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New comment by jrrv in "Bird brains (2023)"

jrrv — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:52:29 +0000

Fun fact: octopus does not come from Latin, which would give the plural an -i ending. It comes from Greek, which means that if you want to be particularly correct about your plurals, then the plural is octopodes.

New comment by jrrv in "Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold"

jrrv — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:01:00 +0000

Such an interesting artefact just sat under some guy's barn... can't help but wonder how many more items like this there are out there, and how many of them we'll never find before they're accidentally destroyed.

New comment by jrrv in "Czech Man's Stone in Barn's Foundations Is Rare Bronze Age Spearhead Mold"

jrrv — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:59:05 +0000

I'm using uBlock, and I didn't see a single advert.

New comment by jrrv in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

jrrv — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:07:43 +0000

Lol. A lump of flesh can't be sentient

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

New comment by jrrv in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

jrrv — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:24:41 +0000

What makes a motherboard a NAS motherboard, precisely? I've got a decent Mini-ITX sitting around and I've been contemplating setting up/getting a NAS. Would be nice if I could re-use what I already have and save some money.

New comment by jrrv in "Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe"

jrrv — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:32:45 +0000

Very interesting. Almost feels like a cosmic implementation of "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

New comment by jrrv in "I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs"

jrrv — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:21:44 +0000

Am I missing something or is the author using dots for both breaking up large numbers and also for decimal points?

New comment by jrrv in "Type Theory and Functional Programming (1999) [pdf]"

jrrv — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:15:08 +0000

The Haskell looks much better, and I don't even know Haskell.

> If you know simd it’s easy.

Surely "if you know Haskell it's easy" is equally applicable.

New comment by jrrv in "This website has no class"

jrrv — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:59:23 +0000

:%s/;/:

New comment by jrrv in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

jrrv — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:29:59 +0000

Really? Mine lumps together completely unrelated people whilst failing to group together the same person.

New comment by jrrv in "Equinox.space"

jrrv — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:19:52 +0000

I have pages of notes for a game like this that I've been thinking about since university, largely inspired by Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse. This game reminded me of it too, maybe I'll get to it one day.

New comment by jrrv in "Serverless Development with Serverless Framework"

jrrv — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 12:28:29 +0000

DynamoDB is used by Amazon.com.

"Across the 48 hours of Prime Day, these sources made 7.11 trillion calls to the DynamoDB API, peaking at 45.4 million requests per second." [1]

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-prime-day-2019-power...

New comment by jrrv in "Entropic Gravity"

jrrv — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 10:09:57 +0000

Physics Stack Exchange: physics.stackexchange.com

New comment by jrrv in "Trails of Wind: Data Visualization of the Architecture of Airport Runways"

jrrv — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:21:46 +0000

Scroll broken in Firefox on Mac.

Why does the Southern US seem to contain the highest concentration of North-South runways in the world?

New comment by jrrv in "This Startup Does Not Exist"

jrrv — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 13:34:24 +0000

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