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by unsignedchar 5mo ago
Yes but both the Maurya and Gupta empires have been estimated to have reached over 30% in their time.
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by unsignedchar 5mo ago
But were you trying to learn CSS in the first place?
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by unsignedchar 5mo ago
it may not be meaningful for you (the user), but usually has benefits for the provider, from binding arbitration clauses in the ToS to deeper commercial suveillance. https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/27/shit-sha
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by unsignedchar 5mo ago
the museum is small but excellent; it has a wall covered just in Dire Wolf skulls found there
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by unsignedchar 10mo ago
Interesting collection but mostly focused on western world and mixing different eras so feels incoherent, like a low-effort ‘content creation’
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by unsignedchar 11mo ago
Can someone come up with a conversion factor for context window sizes to glacier depletion?
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by unsignedchar 2y ago
> So it seems like Apple was looking to build their own processors even before the iPhone became huge (the original iPhone only sold around 7M units while iPods were selling around 50M/year at the same time). This is almost certainl
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by unsignedchar 2y ago
The acquisition of PA Semi was announced in April 2008, so it is possible discussions were already in progress by the time of the first iPhone launch
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by unsignedchar 3y ago
> The third AR thing I saw was the loading screen of Super Fruit Ninja, which allows you to throw a strawberry at a pig that’s running around on your floor. This seems slightly less historic. That seemed to me the most historic if true!
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by unsignedchar 3y ago
embedded systems/firmware where the same code may need to be built for multiple HW platforms/cpu architectures.
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They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines–and Started a Cold War(wired.com)
4 points by unsignedchar 3y ago|1 comments
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by unsignedchar 3y ago
Gruber had a fun take on this https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/translation_yaccarino_x
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by unsignedchar 3y ago
Does this have anything to do with decline in public education?
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
> you could assume that people of color simply didn't exist back then Places where people of color have been making art for a few thousand years would beg to differ.
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
There are also multiple issuings of the same recording, sometimes from multiple remasters, or from different new labels for historic recordings (like Furtwanger’s pre-1945 recordings). Often those have significant differences due to differe
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
> well it can’t do my dishes or clean the house the correct response would have been "yet"
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
Yeah that was weird. How were we using vim for 20 years before that book ?
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
vim has had these keybindings/controls as primary features for decades, and people that have these in their muscle memory the benefits have accrued over a long time and a number of different platforms.
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
Banff has quite a few of them so sounds like LA should be able to afford more than one https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/as-banffs-famed-wildl...
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
Agreed. A related point: it is often hard for someone who’s not into some specific interest, to know which attributes make something better. Like most people don’t have the same standards of freshness for coffee beans as coffee needs (and
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
A similar dynamic seems to play out for apps of health insurance companies, where the typical user with employer-provided insurance doesn’t get to choose the provider
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
There are Japanese curry places in SoCal that charge extra (~25-50c per level IIRC) per spice level. Since I couldn’t handle any more than 2/10 I found that a win-win :)
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
From the Atlantic profile of MBS earlier this year: “What struck me was that Neom’s vision is really an anti-vision. It is the opposite of the old Saudi Arabia. In the old Saudi Arabia, and even to an extent today, corruption and bureaucrac
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by unsignedchar 4y ago
Yes there was an extract in NYT comparting the issues with baby formula in 2008 China with 1850s New York https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/opinion/30wilson.html
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by unsignedchar 5y ago
> The police officer who visited Kuppalli after a second death-threat call suggested she should get herself a gun. Welcome to the South
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by unsignedchar 5y ago
That’s a pretty old idea, but Intuit and H & R Block have spent substantial money blocking that legislation
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by unsignedchar 5y ago
> So she began to talk to the team’s engineers, to learn about the metaphors they used to describe the nature of the machine. That’s when she remembered her hypercube logo, which became the model for her industrial design. What a poor pi
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by unsignedchar 5y ago
Going by his tweet it sounds like at this point he’s mainly riled up about how Apple is presenting the case in public, rather than whatever settlement they reached in private.
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by unsignedchar 5y ago
Do you have a recommendation for an rss reader that works with youtube?
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by unsignedchar 5y ago
Headline is typical clickbait, but the article is more nuanced and interesting

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