pulvinar

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by pulvinar 6d ago
Sorry but for the record, that's a frequently repeated but unsourced misattribution. Earliest variant found is from 1951.
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by pulvinar 8d ago
Maybe it was thinking it would be like 2600? https://www.2600.com
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by pulvinar 12d ago
Futurama covered this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasites_Lost
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by pulvinar 1mo ago
The earliest I could find in newspapers is December 1978 ($169 in Danbury CT). Lots of other products named "Concept II" too.
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by pulvinar 1mo ago
The chart defaults to ending at 2025. Move the right timeline marker all the way to the right (today).
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by pulvinar 2mo ago
Jump down to the Cause section. Millions of high-powered electric kettles being switched on during a popular show's break.
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by pulvinar 2mo ago
You're probably looking for Koomey's Law, though it has also slowed down.
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by pulvinar 2mo ago
If you're looking for farmers who aren't averse to tech, there are a number with YouTube channels. They're also the sort who love to talk to people. That may skew their opinions from the norm, of course.
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by pulvinar 3mo ago
The trick for trees is capillaries, which change the equation. The 10 meter limit only applies to larger columns. With capillaries there's a high negative tension that allows evaporation from leaves to pull the xylem sap up 100 meters
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by pulvinar 3mo ago
Not flat between the wheel wells (42.9"), but on top of them. There's a photo (don't know if it's real though). https://www.slateforums.com/forum/threads/slate-truck-dimens...
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by pulvinar 3mo ago
"Ads may appear for users on the Free and Go plans" and "we will not show ads in accounts where the user tells us or we predict that they are under 18" Could be that based on your prompts it had just decided you were an
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by pulvinar 5mo ago
rlwimi was a nice one, especially for emulators. And it also had eieio, Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O.
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by pulvinar 5mo ago
It's unrelated to the book, other than the title.
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by pulvinar 6mo ago
The goal here is neutral buoyancy when in gravity so that it behaves as though there were no gravity. Put a bag of water in water and it floats like the rest of the water, gravity or no.
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by pulvinar 6mo ago
In System Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts > App Shortcuts, add the shortcut: app Safari, name "Quit Safari", command-option-Q. This will leave command-Q doing nothing, yet still allow you to quit. Repeat for other apps.
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by pulvinar 7mo ago
That outfit was typical of clowns in 1890, and often used in the opera Pagliacci about a clown. [0] < http://1890swriters.blogspot.com/2015/10/victorian-clowns-an... > [1] < https://en.wikipedia.o
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by pulvinar 7mo ago
If it’s showing surface winds, it goes up. On windy.com there’s an altitude slider that lets you choose which wind level you’re looking at. Haven’t found that yet here.
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by pulvinar 7mo ago
I'd like to see the internet return to those who aren't putting it out there for money, so AI companies (and anyone else) hoovering it up wouldn't bother them. Sharing should be the point. Would also result in fewer sites wit
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by pulvinar 8mo ago
GPT5.2 does catch it and warns to not trust anything else in the post, saying no competent person would confuse these units. I wonder if even the simplest LLM would make this particular mistake.
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by pulvinar 10mo ago
That's odd. ChatGPT (5.1) tells me Safari does not open an audio capture session for 'capability negotiation' that would show the mic icon. I assume you have Safari > Settings > Websites > Microphone > facebook.
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by pulvinar 10mo ago
ChatGPT 5.1-Thinking, after having this pointed out: Short answer: no, your version isn’t the classic one, and my previous answer treated it as if it were. That was me pattern-matching too fast.
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by pulvinar 10mo ago
"One test, called a destructive physical analysis, involved dismantling small cylindrical batteries. This immediately revealed differences in quality."
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by pulvinar 10mo ago
Title I see: "CPython may go Rusty, but older platforms risk getting iced out"
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by pulvinar 10mo ago
There are other possibilities, the most likely being that the slide was already in the process of breaking when the child used it last, and he noticed that before others did.
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by pulvinar 10mo ago
Yes, I've seen occasional strange responses to seemingly innocuous prompts. Often a retry will succeed, but I've had to give up on some. I doubt it's the model itself in most cases, as it doesn't have much introspection.
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by pulvinar 1y ago
In US cities they have substations and neighborhood stations. I'd guess one of those.
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by pulvinar 1y ago
It's easy to miss: ChatGPT now has a "branch to new chat" option to branch off from any reply.
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by pulvinar 1y ago
I remember having a lot of colds as a kid but haven't had one for years now. I may have gained immunity to a good number of the 200+ different types.
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by pulvinar 1y ago
Ask ChatGPT to explain what it's drawing as it adds parts. It's usually more successful. Or at least entertaining. Reminds me of how a young child draws.
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by pulvinar 1y ago
On the Mac, Final Cut Pro 7 to X was infamous. And Aperture 3.6 to anything recommended to replace it.

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