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by idleproc 3y ago
Indeed. I even had a MiniDisc car stereo. So much better than CDs, you could just let them rattle around in the glove box and they didn't get scratched.
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by idleproc 3y ago
X.com Where all the 'cross' people hang out.
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by idleproc 3y ago
I agree that cats kill a lot of birds and something needs to be done about this. However, when you also have articles stating that migratory fish and insect populations have declined by 75% over the last 50 years [1,2] (which clearly isn&#x
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by idleproc 3y ago
A period (full point) is a dot within the sentence, while a full stop is a dot at the end of a sentence. In the 19th-century [1], this terminology was used on both sides of the pond. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by idleproc 3y ago
I read a book about lucid dreaming a while back, and it said something like: the easiest way to tell you are in a dream is to look at something mechanical or complicated. The idea seemed to be: if you could get your dreaming mind to look at
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by idleproc 3y ago
"J’aimerais..." is better translated to "I would like...", n'est-ce pas?
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by idleproc 3y ago
The TechnoCore[0] in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons comes to mind. 0: https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/TechnoCore
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by idleproc 3y ago
I too was at school in the UK during the 80s and 90s and don't have any fond memories. Maybe because it wasn't a school with Latin in the curriculum. I had two science teachers: a young one and one nearing retirement. The young sc
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by idleproc 3y ago
I've not tried it because I transcribe Japanese podcasts, but whisper.cpp[0] seems to support streaming. [0]: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#real-time-audio-inp...
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by idleproc 3y ago
Isn't the reason because the lingua franca of HN is English? If people were posting articles in other languages, there'd be a more representative set of criticism.
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by idleproc 4y ago
Not sci-fi, but the block universe is central to Alan Moore's Jerusalem.
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by idleproc 4y ago
Looking forward to a replacement for https://www.netlifycms.org/
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by idleproc 4y ago
I can imagine a Futurama episode where they put giant bubbles in space and they end up burning everything on the planet like ants under a magnifying glass.
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by idleproc 4y ago
Not to be confused with: https://worlds-longest-website.com/
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He, Who Will Not Reason, Is a Bigot (2018)(quoteinvestigator.com)
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by idleproc 4y ago
Why is this the case though? Take coffee for instance, it's widely grown in South America--is most of the production run by cartels? Or is it just that cannabis is a high-value crop, and it's easier to move the produce around the
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by idleproc 4y ago
> we were afraid that we'd become a place where international criminals come to produce massive amounts of weed legally to then export it illegally I remember a few years back, someone in the Dutch police claimed the Netherlands was
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by idleproc 4y ago
The sushi guy and his tuna is totally a publicity stunt. In this case, I think it helps to consider the mango as art rather than food. It's a similar thing with Koi Carp.
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by idleproc 4y ago
I tend to think of the workings of the mind like those of the body. Some people have minds that lack even basic personal hygiene. Others have minds that could run a marathon every week for a year. Most people are somewhere in-between. This
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by idleproc 4y ago
That 11% figure included 'partly vegetarian'. A more useful study "puts the size of the vegan population at about 2-3% and the vegetarian population at about 5-7%" [1]. From the article, it appears that only 2% of vegans
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by idleproc 4y ago
I used CAD software back in the late 90's called Spirit. The floating point calcs were infuriating. You could draw a bunch of lines with exact length and offset them by exact distances and trim them and they'd all end up x.01mm et
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by idleproc 4y ago
I remember watching the Watership Down film as a young child and being rather disturbed. I think it set me up well for watching Nightmare on Elm Street when I was about 9 though. However, I've turned into a fairly well rounded individ
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by idleproc 4y ago
My Grandad taught me how to make Marmite sandwiches. Spread butter on one slice of bread until you can no longer see the bread underneath. Spread Marmite on the other slice of bread until you can no longer see the bread underneath. Combine.
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by idleproc 4y ago
> Surly there is a solution out there for reducing polarization. Well, there's compassion. But that's always been rather difficult, and seems to have fallen out of fashion... Maybe you meant a technical solution though.
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by idleproc 4y ago
It's basically an adverisement for an upcoming TV show. Popular science needs to be accessible and entertaining, which is generally at odds with the cold hard facts. New Scientist often has me eye-rolling in this regard.
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by idleproc 4y ago
I think it's easier to label these images as 'creative' than it is to label them as 'art'. Art is a very slippery subject (it's subjective). Personally, I'd be happy seeing many of these images on an acid
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by idleproc 4y ago
I would like to point out that this quote comes from Shaw's play 'Man and Superman'. Specifically, from an appendix to the play 'Maxims for Revolutionists'[1], written by the character John Tanner. Have a read throu
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by idleproc 4y ago
1) Sure there's a lot of work for that kind of thing but creatives typically earn a pittance. I doubt an AI could meet your specific requirements without having to spend hours(?) tweaking it or sifting through countless variations for
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by idleproc 4y ago
I imagine it will affect artists much the same way wordpress has affected web designers. Maybe everyone will have an AI image as their desktop wallpaper, but if you've got cash you'll want something with provenance and rarity to b
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by idleproc 4y ago
Lynx kept the defenders away so I scored more goals, and the Predators made me look like Beckham...

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