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by funwares 7mo ago
For a real life complement to the film I would highly recommend this 1973 BBC documentary on life on Bishop Rock Lighthouse [0] and this modern day 2025 vlog of a lighthouse worker [1]. Sadly I did not see any mention of monkey pump in eith
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by funwares 9mo ago
Yes, using AI as per the filename "backgroundexpandedusingai" [0], it seems to be an expanded version of this pic from Wikipedia [1] (but blurrier). [0] https://8400e186.delivery.rocketcdn.me/articles/wp-conte
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by funwares 1y ago
Both his Instagram [0] and YouTube pages [1] are still up. He had a habit of uploading screen recordings of his chats with ChatGPT. It looks like fairly standard incomprehensible psychosis messages but it seems notable to me that ChatGPT re
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by funwares 1y ago
Big thanks for the heads up, I had no idea about this. It looks like I will not be able to get any prepaid money back [0] so I will be careful not to put any further money on it. I guess I better start using some of the more expensive APIs
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by funwares 2y ago
I doubt these planned and coordinated attacks on infrastructure are carried out by the same individuals that opportunistically burn cars during New Years Eve.
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by funwares 3y ago
I've been using the Azure Cognitive Services speech recognition and text-to-speech for my own locally run 'speech-to-speech' GPT assistant application. I found the Azure speech recognition to be fantastic, almost never making
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by funwares 4y ago
The IMDb page for the film [0] does appear to have an Emmy win as trivia, but I can't find anything about this documentary on the 2013 Sports Emmy Awards Wikipedia page [1] or its source [2]. It is not listed as 'Outstanding Sport
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by funwares 4y ago
That sounds similar to the Czechoslovak series Pat & Mat [0] which contains almost no dialog, but it became very popular in The Netherlands (as 'Buurman en Buurman', neighbor and neighbor) where Dutch dialog was added. [0] ht
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by funwares 4y ago
From the video it seems as though the script writer (who doesn't speak any Japanese) wrote the script entirely using what he thinks the characters are saying and what he would 'want' them to say. The Wikipedia page for The Wa
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by funwares 5y ago
According to Meduza she's been fined 30k rubles (~€250) https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/1503766710863728647?t=7...
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by funwares 5y ago
This sounds like an extremely uncharitable interpretation of what (if genuine) is a very brave thing to do. For some further information: Marina Ovsyannikova has been charged with "organizing an unauthorized public event" [0]. The
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by funwares 5y ago
Paywalled, anyone have an archive link? A March 11th 2022 John Mearsheimer account on the Russian war in Ukraine sounds extremely interesting.
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by funwares 5y ago
OP's post is from March 8. Yesterday (March 10) the leak was released [0] and judging from a quick glance to the responses it's nothing more than the result of scraping of their websites. No actual source code leaks. https:/
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by funwares 5y ago
Whoops. There are many different uploads of this song and it is hard to tell which is the original (if it is on YouTube in the first place). This one should work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=828xmcujEaI Otherwise, just
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by funwares 5y ago
The bayraktar's performance this war has earned it a Ukrainian war song: https://youtu.be/iiaYZ3tpqRg
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by funwares 5y ago
The first arch [0] has a note that says: > this feature and the sounds of its vibration are sacred to Native American Tribes of the four corners region, and they ask that you listen and share with according respect. Does anyone happen
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by funwares 5y ago
To add specifically to the Lincoln assassination: One of the eyewitnesses appeared on a gameshow as mystery guest in 1956 (shortly before passing away) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RPoymt3Jx4
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by funwares 5y ago
Master boot record From the article: > According to Silas Cutler, a security researcher for Stairwell, KillDisk.NCV doesn’t just destroy local data, but it also damages the master boot record (MBR) section of a hard drive, which prevents
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by funwares 5y ago
Does anyone know what's up with the "xn--*" TLDs? e.g. xn--pssy2u I didn't know TLDs could have dashes or maybe I'm misunderstanding these.
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by funwares 5y ago
The game was called Flappy Bird. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flappy_Bird Though I don't think the term "flappening" is quite as endearing.
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by funwares 5y ago
Works absolutely flawlessly on mobile for me (Android Firefox). The animations are very satisfying and the game is very fun. Fantastic work! edit: This is on OxygenOS 11.1.2.2 and FireFox 96.3.1
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by funwares 5y ago
Could you share an example of a YouTube video that does not have an upload date? I watch quite a lot of YouTube and very frequently look up the date that videos were uploaded. I've never found this information to be missing.
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by funwares 5y ago
Bad cards can be reported on this GitHub discussion page: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wikitrivia/discussions/2
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by funwares 5y ago
Named after Leonardo DiCaprio: > This threatened and spectacular tree is named for the American actor and conservationist Leonardo DiCaprio, who, through several months in 2020, lobbied extensively on social media (e.g. https:/&#x
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by funwares 5y ago
If the topic is early Antarctic exploration then I would highly recommend Roland Huntford's book 'Scott and Amundsen' which serves as a sort of autobiography of arctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, and the
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by funwares 5y ago
Belgium actually had the first winter expedition to the Antarctic in the late 1800s. Although it was mostly Belgian in name only and also a complete disaster, save for a commendable amount of scientific data being collected. https:/&#
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by funwares 5y ago
https://www.damninteresting.com/the-traveler-and-his-baggage... This is one of my favorite long reads of the year, although it is extremely disturbing. HN thread from earlier this year: https://news.ycombinator.c
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by funwares 5y ago
Batavia's Graveyard by Mike Dash is a book I'd highly recommend to anyone wanting to do a deep dive into this truly bizarre story.
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by funwares 5y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1438944431734919175.html
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by funwares 5y ago
The author seems to have gotten the name of the architect wrong, it is 'Dries Kreijkamp' [1]. This video tour [2] makes the buildings look a bit roomier than the pictures, in my opinion. Although the interior is not as modern as t

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