We aren’t here to praise the penny, but rather, to bury it. The penny, and its counterparts, have been vanishing all around the world as the cost of minting one far outweighs its value. But h…
This applies basically to any public broadcasting: It may not be perfect. It may have lots of shortcomings. But it's still way better this way than without them. And you have to wonder why people with really much money want public broadcasting gone...
The magnetic loop antenna is a familiar sight in radio amateur circles as a means to pack a high performance HF antenna into a small space. It takes the form of a large single-turn coil made into a…
. @clover mentioned a few days ago that AI-generated images are becoming more and more yellow as the LLMs are trained on the output of other LLM runs. #ModelCollapse #AI #LLMs
Among the many science toys that have fallen out of fashion since we started getting nervous around things like mercury, chlorinated hydrocarbons, and radiation is the spinthariscope, which let peo…
I ended up wandering in the woods for a total of two hours trying to find my way to the highway. I knew where the highway was, but the hiking trails didn't follow straight lines.
The fact I ran away three times as a preteen/teenager and spent the whole time either walking or taking the county bus was a pretty good sign that I didn't like the stifling, car-centric world of suburbia. :P
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