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The atomic time radio station WWVB does in fact broadcast a daylight saving time bit. A good atomic time clock should accurately update for DST (though Amazon reviews for a clock l…

sounds a bit like Grammarly Authorship https://www.grammarly.com/authorship "Authorship creates an originality report you can share with your professor, boss, or editor. It also le…

I think this is unnecessarily pessimistic. I think there's actually a surprisingly large number of people who are interested in and have the discipline to study something on their …

Israeli civilian death ratios are actually terrible, worse than Bosnia, Syria, or even WWII (including the Holocaust!). I assume it’s because Israel wants to kill as many civilians…

It’s not a bad critique on its own! Yea, good to engage on the merits, but also good to acknowledge the messenger’s allegiances and biases.

Of course they did. It’s called inheritance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ellison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walton_family https://www.forbes.com/profile/haas/ And the li…

For a French-leaning list I’m surprised not to see Memoirs of Hadrian, “often considered the best French novel of the 20th century”, per the recent LRB review. https://www.lrb.co.u…

1965 was 61 years ago. Are you saying you yourself had significant experiences with the pre-1965 healthcare system?

Attention-grabbing headline, but the article itself answers the question: very important. "Hastings was one of those battles which changed the course of history, most directly for …

But as the article says, this battle really was tremendously important. The utter catastrophe led to the quick and permanent entrenchment of the Normans in Britain, with huge and l…

some bits of LLMese in this comment, to my ears at least. Especially "That’s the kind of impact that compounds"

No but I’m serious. I don’t think most people found it interesting to monitor the slow assembly of the ISS. Do you think the moon setting would be more interesting or appealing?

If I was being graded solely on quantity, why would I bother caring at all to make anything good? Make the minimum quality necessary to be counted as a pot and move on with your li…

That’s just the ISS on the moon instead of space, which is also uninteresting.

No disagreement there!

sure, though New York has gotten a real honest-to-goodness winter this year. There's been a foot on the snow on the ground continuously for the last month, and it's been cold enoug…

Agreed. "isn't just... It's becoming" feels to me very LLM-y to me.

Is there any guarantee he will actually pay out in 20 years? Is this money going into escrow, or is this just a promise that will be completely forgotten in a couple decades?

The Doom port itself is pretty fun, but I love the presentation of it. Brilliant idea to let people play the game themselves on the actual hardware.

I’ve used Macs nearly exclusively for 13 years and have not gotten used to the window tabbing. I just fundamentally don’t think windows of the same application should be grouped to…

Both 0F and 100F happen regularly in many parts of the US and I would not say here one is rarer than the other. NYC has seen both in the last 12 months.

Certainly the world’s climate is worse. Wealth inequality is worse. I try hard not to be nostalgic, and even so I have to admit lots of things are not as good as they were in the 6…

But why would I want the cassette experience in the first place?