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Someone on twitter had the idea that he could use the camera to take a picture of the character (or his whole password) and copy/paste it using the built-in ocr feature. I don't ha…

In a cold climate it's essential to have air/insulation between the floor and ground.

I wonder if you could partially get around this by using the "ghost kitchen" model. Offer food only for delivery, but then "hire" customers to deliver their own meals if they want …

Curious how you set it up. Do you have to manually update it when inflation data comes out, or is it automatic?

Seems like YT is mostly focusing on the interaction between streamer and audience (which makes sense because streaming is big with young ppl rn). I understand "ambient streams" to …

I think you're right that contributed, but at least the federal EV subsidy was trying to mitigate that effect by also subsidizing used EV purchases. I just bought a used PHEV and g…

I do wonder if early world explorers had been from the southern hemisphere and a tradition of "south up" was already established, if it would still look better to us to have more l…

Also if the map is flat on a table, more stuff is closer to you.

Careful, though. There isn't a constant "pi" for all metric spaces. Using distance along the surface of a sphere, the ratio of a circle's diameter to circumference depends on the s…

With tetration you're not dealing with orders of magnitude anymore, but orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude.

Fun post! I drew the first 5 iterations by hand myself and I'm finding it easiest to think of as a self-similar coloring of a square tesselation. If you start with the shape of ite…

Centered circle wave: https://tixy.land/?code=Math.sin%28-2*t%2B0.045*%28x-7.5%29*...

As someone who doesn't develop in python but occasionally tries to run python projects, it's pretty annoying to have to look up how to use venv every time. I finally added two scri…

Would it be easier if only the lowest bits of the index contributed to the "entropy"? Like if the 2^16th UUID was the one right after the first and n + 2^16 was the one after the n…

Maybe "unleashed" to connote a potentially dangerous power is loose.

That's not GPT-4

The goal is the same as Tetris – to last as long as possible before overflowing. This just doesn't have the mechanic of gradually getting faster.

I kept being surprised seeing air-breathers deeper and deeper. I had no idea narwhals dove down to the depths where things live on hydro-thermal vents. Also that penguins have been…

I thought I was using GPT-4, but it appears that's only available to paying customers so far? The question I was getting repeated wrong answers to was "Can you make up a palindrome…

When you correct it, it always seems to say "You are absolutely right! I apologize for the mistake," and then it gives another wrong answer with the same fully confident tone.

I feel Penrose P2 tiles are better in that sense. I think you could craft something with that kind of "fractal interestingness" by using color to emphasize the larger regular patte…

This story features part of the world going Black Mirror at the same time as another part goes (arguably) White Mirror: Manna – Two Views of Humanity's Future by Marshall Brain htt…

Interesting, thanks!

When you say "Any number can easily be described by x" aren't you already using Choice? And doesn't "let x be one of those numbers from the set of numbers that cannot be described …