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Yeah someone who is 40, comes out at roughly 82 which I thought was close enough. Also it is funny to enter famous old people's birthdays and see "110% complete".

Yeah I figured that 80 was a pretty good approximation because the average life expectancy in the US is 77. It surprisingly doesn't increase as much I would have expected as you ag…

If you would like a little more existential dread https://ttl.hex.nz/

There's an old xkcd comic related to this https://xkcd.com/191/

1999 even! Here's a wayback machine capture from Nov 1999 with the current theme https://web.archive.org/web/19991117022152/http://slackware.... Honestly a really good theme that's…

Also at this speed a space ship a 100 m wide viewed from earth would appear to be 0.3125 nm wide or roughly size of a single water molecule. It would certainly be a way to travel! …

An oversimplified explanation is that AC has less transmission losses over medium distances while high voltage DC has less transmission losses over extremely long distances. I foun…

Looks like it's reporting a negative Celsius value when it should be positive and Fahrenheit.

Isn't spam filtering a large part of what these clichés are used for, or at least what the people using them think they're for? e.g. "That's just your opinion." "Now is not the tim…

That's how I feel too although it's the hardest category for me to judge objectively

Quite often ISPs chuck you behind a NAT now which makes things harder.

I run an instance of Selfoss. I found this thread because selfoss polls hackernews via https://hnrss.org/frontpage?count=1