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by kwoff 3d ago
Reminds me of https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/runaway-black-hole-nea... A supermassive blackhole drawing in dust on such a scale that it's creating new stars in its wake as it zips by. (The picture is m
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by kwoff 22d ago
Susskind's book does also mention that the event-horizon shenanigans are due to coordinates and not a physical thing. Certainly I'd trust what he says rather than me, so sorry if I was misleading. (If anyone has the book, it is ch
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by kwoff 22d ago
Or read Susskind's "The Theoretical Minimum: General Relativity". For a non-spinning blackhole at least, not only is the singularity not a point, it is a surface in time, not space (as the book explains, the space and time co
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by kwoff 26d ago
I play a self-playing game with sites that do that. I click the Block Site (Firefox extension) button, and the site never appears again. Talk about easy mode! :)
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by kwoff 1mo ago
Obligatory: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4234491 (tchrist's "Oh Yes You Can Use Regexes to Parse HTML!", which refers to https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/459233 "TONY TH
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by kwoff 2mo ago
In the 1800s recycled wool called "shoddy" was invented, or at least began being mass-produced: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycled_wool "Rag and bone men" https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by kwoff 5mo ago
Exactly. Before google came out in I think 1998, I had several bookmarked sites like excite.com, altavista, dogpile, yahoo, and yes askjeeves. You kinda had a feeling for which one would be good for which kind of search. But then google cam
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by kwoff 9mo ago
> Without them making a statement of how long they will provide security updates They said this: What version of Android will be supported? Communicator will run Android 16. We’re comfortable committing to 2 years of Android updat
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by kwoff 9mo ago
Perl's "decline" means there is some metric to measure how high Perl is. It was higher, but now it is lower. I don't think the metric is well-defined, though.
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by kwoff 9mo ago
I hope this doesn't come off as argumentative. You said that with Python "In two days I had what I wanted", but another way of looking at it: in a week of not succeeding in Perl plus those two days in Python, you had what you
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by kwoff 10mo ago
https://www.toyota.com/privacyvts/#:~:text=Declining,analysi... so you apparently have to opt-out of consenting to them tracking you...
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by kwoff 10mo ago
- weird sigil rules where the 0 element of @x is $x[0] not @x[0] '@' and '%' indicate containers, while '$' is a scalar (which containers can contain). So '$x[0]' is referring to a scalar with
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by kwoff 10mo ago
11 em dashes
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by kwoff 11mo ago
Not sure if it counts as "really works", but on Windows with PowerToys you can enable Keyboard Manager and 'Remap a key'. (Might want to remap right-Ctrl to CapsLock, in case it turns CapsLock on.) There's also old
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by kwoff 11mo ago
(re OG physics) Sheldon Glashow is still around, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Glashow
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by kwoff 1y ago
I haven't incorporated Anki yet, but I guess a similar idea would be Memrise. My experience with that for Korean was that it was too intense in the beginning, since it was throwing random (though basic) phrases of like 9 syllables at m
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by kwoff 1y ago
"However, De Vos (2005:59) points out that try and may not be preceded by both: " [example] "John will both try and kill mosquitos." Then the next sentence has " try and is available only when both try and the
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by kwoff 1y ago
It's kinda ironic, since one of the three "virtues" of a Perl programmer is hubris, heh. (re nobody codes in Perl: I still do professionally, and I'll probably never understand why it draws so much hate)
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by kwoff 1y ago
"This also strongly suggests that sleep and hunger are both tied to mitochondrial function and energy balance (the latter was already pretty clear!), and that aerobic organisms are constantly adjusting for both fueling their mitochondr
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by kwoff 1y ago
"He also helped to create an advanced physics course for M.I.T. freshmen with more than a rudimentary knowledge of the subject. He and Robert J. Kolenkow wrote a 2013 textbook for the course, “An Introduction to Mechanics.”" I use
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by kwoff 1y ago
"She wrapped her arms around my shoulder and said, “My father too.” She gently reached for my hands and introduced me to the group. “She’s a third-generation sirhyangmin (실향민). She’s traveled across the ocean to join us here today. She
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by kwoff 1y ago
That was hilarious. Also kudos for paying a person instead of using AI to generate it.
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by kwoff 1y ago
Dlang always makes me think of two things: Walter Bright, resident of Hacker News. And awesome games I played on Linux in the 2000s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABA_Games
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by kwoff 1y ago
There's a paper that suggests that de-oxygenation might happen in around a billion years, so before the sun swallows the earth: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00693-5
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by kwoff 1y ago
"MCP is very nearly just a vague set of ideas, a hallucination of a specification, appropriate to the current era, where even the constitution is just a suggestion. A ~~ vibe protocol ~~." Oh, goodie.
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by kwoff 2y ago
"Carnot’s book was largely disregarded by the scientific community, and he died several years later of cholera. His body was burned, as were many of his papers." Poetic? albeit depressing.
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by kwoff 2y ago
I know it's about programming, but I have a thought experiment I think about occasionally. Imagine a universe with one point particle. There's no time or space. Add another particle. The particles can either be separate or at the
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by kwoff 2y ago
Oh man, we have a certain email template at work, and the marketing team wanted to redesign that email; for some reason (broken communication, things out of the blue by company who bought ours, blabla), the designer thinks it's appropr
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by kwoff 2y ago
I've had celiac for over a quarter century, but my first thought seeing the headline was something like "oh no, another thing to look for?" Then I realized, like you said, it probably depends on how it's made. Not to exa
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by kwoff 2y ago
I'm not sure I agree that nothing can change your perception, but I'm definitely interested to hear what you consider a "few other foundational sources". Shakespeare? Einstein? Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?

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