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It is strange that MS added third option but lied that there was not. They could just not include it, could they?

You're missing the point. The goal of garbage production is not to break the bots or poison LLMs, but to remove load from your own site. The author writes it in the article. He fou…

They just reimplemented floating point with bigger mantissa and exponent. Rounding erorrs will appear with sufficiently large/small numbers.

They keep suggesting "#" and "$" but those don't work.

What I want to have, and what nobody does, is replace the computer screen with a infinite virtual screen. Same apps, windows etc. except it is in virtual reality. This way we could…

Use any character you want then use sed to replace it with tabs. Or use some macro processor.

In my setup, I use aliases or functions to have short/mnemonic names for commands. But the files on disk must always have proper extensions like .sh to quickly see what they are.

> If a user doesn't know what .ssh/ or .bash_history are, and it can hurt them to accidentally delete or modify them, why show them by default? It's like training wheels on a bike.…

In Russian this phenomenon is called "бНОПНЯ" (read "b-nop-nya") and was caused by taking the word "Вопрос" (meaning: "question") in win-1251 encoding and reading it as if it was i…

> having a bookmark for "Hacker News" I was punished in school for having NetHack source code in my home dir. And it was not because it was a game but because it allegedly was a ha…

How long before YouTube Premium starts to show ads? Netflix already does it.

Humans created machines to do various work: to lift heavy weights, to go really fast, to fly, to float on water etc etc. It's not surprising that humans created machines that calcu…

So it wasn't an utopia. The mice had enough water and food, but they ran out of living space. It's so obvious I can't understand nobody pointed it out yet.

I haven't used an iron for ages, but old irons used dots for temperature, so the old icon represents what you would see on an actual iron.

Tags are better at connecting notes: if you want to make a two side link, it's equivalent to creating an unique tag and tagging both nodes with it. But in general you can add more …

So those aren't a third sex, it's individuals with both male and female reproductive cells.

From the Wikipedia article: Prefix code: The first byte indicates the number of bytes in the sequence. Reading from a stream can instantaneously decode each individual fully receiv…

When you added all necessary features and don't know what to add you start to optimize and imporove existing features. Really, Excel could work faster and eat less memory.

So the emojis go left to right, but you have to scroll frop top to bottom, strange decision.

I open almost all links in new tabs because the sites became too large. Simple pressing "Back" in the browser takes too much time, but I can quickly switch to the previous tab.

The idea seems trivial. The original Airwick works with batteries so you just hook some SoC to it and you're done. Another pointless pretty toy.

Turing test may be a decent first approxiamtion, but not the long term goal. Consider: 1. We can't give a satisfactory definition intellect or consciousnes but 2. We know that huma…

And how does what happens in Belarus match what happens in Russia? Lukashenka and Putin are different kinds of people, they do different politics, Russian and Belarussian governmen…

Typical https://xkcd.com/927/

Nano is great as an idea - a editor with almost no features which is small, fast and is everywhere. Howerer, it suffers from the same as all open source projects. Working on it is …