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I understand why GitHub is a core asset for CoreAI, but it saddens me that GitHub isn’t respected as a standalone business in its own right.

I still have my 2005 ThinkPad X41 which has both a TrackPoint and a ThinkLight. The laptop has a dead battery, but works as good as new when plugged in.

OP’s perfect scramble takes 18 moves to solve. Does that mean all Rubik’s Cube arrangements can be solved in 18 moves or less?

Two more to add to the list:

– The Voyager probes were launched in 1977 and reached interstellar space in the 2010s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_program

– The oldest bonsai have been in training for centuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai

I wonder how Cory Doctorow coined the term and whether it was inspired at all by The Simpsons use of ‘embiggens’: https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Embiggen

That’s a wonderfully responsible approach to archaeology. I hope we continue practicing those lessons learned from past mistakes.

I don’t actually see the where the dashboard claims that the average tax rate is the same as the larger population.

The dashboard does say that undocumented immigrants pay

> an average tax revenue rate of 29.5%, supported by various sources [3, 4, 5, 6]

without saying anything about the average tax rate for the whole population.

Usability is a tough challenge and I especially like your clear explanations of how the calculations are done.

Having tried it on iPhone, a specific UI feedback I would have is making the page scrollable even when the numpad is displayed. I found myself typing the input, wondering where the output was, and not being able to scroll until I closed the numpad.

This seems like a lot of added complexity for limited gain. Are there cases where gzip and br at their highest compression levels aren’t good enough?

Why is the bottom edge of the ASCII moon a black crescent? Is that a real lunar phenomenon or just a rendering artifact in my browser?

Also not possible: common representations of the star and crescent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent#Contemporary...

The Encyclopædia Britannica has about 40,000,000 words [1] or about 0.25 GB if you assume 6 bytes per word. It’s impressive but not outlandish that an 8.1 GB file could encode a large swath of human information.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopædia_Britannica

It was $1M back in 2007.

Linksys has offered similar functionality (“Linksys Aware”) since 2019.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/20905223/linksys-aware-me...

Maybe they have employees rotate through an undercover role, but more likely the store just attracts cool people.

We had the same game in high school, except for a clothing retailer. The Apple Store didn’t exist yet.

OP mentions how Facebook introduced engagement algorithms to Instagram and how Twitter followed suit, but doesn’t mention that Facebook was also the first to popularize engagement algorithms in 2011 via their News Feed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_(Facebook)#History

This performance by Arcade Fire at a more recent Glastonbury Festival has stuck in my memory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evMuTthF3Gw

“in situ therapeutics”

There’s an old NOVA episode “This Old Pyramid” that applied experimental archaeology to the Egyptian pyramids: exploring how the pyramids were built by actually building one.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1460448/

He didn’t mention it in this letter, but in Surely You’re Joking Feynman described how he solved for the motion of plates spinning and wobbling across a cafeteria in Cornell. When his colleague asked what’s the importance of this problem, he responded: “There’s no importance whatsoever. I’m just doing it for the fun of it.”

This is very cool.

Note that PEP 723 is also supported by pipx run:

https://pipx.pypa.io/latest/examples/#pipx-run-examples

If momentum for uv in the community continues, I’d love to see it distributed more broadly. uv can already be installed easily on macOS via Homebrew (like pyenv). uv can also be installed on Windows via WinGet (unlike pyenv). It would be nice to see it packaged for Linux as well.

I have fiber at home and at my office, but when I’m out I appreciate sites like HN that work well on unreliable or congested cellular/Wi-Fi.

It amazes me that the same person who discovered benzene also discovered electromagnetic induction and Faraday’s laws of electrolysis.

An infinite grid of resistors is clearly a toy scenario, but the infinite universe is a reality that astrophysicists try to reason about. I wonder if there are blindspots in astrophysics because we lack intuition about the universe at that scale and are forced to approach it from theory.

Find opportunities to say “thank you” to those who helped you, and then pass it on to the next generation.

> I learned a lot living at people's places afterwards

The “Community Support” section was my favorite. I would love to hear you elaborate on experiences and lessons you learned while staying with others.

Interestingly, the default <marquee> doesn’t appear as smooth as a CSS animation would be?

Playing with the scroll speed makes it feel smoother:

  <marquee scrolldelay="50" truespeed>scroll faster than default</marquee>

This is a valid concern, but checking for uniqueness with a hash is fairly straightforward and the new implementation reuses a strset struct that has been in use since 2020:

https://github.com/git/git/blame/v2.49.0/strmap.h#L205-L218