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Cool story with an interesting ending (to me at least). Just a tiny nit... Should "Brewed as directed for 4 minutes in boiling water." be "Brewed as directed for 4 minutes in boile…

And then we add the diminutives like Kolichka. Though, admittedly, there's much more of a pattern there.

I assumed that in urban USA the map would be fairly complete and opportunities for edits would be somewhat rare. My assumption was very wrong. The app showed a dozen quests just ou…

Borderlands 2 (BL2). I love the characters, the writing and the story. Handsome Jack is my favorite villain of all time. The game play mechanics feel good to me. The difficulty lev…

"The darker colours are points that were updated closer to 2007 and the brighter colours closer to December of last year." It's possible that this area was just more recently updat…

I pick a category, like fruits and vegetables or cars, and then try to come up with a word in that category that starts with every letter of the alphabet in order. To keep it relax…

From the Introduction: "Each satellite may carry traffic for dozens of independent networks through an array of on-board transponders, each covering a diameter of thousands of kilo…

"Unbreakable: The Western States 100" [1] came to mind after you reminded me of the Barkley documentary. “The Barkley Marathons, the race that eats it’s young” seems more human and…

What's the method for connecting the watch to the Internet? Garmin Bounce [0] has some of the features on your list and many more (like on-watch LTE). I don't believe it includes t…

The author says that they tend to load all of the assets on init. This sidesteps the issue of the C#'s garbage collector (GC). I am not a C# developer, but seem to recall reading t…

I am not at all familiar with C# development, but the author mentions Native-AOT, which, from a cursory look, seems like a C# compiler. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/cor…

No BIOS necessary when we're talking about bare metal systems. printf() will just resolve to a low-level UART-based routine that writes to a FIFO to be played out to the UART when …

Tangential to this... Wright brothers lived and worked in Ohio, but the first flight happened in North Carolina due to its wind conditions and soft sand. In the early 2000's (if I …

That's what Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) is trying to accomplish. https://contentauthenticity.org/how-it-works

PyTorch The book's code repo: https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch

The basketball thing can be such a shit show. As a parent of a kid that fell in love with basketball, did travel AAU basketball and ended up playing for a D3 college, I've experien…

Starlink to T-Mobile is using PCS spectrum (1850 – 1990 MHz) licensed to T-Mobile to provide Directo-to-Cell (DTC) service, not whole 5G spectrum.

To add to what others have posted... Activity (i.e. running, walking, cycling, etc.) FIT files are found in the GARMIN/Activity directory on the watch after connecting it to a comp…

Look into driving apps designed to track miles driven by learners who are working towards their full driver's license. My state's DMV requires a driving log with start/stop times a…

Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932225

The book has been on my shelf for a long while, and I haven't read it yet, but I really like the full title "Mistakes Were Made, but Not by Me: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad …

That's my favorite book as well. I came to it much later than college, and still found so much wisdom in it.

Garmin has rolled out a sleep mode feature that makes the AMOLED watch face sparsely populated, and you can set the brightness to the lowest setting for sleep mode. Compared to my …

They probably mean "on-board" instead of "on-chip". Data sheet [0] section "5.4 Powerchain" shows an external RT6150 buck-boost switcher with an external inductor. 0: https://datas…

When I think of "sport" I think of "fitness" watches from Garmin and Apple Watch. Patek sport watch is definitely not that. What is meant by "sport" in case of the Patek sport watc…