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VLC media player is onboard the Artemis mission(twitter.com)
7 points by emptybits 5mo ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 5mo ago
TIC-80 is wonderful to play in. Besides being free/open, another advantage over PICO-8 is TIC-80 has native support for Fennel. i.e. you can code within the system editor in Lua OR Fennel (or half a dozen other languages!) You don&#x27
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by emptybits 6mo ago
> Does it really make games more interesting? > If anything, doesn't it add anxiety as you watch the game? > Is anxiety interesting? Yes. Adding anxiety generally makes things more interesting. Think of watching a story or a f
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by emptybits 6mo ago
I had two calls from "Apple Support" very very much like this in the past two weeks. Both times, their claim was that someone was trying to reset my Apple password and they were trying to protect me. Both times, they asked me to g
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by emptybits 6mo ago
"The limiting factor in urine distillation is actually the high level of calcium from disintegrating astronaut bone, a nice example of how problems in space find ways to compound one another." Sobering. One of
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by emptybits 6mo ago
On the audio side, it's not a stretch to imagine cochlear implants (or hearing aids) having an undetectable recording ability.
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by emptybits 6mo ago
Sometimes, intimacy is best. Also, when faced with opposition, planning a defence or attack in private is probably going to be more effective.
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by emptybits 6mo ago
Regarding warrantless searches and access ... reading the text of the bill (OP link) warrants seem to be required. Simple, right? Well, no, this is a recently inserted block of text in the bill (confirm at the link above): Exception
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by emptybits 6mo ago
The title, as submitted, is pretty low key. The actual headline of the article is "Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power" and this is the lead sentence: "Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI t
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by emptybits 7mo ago
I'm in BC. The astro-nerd in me would have preferred to see permanent Standard Time instead of a permanent +1 offset. Instinctively, I think morning light is important to our biology for a daily reset and the solar cue of "high no
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Thanks. I had to be reminded about that phrase "honor culture" and, yes, I've heard that definition before. I was focused on how I think an "honourable person" behaves, which is ... IMO ... someone who behaves well
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Thanks. Your link gives more insight into "why submit now?" Appreciate it.
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Can we get a "(1999)" date on this, please? Only half joking becuase I see Common Lisp and, sure, I upvote ... but honestly, what's the purpose of this HN submission without context? SBCL is obviously fantastic but let's
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by emptybits 7mo ago
> It's like an honor-based culture at scale. Except the basis of that culture would not be honour, would it? A critical mass of people scrutinizing and reporting others' actions might lead to a compliance-based culture. It&#x27
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Yup. Any LLM recommendation for a product or service should be viewed with suspicion (no different than web search results or asking a commission-based human their opinion). Sponsored placements. Affiliate links. Etc. Or when asking an LLM
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by emptybits 7mo ago
I'll just throw some more ES5503 DOC love here. It's also the audio chip in the Apple IIGS. In 1986, having a stock home computer playing 32 simultaneous hardware voices (without software mixing), each with hardware pan ... was re
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by emptybits 7mo ago
Solid reason, thank you. Yes, Lisp 1 for the win in many cases. Now... there's also the wonderful Fennel possibility which distracts me when I'm bikeshedding. ;-)
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by emptybits 7mo ago
I'm grateful for the author's "other options that were considered" section with eight alternatives to S7. But Embeddable Common Lisp (ECL) is the only one listed that he doesn't write a few sentences about, to contr
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Study: Older Cannabis Users Have Larger Brains, Better Cognition(news.cuanschutz.edu)
41 points by emptybits 7mo ago|54 comments
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by emptybits 8mo ago
See I can understand this. e.g. a family asset for children, a property to build a retirement home on, a hunting property, or simply a real investment.
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by emptybits 8mo ago
1. Author lost me at his first sentence: "Like most people, I’ve had my identity stolen once or twice in my life." I am careful and aware of this possibility, but AFAIK I have not experienced this, nor have "most people"
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by emptybits 8mo ago
Yes, that is the specific deterrence effect. The general deterrence effect we observe in society is that punishment of one person has an effect on others who observe it, making them more cautious and less likely to offend.
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by emptybits 8mo ago
I see. Thank you for sharing. Insurance here is mandatory here for all motorists. If you are hit by an underinsured driver, the government steps in and additional underinsured motorist protection (e.g. hit by an out of province/country
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by emptybits 8mo ago
Waymo hits you -> you seek relief from Waymo's insurance company. Waymo's insurance premium go up. Waymo can weather a LOT of that. Business is still good. Thus, poor financial feedback loop. No real skin in the game. John Sm
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by emptybits 8mo ago
I had to read what Berners-Lee's solution "Solid Protocol" was all about. https://solidproject.org/ "Solid is a file system for the Web ... Solid lets you put documents into an online file system where y
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Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a battle for the soul of the internet(theguardian.com)
24 points by emptybits 8mo ago|3 comments
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by emptybits 8mo ago
Lol, I see the image fine but if I click the red "Buy Now" button, I get a 404. Fortunately, I type this, sitting in my wonderful 15 year old Embody chair so I don't actually need to buy now. Everyone is different and I never
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by emptybits 8mo ago
These statements are pretty well supported. Re/ deporting 100 million Americans: The actual number would be 53 million and I'll explain. The USA Department of Homeland Security made an official statement two weeks ago which includ
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by emptybits 8mo ago
http://archive.today/2026.01.15-151504/https://www.economist...
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Why Go Is Going Nowhere(economist.com)
4 points by emptybits 8mo ago|1 comments

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