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Google Maps Hacks (2020)(simonweckert.com)
81 points by emptybits 4y ago|50 comments
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All words in use today were made up at some point and then accepted through popular use. Merriam-Webster accepted this one into their dictionary some years ago.[1] And Dictionary.com acknowledges it may have been published previously in 188
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High-altitude object shot down off Alaska, US says(bbc.com)
1 points by emptybits 4y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
I think conventional camera gear will do it. If you enjoy this view into microworlds, here's one of my favourite macro photographers. This is a collection of garnets (sand grains) that are 0.2 to 0.3 mm across. That's basically du
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by emptybits 4y ago
Page 8 of the report[1] concludes two or fewer standard drinks[2] per week "will likely avoid alcohol related consequences". Three or more standard drinks per week increases breast and colon cancer risk. Seven or more standard dri
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Canada's 2023 Guidance on Alcohol and Health: “0 to 2 standard drinks per week”(ccsa.ca)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|1 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
I had to look that up. Here's research[1][2] from 2019 about "why ice is so slippery", including some of the apparent surprises. I dunno. I'm not a physicist so some of the surprises seem like very minor things to me. Sp
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by emptybits 4y ago
Replying to self ... phosphor rabbit hole ... so I apparently thought P3 was "the" amber phosphor but it may not be so simple. Old Wyse specs claim their amber is P134. And a handful of others are listed here ... https:/&#x2
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by emptybits 4y ago
Love the amber. They were comfortable on the eyes. Nothing remotely blue about them, so maybe "night mode" before it was cool. In the mid/late 90s, I could find surplus Wyse serial terminals, mostly amber, some green, for $50
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We Found Subscription Menus in Our BMW Test Car(caranddriver.com)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|1 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
Jane Street is responsible for the Signals and Threads podcast[1], which I always enjoy. They also contribute a lot to the OCaml language, standard libraries, and do a great job of explaining why OCaml is a great language and paradigm. I&#x
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The Electric Car Sony and Honda Are Working On(motortrend.com)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|0 comments
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"And there’s the nagging question of why the Chinese government didn’t classify this research" Would like to hear informed thoughts on any state's pros and cons of sharing such obviously weaponizable discoveries.
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A Swedish billionaire is buying up California’s video gaming empire(latimes.com)
21 points by emptybits 4y ago|2 comments
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Secret Life of a Children’s Party Princess(narratively.com)
10 points by emptybits 4y ago|1 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
s/a good cup/many cups/ As the article itself points out, unlike computing at scale, nothing about enormous warming urns of coffee ensures a good cup. Reliable and constant.
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by emptybits 4y ago
> But if a hotel starts letting people stay weeks without checking their room, ... Yet I think people regularly stay for weeks with Airbnb/Vrbo without any host inspection or cleaning. I agree with your conclusion (filthy guests w
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by emptybits 4y ago
I didn't know what a "mimic panel" was. Twenty minutes later, I just emerged from a "mimic panel" image search rabbit warren. Satisfying. Thank you!
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by emptybits 4y ago
Kevin Wang, competitive coder: "I also try to minimize the amount of code I write: each line of code is just another chance for a typo." Peter Norvig: This is why AlphaCode learned to write code with one-letter variable names, and
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by emptybits 4y ago
And please collect my fine from my automaker. Their selfdriving AI parked my car where it shouldn't have.
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by emptybits 4y ago
A composite without compensation for at least 1) direction of light sources, 2) colour temperature of light sources, and 3) perspective matching will just look "off". Uncanny valleyish. Maybe that's okay or desired for a very
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by emptybits 4y ago
> One minor correction - no one 'wants' ads. Yes, in 2022. I have ad fatigue. PTSD, even, from the onslaught and effort to avoid them. But I recall a time when I enjoyed ads and actually looked forward to them and paid good m
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by emptybits 4y ago
I hear you. That's part of the joy I seek with AoC. Most years I choose a language I've never worked with commercially (e.g. Fennel in 2022) and rather than reach for prebuilt libs for timesaving fancy array or set or string ops,
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by emptybits 4y ago
Cooking food over fire. Vegetables or meat. Traditional everywhere and all kinds of delicious! :-)
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by emptybits 4y ago
I'm neither Jewish nor Asian, but I do always have a large tin of this delicious Chinese vegetarian barbecue sauce in the fridge with a prominent 卍 on it.[1] It's a fantastic marinade, among other things. Anyways, it resembles a N
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by emptybits 4y ago
I can't think of examples of positive activities in a workplace being best labelled office politics . Help me out? I understand politics , outside of government, to suggest deception or manipulation with hidden motives.
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by emptybits 4y ago
Sure, but in the spirit of these games I guess there needs to be a balance between simplicity and realism. A single roll and table lookup is simple and fun but not finely grained so not realistic if limited to 1D6 or 2D6. So maybe a re-roll
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by emptybits 4y ago
Loved reading this. I was unaware these boxed editions existed but I do recall using my AD&D dice as a kid to make a "baseball" game. I was obsessed with the probability of singles vs doubles vs triples vs home runs at the tim
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Mary Kenneth Keller: the first Ph.D. in computer science in the US (1965)(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by emptybits 4y ago|1 comments
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Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators(techcrunch.com)
6 points by emptybits 4y ago|0 comments

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