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I used to work on the search index and query processing for Microsoft Academic. It was a great project, perhaps the most interesting thing I've ever worked on.

It's still available here (separate from the papers that Microsoft Academic collected and indexed): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/knowledge-e...

I haven't worked on this since 2016 so I don't know if it still works.

Because in competitive chess games, the time limit is usually 40 moves in 90 minutes. You don't have a fixed amount of time per move. It's up to you how you want to spend that time budget.

Timex Ironman has a nice big start/stop button, plus some running-oriented features. Most models also have the Indiglo backlight which I like.

https://timex.com/products/ironman-classic-30-mid-size-resin...

Sure, but the Japanese brands can deliver this for $100, not $10,000.

GTA6 will have a special 8-bit pixel art edition for France.

No it does not mean that. It's not "shameful joy". It's joy at someone else's misfortune.

"Schaden" means literally "harm". "Schamfreude" or "Beschaemende Freute" would be "shameful joy", but that's not a word or expression that anyone uses.

The most advanced form of Oxygen and Nitrogen ever seen. Steve Jobs himself invented the precise mixture of isotopes.

I question the wisdom of "Modern Standby." When I put my laptop in sleep mode, I want it to sleep. I don't want it to be using the network, checking for updates, fetching email, etc. It can do all of those things when I wake it up.

All of the hotbagging nonsense where a laptop cooks itself in a bag seems to be caused by Windows trying to be clever and deciding there's some really important stuff it needs to do, so it wakes up the machine, does a bunch of stuff, and doesn't get back to sleep.

Windows, you're not as clever as you think you are. None of this work is urgent. Just stay asleep until I wake you up. Seriously, just don't.

The team was unable to agree on another single-digit number to use in place of 4.

I'm not at all concerned with how easy it is to move the mouse to the menu. It's about looking at a window in one place, and having to look up and to the left by more than a foot to focus on the menu bar.

Resizing windows already requires moving the mouse with single-pixel precision. In comparison, hitting the menu bar is very easy.

They could switch to a different mechanism for app stores every month. Force app stores to be rewritten every month to use a procedurally generated new API, developers have to re-apply every month, and users have to go through the laborious setup process every month. And every time, present it with a cheerful message: "To bring a childlike sense of wonder to our customers, today we launch the new improved 3rd party app store API"

I think the median screen size today is closer to 30" than 9".

Isn't that like saying "Georgia is full of amazing people. For example, Stalin and Beria."

Or is that how you meant it?

> But that was in a different millennium.

Exactly. There may have been a reason for the single menu bar back in 1984 when the Mac had a 9-inch screen. But it doesn't work very well on my 43-inch screen where the menu bar may be a few feet away from a small window in the lower right hand corner.

When the appeals reach the Supreme Court, if the S.C. should rule against Meta, Zuck will probably remember "wait a minute, I wiped my ass with $25B this morning, I'll just pay the fine, who cares."

Iranian Fatwas enforced/carried out by American courts, that could get interesting.

> posted three links from my blog to it

I think the article says you can't post links from your FB page to external sites. What you're describing is the opposite: links from outside FB to an FB page. Of course they don't mind when you bring traffic to FB.

The book "Hatching Twitter" is a pretty eye-opening history of Twitter from the very beginning. If true, Twitter pre-Elon was run by people with strange product opinions, in a fairly dysfunctional, ineffective way. Jack Dorsey, who comes across as a grade-A weirdo in the book, was first pushed out and later reinstalled in a palace coup.

I think the fact that the same bogus argument is used both against dam building and against dam removal shows that it's bogus and not compelling. When someone is against something, they will use whatever argument they can concoct. Saying that something is historically significant seems to work great. As if history is some god that must be served no matter what.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.

It's a bridge that looks like it's made from stone. It looks slightly different from other bridges. It's not bad. There are probably many eyesores in the surrounding towns that look much worse.

One of the world's most 1EET H4X0R5, who hasn't left his parents' basement in 10 years and is rumored to be the operator of 5chan, told me that you can use archive.is to circumvent most paywalls, including that of The Atlantic.

Especially the type that's always on, because waiting to preheat is for poors.

The children yearn for Microsoft Bob - which took this idea a bit further:

"Microsoft Bob presented screens showing a house, with rooms that the user could visit containing familiar objects corresponding to computer applications, such as a desk with pen and paper and a checkbook. Clicking on the pen and paper would open the system's word processor."

Next thing you know, they're going to take the money in your savings account lend it out to anyone who asks for a loan!

/s

The government of Singapore launched their own dating app, currently only for public officers (?) between 21 and 35:

https://asianews.network/singapore-government-launches-datin...

Indeed, and why would you send somebody any money, if you haven't met them IRL?

Also, anyone who acts too interested in me would be an instant red flag.

And at least you know who stole from you (SBF)

I think the best parody is one that leaves the reader wondering if it was intended as parody, or if the author was serious.

Ideally, it should be a shell script for CMD.EXE, using the finest scripting language ever invented. The elegance of using FOR for such diverse tasks as enumerating files, file contents, string splitting, lists of numbers, and parsing the output of another command, is unmatched.

You could pitch the idea to Zuck, see if he wants to burn $100b to try it out.