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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to …

Chris fix is an awesome channel for working on your car. He covers everything from fluid changes to transmission replacements. Great production quality and extremely engaging. http…

Yeah... Just have to remember that the year comes before the time zone but after the seconds :clown: No idea where that came from. Probably the time format from the punchcard machi…

From the docs, the magic reference date: 01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700 So that's why it's in 2006, since you asked. https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-constants

Framework owner, here. I think this is all totally fair. You are getting less laptop for the same price. I will put a couple of nits here: > * No dedicated GPU options, period. It …

Hi, I own a framework laptop. * The magnetic bezel works great and I've had no problems with it at all. It's completely secure and you pretty much need to lever it off with your fi…

If you like gaming, a dance pad and Stepmania is a fun, awesome, and cheap way to get some high quality cardio. Playing on easy modes is like walking. Once you build up some skill,…

Same.. This is just a mirror though, so at least you can browse it more sanely over on Gerrit. https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/368254

Signal stores messages on their servers until they're delivered at which point they're purged. Additionally, Signal's encryption scheme gives their messages the "forward secrecy" p…

I am, and you can too! https://signal.org/donate/

No system is powerful enough to prove all of the facts about natural numbers, right?

Excellent! I usually just type up my SQL in triple quotes and execute it from python, which gives me a little bit of templating too. Excited to give this a try (and start using mor…

Sounds like he's talking about the bullet cluster... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster Although that's a colliding pair of galaxy clusters. I'm not currently aware of an…

See also the anglish wiki which imagines a more Germanic English with made up Germanic words replacing French, Latin, etc. https://anglish.fandom.com/wiki/Main_leaf

I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere so I thought I'd post it to see what you all think... IANAL, IMHO, etc. I searched for one of the unique tokens in the docs: https://www.goog…

You use ammonia to add nitrogen to crops. Making ammonia is an extremely energy intensive process that already contributes about 2-3% of global carbon emmissions. [1] So you could …

Yeah security is not really "proveable" in any software system. However, a few points to consider: 1. The signal server can't "see" the group. Clients are just sending N messages t…

Reading about the usefulness of logs reminded me of another spatial math tool: The Triangle of Power! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULa9Lc4pck

This isn't exactly a case where a machine beats a game, but if you want to get an idea of how such a machine would need to think, and if you want to see someone apply a lot of inte…

Calling people hipsters is the most hipster thing of all. Source: am a hipster.

Awesome.. I'm just reading Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson. This is pretty much the technology that that they use to cool their 300KW sci-fi computers :)

Right, that's definitely the intent of shorthand, but it works better when you have someone dedicated to processing the captured conversation. If I tried to transcribe my notes fro…

I've been teaching myself Gregg simplified since late last year. I probably put in 30 minutes a day, and an hour or two on the weekends. First of all, it's very fun (the main reaso…

B is where you overfit your model and D is where oops actually we didn't profit :(

A good podcast on the risks of semi-automation: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/children-of-the-magen...