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The Kickstarter says you can't pit two planes of the same side against each other... Is there something in the maths that stops that (I can't see why there would be, from the main post) or is it purely because the book doesn't have the right art in it?

rawlingon This Devilishly Hard Logic Puzzle Will Save Your Life

[rot 13, I don't know if HN has spoiler tags]

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rawlingon GitHub Activates Push Protection by Default After Detecting over 1M

> March 25, 2027

Uh...

rawlingon Drinking Boiled Tap Water Reduces Human Intake of Nanoplastics and Microplastics

Purely from the diagram, looks like the precipitate sinks, so you don't drink it?

Or with the reference to "incrustant", forms scale on the kettle?

rawlingon Low-Background Steel

Heh, I decided to go back and look at the first time this was posted (4 pages of reposts now!)

>> That's interesting and all, but why do we get a mildly-interesting wikipedia article every couple of days without any context or commentary? I've half a mind to write a bot that submits a random article every 48 hours.

> This particular one was taken from Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1p56pz/til_st...

Thought I'd go take a look, and... yeah. Currently on the front page of r/TIL.

rawlingon Laughing Off the Dark Mode Lobby

> The point of the article, which I hope you did in fact read, is that some sites force dark mode on the user

No, it isn't. The article is complaining about people who complain about the author's choice of light mode. Nowhere does it mention any site or application that only supports dark mode.

rawlingon LLM bots are active on Twitter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39245629

rawlingon Why You've Never Been in a Plane Crash

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39172858

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rawlingon UK Wind Farms Are Overstating Their Output

> Bloomberg News analyzed 30 million records from 2018 through June 2023

> Former UK Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg said [...]

JRM was Energy Secretary for 2 months in 2022. I'm not sure that justifies this comment. Is there a greater link that the article doesn't express?

rawlingon Fix date-handling bug when today’s date is later than the target month

The direct "immutable" equivalent of the bug code (purely based on my experience with .NET Core immutable collections) would have the setX methods return a new immutable datetime with the field set as requested. So just "use an immutable type" wouldn't fix this bug.

"Change the code completely so you supply all 3 components at the same time" obviously fixes the bug, but that doesn't require an immutable type.

rawlingon We Asked A.I. To Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39136910

rawlingon German train company looking for a Windows 3.11 administrator

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39168469

rawlingon Negotiate your salary with a little philosophical backup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39174896

rawlingon New lead in Amelia Earhart's disappearance

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155978

rawlingon A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run (2020)

> They are very cumbersome to use in real life, encrypting and decrypting is done by hand, it’s error prone as a result and very slow. Nobody likes using them at all.

There's no need for that to be true.

rawlingon David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39147373

rawlingon David L. Mills (NTP, EGP) has died

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051246

rawlingon Portal64 cancelled due to Valve complaint [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38984282