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I am one of today's Ten Thousand (https://xkcd.com/1053/) to just now learn of this law.

"Wadge’s Law (of Meetings).

Before every formal meeting there’s a smaller, more exclusive, less formal meeting where all the important decisions are made.

This is based on decades of experience in academia and friends’ experience in industry and government. Sometimes there’s an even smaller, more exclusive, less formal pre pre meeting where all the decisions of the pre meeting are made. Maybe even a pre pre pre meeting … until you reach some guy deciding everything in the shower."

https://billwadge.com/2015/10/28/wadges-laws/

(pretty fun read, thanks)

Melted tram tracks in pictures

While this is fascinating, it's not a (brand-)new development.

Here's Archive.org's copy of the page from 2025 in September, their earliest copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250920031549/https://www.nvidi...

"Safety transistors safety assessed" exists in this version too

No need to rush:

> In an effort to improve the purchase experience and limit resellers, we're implementing a reservation system.

> Starting right now, you can sign up for the Steam Machine model/bundle you're interested in.

> If you're busy now, no problem: You can sign up anytime before Thursday June 25th at 10 a.m. Pacific.

> At that time, we will close signups and do a one-time randomization to determine the reservation and waitlist order.

From https://webkit.org/blog/16547/better-typography-with-text-wr...

"While support for pretty shipped in Chrome 117, Edge 177, and Opera 103 in Fall 2023, and Samsung Internet 24 in 2024, the Chromium version is more limited in what it accomplishes. According to an article by the Chrome team, Chromium only makes adjustments to the last four lines of a paragraph. It’s focused on preventing short last lines. It also adjusts hyphenation if consecutive hyphenated lines appear at the end of a paragraph."

The article goes on to talk about how it's up to the browser (and not necessarily permanent) about how to handle the setting, and furthermore a new value was agreed upon to do what Chromium was doing, called "text-wrap: avoid-short-last-lines".

Here's the article on what the Chromium version does: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/css-text-wrap-pretty/

Very nice, works well.

It seems you put some menu items behind what I'll call "[space] mode," where you you have to press the spacebar first to open the command menu, then use the command.

This is not reflected properly in the help text shown when you press ? and that was a source of confusion for me.

Especially since I managed to activate the fullscreen mode for one pane AND turn it off, but then couldn't figure out how I did it; and also, I did not find the space-Q option to Quit at first.)

Edit to add, I prefer installing with pipx.

These commands worked for me, to get Postgresql and MariaDB database plugins:

  pipx install sqlit-tui
  cd ~/.local/pipx/venvs/sqlit-tui
  source bin/activate
  bin/python3 -m pip install psycopg2
  sudo apt-get install -y libmariadb-dev  # On Debian
  bin/python3 -m pip install mariadb

I didn't try installing system-wide as per the GitHub instructions, I don't know if that would have worked just as well with pipx or not.

I got beat to the punch in being the one to tell you, but I can add a link: https://github-wiki-see.page/m/koreader/koreader/wiki/OPDS-s...

Hey, good work, a good start.

Bug report: If I (the mouse) am moving, everything else doesn't move. As long as I go fast enough, the other things in the game are basically paused.

No, you didn't. This doesn't match the original text.

0:47 Added in text: "Okay, here's the text prepared for reading aloud."

0:58

Original: "Okay, yes, it's a dumb idea,"

Audio: "Okay, yes, it's a bit of a strange idea"

1:08

Original: "Or do you, say, list off to the left some? What I want to ask you is: Can you find out? Hell no. You can see that, sure."

Audio: "Or do you drift off to the left a bit? The question is, can you figure it out? No, you can't. You can see that."

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It appears you are using "Variational Lossy Autoencoder (VLAE)" as the basis for your website[1], which might be good for simplifying more complex things but defeats the purpose here. It's using more than four letters in words, and censoring out "dumb" and "hell"?

Why don't you try pointing that another explanation of the theory of relativity without this limitation? Seems like that'd be a more interesting exercise.

[1a] https://www.pdftomp3.com/shared/67e178f428779824db2e06c6 [1b] https://pdf-reader-storage-f55b8c51173224-staging.s3.us-east...

I believe that the intention was to say "No ability to save progress _between sessions_" in the original program, whereas the C++ implementation saves to text files.

Another portion of the article says more explicitly:

  Limitations:
    Maximum number of nodes: 200.
    The structure is stored only in memory (no disk saving).

In that example, Ground Truth is a tripod and the Prediction is a swing; that is, you'd be right to think it's a tripod. Of course your statement still stands regardless - the errors are interesting.

It's pretty neat to be able to speak what I want to do, but I got a little annoyed when it misunderstood what I said and picked a different option than what I wanted.

Ability to type instead of speak? Or Undo/Cancel -- though that might be tempting to use for fixing mistakes in judgement.

I love this as a story, but I can't find anything backing up the source as true.

Share link is a redirect to sms: URL

I don't have a handler for that (on desktop) and I wasn't expecting it anyway, I'd want a copy-to-clipboard type of action

Just shared the website link instead, hope you get some traction

You might be interested in the online version:

https://libraryofbabel.info/

I just submitted a sub-page of that site, which has some discussion that touches more on the layout of the library as described by Borges: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970841

This comment has details https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40705086

Direct link to the videos https://archive.org/details/marionstokesvideo

Answer in your Wikipedia link:

'At the time of its use, the sodium process yielded cleaner results than did bluescreen, which was subject to noticeable color spill (a blue tint around the edges of the matte). The increased accuracy allowed for the compositing of materials with finer detail, such as hair or Mary Poppins' veiled hat. It was also useful that the "sodium yellow" light (and its removal via the matte) had a negligible effect on human skin tones.[2] As the bluescreen process improved, the sodium vapor process was abandoned, its screen and lamps monopolizing huge studios and incurring a higher cost.'

Do you have that set as private? Even logged in, I get:

  Page Not Found

  Make sure the address is correct and the page hasn't moved.

  Please contact your GitLab administrator if you think this is a mistake.

Besides the sibling comment by Gare to change the default, you can do this on a per-folder basis by right-clicking, Properties... and checking the box: "When getting new messages for this account, always check this folder"

Thanks for the link, this quote is great:

'In response, Kruger said, "What a ridiculous clusterfuck of totally uncool jokers. I make my work about this kind of sadly foolish farce. I'm waiting for all of them to sue me for copyright infringement."'

What was the competing product?

This command can be dangerous itself.

For those who don't know... "The fc utility lists or edits and reexecutes, commands previously entered to an interactive sh."

Thanks, that was a step towards what I would have liked to see. Here's the same link without the url shortner.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1__tGAYP6BNRVMKW6oJBj...

Not sure if this link will work without going through the proper method, but here's a direct XLSX download link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1__tGAYP6BNRVMKW6oJBj...

I was expecting to, after your comment. I was surprised. https://imgur.com/a/EDiOkXK

It rubs me wrong that anonyhack is reposting videos from YouTube and claiming credit for them, in cryptocurrency and STEEM:

https://d.tube/#!/v/anonyhack/3w9xsp8j

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEBWtbhq0Ts

Can anything be done to prevent or deter this?

Other than maybe leaving comments on the page?

Thank you for posting this, I would have ignored the Supplemental Materials link otherwise.

Article by the speaker on the same topic: https://pudding.cool/2017/07/comics/