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I read the books, and enjoyed them in the early 2000s. I was quite amused to see the article on O'Brian in Yachting World in 2004 when I was halfway through the series. I don't hav…

Nikodem Bartnik video on building and training a cheap robot arm. At least to me, this looks significantly more interesting than using AI to generate text.

Thanks - just tried gnovies and got a great recommendation. I'm surprised that something I'd never heard of appears to work that well.

It's true that talent is almost entirely curiosity/enthusiasm/drive. But that curiosity/enthusiasm/drive has a large genetic component - like every pretty much every other individu…

Onshape is wonderful. Free users complained a lot about the changes to the free license years ago when they changed the rules, but I have no issue with it. TBH, I'm grateful they m…

Nice work! Cool that you made this available for other people to benefit from.

This looks nice. Looking forward to going through it and the related earlier stuff carefully at leisure. I'm sure the author is well aware, but Lennart Augustsson wrote a really ni…

I'm not bob, but I bought a ruixin pro 8 (~40AUD) and 3 diamond stones (~5AUD a piece) on aliexpress a couple of weeks ago. Watched a YouTube video and got half a dozen kitchen kni…

You may already be aware of it, but jupytext solves most of the problems ipynb files cause.

Nice. I would not pay for this but might buy it as an app on my phone. I would be more likely to buy a subscription of you had a ton of decks on it like memrise does.

I hope Turkey does what you're suggesting with lighting. There's also an ayasofya in trebizond that was converted back to a mosque in 2013. That building is still open for visitors…

The parent comment is the most useful one in the thread so far for anyone who seriously wants to learn about quantitative trading. Sports betting is essentially the same thing as p…

Because being ordered to do something that might get you killed isn't reasonable .

Acoording to ethics class during basic training in the Australian army, the key difference between soldiers and civilians is that military personnel are under a legal obligation to…

When Hong Kong went back to China in 1997, it was 30% of China's GDP. In 2019, HK was less than 2.5% of Chinese GDP. HK has grown since 1997, but China has gotten so much richer th…