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vhcr··on Differential Growth Addon for Blender
I think a cool addition would be to add a light source, and inhibit growth when a vertex doesn't receives light.
vhcr··on Training myself to run farther with Strava's API and an IoT dog feeder of M&Ms
Nicotine is probably healthier than beef jerky or steak.
vhcr··on Slouch: Posture panic in modern America
> No consensus on causality of spine postures or physical exposure and low back pain: A systematic review of systematic reviews

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00219...

vhcr··on Slouch: Posture panic in modern America
200lb means a BMI of 25 if you're 6'3", which is like 3-4% of the male population in the US, unless you're taller than that it would probably be a better idea to lower your weight first.
vhcr··on Mechanically strong yet metabolizable plastic breaks down in seawater
Or you know, supermarkets would purchase 50kg blocks of butter and fraction it, clients would then be responsible for bringing their own reusable containers.
vhcr··on Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008)
Maybe even add a CI step that closes PRs if someone modifies formatter config files.
vhcr··on Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released
Of course it would be less likely to happen with physical currency, you risk being caught when retrieving the money.
vhcr··on DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received at GitHub
More like: hope your code doesn't get illegally uploaded to GitHub.
vhcr··on setBigTimeout
Not ALL integers are 52 bit, BigInts were added on ECMAScript 2020.
vhcr··on Small asteroid to hit Earth's atmosphere today
The latest tweet confirms it will fall in the ocean.

https://x.com/esa/status/1831337534950924348

vhcr··on Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)
Flu variants infectionness variability is just a so well known variable that the researchers would have to be really mediocre to not take that into account, the official press release mentions they're performing the studies on four kindergartens, so they're most probably comparing against each other.

https://www.pandemicresponse.fi/post/can-the-spread-of-flu-b...

vhcr··on Samsung to Mass-Produce Solid-State Batteries for 'Super Premium' EVs
Batteries don't have bigger capacities because people want to carry them inside of planes, which have a limit of 100Wh, the MacBook Pro has a 99.6Wh battery.
vhcr··on Ask HN: Changing my mind about JavaScript
Once you understand the fundamentals, knowing about the newer stuff would be a good step forwards:

https://github.com/tc39/proposals/blob/main/finished-proposa...

vhcr··on The protein Reelin keeps popping up in brains that resist aging and Alzheimer’s
This is so out of touch, having a healthy diet is obviously going to help reduce the risk of getting Alzheimer's disease, but it is in no way the ultimate cure.
vhcr··on Ask HN: What's the consensus on "unit" testing LLM prompts?
Just use JSON Schema, LangChain supports structured output, which let's you define your own custom schema.
vhcr··on Panic at the Job Market
Random 4 bytes sounds like reading a pointer as something else, shouldn't be too hard to debug.
vhcr··on Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
In theory it's nice that the compiler would catch those kinds of problems, but in practice it doesn't matters.
vhcr··on Free-threaded CPython is ready to experiment with
Do you have a problem with Node.js too because it creates a node_modules folder, or is the problem that it is not handled automatically?
vhcr··on Canada 'sleepwalking' into cashless society, consumer advocates warn
Just to be nit-picky, but Monero can be mined with GPUs.
vhcr··on The tiny chip that powers Montreal subway tickets
No need to worry about privacy, facial recognition already takes care of that.
vhcr··on Building a serverless secured dead drop
You could implement error correction code on top.
vhcr··on Building a serverless secured dead drop
Have fun getting hacked with BadUSB.
vhcr··on ADSL works over wet string (2017)
Does it matter?
vhcr··on RFC 9562: Universally Unique IDentifiers (May 2024)
Monotonicity is addressed in section 6.2, but it's optional.
vhcr··on Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla
Where do you draw the line? RAW, HDR, photo stitching, blur removal?
vhcr··on A look inside illegal drone deliveries at B.C.'s prisons
Quite hard to fly back if the GPS signal is also jammed.
vhcr··on Bollards: Why and What
Not that vast (in the US).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/1994-_Mo...

vhcr··on Ask HN: Best Relief for Body Aches?
Low impact exercise, swimming worked wonders for my back pain.
vhcr··on Chechnya is banning music that's too fast or slow.
Nothing that some 160 bpm techno can't fix.
vhcr··on Suspicious discontinuities (2020)
We have some discontinuities in our tax code in Argentina, if you are an independent worker, and earn up to 11,916,410 pesos ($11,682) per year, you pay 793,332 pesos ($777) in taxes, around 6.6%, but if you earn one more peso, you enter the general regime, and start paying >50% in taxes.
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