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This is really cool, and I appreciated your reverse engineering.

For all the people asking whether or not it is exactly a thousand words or only more or less than that, I think it is very plain from the content. For example: > "Write 1,000 words…

#1 is Dungeons and Dragons, except for the word 'video' game.

> it has successfully drilled to a depth of 100 meters, a milestone... Nope that's a 0.1kilometerstone.

I actually can't find the answer on either of the linked pages, so it would be good to know. And I think people's experience is more important than the claims in these discussions.…

Do you think I was wrong about this one? Maybe. I'm usually fairly forgiving about it and like to err on the side of being generous to the individual but in this case it seemed ver…

I found the agressively staccato, clearly LLM-generated content extremely difficult to read.

> "Aagh, the aunt fell!" // "Oh yes, that'd be Newton" This is totally lost on me.

I think your 3k figure comes from here - It is explained: > As judges, the professors then completed 2,918 blinded, forced-choice comparisons (median per judge: 200), each time ind…

I laughed out loud when I understood the author's profile photo at the end of the article!

> Not long ago there was this dude here ... *dudette! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144

Over the last week, I've encountered Bitwarden rejecting my master password - especially when exporting my passwords after the recent kerfuffle. I thought it was just me but my wif…

They were very sweary.

In the business, we often refer to that sort of reminder activity as "defending" against genericism. Practice varies by country but the point is often to show that you are not pass…

Yes, but it means something different to the name of the country. It means a region.

I totally disagree with this! I think it's very important for experts to be able to adapt to their opinions based on evidence.

> Your writings made me wonder in which discipline you got your doctor’s degree. Is this a horrible sideswipe or do people think it was intended frankly?

The author has been using parenthetical comments like that since at least 2017, judging by a review of old posts on that site.

As in 'please', from 'if you please'?

> I work with senior citizens and tried to explain how to parse the domain in the URL by looking for the first forward "/" after the "https://" and then scan backwards but they fin…

I'd pay to cook with WiFi. Just imagine the signal strength!

Language: Metallica lyrics ( https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=metallica+lyrics ) Input: happy birthday. Did you get any nice presents? It's nice to see you. Output: Another y…

Not according to https://numberresearch.xyz/info most searched: 69 29504 searches 67 13640 searches edit: ...presumably due to the HN effect, 69 has jumped up to ~33k while 67 stag…

There are no units of exercise and no units of depression either. In my opinion the best measure of exercise is perceived effort. So while you're asking for objective answers, I th…

This is a big part of whatmade me take up knitting as a hobby – one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done.