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by gilleain 1y ago
I'm launching a new service to tell people that they are absolutely, 100% wrong. That what they are considering is a terrible idea, has been done before, and will never work. Possibly I can outsource the work to HN comments :)
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by gilleain 1y ago
All we need is a fisherman-toplogist, and we can perfect the incomprehensibility of the discussion on particular knots.
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by gilleain 1y ago
Interestingly, not only are those worms _able_ to survive low temperatures, they also _require_ low temperatures: > They freeze at around −6.8 °C (19.8 °F), and their bodies decompose after continuous exposure to temperatures above 5 °C
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by gilleain 1y ago
> unless he was completely unlike anyone I've ever met, I mean ... he is David Lynch. We seem to be defining "predicted" to mean "any vision or idea I have of the future". Hopefully film directors have _some_ ide
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by gilleain 1y ago
"Weather Force" sounds like a low-budget kids show. The characters? So there's 'Lightning' of course, who is generally angry. 'Sunshine', naturally - the happy one of the group. Also, uh, 'Drizzle&#x2
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by gilleain 1y ago
Probably becuase i did play it when I was younger, i still love the classic xcom graphics. they are clunky for sure, but have a pleasant style. It is the little things, like the 'ping' of bullets hitting enemies or terrain, or see
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by gilleain 1y ago
Hmmm, even a small amount of rabbit-hole diving turns up some curious statements around this : > Cyanocobalamin is also the most common form of vitamin B12 found in supplements. It is named because it contains a cyanide molecule. The am
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by gilleain 1y ago
Thinks : "What is an inactive form of a B-vitamin?". Some examples: B1 - Thiamin [Inactive] vs Thiamine Diphosphate [Active]. B2 - Flavin Mononucleotide (FMN) vs Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide (FAD). B12 - Cyanocobalamine vs Methylco
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by gilleain 1y ago
Buckfast, for example. (Or vodka/redbull, or vodka/Irn-Bru, or espresso martini ...)
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by gilleain 1y ago
Most of those are small molecules, so nearly unambiguous (C2H6O is either ethanol or dimethylether). However, C10H15N5O10P2 is more tricky. A quick google suggests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine_diphosphate (A
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by gilleain 1y ago
Totally agree. I used to really dislike Rothko paintings as I fell into the same trap of thinking there was 'nothing to it'. Well, try actually painting something with so few colours, and essentially no geometry. It's really
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by gilleain 1y ago
An interesting feature of repetitive geometric art that took me a long time to appreciate is that the discipline of getting an even cover of paint in a highly repetitive painting is surely very difficult. Take Bridget Riley - we are so used
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by gilleain 1y ago
A friend mentioned this to me yesterday : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnum_effect "The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect or, less commonly, the Barnum–Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomen
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by gilleain 1y ago
As they say, with perl there's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI) and with python there is only one way. Both approaches have their merits. Like with maven, where I once saw a question on a forum that was like "how do I do X?&q
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by gilleain 1y ago
Ah perfect! I went away at lunch and tried to work it out, including for the spectre tile (monotile), although I took a different approach.
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by gilleain 1y ago
Nice. It's a shame that regular octagons do not tile the plane. Octagons + squares might work I suppose.
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by gilleain 1y ago
A generous interpretation of this is that most of the time, people pay little attention to politics as they are busy with their daily lives : earning money, shopping for food, looking after their families, etc. Most people have neither the
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by gilleain 1y ago
Cara (cara.app) has images - art, photos, etc - that are not AI. Incidentally, it is a site blessedly free of extra features that add nothing to the use case (sharing things you make).
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by gilleain 1y ago
Here is a fairly comprehensive analysis by an archeologist that mentions the knitting argument, but dismisses it https://youtu.be/UbGtkbqbjtY?si=kJNAUqtRQMyf5Nja
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by gilleain 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39812671 "one euro" was my query
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by gilleain 1y ago
"Stopping the tide coming in" is usually a reference to the English king Cnut (or 'Canute') who legendarily made his courtiers carry him to the sea: > When he was at the height of his ascendancy, he ordered his chair
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by gilleain 1y ago
Other options are : 1) Cats do not really think that much about us at all, except for thoughts like - "oh no! it's about to attack! wait no, it's fine, relax..." or "will it feed me if I shout at it?" or "
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by gilleain 1y ago
Aka the 'Scunthorpe Problem'
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by gilleain 1y ago
Yes, found a counterexample to the conjecture.
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by gilleain 1y ago
> protein folding (reduction to quantum chemistry), I am not sure in what sense folding simulations are reducable to quantum chemistry. There are interesting 'hybrid' approaches where some (limited) quantum calculations are don
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by gilleain 1y ago
Looks good. Colour scheme looks a but wacky in the screenshots. Hopefully CPK or other standards are in your backlog :) (For some reason Rasmol used to have 'hotpink' as a colour option)
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by gilleain 1y ago
Cara.app?
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by gilleain 1y ago
That is wild, yes - he's one of those actors that always seems about that age. He was 57 or so when the first Harry Potter was filmed. In fact, I would like a Potter/Withnail mashup, with Harry looking confused and distraught whil
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by gilleain 1y ago
Nice. That's an excellent pub that is still there (not quite the same as it was I suppose)
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by gilleain 1y ago
You're totally right, it was the wolves. I misremembered. Monty was great - "Are you a sponge or a stone? Do you soak up new experiences?"

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