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Brings to mind the OK GO music video with all the exploded guitars that they stated were already junk. Spilled paint is reminiscent of their videos too. They also smashed pianos in…

For the bridge only, Marti also made a more sufferable cut in German, that is on the OP channel ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJLX3C0eg3g ) The segue from CG is much more sensi…

"quote unification'': most typefaces: “Hello” „Hallo“ Verdana: “Hello” „Hallo“

That's a lot of hot pixels for base ISO! Could be the focus stacking intensified them. That camera can actually get a bit more resolution out of sensor movements, though the lens m…

a weaker method is to set a non-default HISTFILE after HISTSIZE etc

Deletionists got to the English Wikipedia page https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3271851 https://web.archive.org/web/20201214110440/https://en.wikipe...

(re: dead comment 39066268) I'm now very interested in what Reiser would think of the present state of the (semantic) web. (edit: i.e, the thought experiment, realized: transplant …

‹‹‹ "What a camera actually shows is its processor's reconstruction of objects based on input provided by the sensor — not the actual light received by its sensor."

:%s/\([0-9]\+\))/\=submatch(1)-1.')' " vim perl -pe 's/([0-9]+)\)/$1-1 .")"/e' ruby -pe 'sub(/([0-9]+)\)/){"#{$1.to_i-1})"}'

btw xterm has a hack for editors without mouse support – turn clicks into the right number of movement key presses, uxterm -xrm '*VT100.translations: #override ! : vi-button() read…

https://web.archive.org/web/20040212/http://bash.fi https://web.archive.org/web/20070227/http://qdb.gr https://web.archive.org/web/20060402/http://qdb.hu https://web.archive.org/we…

ccTLDs, inexhaustive https://web.archive.org/web/20100222/http://bash.org.az https://web.archive.org/web/20070217/http://bash.org.by https://web.archive.org/web/20060424/http://bas…

(I don't think that's what most mean when they say 'chance', but I get what you mean ;) It's similar to realizing how seating choice radically alters your (very small) chance of de…

Tangentially, an issue with the desktop use case is that the main process of a long-running browser is often the first to be killed, instead of one of its content processes, which …

Internet Archive remembers. https://web.archive.org/web/*/google.com/search/%2A Find a query of interest, see for yourself (and take a snapshot of the present state for posterity).…

Enable Alt+SysRq+F and do it manually. Works in seconds every time; the kernel can take days because it's not eager enough when thrashing. Can have security implications, but the t…

a garden path sentence, but it parses. [only on HN] could [any state [that Gentoo was ever in]] be [reflected upon [as "just worked like a breeze"] unironically]_,_ and [I] mean [t…

M-x eshell Welcome to the Emacs shell /tmp $ set-variable `x 6; echo $x 6 /tmp $ M-: (term "pwsh") PowerShell 7.4.0 PS /tmp> set-variable `x 6; echo $x 6 PS /tmp> Disturbing.

The parts of the logbook shown in the listing seem to imply that this engine was removed in the 1980s when the plane was still registered as G-BFKW. As for the plane, engines 3 and…

cf. patent US 92467 from 1869 — https://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalD...

Wait, is that[0] MS Sans Serif? MS PGothic? What version of Windows would fall back to that in 2013? [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20210826103144/http://www.crimef...