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cocoapuffs7on Ask HN: Why are there no open source 2d printers?

Yes. But this is unrelated to the question they asked.

Category links on the wiki article? Down at the bottom

cocoapuffs7on New glove-like device mimics sense of touch

Well, no, that wasn't on my mind. But thanks I guess.

cocoapuffs7on Ask HN: So I Hired a Homeless Guy

I am in no way qualified to give HR advice, but I would bring it up with him and give him options... Anyways, this is the highest-upvoted 'Mental Health' post in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14711621 and maybe there are useful ideas in the comments.

cocoapuffs7on Why books don't work (2019)

It's not a coincidence that we have idioms such as 'digesting an idea' or 'ruminating' . It takes time to assimilate and relate concepts, it is not a write operation.

cocoapuffs7on Ask HN: How would you prepare and practice for a conference talk?

Here's a good talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY Press Shift + > to speed up or check the outline in the comments

cocoapuffs7on Bubble barriers: a smart solution to plastic pollution in rivers

If this is the main idea, move it further up on the page if it doesn't break your design goals. I skipped the initial text and went right to it.

https://thegreatbubblebarrier.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03...

Great idea. Has it been tested?

cocoapuffs7on Discovery of scholar's notes shine light on race to decipher Rosetta Stone

Footage of the stone in a museum. [0] https://youtu.be/hTmI68vBMu8?t=17 Dated 196 BC. Discovered 1799. Hieroglyphic (top), Demotic (middle), and Greek (bottom)

360 view on Google Street View [1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5192048,-0.1274951,2a,75y,...

High-res picture from museum [2] https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA24

cocoapuffs7on Show HN: Create landing pages by copy-paste

Although in juxtaposition from the English pronunciation, it has an advantage:

"If it was written as 1,200.00$ it would be easier to forge it to become, for example, 91,200.00$ by appending a single digit in front."

cocoapuffs7on Philosophers on GPT-3

Garbage-in garbage-out. Does this mean that we should be refining content for AI to be most useful for specific goals?

cocoapuffs7on Deadliest Animals to Humans

You don't think it's interesting that snails make the list? [0] Or that deaths by mosquito top those of the current pandemic?

How do you 'estimate' danger? Sure, the recording is an aggregate. What's a more suitable format? Shouldn't this already exist in Science rather than Wikipedia?

Besides, > This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

[0] Perhaps they knew something already? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-were-medieval-...

cocoapuffs7on Deadliest Animals to Humans

Good catch! The article attributes it to rabies, but the linked source (broken, by the way) lists prairie dogs!!

cocoapuffs7on Show HN: A simple CLI tool to generate satellite images of a location

That is included in the readme