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I've driven by these before and they're so strange to see amid such flat surroundings.

My introduction to Vinge was Rainbow's End. As a fellow San Diegan raised in East County I found it hilarious that he represented El Cajon as a wasteland.

For significantly less compute you could make pretty good coloring book pages just using different edge detection methods or simply using the stamp filter in Photoshop.

At least it's higher poly count that the original.

Misconstruing/misrepresenting what the Flipper Zero can do is very in vogue right now.

I disagree. It's not a matter of whether a problem was solved or not solved. Problems can be approached in different ways. What structures and design patterns someone used, what approach they too…

This reminds me a bit of the Mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359193 Basically a foot bridge built over a highway to serve a particular communi…

It's two separate questions really. 1. How can a post with 9 upvotes and 1 comment be number 1 on HN 2. How can a post with so few metrics of engagement be hugged to death. The first is likely du…

Also a good reaction. Nice orange/pink flame.

In Andy Weir's The Martian one of the characters uses a mixture of sugar and liquid oxygen as an IED. Loads of energy in sugar. Glycerin is also quite energy dense. I used to do chemistry demos…

Now we just need a Prodigy - Smack My B Up pigeon parody https://youtu.be/J1zYF0cejmg?si=3fIDDy19l1Pp7YRh …

You have to go to the prices link at the top. Threw me off too.

So now we have: - diskprices.com - cpuscout.com - ramstickprices.com - gpuprices.lol/prices Now we just need MOBO, power supply, fans and case price trackers! *Edit: goryramsy's list below i…

Author has a very hand wavey attitude toward prions. There are many kinds of prions capable of causing spongiform encephalopathy in humans and likely others which are currently undiscovered. To sugg…

You know when the headline starts with "Florida man" it's going to be something wild.

You hacked this together right quick! The post about Gitlab meetings was just on HN yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363358 …

I can do you one better. Ever heard of the Davy Crockett? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_devic... …

There's very little in the article about the rocket. This site seems to have a fair amount of information on it. https://f-106deltadart.com/weapons_air2a_genie.htm …

I'm reading The Universe and the Teacup by K.C. Cole and in the chapter on voting she mentions the "Alabama Paradox" > The exploding 1880 census figures, for example, prompted a revi…

Excerpts from his lectures can also be heard in the game Everything . Compared to some of the other sources from commenters here, Everything's collection is much smaller.

Beautiful projection map! I wonder if they're using TouchDesigner for this.

You have to navigate around to find different critters that play music clips. The minimap in the top left tell you where they are in your vicinity.