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Yes, top hats were one (but not the only) use of beaver fur

The step that a lot of people leave out is the revising : it is worth the human hours to go over the outputs of AI for this kind of thing with a fine-tooth comb to make sure it is …

If US backed NGOs were distributing life saving medications (e.g. for HIV-AIDS via PEPFAR, to give only one example) and then that distribution was withdrawn, causing recipients to…

Probably not. As you point out, it's a typesetting tool like LaTeX, not a page layout tool. You could probably write a template that does the right thing, but that's true of LaTeX …

For the sake of completeness, the Four Colour Theorem was proved with the aid of a computer in 1976, although there were, er, quibbles with the original published result not finall…

For certain values of "reality". It doesn't take a financial analysis to tell you that it is bananas that Tesla (~1.3T) is worth more than four times as much as Toyota (280B), and …

I bet you could build a fully off-grid DC that didn't guzzle water for less money than launching a rocket today, and there would be thousands of people lining up down the block to …

> In our downside scenario, orbital data centers won’t work or offer any advantage over terrestrial ones Technologically, will they work? Shovel enough money at the problem and the…

Curious parallel to iRobot (Roomba): first mover in new product segment, became genericized name for things in that segment, in the end, (possibly in GoPro's case) could not compet…

> 5,3/4 4-8,11 1 4,5,6,9-11 */2 What's so hard about "At 5 minutes past the hour and every 4 minutes, starting at 3 minutes past the hour, at 04:00 AM through 08:59 AM and 11:00 AM…

I tried to figure out how to buy that exact kettle recently because I typically store mine away in a cupboard (and so a "cordless" kettle with separate base is just an annoyance to…

Not so much replicas as the original maker selling additional editions TBH if you're the kind of person who wants one might as well go to the source

Hey, wait a minute, you're the guy who got Linux to run on a 4004 by writing a MIPS emulator[1]! If there's anyone who's been down a similar path before it'd have to be you. [1] - …

Oh cool, a product of Waterloo's Craig Kaplan, most famous for his work on the discovery of the einstein monotile

I don't have children and I prefer permanent Standard Time because I have the apparently weird belief that noon should be at noon. (i.e. the time 12:00PM should be when the sun is …

This is it. Ultimately the best interfaces are designed for experts, not beginners. "Usability" at some point became confused with "approachability", probably because like in so ma…

Thanks for posting. That's actually a much more interesting story.

(2024) Just FYI article is two years old

An AI agent cannot be held accountable

So... things where the producer doesn't respect the audience? Because any such analysis would be worth as much as a 4.5 hour atonal bass solo.

What are you going to do instead? I am very close to moving from a 20-year-old GMail address to a custom domain and was planning to use Proton as the email host.

Let's not overlook podcasts

Old recipes are more memory cues for experienced cooks than the modern step-by-step guide for amateurs we are used to. They're scanty in detail because they assume quite a lot of e…

What's the name of the book?