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onestay42

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onestay42··on We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary
And, for those who don't know who the lucky 10,000 are, https://xkcd.com/1053/
onestay42··on Show HN: Bodily Oddities
I belive that this is closing your soft pallate to the back of your throat. It should also happen when you swallow.
onestay42··on How would you know whether an ancient culture had zero?
How about an `extern` variable in C?
onestay42··on Microduck
What about the animals that have been domesticated to be pets? It's arguable that their native habitat is the home at this point. Although, I do hope we stop capturing the animals which aren't domesticated (most "exotic" pets).
onestay42··on France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s
That's quite ironic
onestay42··on Advertise in ChatGPT
IIRC things like this were why so many companies were called ACME.
onestay42··on Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning
Not all humans are in their right minds, unfortunately.
onestay42··on Show HN: E-- – A language you dial between English and Python
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but since that's postfix wouldn't it always come out false?
onestay42··on Combustion engine web-based simulator
I think what happened was that it became his full time job, and he started to need to be able to make money from it. At least, that's what I remember; I haven't seen much about it as of late.
onestay42··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
You could say... it trumps them
onestay42··on Why is the sky blue?
AFAIK listen used to be used therefor[sic] but it has fallen out of use nowadays. From wiktionary:

> Listen the watchman’s cry upon the wall.

Edit: formatting

onestay42··on LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
I've seen some overheat themselves even in open air!
onestay42··on LearnixOS
BSD would like a word.
onestay42··on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
Do you mean therefore or therefor? I only ask because I have never seen an AI say therefor. (therefore ~ due to that; therefor ~ for that)
onestay42··on Major AWS Outage Happening
This is also preventing kids in my school from logging into their chromebooks.
onestay42··on Bat v0.26.0
dd an company require if= and of=, if that counts
onestay42··on The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh
"Cattle labeling meat labeling supervision task transfer act" is just as bad as Rinderkennzeichnungsfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, English just gets to use spaces where German doesn't. The underlying construction is the same. (I definitively got that translation wrong)
onestay42··on Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
I suggest you look into the origin of eukaryotes.
onestay42··on Playing Viking Chess with Whale Bones
I know this is quite tangential, but I never realized that Discworld's thud was so close to an existing game(Hnefatavl)
onestay42··on Baby's first type checker
I suppose it is how this kind of tool generally works. I think it's just some subset of the feeling I get when someone writes(implements?) $LANGUAGE in $LANGUAGE(e.g. brainf*ck in brainf*ck)

EDIT: escaped censorship

onestay42··on Baby's first type checker
It's amazing to me that a python program can be written to make sure another python program is pythoning properly.
onestay42··on Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves
I'm sorry! I'm quite new here, so I guess I don't have the rules internalized. Thank you for the reminder.
onestay42··on Freeway guardrails are now a favorite target of thieves
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onestay42··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
Those are very good points. I suppose it depends on one's view of IP. I think your comment has actually changed my mind—at least a little bit. Thank you.
onestay42··on Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction
"Yes the company did steal all the wood from the forest—illegally—but at least they're selling us furniture!"
onestay42··on Fighting with YouTube to show a preview image
Please, please close that parenthese. Please, I beg of you. I can do it for you if you'd like.) There. Sorry.
onestay42··on LIGO detects most massive black hole merger to date
BTW, the php in /chat2 seems to be broken, if you didn't know already. Great simulation, too.
onestay42··on NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System
I have to mention Robert L. Forward’s Dragon Egg—it explores life on a white dwarf with nuclear reactions instead of chemical ones. Not the best book, IMHO, but a fun thought to entertain.