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egiboy··on A tiny cell that broke a big rule of biology
Two phases of Bigelowii.

Deuce Bigelowii.

Huh.

egiboy··on Precursor
“Move your mouse without rhythm to avoid the worm”
egiboy··on The First Video Game Was Just a Box in the Corner of a Bar
Brings up a ‘Do you want to download “sync” on “lithub.com” and “dsp-service.admatic.de”?’ dialog on my iPad.

Hard pass.

egiboy··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
Don’t get hung up on “hung up”. Time goes by so slowly.
egiboy··on Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)
The question that flew under the radar ;)
egiboy··on Launch HN: Indy (YC S21) – A support app designed for ADHD brains
I’ll give this app a try later.
egiboy··on Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans
“Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?”

This belongs in a sitcom, and it actually did until now.

egiboy··on Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling
I thought this was about Sand Hill Road funded startups welcoming University of Waterloo interns. Oh well.
egiboy··on Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug
Does it talk?
egiboy··on The new Paris métro
As a newly-minted Canadian I've noticed that as well. I moved to Toronto from Istanbul five years ago and while I was away, Istanbul added 75 kilometers to its metro. That's longer than the entire Toronto Subway.

All this talk about being a world-class city, while nobody knows when Eglinton Crosstown, a "subway" line using streetcar ("LRT") tech that's been "in progress" since 2011, will open. Don't even get me started on SmartTrack :)

egiboy··on The death of the key change
The author, by making this claim, lays bare the fact that they do not know about Eurovision.

Key changes are so common in Eurovision songs that it is mentioned in the ultimate Eurovision spoof song "Love Love Peace Peace", which also features at least one key change: https://youtu.be/Cv6tgnx6jTQ

The reports of the death of the key change, dare I say, are greatly exaggerated.

egiboy··on Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds (2020)
Melkon is the Armenian form of the name "Melchior", so yes.
egiboy··on Finnish as a world language?
Because it's a bug, not a feature.
egiboy··on Inventing PostScript, the tech that took the pain out of printing (1988)
+1 for Brother laser printers. I have the MFC-L3710CW model and cannot recommend it enough.
egiboy··on Railway lines once connected the Middle East
It's not Trablusşark but rather Trablusşam, Tripoli of the Levant: https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trablus%C5%9Fam
egiboy··on National Geographic now recognizes The Southern Ocean
I wouldn't go to Webster's for definitive information about hydrography. The definitive source is "Limits of Oceans and Seas" by the International Hydrology Organization.

The 3rd edition of that document, which came out in 1953, lists four oceans - same as Webster's sans the Antarctic: https://iho.int/uploads/user/pubs/standards/s-23/S-23_Ed3_19...

The 4th edition of the document, which has been in draft since 1986, adds the Southern Ocean: https://legacy.iho.int/mtg_docs/com_wg/S-23WG/S-23WG_Misc/Dr...

egiboy··on Single anonymous donor gives $40M to fund 50 civil rights lawyers
Judging from past donations, this anonymous donor is most probably Mackenzie Scott.

Pure speculation, no actual data to back it up, so don't shoot me.

egiboy··on IBM Z mainframes revived by Red Hat, AI and security
It looks like they are working on #4: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/lq3CH2Qcqc8

All points listed are very valid BTW.

egiboy··on Why You Should Use a Text Area for Address Form Fields
It is virtually impossible to agree on a set of fields - there is always an exception: https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
egiboy··on Turkish Grammar by Predicate Logic
English is not immune to ambiguities and thus not superior to Turkish in this regard:

https://translate.google.com/#en/tr/fruit%20flies%20like%20a...

egiboy··on Going “Write-Only”
Even the simplest, most -seemingly- feature-complete software can and will need fixes. The best example comes from the Big Iron world, where a program which does nothing was needed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEFBR14
egiboy··on Further Evidence That IQ Does Not Measure Intelligence
I don't think IQ tests are immune to grade inflation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_inflation), so I am inclined to think of Flynn effect as a special case of it.
egiboy··on The Codeless Code - Tales to make wiser programmers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two%27s_complement