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jamiehallon Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

> Btw it’s called UTC (Universal Time Coordinated? huh?) because the same folks who publish UTC also publish UT1, which is UTC sans the leap seconds.

I’m not sure that’s right! According to legend among metrologists I’ve talked to, “UTC” was chosen as a compromise candidate: it makes sense as an acronym in neither English nor French.

jamiehallon Can a transformer represent a Kalman filter?

Nice paper! Just curious, do you reckon you could generalise the finding to a broader class of state-space models, e.g. particle filters?

jamiehallon Recursive Recipes

This is neat! On this topic, an interesting and pretty comprehensive guide to money / time / effort / quality tradeoffs in food is "Make the Bread, Buy the Butter" by Jennifer Reese.

jamiehallon Semantic Satiation

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jamiehallon About the security content of iOS 12.4.9

Linking to the 14.2 list (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211929) might be better? After clicking the headline link, it took me a few seconds to understand why we were caring about updates for the iPhone 5 and 6...

jamiehallon Airbus pilot tries Microsoft Flight Simulator [video]

> Nearly every element [of an airplane seat] undergoes a safety-enhancing process called “delethalization”: seats have to withstand an impact equal to sixteen times the force of gravity [and many other constraints] .... Largely as a result, in-flight entertainment systems are almost unbelievably expensive. The rule of thumb, I was told, is “a thousand dollars an inch”—meaning that the small screen in the back of each economy seat can cost an airline ten thousand dollars, plus a few thousand for its handheld controller.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/21/game-of-throne...

jamiehallon Ask HN: How would you improve this bash oneliner for deleting tweets?

Ah, nice. Thanks! :D

jamiehallon Ask HN: How would you improve this bash oneliner for deleting tweets?

Thank you to everybody who commented! The suggestions to use something more sensible than a oneliner (and to post on Stack instead) are well taken. A big motivation of this project was "just because", for shits and giggles, so I hope it's amused you for a minute or two. Cheers!

jamiehallon Ask HN: How would you improve this bash oneliner for deleting tweets?

Great idea, thanks! https://gist.github.com/nerdcha/3e811ef28d04561f73337e46267a...

jamiehallon Ask HN: How would you improve this bash oneliner for deleting tweets?

Yes, it takes care of that; if someone has retweeted you with a comment, the thing they're commenting on is replaced with "This tweet is no longer available." (Obviously, it's no defence against people screenshotting your tweet, manually copy-pasting what you said, etc etc.)