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3r3rni9on Gundam is just the same as Jane Austen but happens to include giant mech suits

Posting because someone has to say that "Witch From Mercury" was literally Shakespeare's Tempest (which I thought was amazing). I mean the Gundam's name is Ariel.

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3r3rni9on What were the worst jobs for poor Romans in Ancient Rome?

At this juncture I must heartily recommend the very silly and good natured anime/manga Thermae Romae [1][2]. It's about a Roman bath architect who secretly discovers a way to time travel to modern Japanese baths to steal ideas (though he is slow to understand them). The original run is a little more pure than the Netflix reboot, where the humor / seriousness balance is off (it's never too long of a slog).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae_Romae#Episode_list_(DL...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermae_Romae#Episode_list_(Ne...

3r3rni9on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

Musk fired the board in Oct 2022. I can’t find anything about them reforming it.

3r3rni9on Apple Detection of Flashing Lights

Are there any comparable tools or filters you find useful now? I have an old epileptic cat on my couch, and I’m always worried subjecting her to my horrible old anime. I was just yesterday thinking a filter like this was probably out there, and if not, might be easy to make. Looking for VLC plugins, though, I don’t see anything

3r3rni9on Glen Canyon Revealed

Does the author ever explain or mention again the sudden red sky they saw in paragraph 3? Puzzling, doesn't sound like aurora; if the date was known it might be easily confirmed or corroborated. Not sure why it was even mentioned...

3r3rni9on The mesmerising murmurations of Europe’s starlings

Starlings are highly invasive in the USA and these formations can be enjoyed there too -- I've read of Central Park NYC and Seattle both seeing them.

Cool story, until just recently, it was commonly believed that starlings were first brought to the USA in 1890 as part of a Shakespeare fan's project to introduce all of the birds mentioned in his works. But I just looked it up, and now it looks like scholars are finding little evidence for that story!

https://sites.allegheny.edu/news/2021/02/16/how-shakespeare-...

3r3rni9on SVG passthrough precision

Came here to mention this, seeing those high precision decimals -- if you ever need to use their dimensions in any DOM arethmetic, be sure your process converts those to integers and back first (or use a lib like BigNumber, or the new JS BigInt). Many experienced front end devs ignore floating point issues unless they're doing financial math, then wonder why their JavaScript CSS calculations won't work out precicely.

3r3rni9on 'The world 9/11 created: What if the U.S. had not invaded Iraq?'

In case younger readers are unaware, this really may have been a motive in itself — GWB was famously quoted saying “he tried to kill my Dad”.

3r3rni9on Ferrofluid display cell Bluetooth speaker

Thought of exactly the same exhibit -- love that thing! Worth a stop into NYHS to play with it. I immediately wanted to make one and I'm psyched to see on HN. Evidently it originally had buttons to control the charge, then curators upgraded it with the more tactile wheel controllers.

https://www.sciartmagazine.com/spotlight-michael-flynn-and-f...

3r3rni9on A man is looking for the friends who shipped him overseas in a crate in 1965

Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit.

3r3rni9on Who keeps buying California's scarce water?

The situation is awful and I'm surprised the article doesn't mention Nestlé, who has turned huge profits bottling and selling CA's largely non-renewable groundwater throughout its historic droughts.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/29/the-figh...

3r3rni9on US Navy Patent Antigravity Device

I didn't indulge in going too deep, but another article from the same series on The Drive explores China's filing of similar patents, imagining it could be a form of (low effort?) counter-propaganda.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28729/docs-show-navy-g...

3r3rni9on Wastes of Time We Regret When We Get Older

Nah, it's apocryphal according to Wikipedia. And nothing like Borges would write, according to me ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moments_(poem)

3r3rni9on What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works

Check out Google Tone: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-tone/nnckeh...

"Broadcast any URL to computers within earshot. Google Tone turns on your computer's microphone (while the extension is on) and uses your computer's speakers to exchange URLs with nearby computers connected to the Internet. You can use Google Tone to send the URL for any web page, including news stories, pictures, documents, blog posts, products, YouTube videos, recipes—even search results. Any computer within earshot (including over a phone or Hangout) that also has the Google Tone extension installed and turned ON can receive a Google Tone notification."

3r3rni9on Does All Wine Taste the Same? (2012)

For the record and for those still skimming: the author, Jonah Lehrer, was fired from Wired, resigned from the New Yorker, and lost his book deals after a massive 2012 plagiarism scandal (hence the note prefacing the article), and apparently remains fairly unrepentant:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/07/jonah_lehrer_...