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Re:Edgar Allan Poe's engagement with American science on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @04:14AM (#27969898)
Not explained at length in the article, Poe’s “Eureka” gives answer to Olbers' paradox, formulated in 1823, intuitively conjecturing the finite age of the universe more than a century before that the non steady-state model of cosmology was starting to be accepted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers'_paradox

Re:Ask HN: How do I escape webdev? on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @02:48AM (#22472641)
Please don’t become a teacher if you’re not passionate about what you teach. It’d be a personal and social harm.
Re:Wine 5.0 on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:31AM (#22158696)
I try to avoid using MS products (not hate, just trying to favour free software), but I had to learn extensively about Office last year and I really enjoyed the UX. It has some powerful features for working with animations, transitions and effects. Take this example [1] -I don’t think it’s even possible to do in Google Slides, which finds its power by being more simple and multiplatform. So it depends on your needs, which also applies to Beamer.

[1]: https://youtu.be/3wtwVE5injI

Re:Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent? on Sunday October 13, 2019 @05:44PM (#21243310)
Are those Google/Tencent API requests done only when browsing with Safari, or are they done for any SFSafariViewController? That would imply it’s also inside Brave/Firefox/Chrome...