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Indeed. I even had a MiniDisc car stereo. So much better than CDs, you could just let them rattle around in the glove box and they didn't get scratched.

X.com Where all the 'cross' people hang out.

I agree that cats kill a lot of birds and something needs to be done about this. However, when you also have articles stating that migratory fish and insect populations have declin…

A period (full point) is a dot within the sentence, while a full stop is a dot at the end of a sentence. In the 19th-century [1], this terminology was used on both sides of the pon…

I read a book about lucid dreaming a while back, and it said something like: the easiest way to tell you are in a dream is to look at something mechanical or complicated. The idea …

"J’aimerais..." is better translated to "I would like...", n'est-ce pas?

The TechnoCore[0] in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons comes to mind. 0: https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/TechnoCore

I too was at school in the UK during the 80s and 90s and don't have any fond memories. Maybe because it wasn't a school with Latin in the curriculum. I had two science teachers: a …

I've not tried it because I transcribe Japanese podcasts, but whisper.cpp[0] seems to support streaming. [0]: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#real-time-audio-inp...

Isn't the reason because the lingua franca of HN is English? If people were posting articles in other languages, there'd be a more representative set of criticism.

Not sci-fi, but the block universe is central to Alan Moore's Jerusalem.

Looking forward to a replacement for https://www.netlifycms.org/

I can imagine a Futurama episode where they put giant bubbles in space and they end up burning everything on the planet like ants under a magnifying glass.

Not to be confused with: https://worlds-longest-website.com/

Why is this the case though? Take coffee for instance, it's widely grown in South America--is most of the production run by cartels? Or is it just that cannabis is a high-value cro…

> we were afraid that we'd become a place where international criminals come to produce massive amounts of weed legally to then export it illegally I remember a few years back, som…

The sushi guy and his tuna is totally a publicity stunt. In this case, I think it helps to consider the mango as art rather than food. It's a similar thing with Koi Carp.

I tend to think of the workings of the mind like those of the body. Some people have minds that lack even basic personal hygiene. Others have minds that could run a marathon every …

That 11% figure included 'partly vegetarian'. A more useful study "puts the size of the vegan population at about 2-3% and the vegetarian population at about 5-7%" [1]. From the ar…

I used CAD software back in the late 90's called Spirit. The floating point calcs were infuriating. You could draw a bunch of lines with exact length and offset them by exact dista…

I remember watching the Watership Down film as a young child and being rather disturbed. I think it set me up well for watching Nightmare on Elm Street when I was about 9 though. H…

My Grandad taught me how to make Marmite sandwiches. Spread butter on one slice of bread until you can no longer see the bread underneath. Spread Marmite on the other slice of brea…