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hidroto··on Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches
The only scars i like on my body are the ones from the plasma donations i have done. i have about 30 of them by now, with some strong emotions tided up in those pinpoints.
hidroto··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
Then why not have standardised vehicles and have the driver be the only variable?
hidroto··on Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics
'centaurs' is a term from chess, where people play chess with computer assistance.

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

hidroto··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
"Android and iOS are hiding the files as much as they can."

This is the number one thing that bugs me about all the mobile OS platforms. The most important thing to me is my data not the programs that I use to operate on them.

Anyone can have a copy of the programs I use, but only I have my data.

Leaving the organisation of something so important to some XYZ app doing who knows what is just madness to me.

hidroto··on Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
technically Antarctica is covered in (solid) water.

"technically incorrect the worst kind of incorrect".

hidroto··on Conway's Game of Life in real life
is it possible to read out the state of a flipdot display?

with a small amount of additional memory the display could hold the game state and you could manually flip the dots to input the cells.

hidroto··on BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat
the billboards are moving into the cars, and if it is self driving then you have more time to stare at the ads.
hidroto··on Vehicle Motion Cues
I think that this setting should be promoted out of developer settings as i find it so useful
hidroto··on A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
the fish shell manpage has ':' as an alias to 'true'.
hidroto··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Not understanding the answer.
hidroto··on Vinyl succumbs to Loudness War: more than just collateral damage (2025)
all right let me buy one of your kidneys, after all you only need one.
hidroto··on 1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices
being skeptical and determining the truth takes a lot of work. I fear that we may just refuse to wade through all the lies and just accept a enforced willful ignorance.
hidroto··on CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

hidroto··on How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]
It has been that way for a while now. I see Veritasium video titles and thumbnails change quite often, it can be quite annoying as it sometimes gives the appearance of it being a whole new video.

A/B testing a title feels wrong to me, its almost as bad as A/B testing a UUID. Just pick a title and stick to it unless you need to fix a factual error.

hidroto··on Zlob.h 100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing lib that is faste and better
would it not just produce 'b/c'? assuming 'b/c' is an existent file path

what else could you justify it doing?

hidroto··on The most famous transcendental numbers
Thanks for the correction. It seems that all the layman’s explanations on Galois theory i have seen have been simplified to the point of being technically wrong, as well as underselling it.
hidroto··on The most famous transcendental numbers
I am no mathematician, but i think you may be overstating Galois result. it says that you cant write a single closed form expression for the roots of any quintic using only (+,-,*,/,nth roots). This does not necessarily stop you from expressing each root individually with the standard algebraic operations.
hidroto··on Quality of drinking water varies significantly by airline
isnt most of the advantage of soap is that it gets the germs off your skin and washes them down the drain. the soap does not have to kill them to work.
hidroto··on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
i wonder how sensitive your equipment would need to be to read it from the back scatter off the interstellar medium.
hidroto··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
unobtainium predates Avatar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

and at least that exposition makes more sense then the "fountain of youth brain juice" in the sequel, when the humans can literally reincarnate themselves without having to cross interstellar space to do it.

hidroto··on An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions
a collision can send debris into an orbit with a higher eccentricity. these orbits may not last very long as they would also have a lower perigee.
hidroto··on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
> Like if one of the things you have to do is claim to the other device that you’re 2.1 would that get you in trouble?

nintendo tried that with the gameboy. games had to have a copy of the nintendo logo in them. i dont think it was ever tested in court though.

hidroto··on The twin probes just launched toward Mars have an Easter egg on board
To an archeologist both artifacts are worth having, just look at Pompeii the frescoes tell you alot but the graffiti on the sides of the buildings tells you something as well.
hidroto··on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
i use the rss feed of the channels i am subscribed to and download the videos i want to watch with yt-dlp. i may browse the homepage every so often but i just copy the links and download them.
hidroto··on The Other Linux Logo
looks like a bottle top opener to me, in fact i think it would work just fine as one.
hidroto··on How can I influence others without manipulating them?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wJ4ARj67xn8
hidroto··on This map is not upside down
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South
hidroto··on Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out
These might not technically be cancers but the similarity is there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl

hidroto··on Two Slice, a font that's only 2px tall
little endian vs big endian.
hidroto··on Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?
I would have thought it was a typo of 'seafloor' rather than 'seabed'.
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