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Apparently this text is part of the "International Property Management Code", which is incorporated into the municipal code of many cities? https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IPMC20…

> There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Of course there are. The article simply defines "transformation" such that it excludes the lossless ones. :-)

Based on what? Each image individually? Or does it try to cross-reference images within the collection and with events in your life, etc?

This seems like a specious argument: "Most of the apartments have a window on just one side. The interior facing rooms on the lower floors are going to have a lot of trouble gettin…

Any place that allows easy instantaneous subscription by a simple web form, but makes you call and talk to a person during limited business hours, is a toxic place. Happily, this p…

Is it feasible to run Linux on the Apple hardware? Seems like that could meet your requirements, except possibly "align with my values." I saw https://asahilinux.org/ but don't kno…

Reminds me of the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences https://oeis.org/ But I was somewhat surprised when my first click in this encyclopedia of 2d curves landed me on a 3d sp…

How about 10 GbE switches/routers? I have 10 GbE fiber-to-the-home via Sonic, but so far just have it plugged into a Google Wifi router with gigabit ethernet. Would love to have 10…

Here are some notes on Jujutsu from Evan Martin that I found interesting/useful: https://neugierig.org/software/blog/2025/08/jj-bookmarks.htm...

I ran OS/2 Warp and was a fan of it... But to say that it was simply "better" than Windows 95 is a bridge too far. It had its strengths (rock solid multitasking) but also plenty of…

Seems like a game-theoretic problem Taking their foot off the gas for a second only hurts them

This is practically all that need be said on the topic

Yeah so does CostCo

Also in compliance with Betteridge's law of headlines: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

NIPT is non-invasive compared to amniocentesis

Unlike "the way oversized cargo/load moves today," the chase vehicle is just another Peterbilt truck pulling cargo, but with a safety driver. It's not a flag car or something like …

What cargo would justify a supersonic flight?

This has the same vibes as "Tan's method", wherein someone managed to rediscover and publish the well-known trapezoidal rule for integration from Calculus in a medical journal http…

I'm sure that some people are able to make it work, but in general the answer is: you don't. Taking care of a baby is a full time job in and of itself, associated with frequent int…

Well, it doesn't work.

The same could be said when they are written using Gibbs notation with div and curl. Surprisingly, when Einstein wrote his paper on special relativity, Gibbs vector notation had no…

Wavelength (or frequency) is linear but light, in general, is made up of many wavelengths -- an entire spectrum.

The output of ChatGPT almost always sounds good . That's the point. But I would wager that its answer was at least wrong, and perhaps total nonsense. That's the real hazard of usin…

Actually this is kinda a great idea. Honeypot the bots by engaging them with other bots. Would love to deploy this on telemarketers / spam calls.

``In almost all textbooks, even the best, this principle is presented so that it is impossible to understand.'' (K. Jacobi, Lectures on Dynamics, 1842-1843). I have not chosen to b…