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Over 600 million years left! Complex life may be gone by then (see silicate weathering).

It is never a bad moment to mention this. For planets with a single moon, the probability of such an occurrence has been estimated at 4% [1]. I like to think that this is what extraterrestrials would find most fascinating about our world.

[1] https://medium.com/@asorlik/the-probability-of-total-solar-e...

savoyardon Show HN: Justif – Knuth-Plass justification and microtypography for the web

A most welcome addition to a webmaster’s toolkit. Congratulations!

savoyardon Show HN: Gravity – interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

This is exactly right; the phenomenon is known as axial parallelism.

savoyardon 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background

> It should be a white flag.

And it will be.

savoyardon LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?

Relevant:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/language-thought/

savoyardon The brain navigates new spaces by 'darting' between reality and mental maps

Just wait till you hear Geoffrey Hinton’s “little pink elephants” routine; it will all make sense then (it won’t). The mystery is almost rivaled by that other mystery of why some of us fail to be mystified.

savoyardon Zuckerberg appeared to know Llama trained on Libgen

Library Genesis is living up to its name.

savoyardon SimpleQA

“Twain never said it.”

https://marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryphal-twain-things-we-...

savoyardon The Diamond Sutra, the oldest dated printed book (2016)

https://idp.bl.uk/collection/51FDAEAFB4A24E2E9981692A98130BC...

savoyardon Sunlight, a Certificate Transparency log implementation

Curiously, “Sunlight” was the codename for the original CT spec:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-laurie-pki-sunlight/0...

savoyardon Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

That would be F7. The same works in Chrome.

savoyardon Update on KDP Title Creation Limits

> What's the name of the law where the longer something has already been around, the longer it will likely stay around in the future?

The Lindy effect.

savoyardon The Barbie-Oppenheimer Double Feature Is Happening, Data Shows

Not always. Here is Isao Takahata [1]:

“The response was different depending on which film was shown first. My Neighbor Totoro would make them happy, then this Grave of the Fireflies… Those who saw Totoro first didn’t want to see Fireflies to the end. Those who saw Fireflies first didn’t have that problem, and stayed to the end. The double featuring was a problem, I’d say.”

[1] http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/grave/faq.html#totoro

savoyardon Vickrey Auction

A Vickrey auction is what effectively happens when bidders “snipe” on eBay.

savoyardon PGP signatures on PyPI: worse than useless

> For file encryption, there's age. This uses all modern crypto and does authenticated encryption.

GnuPG offers AEAD encryption since version 2.3.0.

savoyardon TOTP Authentication with Free Software

For command-line use, there is oathtool, which is part of the OATH Toolkit by Simon Josefsson.

https://oath-toolkit.nongnu.org

savoyardon Garum Masala

> Even the name of the island itself derives from Sanskrit: dvipa-sakhadara means the “Island of Bliss.”

Foreign Sailors on Socotra: The Inscriptions and Drawings from the Cave Hoq (a book mentioned in the article) refers to this as an “academic myth” and suggests that the island’s name is of South Arabian origin.

savoyardon Original Pong did not have any code or even a microprocessor

One can definitely play Pong on MAME:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/machine...

savoyardon Explaining top(1) on FreeBSD

“Examining Load Average” by Ray Walker:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001

savoyardon 100k Stars

Notes on implementation:

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/casestudies/100000st...

savoyardon Stacked images of the comet, photobombed by Starlink satellites

“And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night.”

savoyardon OBS (macOS) Virtual Camera

BlackHole [1] is a modern alternative to Soundflower.

[1] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

savoyardon Online Jamming and Concert Technology

We’ve been using JackTrip for a couple of years. I would recommend it to anyone looking into telematic performances.

savoyardon Internet Explorer Is Evil (2002)

Your song is amazing. It’s been a decade since I heard it, and the chorus would still occasionally play in my head.

savoyardon Ask HN: Best current mailing list manager?

Take a look at Mlmmj [1]. I found it well documented and easy to set up.

[1] http://mlmmj.org

savoyardon Wildlife is reclaiming Yosemite National Park

From “The Tragedy of the Commons” by Garrett Hardin [1]:

“The National Parks present another instance of the working out of the tragedy of the commons. At present, they are open to all, without limit. The parks themselves are limited in extent—there is only one Yosemite Valley—whereas population seems to grow without limit. The values that visitors seek in the parks are steadily eroded. Plainly, we must soon cease to treat the parks as commons or they will be of no value to anyone.”

He includes a lottery in his list of possible solutions.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243

savoyardon First trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz

I believe the answer is yes. One example would be the use of the Karhunen–Loève transform [1] promoted by Claudio Maccone [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karhunen–Loève_theorem

[2] https://doi.org/10.22323/1.056.0034