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by andrewgleave 4y ago
“A Window on Infinity” chapter in the Beginning of Infinity is worth reading as an introduction.
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
An explanation why BBQs are the only time many men get interested in cooking. /s
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
I like how this is currently the top-voted comment. It a great example of the fundamental process at the root of all humans progress/knowledge: a creative conjecture/idea which can (hopefully) be tested against reality and rejecte
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
Interestingly, I met George Daniels a number of times (creator of the co-axial escapement). He asked me to record a video on my phone of a model he created to illustrate how the escapement works: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
The Science of Can and Can't[1] is interesting in how it looks to address a number of fundamentals via counterfactuals including the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Edit: See [2] for background about Constructor Theory. [1] https:/&#x
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by andrewgleave 4y ago
Yes for sniprss.com. Backend is written in Go and using litestream for replication. No issues at all.
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David Deutsch: Optimism, Pessimism and Cynicism(warpnews.org)
4 points by andrewgleave 5y ago|0 comments
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
No one knows what technology will be created that will have an impact on the severity and costs of climate change. Much better to make progress as fast as possible with research and scientific progress than diverting time and resources to e
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
One explanation is the "Many-Worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
You may find this an interesting read: https://www.bretthall.org/fine-structure.html
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
Since 2009 :)
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
Same in the Isle of Man. Pumpkins only became more popular in the 90s. Turnip/Swede (moots) all the way. One event this year has swede ice cream!
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
The idea behind SnipRSS was to use OG and other metadata to extract title, description and an image which can then be edited in the app. Primary users are those curating content who have little technical experience and those who don't
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
SnipRSS.com[1] clips web content which may not belong to a feed e.g. random web article, into your own RSS feed which you can then curate and share etc. "For all the great content that doesn't have a feed" [1] https:/&#x
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
The observation is consistent with the theory of relativity.
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
It don't "prove" anything. The observation just doesn't refute relativity.
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
Another way to phrase it is that relativity hasn’t been refuted by this observation.
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
“While differing widely in the various little bits we know, in our infinite ignorance we are all equal.” - Karl Popper
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by andrewgleave 5y ago
Hey HN. SnipRSS let you curate your own custom RSS feeds by clipping content from web pages using a browser extension (Chrome at the moment). We extract metadata from the page which you can edit before saving it a feed that can be used by a
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Show HN: SnipRSS – Straight to RSS web clipper for content curators(sniprss.com)
7 points by andrewgleave 5y ago|2 comments
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by andrewgleave 6y ago
The Isle of Man has an interesting Viking history including monuments/ship burials as well as Viking artefacts and treasure including this one announced a few days ago: https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/02/vi
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Parametric Press: The Climate Issue(parametric.press)
3 points by andrewgleave 6y ago|0 comments
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by andrewgleave 6y ago
Check out Unraveling the JPEG from Omar Shehata on Parametric Press[1] for an interactive essay on the JPEG format. Very cool to be able to manipulate the bytes directly and seeing how it affects the image. [1] https://parametric
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by andrewgleave 6y ago
I can easily see specific hardware being included in future devices to support improved contact tracing – especially if COVID-19 becomes endemic. That could be new low-power proximity detection hardware, or extensions to BTLE protocol and h
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by andrewgleave 7y ago
A great article posted in May 2019 by Saul Griffith from Otherlab/Makani/Instructables on decarbonisation[1] and another posted yesterday suggesting the idea of a "climate loan"[2]: "The future can’t be built on lay
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by andrewgleave 7y ago
Buffalo Systems kit has always been good for me. Wear it properly (next to your skin) and even though it's not fully waterproof you will not get cold which is the main thing. Bring a dry top to put on when you've finished and done
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by andrewgleave 7y ago
I'm using it with my eldest also after seeing it mentioned here. I can't recommend it enough, it has helped him enormously.
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by andrewgleave 8y ago
Check out "The D-I-Y Data of Fugazi" by Matthew Conlen author of Idyll: https://idyll-lang.org/gallery/the-d-i-y-data-of-fugazi It has a great interactive map as part of the experience.
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by andrewgleave 9y ago
A mode which progressively throttles performance until it becomes unusable with controls to vary the throttle rate and the expiry time would be useful. Parents could give their kids the device which (deepening on settings or detection of co
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by andrewgleave 9y ago
We launched a very simple RSS to mail product last year [1] and it's uptake has been steadily growing. There's still life in the RSS ecosystem yet! [1] https://fliprss.com

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