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Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:57AM (#49660566)
Categorization and taxonomy for "little thingies": The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group - A Database of Synthetic Taxonomy <https://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=2936>
> Eventually, he hit on 86 syllables that expressed specific sounds, each syllable represented by symbols borrowed from Greek, Hebrew and English. Later reduced to 85 symbols...

Maybe the symbols themselves aren't new.

Re:Eat Real Food on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:35AM (#46537945)
Indeed, chickpeas don't supply sufficient essential amino acids[1]. But sesame is[2] and goes well with chickpea! See falafel or hummus.

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007114512000797

[2]: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14194079

Re:Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:33PM (#46224190)
Site seems down, try https://archive.is/gW1rO
Re:Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:35PM (#46062612)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/netflix-is-telling-writers-to-dum... (https://archive.is/RE0pz)

> Amid a push to perfect 'casual viewing,' creatives say streaming execs are requiring them to remove nuance and visual cues, and do things like announce when characters enter a room.

Re:CLI tool to check the Git status of multiple projects on Thursday November 20, 2025 @02:44AM (#45990024)
Also see https://github.com/fboender/multi-git-status which I've used happily for a few years.

It's a shell script (#!sh) and therefore easy as copy/paste to install.

For example: IPFS URI's are content addresses

https://docs.ipfs.tech/

If TikTok turned out to be State sponsored spyware, would you reconsider?

I support your slippery slope argument. I wonder where your red line is relative to "state sponsored spyware" and "typical advertising ID tracking" or "cool new app from company influenced by an adversarial super power".

mid-block crosswalks exist[1] and can placed where people already "jaywalk". To me it's like installing sidewalks on the desire paths[2].

[1]: https://sustainablecitycode.org/brief/mid-block-pedestrian-c...

[2]: https://99percentinvisible.org/article/least-resistance-desi...

Re:Debugging Python with VS Code on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:04AM (#42707511)
this is timely and useful to me -- thanks for sharing

debugging with this method is much nicer than my previously methods: lots of `logging.debug(f"{my_list}")` and parsing pytest output

I use and highly recommend this framework as the starting point for any technical documentation. It helped me learn how to keep the detailed technical explanations out of the how-to documents. Before I learned of Diataxis, my how-to docs were much longer and hard to follow when things go right (because I had lots of, "if this doesn't work, investigate A, B, C...").
Re:USPS carriers love their new mail trucks on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:32PM (#42249749)
The seat height in the banner image looks too tall for the mailboxes. I wonder how the seat height in the NGDV compares to the Grumman LLV.
Re:Poisoning the Day on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:28PM (#42249704)
(not OP) Yes, the quoted strategy is from The 4-Hour Workweek (Ferriss 2007)
Re:How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number on Friday June 21, 2024 @01:00PM (#40751476)
That's also the definition given in the article, attributed to Richard Dedekind.
Re:Tom 7: Badness 0 (Three ways) on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:40PM (#40612166)
> Hard Mode: Any revealed hints must be used in subsequent guesses

As implemented, hard mode doesn't count gray letters (letters nowhere in the solution) as hints. You're allowed to reuse gray letters, but true hard mode should prevent that.

> Lock & Key references stolen username/password lists shared publicly on the internet and cross checks them against your account.

Does this mean they don't salt stored passwords, or they're testing compromised passwords with all stored salts?