raldi

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   by raldi 2y ago

   I’m cool with having that link swapped in.
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   Using the moiré effect to show different arrows to each observer (2018)(popularmechanics.com)

   165 points by raldi 2y ago|48 comments
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   by raldi 2y ago

   Ah, the antidote to Chesterton's Fence.
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   by raldi 2y ago

   "You don't need to unlock, show, or hand over your device to present your license or ID." https://support.apple.com/en-us/118237
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   by raldi 2y ago

   How do I set up Git to thank future generations for removing code I regret checking in?
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   by raldi 2y ago

   The purpose of this site is to make a political statement, which would be better achieved by at least showing desktop visitors an example screenshot.
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   by raldi 2y ago

   Clicked around for a few minutes and couldn’t find a sentence beginning, “Galois Theory is…”
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   by raldi 2y ago

   I always liked that you can prepend reddit.com/ or redd.it/ to any URL (http and all) and get taken to a prefilled submit page for it.
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   by raldi 2y ago

   Where is liquid fresh water besides lakes and rivers?
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    by raldi 2y ago

    Do you have a writeup or something? Twitter videos don’t really load anymore this year.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    I think if you asked a farmer, "buy laser robots" is a lot lazier than "deal with insect pests". Robots evolving would be someone signing off on the investment of doing a big compute run.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    I’d expect the robots to evolve faster than the bugs.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    Last year I was playing Super Mario Bros on an NES on a CRT for the first time since my childhood, and was blown away at how cool the shining coins and question-mark blocks were. They look like polished brass in bright sunshine. Somehow thi
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    by raldi 2y ago

    You see this with stop signs too: someone trying to turn left downstream of a stop sign on a bigger road gets a neverending set of pulsed cars timed exactly right to just barely confound every opportunity.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    And in this case, it seems misleading and definitely clickbait. The quote at the end doesn't support the claim that he forgot anything. The citation ( https://books.google.com/books?id=9zu0BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&lpg=P.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    Yes, and the part about Reagan.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    Wouldn't they be giving up a huge breakup fee if that were the case?
18. 228.▲
    by raldi 2y ago

    Is there an explanation of why it sometimes gives the wrong answer?
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    by raldi 2y ago

    I would say the difference is that there’s no new evidence that would change an obstinate person’s mind, whereas a persistent person knows what evidence it would take to change their mind, sees it’s not happening, and maintains confidence i
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    by raldi 2y ago

    Don’t forget chocolate and (though it wasn’t a New World plant) vanilla.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    If you look up the Wikipedia page for WordStar and try to trace who owns the assets now, you find a tall stack of software companies that were acquired by others and eventually it seems to loop. * WordStar was created by MicroPro Internatio
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    by raldi 2y ago

    It's beautiful, but isn't a codex a book? I thought that's what separates them from scrolls.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    It’s really confusing that they open by mentioning a supernova.
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    by raldi 2y ago

    This is like saying, "Isn't it curious that after the Emancipation Proclamation, those same abolitionists then argued for granting citizenship to former slaves, and then after winning that, they switched to demanding they also be
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    by raldi 2y ago

    They added a colon, but it should really be something like, "Nintendo leak was due to YouTube employee accessing private video"
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    by raldi 2y ago

    I tried asking Claude variants where N was something other than a nonnegative integer, and he properly pointed out the absurdity, but was willing to play along once I brought up theoretical physics: [...] So, in our quantum mechanics inter
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    by raldi 2y ago

    Can someone post a quick clickbait antidote for those of us stuck behind the paywall?
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    by raldi 2y ago

    Why would the symptoms feel any different if my brain were receiving the exact same signals?
29. 239.▲
    by raldi 2y ago

    In the scenario I'm describing, the brain inputs would remain the same.
30. 240.▲
    by raldi 2y ago

    If my brain were receiving exactly the same signals, why would my experience feel any different?