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"I'm a Barbie girl" but it's a three voice fugue (2022) [video](youtube.com)
36 points by ciconia 2y ago|5 comments
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by ciconia 2y ago
https://archive.ph/Jj3r4
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The Dangerous A.I. Nonsense That Trump and Biden Fell For(nytimes.com)
12 points by ciconia 2y ago|3 comments
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Ruby “Thread Contention” Is Simply GVL Queuing(island94.org)
97 points by ciconia 2y ago|56 comments
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by ciconia 2y ago
How exactly has he destroyed Twitter? It still exists doesn't it? (Disclaimer: I'm not an Elon fanboy.)
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So You Want to Remove the GVL?(byroot.github.io)
5 points by ciconia 2y ago|1 comments
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by ciconia 2y ago
https://archive.ph/uvgax
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by ciconia 2y ago
https://archive.ph/Os3KH
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A Woman Has Restored Dry Desert Rivers into Green Oasis Flowing with Water [video](youtube.com)
20 points by ciconia 2y ago|3 comments
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by ciconia 2y ago
Amending with biochar is a very good way to jump start the soil life, but regenerative agriculture should go much further than that. There's a bunch of techniques developed in the last few decades, notably permaculture and syntropic ag
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Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?
140 points by ciconia 2y ago|118 comments
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A developer's struggle to make a game about the 1948 Nakba(theguardian.com)
4 points by ciconia 2y ago|0 comments
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by ciconia 2y ago
https://archive.ph/oyXDF
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by ciconia 2y ago
Is it just me or is the quality of politicians on a downward spiral? Between retirement-age out-of-touch boomers, clueless good-looking male liberals and corrupt authoritarian plutocrats, it sure feels like there's a shortage of honest
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by ciconia 2y ago
Locking the UI while doing a lengthy operation is hardly an acceptable solution. A better solution would be to indicate to the user an async operation is in progress, and optionally provide a button for canceling the operation.
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by ciconia 2y ago
The proper question to ask is why is AI employed to edit articles when there's already a team of professional editors in place?
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by ciconia 2y ago
> it’s in the middle of Europe between Asia and Africa I would say that's a bit of a stretch. It is true Germany has a long history if immigration, but before modern times that was mostly from eastern and southern Europe, not from o
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by ciconia 2y ago
Don't say that word! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvsGdJP3ng
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by ciconia 2y ago
Ruby is getting more and more awesome these last few years, especially when it comes to performance. Since 3.3 I've been running all my apps with --yjit, it makes a tremendous difference!
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by ciconia 2y ago
When you think about it it's astounding how much energy this technology consumes versus a human brain which runs at ~20W [1]. [1] https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml
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The True Story Behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit (2016)(escapistmagazine.com)
3 points by ciconia 2y ago|0 comments
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Do adults have the skills they need to thrive in a changing world?(oecd.org)
49 points by ciconia 2y ago|84 comments
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by ciconia 2y ago
In a way, they're just cutting out the middle-man. Instead of financing politicians to do what they want, they're grabbing political posts for themselves.
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by ciconia 2y ago
Even if that were true, doesn't necessarily mean any and all Christians are antisemitic.
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by ciconia 2y ago
A few months ago I was looking for an EV. Went to the local Citroen/Peugeot dealership (I live in France), asked what they had. They told me I could have the new e-C3, the basic model, with 300KM range, for ~35000€. I asked how long it
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by ciconia 2y ago
Even if this worked, I find this idea morally repulsive. It just seems utterly selfish.
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by ciconia 2y ago
The real question, IMO, is why the need to release a new model every year? I think a lot of the churn of both hardware and software had nothing to do with technological progress, and everything to do with generating sales.
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by ciconia 2y ago
https://archive.ph/KblFZ
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by ciconia 2y ago
https://archive.ph/l8Na1
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Why Your Knife Dulls So Fast Proper Burr Identification and Removal [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ciconia 2y ago|0 comments

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