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by mgdlbp 4y ago
To be pedantic, it was units of temperature at first, with a well-chosen segue of Curie to the superset of other names. This does mark a departure from a convention of only single surnames, and one could surmise as to why that decision was
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
That's a really insightful way of putting it. My first reaction was, 'well, duh...', but then I realized that I'd taken for granted the fact that digital video of (arbitrarily defined) adequate quality must have a much h
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
For real enthusiasts, also X.Y.Z, adding ceiling/bounce speakers for vertical spatial audio. The real "stuck so far behind" that I don't get is why we use speaker arrays at all -- instead of binaural stereo tech. That vi
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Hmm, the style of the OP and that landing page reminded me of another web game I saw a few years ago with a philosophical theme, maybe a game jam entry? Kind of bothering me that I can't recall the name. It was an abstract simulation o
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~djc/asr/ (immortalized at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Asr-coa-na.svg ) http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://commons.wikimedia.org/
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Indeed, I find YouTube's recommendations are the most relevant and _interesting_ after navigating through a small number of videos within a focused theme in a fresh session. Any watch history, especially in multiple subjects, just seem
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
For how long OCR has existed, I'd expect better from a presumably high-resolution screenshot of text in a common font. Here we have deletion of an entire letter, a severe case of 'anti-contoot' [0] -- too aggressive NLP corre
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
By taking YouTube's present zeitgeist of content creation as reference, this leaves out a big element of early YT: Broadcasting Yourself -- that social networking through informal short-form videos, spoofs, and replies that YouTube rel
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
GP meant write once, read many
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
The threshold of perceptible change, a fascinating concept. Try as I might, I never manage to observe the progress of twilight while concentrating on the sky. Yet glancing out the window one minute, then the very next, the difference in bri
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Usually known as [soft focus]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_focus ). In lenses, caused by spherical aberration.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
According to the About page, it's one of the earlier [Apple user groups][1], established in 1978. The 'user group' naming is no longer in use. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_User_Group
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Further reading for you future people who scrolled all the way down here: HN discussions the other two times this has happened with Cloudflare: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1503192
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Perfect example: English Wikipedia has bikeshedded lead images of this kind ad nauseum over these two decades, with many times more text written in discussions of this than in the articles themselves. The current image for [[woman]] was c
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optography
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I'm curious if anyone's been keeping track of title and url changes. HN's small enough that one could easily hold the data. Someone has a page showing recent title changes,[1] but without retention. In that thread is a link t
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Nah, Reddit's Kiwi Farms was r/jailbait. Ironically, it's SomethingAwful that is credited* with rousing the press attention required for Reddit to rescind its free speech ideal (making SA chaotically the progenitor of both
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
The Wikimedia Foundation's formal community survey (this year's report to be released next month; last and previous years' available): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Insights and other surveys
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://imgur.com/a/b7Bw7HB (padded with 1 s of the final frame) No way to prevent Imgur from reencoding... whatever
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Don't fret, AIDungeon already had its run, with plenty of slash fiction in its dataset.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Oops, the PS ? and : actually need to be on the same line. Whiteboard fail. Likewise there shouldn't be a pipe before grep, right? So, perl -pi -e 's/term/replacement/g' $(grep -rl --include=\*.sh term)
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I think the philosophy is that as much as possible is done by composing cmdlets within the PS ecosystem, Select-String being kind of like grep and PS itself being the one language for all scripting. There's a lot that 'awk or perl
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
git rev-list HEAD | measure formally `Measure-Object -Line`
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
There's been some development in this area; the first system you describe is known as 'liquid democracy' -- a direct democracy where anyone may delegate vote(s) to anyone else under under chosen criteria. The association with
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
It seems a bit of a community has formed here, with a couple of places for chat without the need of backoff algorithms: https://pad.riseup.net/p/1_prWgNWMqs-Hu_bIi3I https://app.kosmi.io/room/m4gsd
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
52% of YouTube videos live in 2010 have been deleted - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32098194 - 2022-07 (56 comments)
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Could that have to do with Sophie Wilmès, Belgian PM 2019–2020? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Belgium#Livi... )
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
What? That's about things that _aren't pornography_. US convicted for written obscenity just in 2013: https://www.techdirt.com/2013/05/20/court-finds-fantasy-stor...
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
AlphaStar's blink stalker micro, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTMhmVh1qs&t=5888s with capped actions-per-minute and reaction time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18992698

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