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In a similar vein: "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World" by David W. Anthony https://press.princeton.edu/boo…

Agree with your observation. Blake and Durer both worked in printmaking. I wonder if the processes and aesthetics there resulted in some detectable affinity between their works.

site hugged to death. Wayback: https://web.archive.org/web/20260226093719/https://www.dvd30...

At the time the blog post was written, the .torrent file was not yet posted to tug.org.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/auth.openai.com?proto=ht...

I imagine software updates might bring improved support for various media codecs, or UI enhancements, or better Bluetooth compatibility, etc.

Can’t help but think of the 2002 Ted Chiang novelette “Liking What You See” and its tech “Calliagnosia,” a medical procedure that eliminates a person’s ability to perceive beauty. …

FWIW, I find the high-level overview more useful, because then I can write a script tailored to my situation. Between `bash`, `aws` CLI tool, and Powershell, it would be straightfo…

Not to be confused with Adam Gordon Bell, who is still very much alive. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adamgordonbell https://adamgordonbell.com/

It’s a small detail, but I appreciate when a command-line tool offers both short and long options for all the switches. Short so I can type them quickly for manual use, and long fo…

I bet you’re right. I missed the snark.

Article seems clearly about 23.04, which is indeed Lunar Lobster.[0][1] [0] https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/lunar/ [1] https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu…

(2023)

Fascinating topic. There are two ways the user/client/browser receives reports about the character encoding of content. And there are hefty caveats about how reliable those reports…

Would you consider rolling your own? Python’s goose3 has worked well for me in article extraction. It seemed to be successful more often than trafilatura and newspaper3k.

Can’t help but see the affinity between this writing format and the classic Codeless Code stories and parables: http://thecodelesscode.com

- reading an algos book (if you haven’t) might be helpful: Aho et al., CLRS, Sedgwick - on LC, start with easy algorithm problems and sort by Acceptance in descending order. As you…

Not Central Texas (e.g., Austin)

Keywords of use to you might be “mock data” “mocks” and “mocking”. There are lots of tools, even for generating specific data types (names, emails, json, location coordinates, etc.…

3. Authoritative lists cannot contradict each other.

2. If a list calls itself authoritative, it is.

Coming soon: “Falsehoods programmers believe about authoritative lists”