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I just subtracted 1 and added a 1/4, barely giving it any thought. The example given is too simple for comparing methods.

Regardless, it doesn't have agency and isn't clever. Personally I belive in a Designer, but since middle school I've been bewildered by the way evolution is almost always presented…

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> The TV series poses a four body problem early on (three suns and a single planet). That's the same as the book except the book explains eventually that there were originally 7? 9…

The weak link of a sound system is typically the speakers/headphones. Speaking for myself the weak link for computing was monitors until about a decade ago, about the time everythi…

https://blot.im/ is the one that finally made it possible for me to use one without configuration of both a web server and a site generator (neither of which I can do) and keep my …

Never hear of meebok in comment above yours. Even a name like that has a .org and .com [1] neither of which, as far as I can tell, have anything to do with the e-reader. [1] Danish…

Anyone feel like explaining it to me like I'm 5? High School physics was over 40 years ago, and while I like reading "layman's" science this one only made me think about the discus…

The ship's mayday gave them enough time to stop most, but not all, traffic, according to the MD Governor.

I couldn't believe I had yo scroll almost to the bottom to find what I thought would probably be the 1st or 2nd comment. I was just about to give up and write it myself. Between pi…

Completely right about knowing v doing but even the knowing gets skewed. The real problem that too much sucrose and fructose (whether added to not) is insulin overproduction. I get…

A perspective on AI from almost a decade ago.

On the advice of my Dr 15 years ago I started taking 3 grams of niacin a day. Within 6 months my hdl more than doubled from the upper 20s to low 60s and my triglycerides dropped fr…

An I.Q. above body temperature.

The problem isn't the Oxford comma. The problem is lazy--or possibly rapid, if one is generous--writing and editing (if any). If the use or absence of a comma causes ambiguity, it'…

Linux Format quit shipping CDs with the magazine, oh, about a year ago, maybe. I think some of it is also "shrinkage" (the term in retail in the U.S. for shoplifting + breakage, et…

From the README: > htmz is a minimalist HTML microframework So, some ambiguity.

Too long ago (~2004) I read a good article about something like deep-linking with micro-payments. That's the best I can remember. The idea was to use hypertext extensively as refer…

Similar recent post on Irreal: https://irreal.org/blog/?p=8663 Personally I have found dark modes with color schemes like, say, Dracula are visually pleasing immediately but over t…

The author posed it as a question. It's not about want as much as able. No matter how much I wanted (at 58) to understand the inner working of a LLM, it's beyond me, just like beco…

Started using Twitter in 2006. [Long story] Quit around 2017. Privacy Badger extension blocks embeds. Used to allow occasionally until I noticed it was never worth it and finally s…

Not if you waited until marriage.

36 years here. 5 kids. Both of us chaste prior and monogamous after marriage.

~5 years ago when I was driving back and forth to an adjacent state to work on our house to get it on the market, I discover my ground wire had been stolen. It was no more than 2' …