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elpres··on Possible new dwarf planet found in our solar system
The scientist who demoted Pluto was, in fact, Mike Brown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_E._Brown), and he wrote a really nice book about it called “How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming”.
elpres··on The Wrong Way to Use a Signed Distance Function (SDF)
The tweets are from 2020, and the person who posted them seems to have closed their account in the meantime.
elpres··on Remove the AI bloatware from Logitech's mouse driver
The file is in "C:\Program Files\LogiOptionsPlus"
elpres··on Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
Norton Commander[0] is the original and predates Midnight Commander by eight years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander

elpres··on Ask HN: AI-Generated Music?
There is https://mubert.com
elpres··on A Visual Exploration of Gaussian Processes
D3 and Svelte

https://twitter.com/_jgoertler/status/1079781405138305024

elpres··on Idle Thoughts About Pollard Rho
The problem is that your site is served through HTTPS, but the MathJax code is loaded via HTTP, and Chrome/Firefox refuse to load external JavaScript due to mixed content policy. The embedded images also produce a mixed content warning, but are still loaded because they are not a security risk.
elpres··on Nim programming language
There is "How I start" http://howistart.org/posts/nim/1/index.html
elpres··on Python Concurrency Decorators
Doesn't this second decorator only work with functions doing IO or releasing the GIL in any other way (like time.sleep() that they use in the example)? If all the function is doing is actual computation (i.e. using the CPU), no other code can run in parallel with it because of the GIL.
elpres··on Sile, a typesetting system inspired by TeX and InDesign
https://github.com/simoncozens/sile/tree/master/examples
elpres··on Dispositional mindfulness is associated with reduced implicit learning
In fact, it's not. The paper you've linked is titled "Mindfulness reduces habitual responding based on implicit knowledge: Evidence from artificial grammar learning", from September 2012. It may be related, but not the same.