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by papa-whisky 16d ago
And low-skill graphic design had already been mostly replaced by Canva, so I don't think AI is really having as much impact on the design industry as people might suppose.
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by papa-whisky 20d ago
This point is addressed in the article...
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by papa-whisky 20d ago
~1580, large windows: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wollaton_Hall
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by papa-whisky 23d ago
I'm assuming it means "citation needed".
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Inside Gabe Newell’s 111m superyacht Leviathan(boatinternational.com)
4 points by papa-whisky 1mo ago|0 comments
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by papa-whisky 6mo ago
I've really been enjoying this series of Mozart concertos on Alpha, highlighting young(er) performers: https://outhere-music.com/en/collections/next-generation-moz...
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by papa-whisky 7mo ago
Well it's very possible to blast music from a bike too https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLANhJNOIis5SrYZkIbN4MDJia...
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by papa-whisky 9mo ago
We used to call those 'desktops'...
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by papa-whisky 2y ago
My wife and I found this super helpful for introducing foods: https://solidstarts.com/ (no affiliation)
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by papa-whisky 2y ago
I think the name just means that it sits in-between JSON and ES5 (i.e., it's a superset of JSON and subset of ES5). edit: well as this comment thread indicates, the name is pretty confusing for everyone :)
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by papa-whisky 2y ago
Tweedy Pubs on YouTube has many videos detailing historic pubs in London, worth a watch if you found TFA interesting: https://youtube.com/@tweedypubs (No affiliation, I just enjoy the channel)
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by papa-whisky 2y ago
https://jam.dev/utilities/ gives more useful info than the git repo.
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by papa-whisky 2y ago
The same thing happened to me, unfortunately.
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by papa-whisky 2y ago
Give me convenience or give me death...
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by papa-whisky 2y ago
There is a company trying to make this happen (no affiliation): https://enhanced.org/
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by papa-whisky 2y ago
The essay that the book takes its title from is particularly relevant to this discussion and freely available online: https://www.esquire.com/sports/a5151/the-string-theory-david... (As an aside, I'm surprise
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
It's a joke. Every time there's a thread on HN about nuclear power someone inevitably comments something like the above about solar.
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
Related: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/19/nobel-la...
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European Parliament votes to ease regulation of gene-edited crops(science.org)
2 points by papa-whisky 3y ago|1 comments
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
There are tons of options for carrying kids on a bike. Made even easier when you add electric assist.
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
I've read that payment processors don't like dealing with porn companies because of the very high rate of chargebacks they attract, not because the processors are Puritans...
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
As the sibling comments have pointed out, power-to-weight is the main reason, but it doesn't make diesel engines completely unfeasible for light aircraft. Diamond Aircraft have had success selling planes with diesel engines recently, a
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
I wonder if they'd go any faster if the rules allowed overhead cams! Even though these cars have disastrous efficiency and need to be completely rebuilt after every run and have backwards rules that leave them using "ancient"
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
I don't think it's a "trick", it's purely for safety reasons. The distance change was made following a fatal crash.
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
I'm curious what you're expecting to be returned here. How can there be "quality" results when the information you're searching for doesn't exist?
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Murder+Cove/@57.0310912,-1... edit: also this one made me chuckle https://www.google.com/maps/place/Tim+Hortons/@82.4982691,-6...
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
Tangentially related: https://www.messynessychic.com/2019/04/26/the-lost-floating-...
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by papa-whisky 3y ago
Hmmmm, the article conveniently fails to mention the extremely large helping hand Ferrari received from the ACO's "balance of performance" changes [1]. It was really nice to see so many cars in the top class, with multiple d
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Cronulla_riots
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by papa-whisky 4y ago
Mega nitpick and completely off topic; it's just "&c". "Et" translates as "and" which can be replaced by the ampersand, "cetera" is "the rest".

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