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emmelaichon cp: -r or -R?

old cp didn't have `-a`

Anyway, just use rsync.

emmelaichon Jacques Barzun, Cultural historian and critic (1980)

https://archive.is/ETJ43

and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Barzun

emmelaichon Ask HN: What are you reading?

... how did you both misspell the title? It's the Count of Monte Cristo .. unless this is a different language.

emmelaichon Behold the pawpaw

There's a hint of rottenness to the scent -- even vomit to some. Maybe like Durian.

emmelaichon When did Google get so weird?

It's weird but I always some context in so I don't see these.

i.e. I would have searched for dario quote .... or dario basketball quote ....

emmelaichon The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

Borzoi?

emmelaichon The mystery animal on an ancient god's head

Aardvark to me. Similar snout, long ears. They were probably in the southern reaches of Egypt.

With regard to differences that could be explained by stylisation and the lack of familiarity due to it's rarity in most of Egypt.

emmelaichon Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem?

https://archive.is/52HlJ

emmelaichon Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death

Pretty sure they don't.

emmelaichon Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death

And surely the DMV has far greater 'vicarious liability', as they're the ones that issue licenses.

emmelaichon Whirlpool Washer Transmission Repair (2007)

Top loaders are higher capacity and cost less. And open air drying is preferable to machine drying.

emmelaichon Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain

That's a problem. That the Guardian doesn't mention the regulation and doesn't give us the wording of the advertisement.

emmelaichon What Sun got wrong

Exactly, I used desktop Sun machines and administered many very large Sun machines from 1997 through to 2010.

I saw the end coming for Sun when I had a dx2/66 at home running Linux in the late 90s. It was brilliant.

emmelaichon Winning the visa lottery

AEA leans strongly left. I wouldn't put much store in this.

emmelaichon English: A vs. An

You can say "they are the doctors" -- but yeah it's a slightly different meaning.

BTW in German, it's a fun distinction. The old "ich bin (ein) Berliner". (or hamburger or frankfurter...)

emmelaichon An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem

That Pythagorean one with the ejection is cool. I wonder whether you could use it to accelerate a spacecraft.

emmelaichon XCancel service is suspended until further notice

X should provide an option to make youor posts public. And govt reps should be required to use it.

emmelaichon The librarian, the car keys, and AI

"How builders, lawmakers, and civil libertarians can prevent over-regulation and preserve its potential" -- by Greg Lukianoff and Adam Goldstein

emmelaichon LG Says We're Fake News [video]

Buy a cast/apple tv anyway and then reset the LG screen to factory. Is that an option?

emmelaichon The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

Semi-related, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Times_at_the_El_Royale is a great movie.

emmelaichon The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

Mercator is fine. Or if you want something flat use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggs_eumorphic_projection.

Or buy a globe FFS.

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

emmelaichon Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?

So weird, after visiting, my mouse icon disappears!

emmelaichon Asahi Linux on M3

Do you mean 'will be my last MacOS?'

emmelaichon The revolt of the reader

Are you sure you're referencing the correct quote? Are you familiar with original? Did you you use AI to write this comment?

emmelaichon Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

They are correct!

emmelaichon Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

Are the wheels rotating in the wrong direction? I stared at it they seemed to reverse. Perhaps a bit of a optical illusion.

Looking at the SVG, the direction is missing but the default is clockwise. So I'd say it's good!

emmelaichon Hacking IKEA Furniture

Exactly. I've referred to Ikea as the MacDonald's of furniture. Which is a little harsh and I do own a few pieces.

emmelaichon Visual Analysis of Binary Files

I've heard of people 'walking' old hard drive cabinets by fine manipulation of the read/write heads.

emmelaichon Latah

(submitter here) I wonder whether this is related to Amok (also Malay origin). Also related (probably) is The Jumping Frenchmen and Tourette's.

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

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

emmelaichon One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

There were plenty of conspiracy sites pre-2000. I think a lot of them shared mindspace with USA late night talk radio. Also, usenet.