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sonofgod··on To Evade Pre-Prohibition Drinking Laws, New Yorkers Created an Inedible Sandwich
See also -- Marvel's legal team: "The X-Men aren't really people."

https://mentalfloss.com/article/92007/why-us-federal-court-r...

sonofgod··on Show HN: CodeSpeak, the beginnings of a web-based speech-to-code tool
voicecode.io looked particularly interesting in this regard -- essentially creating a language to describe keypresses and mouseclicks (using some headtracking gear for mouse movement).

It sounds like gibberish:

SENSLAM tiny test DOT add PREN BING CAMEL example test that fails SWIPE function PREN test

but it renders as

Tinytest.add('exampleTestThatFails', function(test))

due to where the cursor is placed between punctuation. There's also commands for cursor movement and selection modification (expand to containing bracket/quotes, deselect the last word)

There's presumably some underlying scheme to what they're using, but it's not entirely obvious. It's also not obvious how available this is, with a "send an email for further info" link. :(

sonofgod··on Thrangrycat
Also, I see zero justification for why this particular array of emoji: is this a particularly angry-making vuln? Particularly carnivorous? It's not even particularly unambiguous, a requirement, I would have thought, for "proper ontological agreement".

Anchor - Spiderweb - Personal Computer would have been a more meaningful name, from a cursory glance.

sonofgod··on Thrangrycat
"Because one cat ain't enough and two is too low, it's me, [U+1F63E POUTING CAT FACE][U+1F63E POUTING CAT FACE][U+1F63E POUTING CAT FACE]" [edited to replace contextually important emojis]

(Also, I don't think you can meaningfully claim it's properly called when both your HTML <title> and <h1> are both 'thangrycat', and the emoji themselves are relegated to the body text, as well as using the pronoun "this vulnerability" repeatedly to avoid having to put more kitties in your post)

sonofgod··on Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete
Presumably there is an optimal Island / Persistant Petitioners only deck ratio against a dumb opponent who does nothing but draw a card a turn and play a land.

I wonder if it's irrational?

sonofgod··on Tell HN: My usability pet peeve – am/pm times with a leading zero
I wouldn't say "fourteen oh-oh", but "fourteen hundred", and I've rarely heard just "fourteen".

Extends obviously to "fourteen thirty".

(Northern England)

sonofgod··on Show HN: A game I made in 48 hours
Took me a while to work out you could actually make time from killing enemies -- I saw they only created one time crystal, and that it took about three to kill them, then died due to being out of time, so didn't realise that the monster's ones are significantly more valuable. :)
sonofgod··on Israeli Scientists 'Print' World's First 3D Heart with Human Tissue
So we have been handling the low-hanging fruit: bladders, skin, urethras and cartilage were being clinically trialled (ie. put into people) as of September 2018.

https://3dprint.com/224629/3d-bioprinted-bladder/

The complexity of the heart is weird -- there's a lot of physical structure that's important, but at the same time I believe there's relatively little differentiation: it's mostly muscle; it's not a kidney or a lung. It's probably directly the opposite challenges to skin -- skin probably has more internal differences, but the physical layout are likely to just be laminar sheets.

(I am not an expert on biology.)

sonofgod··on My Laptop Bit Me – The Shocking Truth (2012)
It's certainly British English.
sonofgod··on Unofficial new Berlin rapid transit route map
As a first-time tourist to Berlin, I found the concept of "there is a circle line bisected by a north-south line and an east-west line" a super useful framework for hanging the rest of the network off. It's a shame this isn't reflected, in preference of a dog's head.
sonofgod··on Huntington's Disease gene is found (1993)
Twenty-five years after we found the gene, and "there's currently no cure for Huntington's disease or any way to stop it getting worse."

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/huntingtons-disease/ (2018)

sonofgod··on Don’t Use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form
W3C is explicit: ranges are Unicode code points.

[a-9] is not a valid range (since 9<a). [0-z] is, but as you say it is misleading and you probably shouldn't.

There is a ambiguity that [A-Z] can be legally interpreted as "any of the characters A, hyphen, or Z". A rule specifying that hyphens must be first or last in the list would resolve this problem.

Also, good luck encoding

NameStartChar := ":" | [A-Z] | "_" | [a-z] | [#xC0-#xD6] | [#xD8-#xF6] | [#xF8-#x2FF] | [#x370-#x37D] | [#x37F-#x1FFF] | [#x200C-#x200D] | [#x2070-#x218F] | [#x2C00-#x2FEF] | [#x3001-#xD7FF] | [#xF900-#xFDCF] | [#xFDF0-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#xEFFFF]

without ranges.

sonofgod··on Don’t Use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form
Title woefully inaccurate: original is "Don’t Use ISO/IEC 14977 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF)" and the article can be summarised as "Use W3C EBNF instead".
sonofgod··on Nikoli Puzzles
A huge browser-playable collection of Nikoli and other puzzles are at https://www.janko.at/Raetsel/Nikoli/index-2.htm
sonofgod··on Microsoft bans April's fools pranks
Fun fact: googling it gets a nice box-out from Forbes on it, featuring the words "butt chugging".
sonofgod··on Morning Cup of Coding – A curated daily newsletter for programmers of all fields
Minor things I've noticed whilst looking at archives, which made me somewhat puzzled for a bit:

* Pressing Escape redirects to a Squarespace login, which is weird (was trying to get out of Ctrl-F seeing if Python was listed)

* You have article headlines that aren't clickable to get to the article, instead relying on body links.

sonofgod··on Show HN: A raycaster that renders to random dot stereogram (like Magic Eye)
That's correct -- if you cross your eyes correctly, you should see some 3D depth in the static.

http://www.magiceye.com/faq_example.htm has some helpful instructions (you're looking for a planet with rings)

Would be useful if it had some markers for achieving the correct amount of focus.

sonofgod··on Counting Bugs in Windows Calculator
In 'Suspicious comparison of real numbers':

isActive = ((ratio > threshold) || (ActiveIfEqual && (ratio == threshold)));

is called out as bad code by the blogger; this feels very much like a false positive, given that we're checking an inequality already; just effectively changing it from > to >=

A good example of not just blindly following the linter...

sonofgod··on Launch HN: Saratoga Energy (YC W19), Better Carbon Nanotubes from Carbon Dioxide
Cool; so about 0.35% of yearly world production of CO2 per year from capture, and assuming 25% increased longevity, somewhere a little short of 1% due to cement reduction.

... that's pretty good, actually, might buy us another year, on its own...

sonofgod··on Launch HN: Saratoga Energy (YC W19), Better Carbon Nanotubes from Carbon Dioxide
Good luck!

How big do you see this carbon nanotube market being, and thus how much net CO2 do you see yourself removing from the environment?

sonofgod··on Bash Completion from JSON Fields
Nice!

The results seems somewhat muddied by the long lists. Have you considered omitting all but the first and last entries?

sonofgod··on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
For a copious list of falsehoods you or other programmers might believe, see also: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
sonofgod··on Mobile Jazz Company Handbook [pdf]
Cynically, it's a recruitment expense -- there's a pretty good probability of getting a good hire from posting this widely.

It's not, to my mind, an actual corporate handbook -- it's missing boring important things like "here's our password and security policy, please remember we have people's super-personal health data in our apps, so it's really important". I guess that's probably in the company Wiki or similar.

sonofgod··on Sexy prime
Now earwormed to the tune of "baby shark".

Also, Mersenne Prime, Happy Prime, Lucky Prime etc...

sonofgod··on What's next for SemVer
The link to https://github.com/orgs/semver/teams/maintainers/members 404s for me -- I'm guessing due to permissions?
sonofgod··on A Manually-Curated Dataset of Fixes to Vulnerabilities of Open-Source Software
Link to actual data https://github.com/copernico/msr2019 [repository] https://github.com/copernico/msr2019/blob/master/dataset/vul... [csv dump]

[seriously, it should not be this hard to find that within the PDF...]

sonofgod··on Show HN: Linjat, a small puzzle game
I beat it fine; both 6's are horizontal.
sonofgod··on [dead]
Counterpoint: the accepted biblical English translation of the name of god is "the Lᴏʀᴅ" or "Gᴏᴅ". Don't faff about at the half-way mark.

[Poe's law status: satire with an smidgen of pedant]

sonofgod··on Odd History of the SD Logo [video]
TL;DR: It has a disk in the D because Toshiba had developed a logo for a disk based technology and just reused it, and then it became a standards-symbol so everyone kinda needed to use it.

Seriously that video is overly long.

sonofgod··on The Acid3 Test (2008)
This is by design. By the specs, browsers should not display a favicon if the file 404s. But that file contains a valid favicon, so rendering it is a failure. [source: Wikipedia]
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