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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Awesome, the 2.0 decommissioning last week had scared. There's a spectacular variety of ways that music has been made in unconventional electromechanical ways--on the head motors of floppy drives 3.5", 5.25", and 8", on
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Couple notes related to using the Wayback Machine to recover parts of the old blog: To list URLs for bulk downloading, you can also directly use the CDX or Memento APIs, which are pretty simple and require no auth. Documentation here,[1][2]
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All six contiguous subsequences of the three tokens have meaning: - Deep , because it's deep-learning based - Cream , referring to its pornographic application - Py , as it's written in Python - DeepCream is close to DeepDre
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Also: When You Write Your Essays in Programming Languages https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://www.somethingofthatilk.... Another site bites the dust. A gallery of some of the comics, if archive.org is s
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I grumble about the state of search all the time (on HN, even), but the NLP is undoubtedly very helpful in the domains it's suited for. I regularly use it to answer queries that a few years ago would have needed to be a Q&A post on
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There's an annual coordinated showing of Ghibli films in various theatres in America, spread out over the months of each year. https://www.ghiblifest.com
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Sill nothing to top 'DeepCreamPy' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29737049
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Time to Say Goodbye, Floppotron 2.0 [video](youtube.com)
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to the Deep Foo pattern in deep learning naming, more likely.
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I think GP is mistaken about two physical lenses being needed (until it's the future and we're all wearing expensive smart glasses, in which case you do want an additional interchangeable lens for this purpose). When designing t
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Good info on refractive error there, though I don't see much on prism lenses used for this purpose. While searching, I did discover this book, the Myopia Manual , which they're hosting a copy of. It looks quite thorough and does
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Ah, now I get the name, a company/function applied to a company/function to make it self-sustaining/referential.
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You and I and a few others around the web all have had this idea of making screens look farther away, by changing focus with positive lenses and and binocular convergence using prisms. I actually wrote this comment with the math for determi
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I see now that I didn't make it clear that I commented because I find desktop typing superior rather than as a general lament of typing speed. That'd be the curse of knowledge, only in the domain of personal context.
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Ditto. Though I see now: it seemed obvious to me commenting initially that physical keyboard typing speed ≫ touch keyboard typing speed. Rather, a cursory search now shows averages of around 50 WPM vs 40 WPM, so there isn't much differ
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Becomes muddy when you account for the 'children' who write some of the erotic fanfic....
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Not commenting on the validity of GP's comment, but I don't think you can invalidate it with that argument; the topic evidently permeates the discussion. > that a woman designer popularized the glass stair > I know lots of g
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That handwriting took quite some effort to decipher, > The defendant may proceed with The Summary Judgement on the schedule set by [M.D.?] Wang and with the word count requested, although The Court [senoudy*] questions whether the reques
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Move to the Library of Alexandria instead? https://web.archive.org/web/0/http://archive.org/about/bibal...
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The database of court documents behind that page is https://free.law/recap . Hilariously, > Once installed, every docket or PDF you purchase on district and bankruptcy court PACER websites will be added to the RECAP Archi
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Wouldn't that be another case for knurling like that common on metal knobs, where the grooves are too large a scale to trap clumps of bacteria? It'll prevent mechanical scrubbing, but if a dishwasher is acceptable for cleaning bet
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Why write on the phone when routinely journalling before and after bed? I always feel stifled by typing speed on a touch keyboard; in this case especially, it seems minimizing the friction of expressing a spontaneous thought would take prio
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Looks like there are steel ones with textured tips. The engraving doesn't look very pronounced, so not sure if there'll be much difference. I wonder why no ones makes them outright knurled--shouldn't be any harder to clean in
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Oh, I didn't read what I wrote! I meant to question the blog's argument that 'the way in which it is managed...means that traffic is dispersed'; I see how the 'that' binds to the closer noun now. Still, thank
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> Critics say that the road will simply attract more traffic, but the way in which it is managed means that traffic is dispersed and therefore means there is less congestion than your average motorway. What's the incentive for a UK
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_news_website Edit: I actually can't think of any such site _without_ comment voting today. Really that's because virtually every social media site now has a one-click way
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https://qntm.org/mmacevedo MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain.
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I feel a particular mix of disappointment and loss(?) every time I encounter an interesting link on a long-dead site only to find that the target, never saved, is lost to time. And the same for pages with crucial, unsaved images. Better the
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Still hoping for vector desktop screenshots, now that modern GUIs are all vector-based.* 11 years on, gtk-vector-screenshot still stands alone, though we do now have a handful tools for rendering webpages to SVGs. *Add this to Category:Arti
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But it's now a bit stuck.

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