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One that comes to mind was the manuals and bits and pieces that came with Infocom text-based adventure games. They were nice bits of cruft to have alongside the actual game but in …

Ironically, I can't see your image because Imgur assumes my VPN is malicious and rejects traffic from it. (Instead of saying this, it lies about being over capacity. This situation…

Useful idea. I, and many peers, are your target market. However, this looks like it might be US centric, based on searches in the merchant/wallet search on the main page. Is it? Mi…

That is all the Harry Potter books in one .txt file, hosted on Github.

You might enjoy this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41942096

My understanding from the paper is there is no difference between 4, 8, 12, and 40Hz frequencies on the neurobiologcial effects, but I found the 8Hz a bit less comfortable than the…

Paul's animation wasn't playing at an even rate for me, for some reason, so I created two video versions (8Hz and 12Hz) with the 16 second on/off period, starting with an off perio…

Indeed. I anticipate the next Post Office Scandal(1,2) attributed to LLMs. 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal 2 https://www.postofficescandal.uk/

The icon is the teal/white circle just in line and to the right of the social media icons at the bottom of the page. I missed it on first glance and would have no idea what it did.…

More a reformulation of Clark's third law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

Considering you can fly from London to Chișinău for around £36 at present ($45) on a low cost EU airline, then it probably isn't. The Telegraph is a right leaning newspaper for a w…

As a palette cleanser and loin girder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U (You already guessed it was Mike Monteiro.) For this project: Did they refuse to pay actively ("W…

The exhaust fumes of capitalist engines optimising for a single variable.

Eh ... they should focus on customer experience rather than AI. As a customer unable to remove a credit card from my account, despite the service being inactive and cancelled, beca…

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Somewhat reminds me of another story from the same decade, of a 30 year old man attending a Scottish high school: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60081503

Sadly, for us, comparisons are moot, as what was previously a rejection of our phone number for verification has become an instant account suspension when once again attempting to …

I don't have the time to set up Asterisk but this story inspired me to generate a collection of handy random DTMF tones that could semi-automate a mute and mash approach. Enjoy. ht…

Although the actual audio quality seems low on playback (a low bitrate MP3?) the structure and arrangement of the song seem fine. Yet ... the irony of a song of worship created by …

While not technically a demo scene demo, in 1952 Sandy Douglas pushed the EDSAC to play a game of noughts and crosses (OXO) on its cathode ray tubes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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So far, after asking if the system had an API, and giving me the link, it tried to gaslight me into thinking heypi.com/api doesn't 404 for several exchanges, and then asked me for …

It appears the only way to sign up is with a Google account. (I know that is a solution suggested by OpenAI for user authentication.) Will there be an option for email, for those o…

Nice UI. Speaks succinctly and with authority. Statefulness is a bit iffie. Lies with impunity. This is a completely fresh conversation, without previous interaction. *Hello! How d…

Non-physics person here: > General Relativity is the theory that explains how gravity works. Okay. I've heard about general and special relativity but I wouldn't be able to differe…