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Thank you for writing it, I think about it often. It is so well researched and written, I could tell it was a labor of love :)

'Exploding the phone' by Lapsley is such an incredible book on the phone phreaks.

"nor can a Commodore 64 drive read a file you have created on an IBM Personal Computer."

Well I guess, the 1571 drive was released that summer, with the hardware capable of reading IBM PC floppies, but I think it took some years for the software to be developed (Big Blue Reader).

Indeed. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49750694

Also ignored is that not all rectangular flags are the same proportions, e.g. the Belgian one is 13:15.

TIL the shiny metal coating on top of vacuum tubes is not an X-ray shield, but a reactive coating to scavenge any remaining molecules out of the vacuum.

It doesn't look like it.

Ah, thank you. Couldn’t put my finger on it.

That sounds like a great way to attract scammers and dissuade honest people, so if it's ever been tried it must have failed spectacularly (I also searched for variations of this idea but didn't turn up anything).

Of course a 1960's design isn't adapted to current weather conditions. That doesn't mean the whole technology is useless, like so many commenters imply.

Any new build can and will include cooling adapted to hotter conditions.

Right, this was in response to tclancy.

Nope, and Pangram agrees with me, 100% human written with high confidence.

I really enjoy this style and I think it's not _that_ close to AI output (it's much better in fact).

Very well-written text, not a whiff of AI generation to it.

Your example is not even a run-on sentence!

I enjoyed reading it, many thanks to the author.

This seemed promising at the beginning, but do yourself a favor and skip to the end to see the hilariously slow end result.

Older editions (second hand or new) often have largely the same content at a fraction of the price...

Accompanying blog post with some good explanation: https://note.com/frievea/n/n849abe8e46a7?hl=en

It's a damn shame that the EU's plan to reduce our already low emissions (<6% globally) to zero by 2050, at great cost to our collective wealth, will result in a reduction in global warming of less than 0.02 C (1). That is if industry doesn't just move to India, China, Indonesia, etc.

(1) Based on the IPCC rule of thumb of 0.45 C increase per 1000 GtCO2 emissions, see e.g. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/climate-change-2021-the...

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This style of bookmark is rare so it follows it wasn't _necessary_. But with dense text it might be faster and perhaps less error prone than locating the right place in the text?

Scribe would change the margin size and line spacing, and the parchment would be a different size than the source, so the page breaks would end up in different locations in the text.

> [...] the maker was almost certainly a transcriber who used it to keep his place on the page and note the column he was writing in when he stopped. The wheel would be moved to the stopping point and the circle turned to the number of the column he had been writing in when he stopped.

It would make a lot more sense that the bookmark was placed in the source book rather than in the copy. I.e. the wheel would be turned to the source column they had been reading from.

'PowerPC DRC' appears to be the code in mame that translates PowerPC machine code into native host machine code (Dynamic Recompilation Core).

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/devices/cpu/...

Yup, this is so much better!

Maybe you want to take another look? It’s not subtle.

Something else. Rigging is the ropes holding the masts and controlling the sails. There's a bunch of weirdness going on with that. Someone with an interest in sail boats will spot it easily.

The rigging on the surrounding ships is nonsensical. AI generated.

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/HMS_Psyc...

Pangram.com rates it fully AI generated with high confidence.

But he then writes: "I want to be really clear that this is the schematic maximally cynical approach, is not what SpaceX is doing, and is not actually possible."

"Danish pension company Akademikir Pension has announced it will divest from Tesla due to ongoing concerns about labour rights, corporate governance, and Tesla CEO and co-founder, Elon Musk's behaviour."

https://www.europeanpensions.net/ep/Denmarks-Akademiker-Pens...

There appears to be a rope-like device on the emergency equipment training board (8th picture), with some bicone shapes.

Anyone know what that is?

Perhaps an escape rope for the pilots?

EDIT: Yup, here it is in action: https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/7389569