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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
Not the Flynn effect; just people having fun, and selection bias. I (the blogger) deliberately left out many boring responses, except for linking to the Evening World's letters page of 1903-11-11.[1] I filtered out scores of replies fr
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
You mean the new, worse, Dune movies. The David Lynch Dune movie was pretty colorful, right? So Dune itself was... Dunkirk-ified?
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
> Combined with a TikTok account of a person who is clearly participating in the attention economy, I am skeptical. Yep, from the context, 100% this is fake. Also, while this Jason Gibson claims to be a history professor at Alcorn State
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
The complaint quoted in the article is here, in PDF form: https://webapps.sftc.org/ci/CaseInfo.dll?CaseNum=CGC26637986... (Click "Documents," then "Complaint and demand for jury trial.")
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
One of your snails is clearly a chambered nautilus instead. :)
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
Not quite. A "thin space" is thinner than an ordinary interword space, which in turn is thinner (or at least less stretchy) than an intersentence space. The space in "No. 12" or "Fig. 7" or "Mr. Jones&quot
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
> It’s also probably been read by the majority of Americans, or at least the story is well-known. Read by, yes. Story well-known, I doubt. What is the story of The Great Gatsby , in a few words? (But then again, what is the story of t
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
It's easier to just use your eyes, isn't it? The photo in the article is here: https://cdn.labrujulaverde.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2026/07... There are two standing figures to the right (corre
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
(2025)
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_... Interestingly, DST itself had been standardized by the Uniform Time Act of 1966 less than a decade before that! IMHO seems like permanent standard time wo
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
Wiktionary: > Plutarch tells us in Lysander 17 that, in early times, nails (ὀβελοί (obeloí)) were used as money, six of which made a handful (δραχμή (drakhmḗ)), and that the name was changed to ὀβολός (obolós). In the (legendary) Spartan
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
"Two weeks of warranty" jumped out at me. That's like "you have two weeks to find the thing we broke, or else we aren't responsible for it." In my experience, a good bug can hide for months more than two week
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
Sounds like you're thinking of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%E2%80%93ought_problem . Wikipedia quotes David Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" 3.1.1 as follows: > In every system of moral
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Three deleted songs from G&S's "Iolanthe" found in the British Library(marc154391.substack.com)
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
A two-hour interview between discoverer Marc Shepherd and Utopia Opera's William Remmers is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwVXI1lfs_Q
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
You might make a wrong guess add a little penalty time to the clock. I agree that the "share" representation should include the number of bonus words found. Or just the triple of "total words / tries / wall-clock ti
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
> And “kashida” is a persian word not Arabic, the Arabic one is probably “maddah”. I thought it was "tatwil". I could be wrong, though. An interesting article on Arabic typography, whose correctness I can't judge: https:&
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
Or ask the agent to visit a web page, or load an image, whose URL involved the secret? Or ask it to install a new .authorized_keys and then go get the contents of the machine themselves? From the post it sounds like a lot of people were ju
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
+1. It felt very mechanical running through "bard, card, hard, lard, nard, pard, sard, ward, ware, care, dare, fare, hare, mare, nare, pare, tare, bare, bark, dark, hark, lark, mark, nark, park, sark,..." Definitely feels like som
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by quuxplusone 3mo ago
Or bait (or probably baht or batt).
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
The other day I learned that the command line interface (or whatever) to Antigravity goes by the abbreviated name "agy", which is awfully close to "agi" as in "artificial general intelligence." I strongly suspe
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
And "Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice" (SIGGRAPH 1987). https://archive.org/details/stanley-and-stella-in-breaking-t...
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zork&diff=prev&ol... might be a more informative link to the specific change, btw.
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
From my read of the article, this isn't a problem "in DNS." OP runs an uptime monitoring service that purports to check whether DNS can resolve your domain — but today OP learned that because he's hitting his ISP's
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
"Just to be clear, you are saying you manage a hedge fund, right?" "Yeah, a henge fund." "Hedge fund." "Henge fund." "Hedge." "Henge." "...I think we're on the same pag
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
As a banner or something, maybe. But I'd much rather see a broken-looking site on mobile than see nothing at all on mobile. In the same category: websites that display nothing but a splash screen "This site requires Internet Explo
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
In the middle of this too-long-and-rambling piece, there's a sketch of an interesting sequence: look for the text "universal winner." Let a(n) be the size of the smallest "coin-matching player" DFA that eventually m
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
Yep. (Discussed more than once on HN, which is why I know this link exists:) https://nmap.org/movies/
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
The reason I'd want "frozen-size vector" is to replace pairs of data members of the form `T* foos; size_t foos_len;` without paying another 8 bytes to store a useless capacity that's never going to change. But I don&#x27
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by quuxplusone 4mo ago
FWIW, I believe that's not a mistake, just a consistent use of (novel?) jargon. From context I infer that the paragraph is distinguishing between the _hard requirements_ of the traits (quote: "the language contract says they canno

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