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Antipode··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
To be fair the other replies had a 9 year head start
Antipode··on Dogs seem to agree with humans that 'bouba' is round and 'kiki' is spiky
Both of those words are one letter removed from English words for a thing that is sour and a thing that is sweet, which feels like it's going to significantly bias the results on its own.
Antipode··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
That's not really what the article is about: "Patients whose primary visual cortex was destroyed can still imagine, so the old idea of imagination as reversed seeing fails."
Antipode··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
I agree with you in principle, but "nobody cares" clearly isn't true given the steam review history.
Antipode··on LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby
I think that's a safe assumption
Antipode··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
I believe there are video games that take the same approach with cheaters.
Antipode··on A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Pet peeve: I really wish they would stop using fisheye lenses for things like this. The horizon does not look anywhere near that curved at that altitude.
Antipode··on Exercise intensity modulates interorgan communication and is associated with
I provided myself motivation by mounting a monitor to my stationary bike so I can play video games on it. I get a minimum of 210 minutes of cardio a week from it.
Antipode··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
There are a multitude of methods of obtaining money that do not benefit society.
Antipode··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
OpenClaw is rightly being blamed for a mistake it made. Any argument regarding her aptitude would be irrelevant as it would in no way absolve OpenClaw.
Antipode··on Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia
Also likely insects.
Antipode··on Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong
That directly contradicts everything I've ever read about high red meat consumption. Are there reputable studies that back this up?
Antipode··on Fields where Native Americans farmed a thousand years ago discovered in Michigan
A lot of the pictures used in articles for this are pictures of something else (possible an old ship). Here's what it actually looks like: https://holleyarchaeology.com/index.php/the-truth-about-the-...

Calling it Stonehenge-like is a real stretch.

Antipode··on Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole
In this version we're still inside the black hole.
Antipode··on ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
I thought the coin bite was just to check that it left an indentation. How would you use it to differentiate gold from lead? They're both soft.
Antipode··on Busy Status Bar
This is primarily to inform other people in the same building as you.
Antipode··on Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits
The chance of that loop repeating forever is 0.
Antipode··on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station
Yes it's a clear design flaw but it's still theft. It's not like you're legally allowed to rob a store if the front door lock isn't installed properly and doesn't work.
Antipode··on Super-Earths in Need for Extremly Big Rockets (2018)
A hybrid engine like SABRE might also be viable? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)
Antipode··on Firefox address bar
!hn is also for hacker news
Antipode··on Gitless: A simple VCS built on top of Git
I'm curious as to why the windows version is 8x the file size of the mac/ linux ones
Antipode··on Waymo's collision avoidance testing
Maybe have variable points per test and have a minimum passing point total, so that an important test could fail you in its own.
Antipode··on Tell HN: Dropbox user age verification feature can lock your account
What's wrong with using rsync for that?
Antipode··on Folding bicycle small enough to fit in hand luggage
What do you mean by efficient?
Antipode··on A short conversation with a bank
I thought that was already solved by the No Surprises Act that went into effect this January.
Antipode··on U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles
I'm sure this is location specific, but I don't trust human drivers to stop until they're already hitting the brake, even if I make eye contact with them. I'd feel a lot more confident stepping out in front of a self-driving car.
Antipode··on Scam Alert: Fake DMCA Takedown for Link Insertion
Hannah Shields' left (our right) earring is particularly egregious.
Antipode··on Nuclear startup Oklo gets thumbs-down from regulators
If it displaces fossil fuel based Bitcoin mining that's still a net gain in my book.
Antipode··on Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covid-19 vaccine
Any current data on the rate amongst unvaccinated people?
Antipode··on Fairphone 4 has a five-year warranty and aims for six years of updates
For most waste, recycling isn't the magic bullet many people have been led to believe it is. I do wonder about the viability of designing electronics to be easier to recycle, though.
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