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by pxndxx 3y ago
What? It does do regex, and start/end of word, by default. It's the "Anywhere" dropdown.
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by pxndxx 3y ago
Euclidean distance stops "making sense" as the number of dimensions goes up: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/99171/why-is-eucli... Cosine similarity measures the angle between two vectors inste
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by pxndxx 3y ago
Can an internet outage kill you and your family?
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by pxndxx 3y ago
Hub motors make wheels quite heavy, which means that there's more unsprung mass [1] in the vehicle, making it less responsive under acceleration/braking and more noisy and sensitive to vibrations. They're common in electric s
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Recursion brought down flight search at Skyscanner(medium.com)
2 points by pxndxx 3y ago|0 comments
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by pxndxx 3y ago
Modern consoles (and modern controllers I assume) can do this "double-input" for aiming, using a joystick and a gyroscope. I'm still bad at shooters, but it feels super good. Plus you don't look like a huge dork with a d
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by pxndxx 3y ago
Are delivery people that drive cars that well paid?
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Sovereign Military Order of Malta(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pxndxx 3y ago|0 comments
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Was Michael Jackson's hair catching fire the exact mid-point of his life? [video](youtube.com)
1 points by pxndxx 3y ago|0 comments
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How (not) to get hit by a self-driving car(twitter.com)
2 points by pxndxx 3y ago|1 comments
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by pxndxx 3y ago
CORS is a browser security measure to protect users from malicious sites. This is an app and not a web browser and is therefore allowed to send HTTP requests to any URL it wants and to parse the HTTP responses as it deems necessary.
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Can you beat Pokemon FireRed while blind and deaf?(youtube.com)
1 points by pxndxx 3y ago|0 comments
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by pxndxx 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal
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Crochet enthusiasts asked ChatGPT for patterns. The results are ‘cursed’(theguardian.com)
2 points by pxndxx 4y ago|1 comments
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by pxndxx 4y ago
Calling this car Nevera (fridge) makes it a great addition to the unfortunate car names in Spanish, next to the Fiat Marea (makes-you-dizzy) and Mitsubishi Pajero (wanker).
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by pxndxx 4y ago
Yeah, it sounds a lot like Lego Mindstorms.
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The Line, Saudi Arabia(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by pxndxx 4y ago|1 comments
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by pxndxx 4y ago
There's an xkcd for that: https://xkcd.com/37/
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by pxndxx 4y ago
How are you proposing we produce 10W to heat clothes? we produce around 80W just by sitting idle, just wear insulating clothes! How do you produce 10W to power an electric bike? 10W is a laughable amount of power, just get rid of the electr
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by pxndxx 5y ago
A week is 7 days. Three weeks is 3x7 = 21 days.
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by pxndxx 5y ago
It's usually called Zalgo text, and it's what you get when you start stacking all kinds of Unicode diacritics on poor unsuspecting characters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalgo_text
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How store anti-theft alarms work: Magnetostriction (2015)(hackaday.com)
56 points by pxndxx 5y ago|23 comments
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by pxndxx 6y ago
If you do this, you can add all the files to git and get historical views, changelogs... and if you distribute the "database", you even can know who made what changes!
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by pxndxx 6y ago
GDPR applies to any organisation operating within the EU, as well as any organisations outside of the EU which offer goods or services to customers or businesses in the EU.
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by pxndxx 6y ago
Maybe it doesn't need to survive per-se, but the ejecta could have enough life building blocks (aminoacids, etc) to achieve abiogenesis easily again.
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by pxndxx 6y ago
That's a shell feature, not wget's.
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by pxndxx 6y ago
Too little, too late. Reddit had a chance to ban T_D and other hateful subreddits many years ago and didn't.
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by pxndxx 7y ago
I've always wanted to do something like this, but wired up to your webcam to detect when you blink. When you do, update the picture to a new one, to make extremely ephemeral art.
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by pxndxx 7y ago
You're thinking of PHP. Modern Javascript has good error handling and is a pretty nice language to use.
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by pxndxx 7y ago
Can't wait for a superplant to take over all ecosystems on earth! Hoping it's tasty at least.

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