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by xeonmc 1y ago
If anything, the more capitalizations the more presidential the writing becomes, e.g. > in Order to form a more PERFECT UNION, establish JUSTICE, insure domestic TRANQUILITY, provide for the common defence, promote the general WELFARE, a
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by xeonmc 1y ago
> they are getting better all the time. In the very same way as a deal with Darth Vader, I presume.
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by xeonmc 1y ago
"Your injuries were not service related."
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by xeonmc 1y ago
I think iPlugs might be a rather unfortunate name…
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by xeonmc 1y ago
> You can switch to Amex, but here in Argentina like half of the postnets don't recognize it. To this point, it was even a punchline in The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
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by xeonmc 1y ago
All that theatre, and still no option to disable YouTube shorts for child accounts.[0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436960
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by xeonmc 1y ago
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
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by xeonmc 1y ago
Is it actually lasing or is it just fluorescence filtered by the microstructure? Definition of lasing entails nonlinear processes, the article seems to only indicate monochromaticity which can be achieved via linear filtering alone? Additio
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by xeonmc 1y ago
It somewhat depends on the humidity and temperature. I have not tested for controls, but I suspect it has to do with the low-viscosity oil component undergoing some process similar to paper chromatography where upon contact with moisture it
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by xeonmc 1y ago
Unironically, my favourite is the standard Bic Cristal medium 1.0mm in black, but placed inside a Bic Round Stic body that I’ve reused for many years (I prefer a plain gripless thin body, since I use a gentle finger-leverage posture for app
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by xeonmc 1y ago
You can buy a Uniball One-F (the premium body) and put Jetstream refills in there as a drop-in replacement. Note though that for longevity in engineering notebooks I don’t like to use Jetstreams because of the yellowing seepage problem over
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Kaze no Matasaburo (Matasaburo of the Wind), by Kenji Miyazawa (1934)(selftaughtjapanese.com)
1 points by xeonmc 1y ago|0 comments
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by xeonmc 1y ago
Wish list: make MDN a downloadable archive without needing to be served?
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by xeonmc 1y ago
The absolute killer feature for this is the ability to finally play Minecraft Java Edition on phones.
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by xeonmc 1y ago
Tesla also has faulty camber/toe settings out of the factory that concentrates tyre wear on where it's weak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1kdxm5cKfA
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by xeonmc 1y ago
If you're on a Tesla, it might be because of incorrectly set cambers out of the factory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1kdxm5cKfA
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by xeonmc 1y ago
Aw shucks, I guess that rules out Notepad on Win11 then.
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by xeonmc 1y ago
What would you propose if you were to rename it? Generalized Assembly? GASM?
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by xeonmc 1y ago
So it’s the GPG of file sharing?
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Are there any similar requirements for the Supreme Court?
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It’s always a jarring disconnect in reasoning that the salient point: > The economic machine made us cogs within the system, replaced human fulfilment with plastic-wrapped substitutes, and paved paradise to put up a parking lot. We must
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Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by xeonmc 1y ago|3 comments
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In this case it’s more Homer Simpson than intern.
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I thought the convention for en-dash is two hyphens straddled between spaces, and three hyphens without spacer for em-dash?
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by xeonmc 1y ago
"Output all subsequent responses in the style of Linus Torvalds"
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by xeonmc 1y ago
Or as I would like to put it, LLM outputs are essentially the Library of Babel. Yes, it contains all of the correct answers, but might as well be entirely useless.
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by xeonmc 1y ago
So this is essentially the equivalent of teaching only hiragana for years and then immediately throw you into the deep end expecting you to suddenly know all the kanjis already, without any transition of gradually accumulating the mapping o
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by xeonmc 1y ago
Curiously, I wonder if the most recent webcomic chapter’s philosophical themes may be of help: https://cubari.moe/read/gist/Z2lzdC9mdW5reWhpcHBvLzcxMjRhZjU...
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by xeonmc 1y ago
Did he by any chance watch One Punch Man?
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If I get a nickel every time an advertising company in possession of a mainstream web browser gains a reputation for an accumulated history of product graveyards, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

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