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Cactus2018on Show HN: Slices – puzzle game

Reminds me of JezzBall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JezzBall

Cactus2018on Philip Glass: My problem is people don’t believe I write symphonies (2017)

Recently learned Hans Zimmer is in the Buggles' 1979 music video Video Killed the Radio Star.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-tXRLazs

(and incase you missed it, Hitler and Stalin deepfake lip-sync Video Killed the Radio Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DysigzGQvU )

Cactus2018on Toledo Zoo first to record biofluorescence in Tasmanian Devils

Note: This is biofluorescence (absorption and reemission of light from living organisms), and not bioluminescence (biochemical emission of light by living organisms such as fireflies).

Cactus2018on Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy

Map of Köppen climate classification, "hot dry-summer" climates and "cool dry-summer" climates referred to as "Mediterranean"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_climate

Cactus2018on Down Here, They Sometimes Call It 'Boy'

> - prescription for oxycodone

or Codeine or Hydrocodone

Those high school football back injuries are tragic

Cactus2018on An update to storage policies across your Google Account

Found this source from Nov 1, 2001 https://www.neowin.net/news/infrequent-hotmail-users-face-ou...

Cactus2018on An update to storage policies across your Google Account

They deleted everything after a long backpacking trip. I'm still bitter.

Nov 1, 2001 https://www.neowin.net/news/infrequent-hotmail-users-face-ou...

Cactus2018on An update to storage policies across your Google Account

The name "Hotmail" was chosen out of many possibilities ending in "-mail" as it included the letters HTML, the markup language used to create web pages (to emphasize this, the original type casing was "HoTMaiL").

Cactus2018on Colombia is considering legalizing its cocaine industry

Fun Syrup Cartel story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Canadian_Maple_Syrup_Hei... t

Cactus2018on A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old

100 comments, and no on yet. Link to reviews on google maps https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ichiwa/@35.0453272,135.742...

Cactus2018on The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’

IT Crowd - I AM DECLARING WAR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elrV-oHeSjE

Cactus2018on GM scales back partnership with electric truck startup Nikola

Would love to see photos of the indoor tennis court in its prime.

I'm surprised property taxes never caught up with that mansion!?

Cactus2018on New bike chain claims to be faster, more durable

Gears! - But Were Afraid To Ask (MiniLathe) - This Old Tony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XOM4E4RZQ

Cactus2018on Leaf-cutter ants have rocky crystal armor, never before seen in insects

Reminds me of the episode of "Primitive Technology" where he turns terrestrial snail shells into lime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek3aeUhHaFY

Cactus2018on Charles Darwin notebooks lost and assumed stolen

2017 "Walmart will soon have robots roaming the aisles in 50 stores" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15562743

2020 update "Walmart ends contract with robotics company Bossa Nova" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24973360

Cactus2018on Charles Darwin notebooks lost and assumed stolen

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/theft-carnegie-l...

Cactus2018on Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS

Wikipedia

> The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and peer-to-peer network for storing and sharing data in a distributed file system. IPFS uses content-addressing to uniquely identify each file in a global namespace connecting all computing devices.

Cactus2018on DoorDash will pay $2.5M to settle Washington DC suit over driver tips

> D.C.’s attorney general ... suit alleged DoorDash misled consumers and used tips made through the delivery app to boost the company’s bottom line — specifically, that the tips were used to subsidize DoorDash’s payments to workers, and weren’t dispersed to them on top of their regular delivery wage.

> The settlement includes $1.5 million in payments directly to DoorDash drivers in the District....

Cactus2018on Metal monolith found by helicopter crew in Utah desert

2001 Expedia map

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/us/internet-used-to-find-...

> The federal complaint says ... the newspaper received a letter that said ''nice sob story,'' with a computer-generated map showing an intersection in West Alton in St. Charles County, along with a handwritten X.

> ... searchers found human skeletal remains within 50 yards of the location shown by the map's X, about 300 yards from where the decomposed bodies of Ms. Wilson and another victim, Verona Thompson, had been found.

> A search by Illinois State Police of Internet mapping companies led to an exact match between features on a map sent to the Post-Dispatch and one found on Expedia.com.

> On June 3, the Microsoft Corporation, which tracks access to that Web site, showed the F.B.I. that only someone with the Internet Provider address 65.227.106.78 visited the Expedia.com site and searched the West Alton area within days of the map's mailing to the Post-Dispatch. The user name of that IP address was ''MSN/maurytravis.''

Cactus2018on Tab throttling and more performance improvements in Chrome M87

If you are looking for a way to deal with a multitude of Chrome tabs, I recommend the Chrome extension The Great Suspender, which suspends tabs after x minutes.

Cactus2018on Tab throttling and more performance improvements in Chrome M87

> We investigated how background tabs use system resources and found that JavaScript Timers represent >40% of the work in background tabs. ... Beginning in M87, we’re throttling JavaScript timer wake-ups in background tabs to once per minute. This reduces CPU usage by up to 5x, and extends battery life up to 1.25 hours in our internal testing. We’ve done this without sacrificing the background features that users care about, like playing music and getting notifications.

Cactus2018on Hemingway Editor

Tried finding this app recently, but used the incorrect search term "the Kurt Vonnegut App".

Cactus2018on Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses

Shrimp is my contribution to the list of gout triggers.

Cactus2018on Once the disease of gluttonous aristocrats, gout is now tormenting the masses

> 2. Tart cherry juice is mentioned a lot as a cure. There are a quite a few studies[2]. Make sure and get the tart cherry (Montmorency) juice, you can get it in a concentrated syrup. My uncle says he has not had an attack since he started drinking a generic supermarket tart juice every day. I have never had an attack whilst taking cherry juice but i haven't been taking it consistently.

Tart Cherry Extract capsules are another option. Gout pain relief within hours. (Note, there is a drowsy/melatonin side effect with big doses)

Creams with high concentrations of menthol and methyl salicylate seem to help. Also applied to the ankle and knee (along with massage) to help stimulate circulation away from the big toe.

Cactus2018on Tiny bubbles under a ship may help reduce fuel consumption

Speaking of foils, there is active development in commercial and DIY personal electric foil boards. Check YouTube or a build forum like https://foil.zone/

Cactus2018on Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft

A Sudoku Solver in APL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmT80OseAGs

Cactus2018on Will R Work on Apple Silicon?

Looks like I need to compile R and my libraries with AVX2 support.

# list available instructions

    $ gcc -march=native -dM -E - < /dev/null | egrep "SSE|AVX" | sort

This post has some info, but no benchmarks. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37213060/does-r-leverage...

Cactus2018on A hidden gem in sound symmetry

> those "Mandala" images

Chladni Plates? A few links from past research:

https://www.comsol.com/blogs/how-do-chladni-plates-make-it-p...

Video example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPTnGEEoFf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR_XL192wXw

interactive version - https://www.dynamicmath.xyz/calculus/chladni-patterns/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFAcYruShow

Cactus2018on The Tao of Programming (1987)

I paired down my book collection recently, and while looking for a shop to take them, I was discouraged to discover how selective of the type of books they accept

>> No: atlases, catalogues, computer books, comic books, condensed books, exercise, erotica, magazines, journals, art catalogues, outdated business books, romance novels, and textbooks.

Cactus2018on eBird: A crowdsourced bird sighting database

Live bird migration maps using active radar:

https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/