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by jshprentz 4y ago
This generic packaging appeared in the movie "Repo Man" [1], apparently based on similar grocery store products [2]. [1] https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1002568447140622336 [2] https://m
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by jshprentz 4y ago
The proposed bill [1] targets corporations with market capitalization over $150 billion that engage in arts, entertainment, recreation, motion picture, and video industries (North American Industry Classification System codes 71 and 5121) a
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Hawley introducing measure to strip Disney of copyright protections(thehill.com)
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Prof. Koopman's list[1] of embedded system lecture notes and presentations includes a companion YouTube video[2] about the case study. [1] https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/lectures/index.html [2] https:&#x
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Kevin Wentink has compiled excerpts from pre-code movies into a series of short thematic videos[1]. Most of his videos contain clips from a dozen or more movies. They have inspired me to track down many of the source films. [1] https:&#x2F
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by jshprentz 5y ago
April Fools' Day On The Web [1] compiles a list each year (starting in 2004). [1] https://aprilfoolsdayontheweb.com/
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There were almost two internets. Then, the CIA destroyed one(mashable.com)
12 points by jshprentz 5y ago|2 comments
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How reviews on Google Maps work(blog.google)
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by jshprentz 5y ago
A 50-foot-long, 9-foot-high, 1885 circus poster was discovered in 2015 when a bar in Durand, Wisconsin opened a wall to expand the bar into an adjacent property [1]. After methodically removing the wall, the bar owners enlisted a team of ex
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by jshprentz 5y ago
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [1] provides many more photos and in-depth reporting. [1] https://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2022/01/28/pittsburg...
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by jshprentz 5y ago
HN discussion about Scott Aaronson's blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29778348
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R. A. Lafferty extended the cyclorama concept to become "The Longest Pictures in the World," which showed the Mississippi River shore in minute detail. In Lafferty's 1970 short story "All Pieces of a River Shore," a
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by jshprentz 5y ago
Snow covered trees fell across the tracks, delaying Amtrak's northbound Auto Train by 12 hours. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/t...
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by jshprentz 5y ago
Compare with college students' failure to notice their professor's hint in a class syllabus: "Thus (free to the first who claims; locker one hundred forty-seven; combination fifteen, twenty-five, thirty-five), students may be
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by jshprentz 5y ago
"Without life, one cannot grow," sayeth the generator.
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Yes, you described it very well. As I recall, at least two words were carved on each stick, maybe four.
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At a summer job in 1973, we used carved wood sticks to quickly set the toggle switches for the bootloader.
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Watch out for Dogpile.
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Obligatory, current, and timely XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2513/
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Paul McPharlin provides an extensive history of manicules starting on page 47 of his 1942 book, Roman Numerals, Typographic Leaves and Pointing Hands [1]. "Why did so many readers, until relatively recently, take the trouble to stop an
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by jshprentz 5y ago
Harley-Davidson stopped making sidecars in 2011 according to a 2016 Washington Post story [1]. The DC police owned more sidecars than motorcycles, but recent Harley-Davidson motorcycles were built without a way to attach the sidecars. [1]
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Beverages(root-users.com)
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The Rotrics DexArm [1] supports 3D printing, laser engraving, and other functions with quick-change end-effectors. Their Kickstarter delivered the desktop robot arm last summer; now they also sell through Amazon. The 3D printing volume is &
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by jshprentz 5y ago
Bot Libre [1] "allows anyone to create their own chat bot for free, including free hosting, even for commercial bots." Paid plans [2] provide more bot interactions, larger knowledge bases, and design support. You can download the
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by jshprentz 5y ago
Google Books Ngram Viewer [1] shows a usage blip (glitch?) in 1962, a exponential growth starting in 1964. [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=glitch&year_st...
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by jshprentz 6y ago
This incident was summarized and discussed at The Aviation Herald. http://avherald.com/h?article=4e59311c
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by jshprentz 6y ago
From the README, Snoop is "primarily meant to be a more featureful and refined version of PySnooper. It also includes its own version of icecream and some other nifty stuff." Thanks. I'll give it a try.
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I use PySnooper[1] when code behavior deviates inscrutably from my mental model. Like Icecream, PySnooper exhorts, "Never use print for debugging again." A simple example: import pysnooper @pysnooper.snoop() def add
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John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT(twitter.com)
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This video shows yacv visualizations of LL(1) and LR(1) parsing. https://youtu.be/BozB0O0__Qg

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