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Donald L. Unger got an Ig-nobel prize for cracking the knuckles on only one hand for 60 years. n=1 but evidence over a very long time

Agreed. Also being able to use as many aliases as you like (or a catch-all) is very nice.

I started hosting my email at home some months ago and it works great. However, my ISP blocks some ports necessary for running a mailserver (incoming SMTP), so I have to use an SMT…

There is the --encode (and --decode) options for the `protoc` executable, e.g. `cat myobject.json | protoc --encode MyObject protofile.proto > myobject.bin`

Numberphile has a video with Persi Diaconis about the seven perfect shuffles. It gives a lot of insight and anectdotes in addition to the central theorem: https://youtu.be/AxJubaij…

There's this numberphile video where Persi Diaconis tells a story about bridge and how the players got used to not totally random shuffled decks: https://youtu.be/RIGJH12vVCY?si=cM…

Discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26591669

I interpreted it another way: the boxes are what connects the past to this written story. Without the boxes most details would be forgotten and this article wouldn't exist. The doc…

I didn't know CMake introduced this debug adapter. This would have been very useful to me at some occasions. Instead, I used printf debugging (aka `message(FATAL_ERROR )` debugging…

I think this is a great introduction to logical thinking and coding. The overcooked scripting layer looks awesome and very polished. Reminds me a bit of Scratch (the programming la…

For the part which talks about turbulence damping, this page illustrates how this looks like on a smaller plane: https://turbulence-solutions.aero/technology/ (Not affiliated, just…

This principle is also highly relevant in safety critical systems for using redundant sensors. Just adding a second sensor is often not enough. Because if they disagree, which one …

Looking forward to the early bird launch. JMAP support from an email provider (other than fastmail) is great. Additionally, this seems like a good way to fund thunderbird apart fro…

Another fun thing are these stable diffusion/controlnet combinations which create QR codes that at the same are AI generated art. e.g. qrdiffusion or qrbtf

Does a Banana Pi BPi-M5 fit your specs? The banana pis have pretty good networking options.

The reported 119GB vs. 128GB according to spec is because 128GB (1e9 bytes) equals 119GiB (2^30 bytes).

off topic: What's the font this website uses for the code? The font ligatures seem nice, but I also would have to get used to reading code like that.

I found this course very helpful if you're interested in a bit of math (but all very well explained): https://diffusion.csail.mit.edu/ It is short, with good lecture notes and has …

It's just an ad for their SSH cert service... I feel like for SSH certs to expand beyond large companies, there's the need for an open-source service which does the issuing of shor…

Can anyone recommend a site for buying DRM free books so I can read it with KOReader?

Denying math has a tradition among politicians: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malcolm_Turnbull

Mathematically, what you need is the binomial coefficient ("n choose k"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_coefficient

GrapheneOS on a Pixel is probably the most polished and secure experience. I have installed it (and enabled sandboxed Google services) on my mom's phone (she's pretty non-technical…