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by staplung 3y ago
My Socrates Note? Montereys coast?
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by staplung 3y ago
Like a voice saying "error 47"? A good question. If I had to guess I'd say probably either localization concerns or that it was just a continuation of a pattern that began well before BIOSs were large enough to store audio.
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by staplung 3y ago
Interesting that they picked a name that tends to be mispronounced, at least according to those who live there; locals pronounce it like "app-toss" but non-locals tend to pronounce it "app-tose" (second syllable like &qu
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by staplung 3y ago
I used to be firmly in the one-space camp because my first intro to the subject was from Robin Williams _The Mac Is Not A Typewriter_. However, at some point -probably one of the regular resurrections of this debate on HN - I came across a
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by staplung 3y ago
Might have been what I call a "fuck off" quote. That is, the people who gave you the quote didn't really want to do the job (too small, inconvenient location, or who knows what) and so quoted you an outrageous price figuring
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by staplung 3y ago
I don't know about costs but phosphorus is a limited resource and more than 70 percent of the world's supply of phosphates is controlled by one country: Morocco. Some estimates put "Peak Phosphorus" as early as 2030 but
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by staplung 4y ago
I give you: Atomic Dog https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_Dog_(film)
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by staplung 4y ago
No word on whether any of the beers had coasters over their tops. I mean maybe they still plan to come back and boy are they going to be pissed if the archeologists have stolen their beers.
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by staplung 4y ago
ChatGPT is a language model so it deals in words. Words in; words out. No images, no animations. Perhaps there are other generative models that could make use of them but not ChatGPT.
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by staplung 4y ago
Amusingly, the Orwell piece itself mentions a particularly stupid sub-species of the "not X"; namely, the "not un-X" (e.g. "not untall" instead of just "tall"). In a footnote he says: "One can cu
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by staplung 4y ago
The original ("Politics and the English Language") is not terribly long and well worth a read. https://deathray.us/ebooks/orwell_politics.html
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by staplung 4y ago
Reminds me of the line from Snowcrash : "dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel". It was published in 1992 so I'm assuming there must have been talk even back then about the coming diri
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by staplung 4y ago
If they can't hit `/*/tree` is there a way to know the URLs of the files?
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by staplung 4y ago
Well, Julia has a `bitstring` function that understands floats: julia> bitstring(Int32(4)) "00000000000000000000000000000100" julia> bitstring(2.2) "01000000000000011001100110011001100110011001100110011001100
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by staplung 4y ago
That's okay, even Stonehenge isn't a proper henge. For official henge status you need to have a ditch inside a raised bank. At Stonehenge, it's the opposite; the ditch is outside the bank. When I visited there a few years ago
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by staplung 4y ago
The NYTimes just ran an article about nutrition myths. One of them was about calories in - calories out. “ Ultraprocessed foods — such as refined starchy snacks, cereals, crackers, energy bars, baked goods, sodas and sweets — can be particu
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by staplung 4y ago
Videos describing two out of the three breath-work techniques mentioned: 1) cyclic sighing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdhqBGqiMc 2) box breathing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEmt1Znux58 Couldn&#
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Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs(arstechnica.com)
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by staplung 4y ago
It’s called whitespace watermarking and seems to be one of those ideas that keeps getting re-invented. It’s used a lot, particularly in HTML where the rendering hides the identifying spaces. It can help you figure out if someone is scrappin
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by staplung 4y ago
The show Fortitude is basically set in Svalbard. Technically, the island is called Fortitude but basically just for artistic freedom; it's basically Svalbard. Even though the show is fiction I learned from it that you're essential
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by staplung 4y ago
<em> does have its uses. If you have an entire paragraph that's styled as italic and you want to emphasis something within that, usually what you do is make the emphasized span non -italic. Italicized paragraphs or long spans a
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by staplung 4y ago
Heheh. (Planck length is 10e-35. Even the strong nuclear force operates on a scale that's like 20 orders or magnitude larger (10e-15). And a hugantuan electron? Forget about it.)
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by staplung 4y ago
The correct form is to sum up the legs involved. So two of the eight-legged creatures whose plural is in doubt would be hexadecapods. And if you have an octopus eating a kangaroo you'd then have a decapod, and so on.
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by staplung 4y ago
I may not be an expert but it seems intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that they were carved by a Sasquatch and describe when aliens visited Earth and taught the Egyptians how to build the pyramids. Sarcasm aside, in the top pi
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by staplung 4y ago
IIRC Oliver Sacks was interested in this kind of thing. Think there's an episode of Radiolab where he talks about how ho used to carry around a couple of extremely strong, oblong magnets in his pockets that would stay oriented north ev
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by staplung 4y ago
FWIW, if you could get almost the same effect from google docs (and presumably excel): if you cut/copy a grid of cells and paste it into something that only understands text (e.g. VScode) you'll get tab-delimited columns of text.
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by staplung 4y ago
> Perhaps our favorite easter egg is that you can bring your own SQL into it This is very cool but I wouldn't call it an easter egg, I'd just call it a feature!
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by staplung 4y ago
Clay Shirky nailed in in 2003: https://deathray.us/no_crawl/others/semantic-web.html I'll just excerpt the conclusion: ``` The systems that have succeeded at scale have made simple implementation the core vir
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by staplung 4y ago
I feel like there was a somewhat recent post here about an ancient Sumerian joke but I can't find the post now. Anyway, I did find the joke: A dog walked into a tavern and said, 'I can't see a thing. I'll open this one.&
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by staplung 4y ago
We spend all this time inventing coding practices and even languages to make our software more secure and then we're reminded that even at the limit, shit like this would still be happening. Sigh.

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