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by divbzero 8mo ago
The extant Tower of Hercules is based on the original plans for Pharos. The Tower of Hercules stands 55 meters tall—half the height of Pharos—and has remained intact for about 2,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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NASA Reveals New Details About Dark Matter's Influence on Universe(nasa.gov)
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by divbzero 8mo ago
> Primary sources: > Maskelyne’s notes: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1775.0050 > Hutton’s notes: https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1778.0034 > Cavendish’s notes on his own experiment
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The most avid members of the Cartographers Guilds had even proposed a Map of the Empire several times larger than the Empire itself to depict microscopic details that would otherwise be invisible. Such proposals were considered the peak of
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AI Adoption Rates by Country(visualcapitalist.com)
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by divbzero 8mo ago
> Want to help? Iowa land leads, ag expertise, vibe coders welcome: [ email at proofofcorn dot com ] To make this a full AI experiment, emails to this inbox should be fielded by Claude as well.
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by divbzero 8mo ago
My instinct is that effective AI agent orchestration will resemble human agile software development more than Steve Yegge’s formulation: > “It will be like kubernetes, but for agents,” I said. > “It will have to have multiple level
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Amazon Joins the Big-Box League with Its Largest-Ever Store(wsj.com)
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by divbzero 9mo ago
This looks like a marketing campaign to me too. It makes sense to just give users an option: In fact, users can already turn off AI in DDG search results by clicking the settings icon on the top right corner of the Search Assist panel.
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by divbzero 9mo ago
One of Wikipedia’s greatest contributions is collecting records like this that wouldn’t appear in a traditional encyclopedia.
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by divbzero 9mo ago
The article also mentions a 50% subsidy up to $310,000. The details aren’t spelled out, but subsidies like this often phase out gradually to avoid a cliff at the threshold.
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by divbzero 9mo ago
Or alternatively: > I would UDP joke tell you a… but you get it might not.
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A 'medical situation' is forcing NASA to end mission at ISS a month early(npr.org)
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African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map (2025)(npr.org)
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by divbzero 9mo ago
The game dynamic feels a bit like Wordle: One puzzle per day and different solutions that you can compare with others.
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Corporation for Public Broadcasting votes itself out of existence(apnews.com)
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by divbzero 9mo ago
PlainSite is another project worth checking out. I have come across both when exploring in the space. [1]: https://free.law/ [2]: https://www.plainsite.org/
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In this case, it’s more on us to not break their house rules when we visit their cave.
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by divbzero 9mo ago
> The cave stays at about 80 degrees year-round. That seems remarkably warm. Is that typical for cave temperatures?
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by divbzero 9mo ago
This should be every web developer’s first webpage. No npx create-react-app ... or pip install django or any other layers in between.
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by divbzero 9mo ago
I think GP is referring to the fact that an author’s work is copyright protected by default, and a license is needed to permit others to use freely [1]. StackOverflow posts are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [2]. [1]: https://www.co
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by divbzero 9mo ago
I used to enjoy the salads at McDonald’s, but it’s been a few years since I’ve seen them on the menu.
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iⁱ is a fun one.
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Proposed Russian Orbital Station will stick to ISS orbit instead of polar orbit(scientificamerican.com)
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by divbzero 9mo ago
Electricity and Magnetism by Purcell is one of my favorites too, especially the chapter on “The Fields of Moving Charges”.
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Thanks! I see the feature documented in the README. https://source.tube/neatnik/calendar
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> It is just a plain fact that software engineers are not the movers and shakers in large tech organizations. They do not set the direction of the company. To the extent that they have political influence, it’s in how they translate the
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by divbzero 9mo ago
I like the highlighting of weekends, but wish the weekends aligned across months.
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Yes, this is the digital equivalent of sticking a blank Post-it over text and calling it “redacted”. Mind-boggling that the same mistake has been made over and over again.
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> My biggest unexpected finding: we’re hitting limits of traditional tools for sharing code. The pull request model on GitHub doesn’t carry enough information to review AI generated code properly — I wish I could see the prompts that le

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