aemreunal

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by aemreunal 5y ago
The same "scroll-to-load" thing is on Apple News' article images as well and it drives me up the wall. It's nothing but bad UX.
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by aemreunal 5y ago
If you'd like to remind yourself of the original demonstration video of a monkey with Neuralink, playing a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXrGH52aoM
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by aemreunal 5y ago
So crypto is immutable, "code is law", decentralized, whatever, until people need to roll back transactions and use centralized exchanges because "they already solved these issues"? Seems like a whole lot of global warmi
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by aemreunal 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220128035412/https://www.reute...
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by aemreunal 5y ago
https://archive.fo/Hvc9L
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by aemreunal 5y ago
On a meta point: Sites like these make me appreciate the internet so much. There's a forum for people who are "experts, collecters and fans of [...] washing machines" (among other things). Never would've thought such a w
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by aemreunal 5y ago
https://archive.fo/R6yox
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Spinthariscope - A toy to observe nuclear decay(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by aemreunal 5y ago|0 comments
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Seattle Underground(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by aemreunal 5y ago|0 comments
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by aemreunal 5y ago
https://archive.fo/xwppc
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by aemreunal 5y ago
Something similar exists in Turkey, called Mount Chimaera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Chimaera "Mount Chimaera was the name of a place in ancient Lycia, notable for constantly burning fires. It is tho
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by aemreunal 5y ago
I see a lot of "whataboutism" in the comments, mostly from people who (for some reason) feel the need to defend Tesla. What's the purpose of this? Criticizing a company or calling out their mistake does not detract from it, i
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by aemreunal 5y ago
> What kind of cooking do you prefer doing on a gas stove over an induction stove? I haven't cooked much on induction stoves. I only do so at my parents' place. So among the few things I cooked on both induction and stove, I kn
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by aemreunal 5y ago
I enjoy cooking a lot and I cooked on gas stoves, electric ones (the ones that have those red hot spiral things under a glass) and top-of-the-line induction ones. In my opinion (and probably many restaurants' opinions from what I can s
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by aemreunal 5y ago
Disclaimer: I don't understand nearly enough about the physics of electricity, but this was a popular response video by ElectroBOOM that Veritasium also responded to in the comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iph5
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by aemreunal 5y ago
> These aren't engineering decisions, they're business decisions All engineering (including "real" ones like civil or mechanical) is about fitting your requirements within budgets. When one's building a skyscrape
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by aemreunal 5y ago
Website seems to be down at the moment, here's a snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20220111060057/https://www.histo...
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by aemreunal 5y ago
I'm wondering if the recent "adding crypto transfers to Signal" stuff had anything to do with this...
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by aemreunal 5y ago
It's very true that things like depression, poverty, closing businesses, hunger, children's development being negatively affected, etc. are also externalities of COVID measures. Very true. Probably also true that we're not pu
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by aemreunal 5y ago
> [...] a virus that was nowhere near a risk to children. People continuously forget about (or maliciously omit) even a single step beyond someone's infection. One infected person can spread it to others . Even if the individual&#x
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by aemreunal 5y ago
One of the most voiced benefits of the increased automation and efficiency through the industrial revolution (and the technological advancements today) was that we'll generate more value/goods/etc. with less human work, there
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by aemreunal 5y ago
I don't think this is surprising either. The whole "trickle-down economics" arguments for such tax cuts have always sounded... bullshit (for lack of a better word), exacerbated by the fact that decades of it (since the Reagan
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by aemreunal 5y ago
To be fair, Google also lets you filter search results by time ranges. The muted domains sound awesome, though!
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by aemreunal 5y ago
It's the "!" character that you put in front of certain things, like "!g" ("bang gee") for searching Google through DuckDuckGo.
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by aemreunal 5y ago
As someone who happily pays for many "free" products/services (like DNS service through NextDNS), I am super excited about products like yours, where I can get a better product and more/better features for money. I recei
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by aemreunal 5y ago
At least San Francisco is more democratic in that sense. We all get to walk on some amount of shit :P
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by aemreunal 5y ago
> in much of the world private healthcare is accepted and efficient. It is accepted in many parts of the world, unfortunately, but in what part of the world is it "efficient"? Can you give an example? Is "basic medicine co
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PG&E power lines started enormous Dixie Fire, investigators say(sfchronicle.com)
6 points by aemreunal 5y ago|0 comments
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by aemreunal 5y ago
They may have sold that production with the assumption it'll come on, which will now be delayed.
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by aemreunal 5y ago
Someone pointed out yesterday on that other search thread that [most?] libraries provide free access to Consumer Reports through a membership. I just looked at the San Francisco Public Library and it does indeed give me access to the magazi

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