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Interesting, something about the phrasing and pacing felt like AI to me, but not a model I’m familiar with - I guess that’s why. Usually I close articles once I realize they’re AI …

I hope you post this again when you do - I was presented with the "0.00080" difference a couple times, and it looks like this is where it becomes actually impossible because of thi…

It’s cute, and I’m trusting enough to believe them when it says 100% home made, but square images with a strong yellow tint will forever be associated with ChatGPT 4o image generat…

The gyro permission request doesn't work on iOS since it's not tied to user input. If you're feeling brave, you can paste this into your phone's javascript console to add a button …

It’s different if you have influence over the network, like a government might. I spend a lot of time in China, and they’ve done a good job of blocking VPNs in recent years, includ…

Pretty lacking in math for an article that mentions math a few times. I looked into this a few years ago when I was trying to see if we were really in the worst housing market ever…

I used this method to check some of the lights in my house a few years ago. The slow-mo video mode on my phone used a rolling shutter which captures one row of pixels at a time, me…

Ironically, it's a titles/links only aggregator. My way of browsing social media antisocially.

I browse Hacker News through a custom aggregator. This post is how I found out it’s susceptible to HTML injection - a (2020) was marqueeing across my screen.

For those who are interested in learning more: "All failure is shear failure" - this is a simple explanation of Tresca's Yield Criterion. For materials with higher compressive than…

Discussed at the time: Loom EGA/VGA Comparison https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26445522 - March 2021 (77 comments)

I mean, this just appears to be fixed nominal returns, minus a fee, multiplied by a factor from an actuarial table. Contrast it with a calculator like this [0] that uses combines h…

Those rates and risks are meaningless without a baseline, as Einstein and 28 other Nobel Prize Winners may agree. If you're familiar with the early retirement community, the simple…

Before having children, I was quite interested in the idea of, and the math behind early retirement. Most of the interesting math happened at the margin: you’ve got just enough mon…

Sam Kriss has at least two posts that came later about AI: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/a-users-guide-to-the-zairja-... https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-cacophony The second …

Found a site with a lot more manuals, if anyone needs their memory jogged. https://radioshackcatalogs.com/science_fair_kits.htm I had the 130-in-1. Yesterday, I was thinking about …