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by mkl 6mo ago
Right, I immediately saw a torus - it was light blue (that's trivial to change, but I can't have no colour if it's visual) - but it could have been the size of a bacterium or the size of a galaxy. Without any context or appl
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by mkl 6mo ago
> When Illustrating a mathematical idea, the first thing you need to decide is the scale. I have spent much of my life illustrating mathematical ideas, and scale is never the first thing I decide. Most commonly it stays abstract and t
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by mkl 6mo ago
jacquesm did that impressively 9 years ago: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14226889 (follow-up posts with more details: https://
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by mkl 6mo ago
The USA system is hardly the only alternative.
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by mkl 6mo ago
That sounds like one very narrow cultural perspective.
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by mkl 6mo ago
You missed the embedded video near the top.
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by mkl 6mo ago
ZeroTier. It works well for me. I chose it over Tailscale because it doesn't require a third party for login.
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by mkl 6mo ago
I say "heck" instead of "hell" all the time. I'm not religious, so the invented "heck" is more of a swearword.
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by mkl 6mo ago
That just shows the first post for most people. Here is all of it: https://xcancel.com/FabianGloeckle/status/204008278585190440...
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by mkl 6mo ago
Does Cloudflare use EmDash in production? Showing that its design and implementation have been refined through real-world use would help instil confidence.
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by mkl 6mo ago
Two spaces: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc It's for code though, not lists or bullet points.
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by mkl 6mo ago
The proto-Celtic that is Indo-European? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Celtic_language
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by mkl 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics
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by mkl 6mo ago
Kea also make and use tools, e.g. to set off stoat traps to get the bait: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/366747/clever-kea-using-... , https://twig.technology/blog/alpine-kea-trap-tam
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by mkl 7mo ago
That's what I'm pointing out. The person I replied to thinks it does: "I have personally refused to accept in the past that 27 inch 4k isn’t as bad as people say and got one myself only to regret buying it. Get the correct s
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by mkl 7mo ago
27" 4k is totally fine on Windows 11 (not a gamer). Everything is sharp at 150% scale.
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by mkl 7mo ago
I'm not layer8, but I had a similar thought. In this case the needless censoring is problematic because it hides the name of the benchmark from future searches (the uncensored URL spells it differently).
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by mkl 7mo ago
You can easily install Plasma on Ubuntu.
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by mkl 7mo ago
Maybe it's because other people (IRL or at the AI provider) might see it? I have always had similar hesitations about search engines, and never come close to thinking of them (or chatbots) as beings.
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by mkl 7mo ago
Users paying to use the authenticated camera service means it would make money. That seems obvious, so I don't understand what the point of confusion is.
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by mkl 7mo ago
No royalties, as the 20-year-old song would be in the public domain, so no one can tell anyone they can't use the song. The vast majority of songs that make a profit will do so within the first few years, with almost or actually nothi
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by mkl 7mo ago
Instead of having it constantly running, you have to pay to turn it on for a couple of minutes.
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by mkl 7mo ago
This is like naming your kid World President Smith.
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by mkl 7mo ago
I check out the status every so often. Not much is upstreamed yet, so it requires a patched kernel and some mucking about, likely on an ongoing basis. I'll probably try it at some point but not until I have moved my uses for that mac
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by mkl 7mo ago
Unfortunately Linux doesn't run well on my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 (which is perfectly functional other than the lack of Windows security updates). I'm very unlikely to buy or recommend a Microsoft computer again, even though I l
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by mkl 7mo ago
I don't think the fix is released yet, except for possibly Insider builds.
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by mkl 7mo ago
And don't pay for multiple years at once even if you're sure you'll be keeping the domain for a long time - at any moment the company could be bought by someone else you don't want to be trusting.
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by mkl 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybolos Apparently it was on MythBusters, but I don't remember that one.
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by mkl 7mo ago
Fastmail's servers are in the US: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000280221-Ho...
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by mkl 7mo ago
That survey was power users only: https://www.androidauthority.com/dark-mode-poll-results-1090... I would be astounded if a majority of general Android users used dark mode, as light mode is the default on most phones (all,

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