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Re:What Is a Manifold? on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @03:37PM (#45815617)
So what is the "Not a manifold." part? The actually interesting part.
Re:iFixIt iPhone Air Teardown on Sunday September 21, 2025 @01:40PM (#45324932)
The advantage is you can put bigger screen into your pocket. You already have one exposed display in there normally.
Re:Where's Firefox Going Next? on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:25PM (#44585368)
And eventually, out of the blue sky, Kali will reach with her crimson palms.
Recalling the subtle difference between std::lower_bound and std::upper_bound and where it matters is somewhat annoying before it becomes muscle memory.
Re:Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @08:43AM (#44581655)
for a whole two weeks probably
Re:The reality of firearm suppressors vs. Hollywood on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @07:52AM (#44581187)
Yeah you want integrally supressed .300 Blackout for that.
Re:Show HN: Beyond Z²+C, Plot Any Fractal on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:42AM (#44580710)
Isn't that trivially an iterative formula? You know, the physics solver iterating dT after dT.
Re:Reflections on OpenAI on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @06:19AM (#44580603)
>As a result, OpenAI is a very secretive place.

The choice of name continues providing incredible amusement.

"The most striking features of Gothic architecture are the narrow, vertical pro­por­tions and the pointed arches. Gothic-era writing mirrors these concepts."

They didn't have printing press or some conscious aesthetic architecture-typecafe correspondence. That's just how the letters evolve if you want to quickly and densely copy them with a quill. It's like trying to draw meanings from connections between cuneiform and ziggurats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter

"Why do all of this? Because otherwise, the base of the building would look like it was sagging, and the columns would look like they were about to fall outwards."

Or, you know, it would ACTUALLY sag. The columns would ACTUALLY fall outwards.

Well for example you can take several of the clocks and compare them.
Re:Where's Firefox Going Next? on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:57AM (#44579474)
Every dollar they take from the foundation donations for these causes is a dollar that enables them to better sabotage Firefox development actually. If they were starved like cancerous tumour the body might heal and survive.
I am INCREDIBLY baffled it's not there already.
Re:GPUHammer on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:48AM (#44579413)
Well for Earth life there are multiple but evolution just learned to exploit them all.
Re:A Century of Quantum Mechanics on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:26AM (#44569129)
I didn't know string theory makes any verified more precise predictions.
Re:Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 on Monday July 14, 2025 @10:11AM (#44560509)
Alas. I would love a story with utterly alien paradigm but nobody can actually write them and neither will the artificial minds anxiously crafted in the image of human mind be able to.
Re:Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025 on Monday July 14, 2025 @09:54AM (#44560297)
Ah yes, the hard sci-fi staples such as riding to orbit on a crotch rocket and contributing to dimensional potluck at the end of time.
Re:Hypercapitalism and the AI Talent Wars on Monday July 14, 2025 @07:31AM (#44558895)
Surely, SURELY, this has to be satire.
Re:Why are there no good dinosaur films? on Monday July 14, 2025 @05:30AM (#44558031)
Well so is "Birds" a dinosaur movie then.
Re:Let Me Pay for Firefox on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:25AM (#44550295)
The Mozilla corporation made sure to wash its hands of all those successes.
Re:Let Me Pay for Firefox on Sunday July 13, 2025 @09:11AM (#44550207)
More millions for the CEO!
Re:Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @08:07AM (#44509001)
"Waaah waah they didn't ask permission to read the internet"

Meanwhile unintentionally ultrarlhfrelevant title photo.

Increase your productivity while rotting your brain!

Strange proposal.

Re:Why are there no good dinosaur films? on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @03:46AM (#44497965)
Well there are no therapsid movies at all.
Re:So you wanna build an aging company on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @02:25AM (#44497601)
>a measurable contributor to cancer rates

Source: greenpiss?

Hormesis is more likely.

Neanderthals especially were probably kinda autistic.
Re:Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:59PM (#44467403)
Literally what do you imagine "legitimacy" is? Like down at the ground. What is it actually. What does the word you read in textbooks mean besides a vague idea.
Re:Whole-genome ancestry of an Old Kingdom Egyptian on Thursday July 03, 2025 @05:55AM (#44453387)
Try imagining what those official ceremonies are for actually.
Re:The Titanic's Best Lifeboat on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @09:10AM (#44443312)
Why are they not fungible for you? What difference is there when a drunk t-bones you two thousand times versus an iceberg t-boning fifteen hundred people one time? Also what the hell do you mean "supposed to die in a war", who decides that?

But I see the line about "multimillion dollar commercial equipment". The shareholder value must be protected after all. Conversely, a wrecked car is a potential new sale.

Re:The Titanic's Best Lifeboat on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:21AM (#44442846)
Genuinely, why are people/culture seemingly more concerned with the 1500 lives lost on Titanic than the 15~20 MILLION lost in The Great War? Similarly airplane vs automobile casualties. Is it just about the power of the story to sell in a newspaper?
Re:Soldier's wrist purse discovered at Roman legionary camp on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @06:09AM (#44441897)
Bronze is a VERY nice material. It's a shame it's actually too expensive to see much use in our modern consumerist lives.

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