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Re:A Brief History of Random Numbers
on Friday February 17, 2023 @08:22AM (#34834323)
You say that, but generating uniform variates was itself a whole trick. Famously RAND put a lot of effort into creating a ton of them and publishing them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_1...
Re:Insulation: First the body, then the home (2011)
on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:09PM (#34597924)
I'm always bewildered when someone links to the not-solar version of lowtechmagazine.
Solar version here: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/02/body-insulation-th...
Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022
on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:35PM (#34278887)
totally agree that for ~5-10% of searches DDG is not as good as google.
When DDG fails, I just re-run the search with "!g" and it goes straight to google and I'm good.