Kirr

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by Kirr 24d ago
Kin-dza-dza!
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by Kirr 27d ago
To address this question, apply a mathematical trick, and convert it to the equivalent "Why aren't happy people smarter?". This new question admits a range of straightforward solutions, depending on how kind you are to the ha
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by Kirr 5mo ago
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" is getting realer with each passing day. As well as arguing with your front door from Ubik.
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by Kirr 7mo ago
Aye-aye sir! Captain on the bridge!
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by Kirr 7mo ago
Very cool, but may have some unexpected consequences. E.g., someone can probably use this to synthesize a bacterial genome containing every known drug resistance gene, and this is just the first thing that comes to mind. Possibilities for b
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by Kirr 8mo ago
https://kirill-kryukov.com/kirr/
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by Kirr 8mo ago
"Never postpone until tomorrow what you can postpone until after tomorrow"
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by Kirr 1y ago
Philip K. Dick's "Small Town" is found!
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by Kirr 1y ago
Well there is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1YrANSmOGY - Not sure if it counts as large, but it's a start.
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by Kirr 1y ago
This may be as good time as any to plug my calculator for finite resistor networks (including grids) [1]. It works by eliminating non-terminal nodes one by one with the Star-Mesh transform, while keeping the exact rational resistances at ea
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by Kirr 2y ago
MathJax [1] still recommends this way of using it: <script src="https://polyfill.io/v3/polyfill.min.js?features=es6"></script> <script id="MathJax-script" async src="htt
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by Kirr 3y ago
The study is based on a web questionnaire, answered by 589 out of 2552 Ph.D. students. The mental health of the remaining 1963 students who did not take the survey is very likely to be in worse shape than of those who did. In discussion the
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by Kirr 3y ago
There is a dark side to this advice. Try calling yourself a thinker, a visionary, an ideas guy, a philosopher. Soon you start believing it, then it gets to your head and inflates your ego (already gigantic to begin with). And now your peers
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by Kirr 4y ago
Someone should submit a series of "boring numbers" to the OEIS. It would include all numbers not listed in any other series. Although it would be hard keeping it up-to-date.
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by Kirr 4y ago
Johnny Cab gets closer to reality with every passing day. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWgrvNHjKkY )
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by Kirr 5y ago
+1 to FILCO, just want to add: Pick one with the letters printed on the sides of keycaps, not on top. This way they last longer. (BTW, my favorite switches are black, then red, I hate browns).
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by Kirr 5y ago
It's also similar to forming words from multiple kanji. E.g. like Chinese "penguin" is combined from "business" and "goose" (not completely accurate translation). Imagine poor kids 100 years from now havin
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by Kirr 5y ago
They dig it up; they cart it back to their base. Somehow it gets thawed; it wakes up, probably not in the best of moods...
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by Kirr 5y ago
These tiny connectors absolutely must be used with a proper crimper. http://www.mattmillman.com/info/crimpconnectors/dupont-and-d...
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by Kirr 5y ago
Berg Electronics was founded in 1950. It blows my mind that we still use this connector after 70 years. https://www.connectortips.com/breakthrough-contact-design-sp...
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by Kirr 6y ago
The article presents a dichotomy between "web" and "app". This fails for users who consider a web browser itself to be an "app", which is indeed well suited for solving a problem of "browsing web". Fo
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by Kirr 6y ago
Reminds me Philip K. Dick’s short story “The Day Mr. Computer Fell out of Its Tree” (written in 1977). "It had been a bad idea from the start, back in 1982, to operate every mechanism from a central source. Of course, the basic idea h