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A Pale Blue Dot

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Q&A about the Windows Start Menu and Taskbar

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Designers Do a Double Take at the Lettering on Pope Francis' Tombstone

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Google begged Steve Jobs for permission to hire engineers (2014)

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How to Secure Your Phone's Data Before Traveling Abroad

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Origin of the term "riding" in Canadian electoral politics

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The Story of Fluoridation

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The Panicked Voice on the Phone Sounded Like Her Daughter. It Wasn't

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America's astonishing act of self-harm

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Why the chicken tax still controls the U.S. light truck market (2024)

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Madison Square Garden's surveillance banned this fan over his T-shirt design

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Good conversations have lots of doorknobs (2022)

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The Body Clock Awakening

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Impact of 8 lifestyle factors on mortality and life expectancy among US veterans

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Eating citrus may lower depression risk

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NASA Gives 'All Clear' for Asteroid That Seemed to Threaten Earth

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How many wars have France and England fought against each other?

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The odds of a city-killer asteroid impact in 2032 keep rising

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Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at any dose reduces dementia risk

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·last year·discuss
President Barack Obama didn't support same-sex marriage until May 9, 2012, three days after Vice President Joe Biden announced his support for it.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-comes-ou...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/us/politics/biden-express...
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·last year·discuss
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·last year·discuss
Sublogic also created A2-3D1, which was a fun, but very rudimentary, 3D animation package for the Apple II:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-10/page/n27/m...
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·last year·discuss
But the article explains that human-like AI triggers a "person perception" process similar to the one that we use when we meet people.
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·2 years ago·discuss
A matched case-control analysis of autonomous vs human-driven vehicle accidents

Published: 18 June 2024

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48526-4

"The analysis suggests that accidents of vehicles equipped with Advanced Driving Systems generally have a lower chance of occurring than Human-Driven Vehicles in most of the similar accident scenarios. However, accidents involving Advanced Driving Systems occur more frequently than Human-Driven Vehicle accidents under dawn/dusk or turning conditions, which is 5.25 and 1.98 times higher, respectively."
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·2 years ago·discuss
tl;dr "The authors highlighted two significant negative outcomes for level 4 AVs. It found they were over five times more likely to be involved in an accident at dawn and dusk. They were relatively bad at navigating turns as well, with the odds of an accident during a turn almost doubled compared to those for human-driven vehicles."
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·2 years ago·discuss
Microsoft did patent the taskbar. [1]

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5920316A/en
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·2 years ago·discuss
Very cool! But maybe change copies to copy.

In my experience, copy is used the same way as code. And just as you probably wouldn't say, "I changed the codes for the three apps," most people wouldn't say, "I rewrote the copies for the three websites."
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·2 years ago·discuss
"No one knows why, but some muskoxen hate the sound of a plastic water bottle being crumpled."

Muskoxen misophonia!
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·3 years ago·discuss
[Cromulent] was introduced in "Lisa the Iconoclast," an episode of the Fox animated television series The Simpsons that first aired on February 18, 1996. Coinage of the word has been attributed to the television writer David X. Cohen by Bill Oakley, one of the series' producers, in a commentary to the DVD release of the series.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cromulent
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·8 years ago·discuss
I'm more concerned about fundamental privacy issues, such as so-called "data onboarding," in which Facebook (and others) helps marketers connect your online identity with your offline identity. That's where we need more transparency -- and perhaps more regulation.