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by hrafn 5y ago
A surprisingly delightful concept, I would welcome a repopularization of internet mini-games.
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by hrafn 6y ago
Page 93 of this [0] source (cited in the article) appears to verify the topic of the article. Certain Wikipedia authors finalize their articles in their sandbox and then copy it over, which was done in this case [1] with the sandbox includi
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by hrafn 6y ago
It's worth reading Britannica's response to that study: https://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.... Wikipedia is riddled with far more and far deeper types of errors, I do edit Wikipedia daily
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by hrafn 6y ago
On a Mac, f.lux is not sufficiently strong, what has helped me a lot is to add a strong red color filter (System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Color Filters > Filter Type: Color Tint, set to red, intensity to full). I
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by hrafn 6y ago
Note that the above link cannot be opened by clicking on it, the site redirects away request with a HackerNews referrer. Can still be opened by copying-and-pasting.
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by hrafn 6y ago
May not necessarily have much of an effect, as in this classic example where children who had recently received education on the use of fake sources were unable to spot that an article on the "tree octopus" was made up: https:&#x
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by hrafn 6y ago
The smelteries use hydropower, and the power wasn't just laying around, each smeltery requires building a massive dedicated hydropower plant.
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by hrafn 6y ago
As usual, the university's public relations summary of the paper does not match the claims the paper makes. It makes grandiose claims of debunkings and is written from the point of view of whatever societal issue is popular today (iden
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by hrafn 6y ago
Here's some context: https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/n7wg3w/paypal-tardigr... Likely not due to the Scunthorpe problem like one might expect, but due to an arms dealer having sold weapons thr
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by hrafn 6y ago
You could use this redirect as a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesterton%27s_fence
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by hrafn 6y ago
These kinds of fonts do not help dyslexics at all. Children in fact show a preference for reading in Arial and Times New Roman. Some research has shown that increased letter spacing results in fewer errors, but studies are not unanimous abo