shagie

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by shagie 4d ago
The 10,000,000,000 (1 : 10B) scale would be kind of neat for Australia. Six soccer fields in Sydney and you've got the Sun to Pluto. One soccer field holds the Sun to Jupiter.... Alpha Centauri is in Perth. The speed of light is 100
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by shagie 5d ago
> ... I completely lose the ability to be a good worker bee ... Caffeine in Floral Nectar Enhances a Pollinator's Memory of Reward - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1228806 > Caffeine improv
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by shagie 5d ago
Because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49658682 wasn't posted until 8 minutes after your comment.
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by shagie 6d ago
While it hasn't been updated in a long while (2009)... Flowers in Ultraviolet http://www.naturfotograf.com/UV_flowers_list.html#top and http://www.naturfotograf.com/uvstart.html#top (note: I'm lo
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by shagie 6d ago
Photos of photos has always been a problem. In days of old, a Polaroid photo was considered "proof of capture". I've got a Polaroid daylab 35 plus sitting in storage somewhere ( https://www.instantoptions.com/w
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by shagie 6d ago
If The Moon Were Only 1 Pixel (A tediously accurate scale model of the solar system) https://www.joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsys... has a button at the bottom right for 'C' which scrolls
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by shagie 7d ago
From further back, https://gamelab.mit.edu/games/a-slower-speed-of-light/ and https://theandelope.itch.io/a-slower-speed-of-light ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731749 284
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by shagie 7d ago
He has proper hearing aids - I'm not sure of the specific brand. They can be controlled via an app (and bluetooth). He's got a clip on microphone that goes directly to the hearing aids which sometimes goes on the table if he re
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by shagie 7d ago
It's a 15 second loop of audio history. If you didn't record the bit a minute ago, it's gone. A short buffer is common with wake word audio processing.
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by shagie 7d ago
https://youtu.be/Pe2ugye7Ya4?si=qhGPselIm7sZkXyP&t=558 ( My father has hearing aids and in some environments, it doesn't work well (directional vs omnidirectional ... but directional requires the person to directly
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by shagie 8d ago
I'm not sure if I'm working with ChatGPT Images 2.5 or 2.0 here... The original photo I took was at https://www.reddit.com/r/Tovala/comments/1pfuwrb/meatloaf_pa... - it's a cheeseburger me
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by shagie 8d ago
Have you ever read "Travel by Wire!"? It was the first story that Arthur C. Clarke published. It's... youthful in its writing. Or how about Pebble in the Sky? > Boucher and McComas were disappointed by the novel, saying t
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by shagie 9d ago
Old books... are a "find a copy in used book stores." They're fairly out of print now. The problem being "reasonably priced". If you're driving through the midwest, divert to Forsyth, IL and stop at the Old B
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by shagie 9d ago
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Collapsing-Empire-Audiobook/B... https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Consuming-Fire-Audiobook/B07H... https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Last-E
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by shagie 9d ago
The first one was very much written in an homage to Starship Troopers and it was an early work of his. His very first one was Agent to the Stars ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_to_the_Stars#Publication... - ava
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by shagie 9d ago
On YouTube, I stumbled across the channel "Daddy rolled a 1" which does long form (often an hour long and sometimes closing in on two hours long) deep dives into the early D&D "why was it done that way?" I forget whi
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by shagie 10d ago
The one that caught me off guard was Old Man's War by John Scalzi as best series. > The Hugo Award for Best Series is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in or translated into Engl
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by shagie 11d ago
Then why does the site that hosts the text of the GDPR list the following cookies on its cookie consent page? https://eur-lex.europa.eu/content/legal-notice/legal-notice.... Stores your cookie preferences (s
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by shagie 11d ago
A site that serves static content, with no logging in or advertising on it that uses its data internally without attaching any identity to it still needs to have a cookie banner. It demonstrates to the rest of the world how to be compliant
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by shagie 12d ago
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng is the link for the GPDR. There's a cookie banner there describing how their analytics cookies will track you for 13 months, 6 months, and 365
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by shagie 12d ago
If the EU is unable to separate itself from pages of analytics and tracking cookies and fifteen third party providers (YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and so on), then "most of the other ones you see" are likewise compelled to
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by shagie 12d ago
There's a cookie banner on https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en and https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj/eng
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by shagie 12d ago
With a two-stone handicap, Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo. Or Go grandmaster Shin, playing with a two-stone handicap, defeats AI KataGo.
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by shagie 13d ago
Going back through history... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426337 was apparently the final straw.
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by shagie 16d ago
For any wondering, that book is also available on internet archive. https://archive.org/details/robotsexsocialet0000unse
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by shagie 16d ago
> If I had to pick a product, I'd say an affordable 32GB mac would be the sweet spot for running local models that function well like Qwen 3.8. https://www.canirun.ai (five months ago: https://news.ycombinator
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by shagie 16d ago
Machine sex and other stories by Candas Jane Dorsey - https://archive.org/details/machinesexothers0000dors/page/76...
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by shagie 20d ago
My unhappy dwarves would beg to differ. https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/zljs63/one_o...
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by shagie 20d ago
> AI forces us to confront an issue that's often come up in science fiction - when you encounter a new kind of creature, how do you decide if they are sentient? One of the series that I think is most interesting on that topic is the
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by shagie 21d ago
There's a video that expands on Tim Curry's time with the muppets: The Muppets Brought Out the Best in Tim Curry https://youtu.be/XzU8f4HaQw0 > In this video, we look at why Tim Curry’s Long John Silver works s

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