chrononaut

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by chrononaut 11d ago
> If you don't use a skill, that smo atrophies I don't think the _ability_ to memorize phone numbers is what atrophied here by getting a cell phone. The _need_ did. It's harder to memorize phone numbers today because we la
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by chrononaut 15d ago
> The wheels in the video are rotating in the wrong direction I thought they were going in the correct direction until you mentioned that. Perhaps you / it created an unintended bistable illusion :)
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by chrononaut 15d ago
> In 2019, Verizon sold MapQuest to internet advertising company System1. It's ad companies all the way down.
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by chrononaut 1mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20070123220857/http://twitter.co... For those that never had an opportunity to see it.
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by chrononaut 1mo ago
> worseonpurpose A lot of irony in that name with all the written AI slop.
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by chrononaut 2mo ago
Not necessarily. You can democratically trample the rights of minority groups. Since it hasn't been linked in the tree of replies here, I'll add this for others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_ma
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by chrononaut 3mo ago
Ah, what a perfect opportunity to link one of my favorite old Youtube videos, which is an animation of a significant amount of telemetry captured by Huygens as it landed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZC4u0clEc0 I always
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by chrononaut 3mo ago
Sorry, I am not familiar with Alipay, at least in the use case you're referring to; How do you exactly pay for 2 servers using Alipay from a CVS?
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by chrononaut 3mo ago
It does in the last 2 to 3 seconds. You can see the Tesla driving into it as the video ends. It is a weird spot to end the video.
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by chrononaut 4mo ago
and I imagine out of anyone on HN, dang probably frequently searches for instances of dang. Sorry dang.
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by chrononaut 5mo ago
I am not sure if it aligns to the approach in OP's article but it's the last ~minute or two of the linked video.
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France Investigates Temperature Spikes That Led to Big Payouts on Polymarket(nytimes.com)
2 points by chrononaut 5mo ago|1 comments
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by chrononaut 6mo ago
As an aside: > OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, .. I didn't expect their revenue to be that high, but I suppose it's also unsurprising.
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by chrononaut 6mo ago
> The devices will not carry the band support needed for these markets. Their technical specifications state: > Cellular: 4G + 5G with dual nano-SIM and global roaming modem configuration[0] Is that implying "global" is actu
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by chrononaut 7mo ago
Normalization of deviance also contributes towards unethical outcomes, where people would not have selected that outcome originally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
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by chrononaut 8mo ago
Naked option trading is certainly the worst of the three from a financial risk perspective for the beginner. Although polymarket would do the best at "attraction" towards the average uninformed consumer because the bets and how to
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by chrononaut 8mo ago
And unfortunately I don't think they plan on making those models public.
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by chrononaut 8mo ago
For the most part, the purpose of the long haul Amtrak services isn't to make it economical go from one end of the line / one major city to the other (e.g. NYC to Chicago); It's to provide a transportation service for all the
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by chrononaut 9mo ago
Green users are recently created accounts.
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by chrononaut 11mo ago
A lot of these old services used the email address as the fixed user identifier making it much less likely (certainly for those bucket of services) that he'd have a user-facing option of changing it.
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Acoustic Eavesdropping via Mouse Sensors(arxiv.org)
4 points by chrononaut 1y ago|0 comments
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by chrononaut 1y ago
Which areas or circumstances are you observing otherwise?
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by chrononaut 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect > Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics
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by chrononaut 1y ago
> No, [journalists] know what they are doing ... Carefully calibrated, highly-selective use of (often, quite awkward) linguistic constructs does not happen unconsciously, it is a deliberate, knowing choice. The incredible vast majority o
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by chrononaut 1y ago
The N900. The best mobile device I've ever owned.
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by chrononaut 1y ago
Just a note for readers that the Jolla C2 cellular modem only supports European bands, so if you're in the US you're out of luck on that front until they release a new model.
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by chrononaut 1y ago
Couldn't you make that argument for any law in any society?
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CCTV footage captures video of an earthquake fault in motion(smithsonianmag.com)
471 points by chrononaut 1y ago|88 comments
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by chrononaut 1y ago
As someone who doesn't speak Swedish, what makes this particular passage interesting, and what is it about the Norrköping dialect makes it interesting? (I have attempted to study Swedish briefly, but I feel like I need to do more susta
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by chrononaut 2y ago
Given that the tiles along parts of the perimeter are intact, I imagine the tiles might've shattered in many small pieces when the roof collapsed during the eruption, and they didn't want to just leave them there during the excava

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