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The name changed when Slashdot lost significant mindshare among tech nerds.

It also said in an html comment, there are no secret messages in this html there are no tyops in this html which at the time I took as some inside joke.

> anything but regular From context your meaning is clear, but I think you got that idiom inverted.

Are you me? I think you might be me.

'headcanon' is jargon within general fandom. The term refers to the application of imagination against the established canon of a body of fiction, to expand upon that body of work.…

I was about to recommend "Satisfaction High, Information Tenuous"

> He's being interviewed and some people blink a lot when they're nervous! We're talking about a guy that chooses to be in front of a camera, weekly, for millions of views.

Someone who doesn't care about polluting our corpus is not going to care about your robots.txt

Catch 22: and if there is no air inside the box, then you are certain the cat is dead.

There might be, I don't know. But as you're already aware, we are culturally stuck with pi and so that's how it is taught.

Actually, no: that Tau-centric area formula you gave derives naturally from taking the integral. Your example actually fits the expectation you have from what you learned in Calcul…

No, Tau is fundamental. Pi only exists because someone mistakenly thought the formula for circumference involved diameter, when in fact it involves radius. ("Quit factoring a 2 out…

There are only so many TLAs...

My guess is: economies of scale, in 2024 (vs say, 1990)

That's cool. The news front-page screenshot & calendar use-cases appeal to me. (Although, it seems like I could just do the news FP thing myself, with "Any image URL", rather than …

It seems to me that GP was using sarcasm to express agreement with your comment.

Do you have any examples of the pretty-printing that you've generated?

I missed your suggestion about Cantor's diagonalization earlier today, but I thank you for bringing it to my attention. That is quite clever.

That's an interesting statement about rationals. My intuition would be to consider them a subset of the reals, and for natural numbers to be a subset of the rationals. How is my in…

Thank you. It seems absurd that 'next largest' could mean 'larger than the largest'. Hence my (OP's) interpretation.

>He obsessively pursued the ‘continuum hypothesis’, which states roughly that the infinitude of real numbers is next largest to that of natural numbers. That sounds backwards? Ther…

Moon phase is caused by moon position, relative to the sun-moon-earth system. My point was that the moon can be directly above or below, regardless of phase. .... but thinking abou…

> In addition, they only spawn during full or new moons – because they need a high tide. Seems like tides should be dependent solely on moon position, not moon phase.

> They move at the speed of light and thus time does not advance for them. Isn't it more accurate to say that photons move at the speed of causality , when the medium is a pure vac…

John, Even though this HN post is about GMSL specifically, I want to use it to thank you for writing "The GNU Make Book"[0]. It was a veritable treasure trove that greatly increase…