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It would be great to register this in downdetector to make sure it is up.

You mean "Losely", right...

This is a great article! Funny about Yugiri (39), because your version is a mirror image to Eawase (17), and the traditional Japanese Yugiri breaks that symmetry. Every Genji-mon t…

Brilliant synthesis: Globally humans have transitioned almost overnight from information/knowledge scarcity to information flood. Once we had plenty of time to forage information t…

Loved the article! There are so many great details such as the standardization of UTC happening after UNIX time invented, UNIX itself being born before the epoch, and all the great…

I was a teenager, desperately looking for the cheapest possible system (because I couldn't afford any of them). And I would longingly read all the ads hoping a miracle wold happen.…

Null island is like the opposite of the Bermuda triangle. In fact, maybe they form a portal...

Also, very relevant to discussions of whether we live in a simulated universe!

The whole discussion of whether we live in a Matrix-like simulation falls into this category as well. There are so many layers of oversimplification at play in most peoples' concep…

Companies fill ecological niches. When new technologies emerge there is room for a new apex species/(company), and a few smaller wannabes. There just isn't unlimited room for large…

Here is the reference for the most recent work (2019) of note in this domain. Ulf Adams extended his 2018 Ryū algorithm to implement Ryū printf which is 4x faster than the best oth…

The reason Instagram's founders are no longer there is because they could not stomach being forced by facebook to publicly make these kinds of statements.

At a meta level, Category Theory requires some comfort with abstraction, which really only comes with a mathematical education. So while it may stand apart from much math, it relie…

Rob Pike's rules of programming simplified : - Start with stupid code built on smart data (after Fred Brooks) - When in doubt use brute force (Ken Thompson) - Premature optimizatio…

I would recommend this method for documenting all functions, processes, APIs. It can be seen as making explicit what intended inputs, and outputs are, and adding layers to describe…

This article gives the more detailed explanation of the chart's data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosynthesis BTW, image search of nucleosynthesis gives about 10 different ve…

My 2 cents is that I can ask just about any question I can think of and absorb and internalize an amazing answer in 5 minutes of reading. Many of those same questions can be automa…

You can actually use the google ngrams data set to determine that the long s was eliminated from print over a 25 year period roughly from 1795 to 1820.

An earlier version of the paper that is not behind a paywall: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5759bc7886db431d658b7...

List of 57 airports with lat/long between -1 and 1 from ourairports.com data set: id,ident,name,latitude_deg,longitude_deg 18539,K22W,[Duplicate] Transylvania County Airport,-0.7,0…

if there aren't any 0 0 coordinate airports in the data set, maybe there are some strings that are not parsed as numbers and thus coerced to 0, a space or a non printing character …

I'm looking forward to every update that pops up. Really inspiring! I made a small error in my explanation for the date line: I meant to say "voronoi border with the cells just to …

Gorgeous! I did notice that the international date line is marked as a voronoi border from north to south pole. If you can do some modulo math trickery you should be able to fix th…

I'd ideally like to present students with an open source dev workflow that allows them to experiment easily with the javascript/typescript ecosystem on their local machine. The abi…

Is there any way to determine exactly when this document was written? I've read accounts that indicate that it took some time (weeks, months, years?) before the metaphor of mushroo…