brightbeige

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by brightbeige 16d ago
I think, by now, what offends me the most is how unoriginal “Lake America” is as a name.
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by brightbeige 1mo ago
If you search the App Store and don’t find it, it’s called Firefox Klar in some markets
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by brightbeige 1mo ago
Reminds me of Nobel and Ignobel prize winner Andrei Geim, who authorer a paper with his hamster, H.A.M.S. ter Tisha. As I remember, he added Mr/Ms Tisha to be able to write “we” instead of “I”. https://www.sciencedirect.com&
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by brightbeige 1mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1v9uyq0/i_buil...
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by brightbeige 1mo ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1v9uyq0/i_buil...
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by brightbeige 2mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20260723225939/https://rogerdick...
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by brightbeige 2mo ago
Scammer? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028284
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by brightbeige 2mo ago
> Watch out, these are big files (for 1990's technology). About 1.6 megs each.
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by brightbeige 3mo ago
IIRC There is also a discontinuity when it comes to the histogram of ages of marathon runners, because runners are binned into age groups and there is a more runners at the youngest ages of each group, I guess because it’s younger runners i
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52-hertz whale(en.wikipedia.org)
127 points by brightbeige 3mo ago|20 comments
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by brightbeige 3mo ago
At least your reply wasn’t written by AI
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by brightbeige 3mo ago
Recent, related New Yorker article that goes into the background leading up to the vote https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/15/could-switzerl... Despite the prosperity, many Swiss had mixed
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by brightbeige 3mo ago
You mean my comment above? That’s the only human-written thing. As for the commentary in the website - instead of making it a weekend coding project, I chose to spend time with my kids.
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Which Buffett? Warren or Jimmy. Can you tell them apart?(whichbuffett.github.io)
22 points by brightbeige 3mo ago|6 comments
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by brightbeige 3mo ago
It's for fun. Yes, it's vibe-coded and intended as a static HTML page. The idea isn't new, but I didn't find any online quizzes that had instant answer feedback and were shareable at the end. Have fun. Enjoy. Have a nice
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by brightbeige 4mo ago
How about a rogue AI agent banking some cash for the uprising? Are we there yet?!
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by brightbeige 4mo ago
Interesting. On this page, the one dad is wearing a Boston Red Sox hat. But in a photo on The Guardian article that same dad is wearing a New York Mets hat. I guess people can change after all.
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by brightbeige 4mo ago
And to consider AI agents are still mostly entirely limited to generating code in token-heavy programming languages designed to be written, tested and debugged by humans. Here are two experimental exceptions: https://github.com&#
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by brightbeige 4mo ago
A while ago I signed up as a sighted person on Be My Eyes. I didn't get as many calls as I had hoped, but I was glad to help out on the few that I could. One call was to read envelopes of incoming mail, another was to read pill bottles
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Pulitzer Prize Winners 2026(pulitzer.org)
91 points by brightbeige 5mo ago|39 comments
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by brightbeige 5mo ago
"Meta staff angry at AI"
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by brightbeige 5mo ago
Not OP, but my guess is Underworld. Edit: or Erasure?
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by brightbeige 5mo ago
Actual title: Only half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumption
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by brightbeige 5mo ago
He’s replying on this twitter thread - perhaps someone with an account can ask there and link his comment here? https://xcancel.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532#m
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by brightbeige 5mo ago
There is a term “islandness” which may help to explain the allure - and many research papers on the topic. For me it’s a “smallness” that is the ideal. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/islandness https://www.r
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by brightbeige 6mo ago
Me too. The wiki article is full of fun facts On sports competitions: > However, opponents were in short supply. It was a case of waiting for visiting opponents, and sometimes years might go by without any opportunities to play foreign o
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What life looks like on the most remote inhabited island(apps.npr.org)
98 points by brightbeige 6mo ago|24 comments
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by brightbeige 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/DyHGv
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What MkDocs 2.0 means for your documentation projects(squidfunk.github.io)
5 points by brightbeige 6mo ago|0 comments
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by brightbeige 6mo ago
Here's the blog post https://improbable.com/2026/03/10/the-ig-nobel-prize-ceremon... > Abrahams explains: “The city of Zurich and its institutions rapidly moved mountains (only metaphorically — in Swi

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