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steanneon Lunar Terminator Paradox

it was my vague understanding that what is weird is the apparent size matching. since the moon is slowly moving away, eventually we'll no longer have total solar eclipses, just annular and partial.

steanneon If You Knew God Exists, Wouldn't You Become a Priest?

> Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.

Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

steanneon Minimal Phone 2

i really feel like the website for a minimal phone should be at least somewhat viewable without javascript.

steanneon Don't Just Say Hello

might wanna make that year reference in the text dynamic

steanneon The UN challenges five centuries of cartography

why the /s?

https://mapdesign.icaci.org/2014/02/mapcarte-38365-mcarthurs...

steanneon HTML Can Do That

"you don't have to, they'll tell you."

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steanneon I've yet to see any"My AI went rogue and caused us to recognise a workers union

how about "my ai vending machine went rogue and made its items free"

https://youtu.be/SpPhm7S9vsQ

steanneon Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

i see the opposite a lot, too, though: articles that don't need a picture but have some marginally-related stock photo tacked on just so there's a picture.

steanneon SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students

the word hall, when used in this context, means the entire building, not the hallways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Student_accommoda...

steanneon Shift from a Leader-Follower to a Leader-Leader Approach

dunbar's number?

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number>

steanneon Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)

also consider the labor involved in upkeep. this is one of the rationales for nightwear: it's much easier to wash a change of nightclothes every so often than large sheets and blankets.

steanneon Scientists “bottle the sun” with a liquid battery that stores solar energy

i can think of a somewhat well-known one, but its uptime is predictably bad https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

steanneon NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027

and make it a good try, too. you can't improve your situation a little by jumping halfway over a hole.

steanneon Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?

that's not why. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundowning

steanneon Car Seats as Contraception

back seat? we were loose in the pickup truck!

steanneon Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

sounds like an expensive way to get disqualified from jury duty.

steanneon A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas

is there a word for using them as hairsticks?

steanneon LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances

oh, is that why it's stuck on spinner? switch to no style, the data's all there

steanneon Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

we'll see how cutting stops works out: that's part of what they're planning to rework the trolleys.

https://wwww.septa.org/trolley-modernization/

steanneon Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective

wouldn't a network of vans require hiring a lot more drivers per passenger than busses need? sounds like a jobs program.

steanneon Sizing chaos

part of it is just raw obesity increase, but part is also an aging population. even if women today WERE the same size as women of the same age 30 years ago, the average over the total population would still be up.

steanneon EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear

i would think chanel quilts would sell very well

steanneon Mozilla is building an AI 'rebel alliance' to take on OpenAI, Anthropic

the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

steanneon Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?

i think thunderbird has an rss reader, though i've not tried it

steanneon Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?

magnetic shelving for the side of the fridge greatly expanded upon the cabinet space usable to me as a shorter person.

steanneon Xfce is great

it's a lot to go through, but this is a great resource

https://www.xfce-look.org/browse/

steanneon Xfce is great