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I wonder whether, upon clicking the links, there is any indication about the change in visible content.

Link should end with '.html', not '.htm': http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/hyperlook/ind...

If you are playing as white and know in advance black is going to play the bongcloud, then 2. Qh5 is forced mate. i.e. 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Ke7 3. Qxe5#

I think technically a URL/URI is only supposed to contain ASCII characters, and certain things that expect URL input will want ASCII only. However, all modern browsers can convert …

Try going to e.g. https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BF... When visiting the page (at least on Firefox), the location bar displays the intended characters, b…

The USSR was not part of the Axis. Quite the opposite. (Although they did have a non-aggression pact with Germany before the start of the war, that did not last long.) Which just g…

They seem to have that warning on every single page of catalog.archives.gov. That solution seems much easier than figuring out whether each individual item requires a warning or no…

archive.md works for me

- Non-tech-savvy users might not instantly recognize example.xyz as a domain name. When you discuss your site in person, you might have to explain the TLD, whereas with .com, .net,…

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1263/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin–Hall_distribution

If Star Trek taught me anything, it's that most aliens look like humans, except for some bumps on their forehead. Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development.

I'd be curious to see how sentiment analysis of contemporary writing has changed over time. That would be easier to interpret than this metric too.

https://copilot.github.com

COVID might be the worst infectious disease in recent memory, but it is far from the worst disease in history.

Ronaldo, the soccer/football player

Yeah, computational capital is just a special case of capital in general, albeit one that will likely be highly important going forward.