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Half the entropy is trying to figure out which pieces of this article's text are supposed to be the silly falsehoods being corrected, and which pieces are just the second or third paragraph of a preceding 'Fact'. Deadpool is easier to follow.


Hey, someone submitted my old article. On my birthday!

Oh, people hate it… and even someone I definitely look up to.

You‘re absolutely right, though, I don‘t remember it being that bad, and probably I just read over it when resurrecting the article, because I‘m so familiar with every word.

I‘ll slap some <hr> tags on it when I‘m back home from my holiday.


If it helps, it used to look like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20140309183752/http://www.2uo.de...

Definitely a lot more readable! Something must have changed in the meantime.

It looks like some links have gone too, like the one in the sentence "how does /dev/random know how much entropy there is available to give out?"


Way better.

I hate it when updates, migrations or cosmic radiation break fidelity.


Label the myths rather than leaving them as plain statements.


Yes. It should look like:

    Myth: the moon is made of green cheese.   
    Fact: the moon is made of yellow and green cheese.


Most importantly -- Happy birthday!!!


Happy birthday!

This'll all wait for later, hope you're enjoying a nice mai tai on your holiday.


I saw a note from an earlier year's discussion saying the css has been changed over the years. Perhaps it was easier then to discern fact or myth, truth or fiction.


I pulled up a random version from 2014, and it's more readable: https://web.archive.org/web/20141023082929/https://www.2uo.d...


haha, this is so much better


> Deadpool is easier to follow.

Oh wow.

I want to know as much as you're willing to write about how Deadpool is hard to follow. (A shot-for-shot commentary track would be ideal.)


glad i’m not the only one. i’m more or less baffled reading that.


the article is why you need to tell your LLM to 'make noistakes'


Oh no. Please, please don't let eBay get Boeing'd.


Hm, no, non-24 is not just a severe version of DSPS. Or rather he seems to be saying DSPS is really just a less severe version of non-24.

I have it. What I've learned from my doc (a researcher in the field):

It's primarily a specific genetic mutation that affects many of they body's cyclic timers, but relevant here is that the circadian feedback loop is no longer able to lock to a 24 hour day/night cycle at all. The timer technically works. You're perfectly sensitive to light/dark, but you're hitting a PLL with inputs faster than its ability to make meaningful adjustments. That's not the case with DSPS.

Sleep apnea diagnosis is relevant here, it also breaks the breathing reflex timer. Imagine finding out at age 40 that you've not, in fact, slept more than a few minutes at a time your entire life, because you wake up just enough to take a breath every 3 minutes or so when a secondary suffocation reflex goes off.


It's more another example of 'you can sue for anything on a whim'.


What's the likelihood Dolby succeeds?


I'm still mostly without words; I just hear Ralph's voice in my head when I think about his passing. He was a force of warm, kind, friendly enthusiasm. We miss you, rillian.


"It's not a guidebook"...

This might be the scariest point. To me at least, it only felt obvious after stating it directly.


Q, more than any other glyph, is the letter that never fails to look weird in every typeface when I spend too much time looking at it/re-re-re-re-designing it.


He can, he did, and we're all here arguing about it, which somehow delights me.


Amazing what you can do when you throw 10 billion transistors at a problem instead of only a few million.


sort of like The Order of St. Liebowitz the Engineer from _A Canticle for Liebowitz_


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