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by westcort 4y ago
Microsoft made by offline office program too slow to use when I updated to 11. It was a shakedown and I am not a happy customer.
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“That is the talk of a loser who can’t win! His numbers have gone down. People are smart!” No worries, here are infinite Trump tweets generated by a Markov model: https://www.locserendipity.com/Markov_Trump.html
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Research assistant who read a bunch of books and articles? Yeah. He isn’t writing his own articles at this point.
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I made my own experimental search engine by scraping the edu domains on DMOZ, using an algorithm to summarize the most relevant paragraphs on each page, and then ordering the results by relevance. It is useful for finding experts and academ
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The Classic Movies idea is kind of like: https://www.locserendipity.com/Film.html It randomly shows a list of film entries on Wikipedia to expose you to a broader variety of movies. Also Books: https://www.locser
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What would the opposite be? A sensory deprivation chamber that brings people back from the dead? Maybe a crechepod?
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Does this mean my GoDaddy Office 365 e-mail is going away?
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I scraped through the 10,000 LPs from the Boston Public Library and used them to make this free streaming service: https://www.locserendipity.com/LP.html I also carefully went through more than 600 long play sonatas and sel
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by westcort 4y ago
Wow that swing from 1920 looks incredibly dangerous. From what I hear, swings in general are on the way out because they cause more injuries than other equipment.
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Show HN: Custom sonata playlist for sleep and rest(locserendipity.com)
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This snippet of code will use whatever your browser uses for TTS: https://www.locserendipity.com/TTS.html
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Show HN: Infinite Music from the Boston Public Library(locserendipity.com)
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Here are some unidentified individuals in photos from the Library of Congress: https://www.locserendipity.com/TitleSearch.html?q=Unidentifi...
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My grandfather worked with Lambros and shares with me this (non-secret) humorous monograph That Mr. Callimahos wrote: https://imgur.io/a/YGwWpZq Cryptography must have been an interesting line of work.
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Bookmarklet to Read Highlighted Text(locserendipity.com)
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Thanks! I have added that disclaimer.
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A free, continuous stream of music on LP records from the Boston Public Library(locserendipity.com)
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Here is the same code, except you can just drag and drop the code into your bookmarks bar: https://locserendipity.com/Nitter.html What a great idea! Edit: Please note that this will only work for desktop browsers
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One of my favorite essays by Seneca is his letter to Serenus, three of my favorite quotations of which are here: What, then, is there to prevent your believing this strength of mind to belong to the wise man, when you can see the same thing
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"Practical Statistics Simply Explained" by Russel Langley was an excellent introduction to statistical concepts that gives one a real "feel" for how to apply statistics in real-world use. I highly recommend working all o
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Got it! This is great for my productivity. So unfortunate that Microsoft didn’t even offer users an option…
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I made a voice simulator of my own voice ( https://locserendipity.com/sim/voice.html ) by recording individual phonemes. My goal was to create the smallest possible phonemes that can be concatenated into a wav file. Ulti
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I dread being around when Malthusian predictions start to be realized.
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Here is a list of the best documentaries since 2000 according to the Chicago Film Critics Association: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Film_Critics_Associati... You will also find several categories of documentar
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Here is how I explain it. Transistors use a small current to control a larger current. You can think of this as one person tapping another on the shoulder of another person. But what good is that? Not much, on its own. It is only possible t
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I was once tapped to be part of a secret society. It was an interesting experience, but in the end I did not join.
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He is a great teacher and a really awesome person in general.
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The time loop is allowed by the current understanding of physics. The math checks out.
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We may not know the answer to how the universe began, but a time loop at the beginning of the universe is my favorite explanation. Gott and Li proposed this model and you can see Gott explain it elegantly here: https://youtu.be&#
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Although I have been a microwave chef for about a year, I am growing more worried about the possibility of leaching chemicals into my food as a result of nonstick coatings, so I am switching to these: https://cookanyday.com/

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