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Go to a bar (in America). Sit on a stool. Say "hello" to the person next to you.

It bears remembering that all of this was reported by a group of Haitians in Brooklyn who publish and staff the Haitian Times. They deserve recognition for maintaining the standard…

Posts like this are why I read Hacker News. My Egg McMuffin will never look the same!

Agreed. And the nice thing was that they weren't just illustrations, they were metaphors, even allegories, on human and computer engagements

Today's link is an update to an article first published some time ago https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/fixing-retail-with-land-v... There's a healthy number of comments on SlashD…

This hack has completely disrupted my afternoon! Perhaps even forever after.

Draw a millipede as a dog: Gemini responds: Conceptualizing the "Millipup" https://gemini.google.com/share/b6b8c11bd32f Draw the five legs of a dog as if the body is a pentagon htt…

The math was beyond me. So, I asked Gemini 3 for help. I share what they replied to my many questions here: https://gemini.google.com/share/1a6663a83898 Schrodinger and Penrose: pr…

Nearly sixty years of coding under my belt here. The OP proposes a valid and reasonable pattern. Nonetheless, not all of us are so wise. There are dozens of frustrating all-nighter…

>"Even for those relationships that were negatively strained, over time, the strained relationships mended," she says. I was 54. my wife called it quits on me. These days, my forme…

See The first "blog" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorn_Barger https://firstsiteguide.com/robot-wisdom-and-jorn-barger/ https://robotwisdom2.blogspot.com/ https://www.wired.com/200…

> This is also why I believe that language is a bottleneck for thought. Most of what you remember is nothing like an approximate copy of the things you experienced in real life—eve…

Browser > right click on the dot > inspect the RGB numbers

I commented "OMG" a couple of days ago, but I guess that was not enough text to count as a comment. So anyway, here we go again: OMG!

OMG

John Walker the founder would grieve as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Walker_(programmer) He was a digital hoarder sharer. See: https://fourmilab.ch/

Agreed

Being a child today isn't for sissies

Bingo! Now, once out of the box and having responded, willy nilly, to numerous dubious questions, you are presented with a screen full of all sorts of strange things, and nothing h…

I discovered this perhaps ten or more years ago. I have used IDs a global in hundreds (thousand?) of efforts with no issues. Ever. Of course, I am but a single stack developer, so …

Not short but almost understandable. Given a text editor, save the following text as drawline.html: const ctx = myCanvas.getContext( "2d" ); // Draw the line ctx.beginPath(); ctx.m…

Project images from your balcony onto the underside of the balcony above you. Here is a link to a photo of my balcony in San Francisco during the initial stages of the virus https:…

I lived in Hong Kong from 1981 to 1991. * Overflowing with optimism and "can do" * Equal protection under the law no matter the origin * Max tax 15% for all * Education and health …

https://mrdoob.com/projects/htmleditor/ ;-)