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I looked at the page, and decided I wanted to see how to origami some of the archimedian solids, which are lower down the page. I don't find platonic solids as interesting so I didn't click on them. I saw they existed but you can't see that they have folding instructions unless you click on them

Ah, I didn't see those

It should probably be noted somewhere that this is more "papercraft" than "origami", and the thing you download is just the net of the solid, not instructions to make what's in the picture.

Also saddened by the lack of Catalan solids

I was sold it as "Red Mars is where they colonise mars" but from the part I've read so far, it seems pretty colonised already, and the racism has already set in

I mean, it's not all technical descriptions. There's humor, problem solving, blowing up historic space hardware with a short circuit. Exactly what I'd expect from trying to survive on mars

I started reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, but I found it much drier than I expected. It's been a lot of space politics so far, and less colonising mars. I was hoping for more The Martian. I might just read The Martian again instead

The article is very vague about what it actually does, so I don't know if it's connected to the internet or not :/

> "This system runs an older version Stratus proprietary VOS operating system, which Hogan believes hasn’t been updated since the early 2000s. “It’s been extremely stable,’ he said."

That's not particularly surprising to be honest. If it's a server operating system, on hardware that doesn't change, there's not really a reason to update the OS unless there's a security problem found

Octal sockets are just tube sockets with 8 pins, it doesn't mean they calculate in octal

AFAIK, a "byte" is 8 bits, but a "word" wasn't quite decided yet, and they were often divisible by 3, making octal make more sense

Find the exe online, double click to run, ignore the warning about registry keys which might just be because I'm on a work computer

So why do humans keep trying to make a better LLM when the LLM is generally intelligent and should be able to make its own smarter LLM?

Ah, a bum bag!

If the language doesn't matter, why aren't all LLMs outputting assembly code directly for maximum performance?

Where's the irony? They are happy for anyone to be a part of their community, unless you are making other in their community feel unwelcome. It's spelled out in their code of conduct for you. If you're making innuendos that make other people feel unwelcome, you are not welcome

Whats the expiration date on, say, the windows 95 version of paint? Because it still loads just fine on my current windows computer, does everything I'd expect from a paint program, and gets out of the way when I don't need it anymore

Id want to be careful of it getting cold and damp if you put a consumer camera inside a fridge. You'd ned one rated for that sort of environment

I would be interested to see a leaderboard comparison between male and female cubers. As far as I know, there should be no real biological advantage either way

Do you know if they also scan for drug residue using those devices? A while back I was travelling through a German airport, and got pulled aside to get the skin on my stomach and the inside of my bag swabbed, and I assume tested in the same kind of machine. I don't know what I did to warrant a further inspection, but I wasn't going to make a fuss. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if they'd pulled aside one of the guys in my group who were definitely using drugs

I just had a quick scan of the incident report (https://llis.nasa.gov/llis_lib/pdf/1009464main1_0641-mr.pdf) and:

> "The output from the SM_FORCES application code as required by a MSOP Project Software Interface Specification (SIS) was to be in metric units of Newtonseconds (N-s)"

(MSOP = Mars Surveyor Operations Program). One of the recommendations was

> "Conduct software audit for specification compliance on all data transferred between JPL and Lockheed Martin Astronautics"

So yes, NASA should have checked the provided software more thoroughly, but also Lockheed should have actually followed the spec they were given. I doubt the SIS is available online to check any harder

A piece of software Lockheed made gave its outputs in US Customary units (not following their specification), and NASA expected it in SI units (as their specification expected)

Would less football be a bad thing? It's the only sport I know where the governing body have to advise the police on how to deal with fan violence, such as "please don't use tear gas on them"

But if I paste an image of your signature onto a contract that says you give me a million pounds, that can't be legally binding for you, can it?

If a contract is automatically signed by an agent on your behalf, is it legally binding?

> Spymarks are certainly not great for whistleblowers or anyone who doesn’t want to be persecuted for their words or affiliations. No matter where you stand on whatever issues, spymarks can be used against you and those you care about.

How do you spymark text that someone else wrote? You can't change the words or they'd notice

> "It is tedious to look up the details of a paper, website, or book, fill in the BibTeX format, and then reference it in the text"

Google scholar has a button to give you the bibtex cite easily

The language models that are designed to write text did unexpected things when given a video input and told to act on it by controlling robot arms? I'm shocked /s

*knows when a pair of camera glasses are in the room

I type as well, I still wouldn't call them "absolutely critical"

> —–“”×÷£°†‡¢§•€, which are absolutely critical even for English

Assuming that second dash is an en-dash, I've not used the majority of those characters even when handwriting. I would say the quotes I handwrite are closer to symmetrical " quotes, I do still use the multiply but I use a slash for divide, I do use the pound symbol and degree symbol, and I've never used the rest. And I'm from england