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The human scale is often the source of the square, the 1. The height of common chair seats such as most dining chairs is ~elbow to finger tip of the average adult male, effortless to measure on the wo…

>True, 12 doesn't match the number of fingers or toes... but have you ever considered it does match the number of spaces around our fingers and toes? We used to learn to count on our fingers i…

TFA does not quite explain the logic of this and somewhat suggests it as unique when it was the norm. If you are building a church, what better metric is there than the church you are building? There …

>Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes. >Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.…

Am I weird for not wanting to see this same discussion and variations of it in most every thread including in ones that it has no place? I don't see it having any effect on the trend which only s…

>If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. https://news.ycomb…

K4 is the K programming language, Q is a language built on top of K. They are the practical over achieving members of the array family of programming languages.

There is no time that I would normally have my phone other than when I am at home; the data point that I provide would be the rare times I take my phone out of the house and most of that time it is of…

Cellphones broadcast their location, not ours. We can leave our phones at home.

Flashback had the bulk of Prince of Persia's mechanics but developed story and the puzzle aspect to a far greater extent and was less action based compared to Prince of Persia's race against…

It worked on my Android tablet but I can't scribble a note and draw a picture/diagram with the stylus. I don't know anything about iPads but on Android you have the USI pen and for any …

This would be fantastic on a tablet; stylus for entry and fingers for navigation would make it very efficient and a great improvement over the standard infinite page. I would probably pay for a non-we…

I was not suggesting that it would be a false positive, I was suggesting that this will filter out many submissions that would be of interest to those that want less AI on HN. This would flag a blog t…

I got a partial load and what it looks like it does is just search each submission for a list of key words and discards any that hits, so it would discard this submission.

Most of the shareware I got was downloaded from BBSes and the internet and even these central repositories that are the norm now are nothing new, in the 80s I went to a local BBS that was dedicated to…

A fair amount of software follows the model but does not use the term, everytime I go on the play store to look for an app I encounter many that offer a free version with limited features.

It has worked this way since the days of the vacuum tube, so there probably is some legal precedence somewhere. I think part of this with the NE5532 is just that these days most EEs spend most of thei…

Using the three plots of Infinite Jest as the vertices doesn't really work, there is nothing fractal like about the plot itself and plot is not the structure. How I see it is that the vertices wo…

>Insurance can be tricky for no really good reason It is very expensive to prove a ferro hull to be sound, which is a requirement for getting insurance.

Seems to miss the real reason, which is that AI is terrible with subtext. This is what the author is hinting at with "It often looks perfect but bothers me for reasons that aren’t immediately obv…

>A lot of smart people only engage with APL via toy puzzles I think part of this is because that is how most (possibly all) sources teach APL and array languages, solving puzzles and manipulating a…

https://github.com/mlochbaum/BQN/tree/master/src

I switched to Vivaldi years ago because I got sick of dealing with extensions; an update broke a few of my long relied on extensions and a search for alternatives showed hundreds of options. A few hou…

I use dried fruit, much less messy, you don't end up sticky. Raisins work very well, chopped dates are quite nice as well but a pain to apply so I generally buy whole dried dates and halve them. …

The jelly/Jello in TFA is glue, gelatin is the same thing as hide glue and you can use grocery store gelatin the same way as you use hot hide glue. All the sugar and flavorings added to jelly…

If you are a programmer then one of the synthesis and composition DSLs would probably be your easiest entry, CSound and SuperCollider are a good place to start, Csound has better non-realtime capabili…