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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Brainiac75 on YouTube did some tests on various electronics (calculator, PDA, PCs, displays) with non-trivial magnets. A Thinkpad with an SSD seemed to be fine; I'm honestly surprised that it didn't even crash: https://
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
The chart is generated by this,[0] which looks like a custom implementation using the same technique as this xkcd-style chart library[1] made by the same person who started this site (according to the footer). [0] https://github.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Ah, I remember this from Chrome Experiments...cool to see it's still up. http://web.archive.org/web/20141103062434/http://www.chromee... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chr
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https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jock.svg It also does other IDE things like completions and MDN docs tooltips (quite handy for infrequent path authoring). Don't remember why, but I also have a separ
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I've been using vscode with an SVG live preview extension.
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And a quick way to get there is the Page information link in the sidebar. On the info page for each page[0] is a count and plot of views in the past 30 days, and at the bottom is a link to external tools like the one above. [0] example:
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Inspired by 1) an HN title claiming that Minecraft servers are the/a metaverse[0] and 2) the old Net philosophy of minimal regulation of technological advancement. Treating a server as a society, political and economic concepts apply q
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
There's a fascinating technolibertarian metaverse dynamic to Minecraft anarchy servers, where gameplay is driven by an arms race of normalized cheating. Players are careful about what screenshots they share online, as this concern is t
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I also find locating images an interesting skill to develop. I originally only wanted to mention https://old.reddit.com/r/picturegame ,* which I find more "organic" than Geoguessr: players submit single images
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Automobile side windows are typically tempered glass, which as sibling noted shatters all at once into little chunks. BUT, increasingly they're laminated (like windshields) to avoid passenger ejection, which apparently (I didn't r
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I suppose that's also how songs wear out with time and/or repeated listens. Fittingly, any frisson seems to be the first to go. I'll contribute Stellenbosch University Choir's rendition of Say Something (by A Great Big
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Just for fun, here are your examples applied to Commons (and a conjecture that tag systems naturally converge as they become more fine-grained): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cat:Wikipe-tan (NSFW-ish[0]) https:&#
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What, then, of these IBM commercials? "PS/2 It!" (1989) https://archive.org/details/ibmpersonalsystem2ps2computercom... "We're Your Type" (1984/6?) https://www.youtube.com&
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Two impressive site-wide systems I've seen are the categories of Wikimedia Commons (multimedia) and tags of Archive of Our Own (fanfiction). The Commons guideline[0] elucidates its system and interesting ontological theory well. It&#x2
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I wonder why the battery arrived flat—aren't Li-ions charged to ~50% at the factory for maximum shelf life (or rather 30%, the max allowed for shipping)? I don't think the battery in question had time to self-discharge: it's
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Perhaps too meta, but I wonder, what fraction of modern-day uses of Baader and Meinhof's eponym refer not to the Red Army Faction, but instead to the frequency illusion as named after ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Thanks, that's my monthly dose of sonder . https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sonder#English
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(Can't edit) Ah, how did I forget, in this context, about the suicide being censored out of the first season of 13 Reasons Why , years after its release?[1] That was along with the addition of 1) a disclaimer in the form of the actors
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Feels like (IME) there's a rather high incidence of discontent over decisions "from above" among the shows listed: The OA being cancelled, 13 Reasons having three seasons too many, speculation(?) that Dark 's wonky
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Oops, I oversimplified that explanation. Add, "...and scaling it to have the same angular size". The image on each retina is indeed around the same size as before, only the object is now perceived as massive and distant by the bra
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
the Cypherpunks FAQ (1994): 8.3.4. "How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?" ... - like so many other "computer hacker" items, as a tool for the "Four Horsemen": drug-dealers, mone
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I've actually been thinking: Since glasses can theoretically make objects a certain distance away appear arbitrarily far away to your eyes/brain, could a pair that makes your desk/screen appear infinitely* far away prevent an
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I've contemplated a sort of 'minimally offensive' register of language where you do remove any and all pronouns (that is, the ones someone might object to, along with all other language that might be objected to) while bein
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Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a Word document (most likely using the Blank document template, Normal.dotm) 2. Type text of first line; press Enter; type text of second line (technically Word calls these 'paragraphs'--Shift+Enter i
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Oh, the disappointment every time this is what went into a web archive!
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Common thing for humans to reflect on... there's the old adage: 'This too shall pass,' ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass ) and in ancient history (circa 2003), "For Now" from A
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It's funny how closely early YouTube resembles TikTok in the 'average people singing, dancing, vlogging, being funny in front of the webcam' type of video that's entirely missing from modern YouTube (the webcam having be
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There's Wikimedia Commons! It even (somewhat) addresses this particular issue by having a system for requesting specialized media-related edits—video editing, photo retouching, SVG editing, mapmaking, etc. For the unaware, Commons, a r
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They aren't! Good catch; I'd assumed from the example. Another slip-up: ideographic should modify unified CJK , not the Latin letters. Variation sequences for double-storied 'a' and 'g' were proposed, as par
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Outer Wilds --often see it recommended enthusiastically. Same publisher as Edith Finch , also won a bunch of awards.

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