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Given this in the TFA > a Pareto front represents the set of solutions where no solution outperforms any other solution in the set at every objective I do not believe you are corre…

Literally the first line

The planes were a surprise

No worries, I appreciate the effort. I did go back and listen and they are indeed pronouncing sheí in the audio too. I use a firefox extension to convert simplified to traditional,…

Is it possible to add traditional characters for mandarin? Also the pinyin for 誰/谁 is coming through as shuí, whilst this character has two pronounciations, I believe shéi is the m…

Presumably it's a random batch of words since you can run the test again. I wonder how much the word selection affects the outcome. I got 66,750 with 20/20/15/17/14. I'm curious ho…

> In the year of our lord 2026, you can reasonably expect your users to know how to type their own email address Lies we tell ourselves about users.

LBC certainly falls within the "usual suspects"

Fun fact: octopus does not come from Latin, which would give the plural an -i ending. It comes from Greek, which means that if you want to be particularly correct about your plural…

Such an interesting artefact just sat under some guy's barn... can't help but wonder how many more items like this there are out there, and how many of them we'll never find before…

I'm using uBlock, and I didn't see a single advert.

Lol. A lump of flesh can't be sentient https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

What makes a motherboard a NAS motherboard, precisely? I've got a decent Mini-ITX sitting around and I've been contemplating setting up/getting a NAS. Would be nice if I could re-u…

Very interesting. Almost feels like a cosmic implementation of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Am I missing something or is the author using dots for both breaking up large numbers and also for decimal points?

The Haskell looks much better, and I don't even know Haskell. > If you know simd it’s easy. Surely "if you know Haskell it's easy" is equally applicable.

:%s/;/:

Really? Mine lumps together completely unrelated people whilst failing to group together the same person.

I have pages of notes for a game like this that I've been thinking about since university, largely inspired by Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse. This game reminded me of it too…

DynamoDB is used by Amazon.com. "Across the 48 hours of Prime Day, these sources made 7.11 trillion calls to the DynamoDB API, peaking at 45.4 million requests per second." [1] [1]…

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