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Ah yeah faces with same color as background and low opacity sounds like a good approach. Here's an editable copy of the code if anyone sees this and wants to try adding the faces -…

Thanks!

Oh yeah that would look cool… Possibly transparent faces of the cube with a particular `mix-blend-mode` that leaves the background color alone but dims letters that get behind it? …

Some commenters on HN and Twitter were curious how I made the spinning diagrams in a previous thing I wrote, so 8 months later I finally wrote down an explanation. (Previous HN thr…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keanumycin

Yeah this conversation feels very car-centric (understandably so, since much of the world and especially the US is currently overrun with cars, but still sad)

Exactly, almost everyone mentions awful commutes, but if you have a short walk or bikeride through a beautiful city to start and end your work day, then I think it's pretty great. …

I see these defaced plates quite often—there seems to be no consequence for breaking the law this way, despite the loss of revenue, and presumably more dangerous streets.

https://archive.is/jOYaV

> After a bull market run it generally takes 5-10 years to reach its peak again. Bitcoin has only existed for 14 years—seems a bit early to generalize anything based on the two tim…

Google and Facebook are both advertising companies, doesn't seem that different to me.

"money motivated" doesn't necessarily lead in the best direction

I thought it was based on the Bush-ism "strategery" - https://stratechery.com/2013/strategery/ Or was that a later change?

The abstract answers this, I believe. Human-tron is 5x as massive! > ...a biomass of ∼12 megatons of dry carbon... equivalent to ∼20% of human biomass Honestly the unfathomable bio…

sounds like the page should say "at least eight years" then, instead of "up to eight years"

If you like thinking about that sort of thing, and haven't read it yet, check out the short story "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges

thanks for the context! small typo - air conditioner should be 3.5kw not kwh

Only just saw this comment, that's a great point! (Since the formula is two tetrahedra minus one triangle.) Now very curious why that shape corresponds to sum of cubes / why it's e…

35€

I bought it for 1500€ in 2014, when nic.st had a Black Friday sale. It was the only 3-letter domain I'd ever seen for sale, so I couldn't resist.