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Human brains have shrunk: the questions are when and why(frontiersin.org)
3 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
I recall Hale–Bopp being incredibly clear in the sky night after night after night. What are the chances that we will see another comet of that magnitude in our lifetimes?
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by divbzero 3y ago
Yes, I agree with this completely. Depending on the time and day, a price could be wildly off even compared to the exact same route a month earlier.
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by divbzero 3y ago
OP is not saying that Apple and Meta are comparable, but rather that Apple should actively protect us to live up to their pro-privacy stance.
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by divbzero 3y ago
Another commonality across many languages is naming days of the week after celestial bodies: Sunday Sun Sōlis Hēlíou 日曜日 Monday Moon Lūnae Selḗnēs 月曜日 Tuesday Mars Mārtis Áreōs 火曜日 Wednesday M
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Jimmy Buffett has died(rollingstone.com)
59 points by divbzero 3y ago|47 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
I’m also pleased that the Merlion made an appearance with “Merlion White”.
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by divbzero 3y ago
The article is light on details about how much the fees will change and how often similar fee changes occur. Visa and Mastercard previously announced a fee increase in 2020 [1] that was delayed due to the pandemic and eventually implemented
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Drugs that will be up first for Medicare price negotiation(statnews.com)
3 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
When I learned FORTRAN, I recall each line of code was prefixed by a numeric label. From the “Hello, World!” presented on the website, it looks like that’s no longer the case in modern FORTRAN? program hello ! This is a comment line
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Homeric Question: With No Predecessor to Imitate, No Successor Could Imitate Him(fantasticanachronism.com)
30 points by divbzero 3y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
5% error is incredible. I wonder what Eratosthenes thought of his own measurement. Did he believe it was accurate? Or questioned if unknown factors could have thrown off his calculation?
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by divbzero 3y ago
> Draw art on the maps using gps. Reminds me of this easter egg from the last 747 delivery flight: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34616511
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Endless fallout: the Pacific idyll still facing nuclear blight 77 years on(theguardian.com)
5 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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Mystery company is buying up Bay Area land. Is it building a new city?(sfchronicle.com)
25 points by divbzero 3y ago|1 comments
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by divbzero 3y ago
dir is a global attribute that can be set on any HTML element: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att... What I don’t understand is why dir="auto" isn’t set as the def
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by divbzero 3y ago
> nobody with congenital blindness has developed schizophrenia What’s the rationale for why this might happen?
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by divbzero 3y ago
> They are institutionally incapable of finding the already-existing answer within themselves. Or sometimes, as OP mentions, they have the answer already but need consultants for political cover to implement the solution.
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by divbzero 3y ago
This is good bullshit because it’s close to the truth. Not quite a dozen lives but order of magnitude right: (50,000,000 seconds saved per day) ÷ (60 seconds / minute) ÷ (525,600 minutes / year) ≈ 1.6 years saved per day (1.
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by divbzero 3y ago
British vs. American English seems like a good analogy given that they also have distinct language codes. Would Google translate camión to lorry vs. truck depending on en-GB vs. en-US?
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by divbzero 3y ago
The Eiffel-inspired tower in Tokyo is painted orange to comply with air safety regulations [1]. The color always looked odd to me but I guess it’s not so different from the Eiffel in the past. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by divbzero 3y ago
This uses the /embeddings API endpoint that OpenAI released last year: https://openai.com/blog/introducing-text-and-code-embeddings
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by divbzero 3y ago
The iOS version of this article would be: App settings that aren’t found in the app
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by divbzero 3y ago
TIL: You can run scripts you write via the Script menu. https://support.apple.com/guide/script-editor/access-scripts...
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by divbzero 3y ago
I’m surprised/impressed by the quick turnaround between the original LK99 paper submitted on 22 Jul 2023 and this reproduction attempt submitted on 31 Jul 2023. Could there have been a pre-print of the original paper that allowed the r
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by divbzero 3y ago
The Baroque Cycle contains a fun digression describing the combinatorial logic behind this machine.
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by divbzero 3y ago
What was your role in the trial? Was there anything from your experience that stood out as particularly surprising or interesting?
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by divbzero 3y ago
Between this, Natural Earth, OpenStreetMap, USGS, and others, the availability of map data today would be stunning to early cartographers.
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An Invisible Line Has Always Run Through Indonesia. Scientists Finally Know Why(popularmechanics.com)
4 points by divbzero 3y ago|0 comments
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Paris to bring back swimming in Seine after 100 years(bbc.com)
275 points by divbzero 3y ago|228 comments

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