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by mgdlbp 4y ago
The general concept of software and hardware impaired by the maker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware Relevantly, > ==Automobiles== > Tesla limits the range on lower-end versions of the Model S in softwar
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I wonder if becoming used to disagreement between the eye and inner ear in other situations transfers to easier adaptation to VR. When I was little, I'd often attempt to read while in moving vehicles, which quickly and reliably brought
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Like Newspeak in euphemism then, but retaining ambiguity. Plus a committee that can retroactively change what people have said.
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Fermi problem: How many photons do? Have you or I ever seen one?
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A while ago I tried to see what compression I could get out of screen recording losslessly to a scratch disk and encoding afterwards as slowly as I could wait. I didn't write any numbers down, but the difference in efficiency was signi
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Interesting— Vi Hart was a PI for YC Research's HARC (known mostly for Bret Victor's Dynamicland) – small world https://hn.algolia.com/?query=harc
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A recent submission[1] reminds me of the series on flexagons—folded paper with more than two faces that can be swapped via a 'flexing' operation—by Vi Hart, whose videos on mathematics were quite popular on YouTube around ten year
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Hexaflexagons [video] (2012)(youtube.com)
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Not sure; it's not in my notes. I want to say an HN comment, but I don't recognize any of the few that include the link. -- Edit: The browser history still exists, although I cannot disprove that it was created Last Thursday; &#x2
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-theoretic_death ?
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OTOH adding 'forum' (or sometimes 'discussion') has been quite effective recently, unlike a couple of years ago as I remember. I even get the occasional forum result without having to do so. Possibly intentional in respo
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TIL open-source beer… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Beer
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GP agrees with you.
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The title reminded me at once of the Popular Mechanics column 'Things Come Apart'. This is in fact the same photographer! Something about how my mind made the connection gives a strong feeling of synchronicity. https:/&#x2
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I think the idea is that the shipping time will be too short to allow freezing the tampered-with phone into a new block of ice of such size, and the scratches prevent it from being substituted by a pre-frozen replacement. Might be countered
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Most of the other court documents from the case are available here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17211300/hachette-book-...
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I find amusement in how the three big "knowledge for all" organizations are perfectly distributed along the D&D alignment 'law' axis (taken literally): - Wikimedia (“a world in which every single human being can free
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I've only heard of evidence against , that interviews of US soldiers post WWII found only 1/4 had shot to kill. I've never really looked into it; the claim is somewhat disputed, I think. The two commonly cited books: https:
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Huh? The Sun is clearly a great source of radiant heat.
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I read on HN an insightful rationalization of IA's heeding of requests to hide content: Making data unavailable without protest - while continuing to silently collect it - minimizes controversy and potential blocking or censorship, a s
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The Nakamura Lock, a schoolyard classic worldwide. It has a name, but no apparent origin; an Eiji Nakamura did publish a book Flying Origami in 1972, but no such plane can be found within. The only source I can find is a Reddit comment st
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My friends and I could never get any of the pointy darts to work with a hard throw--they never had the right balance not to loop or nosedive at high speed. What we settled on as the most satisfying to hurl is this design (found online widel
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You sure can hear the shape an orbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiAj9WW1OfQ&t=384s
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/09/us/where-the-... ( https://archive.ph/rwD7G ) “The site now draws six million page views a month, on average — quadruple that of the Nat
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Likely Slavic⸺ • WHOIS points to a "Denis Petrov" in Prague • Share menu has buttons for Reddit, VKontakte, Twitter, Pinboard, and Livejournal. Eyebrow raising. VK is Russian, and so is LJ nowadays. Pinboard (notable as successor
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archive.today does that by rewriting the page to mostly static HTML at the time of capture. archive.org indexes all URLs first-class and presents as close to what was originally served as possible. It also stores arbitrary binary files and
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I think the needed citation is actually for the statement that the earliest such games were inspired by the practical application, which is indeed well documented.
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Similar games others have mentioned aren't necessarily clones of this one--the genre comes from the 1970s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_game > Artillery games are two or three-player (usually turn-ba
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The title made me think at first of a laptop harbouring many viruses.
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Reminds me of a cool hackathon project I saw a few years ago, The Infinite Jukebox. It finds pairs of beats in a song that sound alike and during playback has a chance at each beat with of jumping to its paired match, creating a seamlessly

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