazing article super worth reading (and re-reading if it’s been a while) and almost infinitely quotable.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Well, "load-bearing" is specifically an engineering term :D Actual engineering, not software "engineering".
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Huh, TIL about `git commit —fixup`.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
I'm not sure if you're being actively malicious or just a great example of how lies can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes, but your comment is a great example of what we're up against her
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Something something salary depending on it. Software "engineering" in particular has always been more than 50% cargo culting. Good engineering practices never matter when the alternative is just going through the motions of whatev
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Blogspam article with more ads than content.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
I wonder how much all the textbooks that the author recommends would cost in total...
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
(2025)
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
The uncertainty principle says that the less well-defined the position, the more well-defined the velocity, and vice versa.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Yeah, but that’s like saying predicting next week’s lottery numbers, or the precise weather exactly one year from now, is a data problem. There’s no simulation that could answer those questions even in principle even if the universe were fu
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
And hardness. Diamond is hard but exactly because of that you can shatter a diamond with any hammer.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Analogous to the keratinous denticles in a cat tongue, just much smaller in scale.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
I can't even fathom how you'd end up with such crazily uncharitable interpretation to think that "Created by Paul Bourke" refers to the fractal itself, rather than those specific images of the fractal. Each and every of
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
No engine in the world can make bad assets look good.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
It was certainly cute, but let's not forget that it was always just a "nice extra" to the main Rosetta mission. But it did teach us that landing on (and grabbing onto) a comet surface can be tricky and fail even if you'r
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
https://thombrown.blogspot.com/2026/07/load-plcbmbasic81-com...
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
It's such a tragedy that they're also extremely solitary animals and die shortly after reproducing the first (and only) time. Almost all other particularly intelligent animals seem to be gregarious, and it's easy to conclude
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Aluminum is honestly a miracle material that has no business being as inexpensive as it is (of course, this is only since the invention of the Hall–Héroult process, before which aluminum was one of the most expensive metals known despite ma
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Obviously. But as of now, AC means burning carbon (~50% of Europe's electricity production). Demand for even more electricity may accelerate the transition, hopefully, but right now the projection is that all the extra capacity and muc
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
I know. But it is what it is now.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
~50% share (in some countries much higher) fossil-based electricity is still 50% fossil-based electricity.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
Always fun, having to fight a problem caused by X by doing more X. At least there’s the silver lining that solar production and the need for AC go hand in hand.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
That’s very characteristic of highly nonlinear systems, and weather/climate is the textbook nonlinear system.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
> location Weather.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
How is copper more reliable than fibre as an emergency communications medium? I guess 1800s technology suffices to transmit something over copper, so there's that.
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by Sharlin 3mo ago
In theory you can always have taller mountains if you just have a (exponentially!) wider base. But given all sorts of practical constraints, Earth mountains are pretty much limited to <10 km.

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