ChocMontePy

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   by ChocMontePy 14d ago

   There's a good deep dive into the code here: https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-altair-basic/
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   by ChocMontePy 1mo ago

   I saw a recent video and I was shocked that he had hair: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOq8O_phwbA He looks so different.
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   by ChocMontePy 2mo ago

   Mirror in Yahoo News: https://tech.yahoo.com/science/articles/mathematicians-still...
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   by ChocMontePy 2mo ago

   There's an online version to play that I find surprisingly addictive: https://royalur.net/
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   by ChocMontePy 3mo ago

   I must be the only one here loving those Mafia videos. I'm sad they are stopping after three episodes. Links to the first two episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDCwQe7P8T0 https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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   by ChocMontePy 3mo ago

   My favorite part was a footnote: Footnote 2 specifically. I'd always wondered how plugboards worked and the footnote and the linked pdf gave me some sort of idea.
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   by ChocMontePy 4mo ago

   I use uBlock Origin and sometimes I have the opposite problem: I find out that a good movie came out months ago but I missed all the ads that flooded the internet because of my ad-blocker.
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   by ChocMontePy 4mo ago

   Github link: https://github.com/palewire/fivethirtyeightindex.com
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   FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive(fivethirtyeightindex.com)

   380 points by ChocMontePy 4mo ago|88 comments
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    by ChocMontePy 5mo ago

    It has similarities to a very, very short story by Fredric Brown published two years before. It was called 'Answer' and is only 252 words long: https://www.roma1.infn.it/~anzel/answer.html
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    by ChocMontePy 6mo ago

    Yes, I was surprised that the ATM graphs weren't adjusted for population. I used the Perspective tool in an image editor to give a rough idea of what the first graph would look like adjusted for population change: https://i.
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    by ChocMontePy 7mo ago

    I'm at the library so I checked your book. You said in there: > However, by October 1933, the issue was straightened out and she was aboard the Bremen, sailing for the United States. Since she died on 14 April 1935, it was 18 months
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    by ChocMontePy 7mo ago

    I noticed last year that some archived pages are getting altered. Every Reddit archived page used to have a Reddit username in the top right, but then it disappeared. "Fair enough," I thought. "They want to hide their Reddit
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    by ChocMontePy 7mo ago

    For those wondering what specifically was fabricated, I checked. The earlier parts of the article include some quotes from Scott Shambaugh on Github and all the quotes are genuine. But the last section of the article includes apparent quote
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    by ChocMontePy 7mo ago

    Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20260131153720/https://www.justi...
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    by ChocMontePy 7mo ago

    And this might be a copy of the original pdf: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02702...
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    by ChocMontePy 7mo ago

    Also, I found a different base64 encoding with a different font here: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA007755... This doesn't solve the "1 & l" problem for the pdf you
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    by ChocMontePy 7mo ago

    You can use the justice.gov search box to find several different copies of that same email. The copy linked in the post: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA004004... Three more copies: htt
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    by ChocMontePy 8mo ago

    I got 58% after 100 attempts. My method uses the fact that the letters a-k + u make up around 49.9% of letters in a normal text. So I just go through a text letter by letter in my mind, giving 0 if the letter is a-k or u, and a 1 if it&#x27
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    by ChocMontePy 9mo ago

    The author couldn't find a purported willow text in the ancient Egyptian Ebers papyrus that was quoted by John Mann, so he threw his hands in the air and moved on. But Mann made a mistake. The book he was likely quoting from, 'Sci
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    Mirror: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/one-surprising-psycho...
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    I never realized until now that in the the two different circles pictured (the Chromatic Circle and the Circle of Fifths) the pairs of notes opposite each other are the same in each circle. For example in both circles B is opposite from F.
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    I think Aristotle had the greatest mind of any human who ever lived. The older I get the more I realize that there are a thousand true and intelligent things you can say about any topic. Magazines, journals, and libraries are full to the br
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    Here in Australia the average punter on horse-racing is normally competing against his fellow rational and informed punters. But every November we have a huge Melbourne Cup race where millions of people make their selection because they lik
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    My favorite book about the Brothers Grimm is "Fairy Tales: A New History" by Ruth B. Bottigheimer. She argues persuasively that the conventional origin normally told about the Grimm's fairy tales—-that they were recited by ol
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    I need an "Every possible comment by Hacker News users"
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    Fact Check: Reddit didn't hike API prices by an absurd amount. That was was the story spread far and wide by the Apollo app developer that was believed by the gullible and angry Reddit masses. But Reddit actually set a reasonable API p
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    Over the last year the servers are down way less than they used to be. They are getting better.
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    by ChocMontePy 2y ago

    The header on that website that stays there as you scroll is obnoxiously annoying. It takes up 25% of the page on desktop.
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    by ChocMontePy 3y ago

    A mentor is named after Mentor, who watched over Telemachus, Odysseus's son.