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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
My bad. The description early in the linked article didn’t sound familiar but reading a bit further they even use that term exactly.
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
Is this also the function of numbers stations? - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
This is a cool idea. I think this is achievable with APIs/scraping of news sites, some machine learning/LLM (to assign locations to news stories), and an open source library like Leaflet.
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Issue 52: Artificial Intelligence(jacobin.com)
1 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|0 comments
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
I have a similar background with math as the commenter. +1 to Lockhart. If the commenter finds numbers interesting they may also really enjoy his book “Arithmatic.” I found it so refreshing. It truly reoriented my whole relationship with ma
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Mathematical Manuscripts of Karl Marx(en.wikipedia.org)
18 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|11 comments
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Ford Motor Company Sociological Department and English School(thehenryford.org)
3 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|0 comments
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
Takk fyrir!
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Why is simpler better? (2016)(aeon.co)
2 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|0 comments
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
I’ve been using autojump for years to the point of forgetting it’s not out-of-the-box behavior for zsh. https://github.com/wting/autojump
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The Antikythera Mechanism(en.wikipedia.org)
16 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|7 comments
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
Given the stakes of an “edge case” in a war machine, not to mention their cost, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect the number of such cases to be zero.
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Have You Seen This Scene from "Freaks and Geeks"? (2017)(nytimes.com)
3 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|0 comments
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
So does this mean that whenever one is working in 8 bits that it’s taken for granted that the upper bounds represent negative integers? Or does it rather depend on the context?
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
Very well explained.
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
Amazing! Thank you for sharing. My wife and I are moving from a Bortle 9 (NYC) to a Bortle 3-4 (Upstate) soon and I'm excited to start attempting more DSO imaging. Up to now I've been mostly focused on capturing Jupiter and Saturn
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M51: A Feast for the Eyes(esawebb.org)
182 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|32 comments
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
After trying to perfect my ramen broth recipe I’ve incorporated seaweed into all kinds of other foods. I made an outstanding (if I may say so) ragu the other day that I began by including dried seaweed (and bonito flakes) in the soffritto.
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
This reminds me of an investigation by the Times from September 2022 into Providence health system’s training of employees, with the aid of McKinsey, to “[wring] money out of patients — even those who were supposed to receive free care beca
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
A project I worked on a while back highlighted the problem of speculation in Detroit’s land market. https://umdearborn.edu/news/mapping-detroit-new-tool-aims-id...
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
No comment other than I’m very happy to see this from my alma mater on the front page of HN. I hesitate to say it’s a woefully underrated school, but I’m nevertheless proud of it.
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
I love my hometown.
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
Mid-19th century?
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
Apropos of nothing about the house, I’m confused why someone would use the “Antebellum era” to periodize something in New York?
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
It's unclear to me how social democracy could be achieved without a labor movement.
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
Perhaps, but favorable labor legislation often depends on a robust organized labor movement, especially in the United States (where no labor party is present).
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Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte(workerorganizing.org)
148 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|357 comments
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
My friends and I had only a few LAN parties that I can recall, at least ones that took place at any of our homes. There was, however, a PC repair shop in town that had a (pretty high-end for the time) LAN gaming room. I wanted to learn abou
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Why 24 Pianists Are Playing the Same Piece 840 Times(nytimes.com)
3 points by ughitsaaron 3y ago|1 comments
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by ughitsaaron 3y ago
You mean like swapping caps lock for control?

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