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This reminds me of this old Feynman video where he talks about how people use different methods in their heads when counting, seems relevant: https://youtu.be/Cj4y0EUlU-Y?t=135

chess.com has different "AI players" with personalities that you can play against.

Interesting, for me it happens sometimes if I'm badly hungover. Instantly after closing my eyes, I start seeing cartoon-like shapes that rapidly mutate to something different. Usua…

I think they mean peloton. It's not English, I believe it is French, meaning a group of bicyclers. In this context it refers to the peloton leading the race.+-

>I hate that UI. Why can't we just click on the "man", and then click on a spot to drop it? You can, actually. When you click it, all of the roads that have street view are highlig…

Oh you were able to google the exact thing after reading what it was? Great job!

I saw once a support person from $COMPANY_I_WORK_IN ask a client to send their private key in email, so they could troubleshoot something. I pressed "Reply all" and called it out, …

I wonder what model this site is using. FWIW I tried with ChatGPT (both GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 versions), and it does a better job (tried multiple times). On one attempt it even said th…

Text is broken into something called "tokens" [0] for GPT. It doesn't work on individual characters. That explains why it always fails these character counting questions. [0]: http…

The Windows key is a tragic misstep in computer evolution. It should not exist.

At least they got Hallucinogen up there.

I completely disagree. When I see embedded Google Map I always try to zoom it by scrolling, but then get frustrated when it scrolls the page instead and I'm supposed to press contr…

I'm sorry if I sound rude. I don't mean to be. I'm just saying that backing up your git workspace to recover from rebases or merges gone wrong is not necessary. Those are not "surg…

This is so wrong. :) With git you exactly do not have to backup your local workspace, because it already is backed up in git. If it is committed, it is safe. You can go back to it.…

AFAIK apple varieties don't change over time, because the same genes are used over and over by grafting the trees instead of growing from seed. This is because seedlings produce wi…

One important aspect of logging is to include enough information when something fails. This sounds like it should be common sense, but I have seen this too many times: java.net.Con…

I'd like to think that's his point.

I hate the praise that fail2ban gets. It is useful, but it is not securing anything really, unless maybe you run a public ssh box that has other users who have bad passwords. It wi…