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jalk commented on Prime Number Grid susam.net/primegrid.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

teytra · 6 days ago

Set columns to 6, and the pattern is changed in an "interesting" way.

All primes are n*6 +/- 1 (after the primes 2 and 3 that are "special").

jalk · 6 days ago

Set cols to anything divisible by 6, to get the same kind of "stacks" with more cols (i.e. 90)

jalk commented on Show HN: NextDNS Adds "Bypass Age Verification" · Posted by u/nextdns

agos · 7 days ago

I went to see ControlD's website to see if it was any good but the chat thingy was trying to convince me by saying "protect your connection like the Coliseum protected Rome, try ControlD's free DNS", which I guess is a way of trying something funny since I'm connecting from Italy, but it does not inspire much confidence in their protection abilities

jalk · 7 days ago

So it protects your connection by putting up a spectacle? (assuming it meant Colosseum)

jalk commented on His psychosis was a mystery–until doctors learned about ChatGPT's health advice psypost.org/his-psychosis... · Posted by u/01-_-

infecto · 12 days ago

Have a large part of the population always been susceptible to insane conspiracies and psychosis or is this recent phenomenon? The feels less of a ChatGPT problem and something more is at play.

jalk · 12 days ago

I.e. Bleach against covid

edit: A quick google search shows, there is no evidence of anybody actually in-gesting/jecting bleach to fight COVID

jalk commented on We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes pavpanchekha.com/blog/9bi... · Posted by u/luu

rich_sasha · 18 days ago

> That's why there are 360 degrees.

Not that these are exclusive, but I thought it's a rounding of 365.25 days a year stemming from Egypt. 360 is a pretty useful number of degrees for a starry sky that changes ince a night.

jalk · 18 days ago

I believe the 360 degrees is attributed to Babylonians, who were using the Sumerian base 60 number system (6*60=360)

jalk commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail

mensetmanusman · 19 days ago

They get paid in lower risk deductibles. If a patient demands a drug they saw on commercials, the doctor can reduce liability by prescribing it in many cases.

jalk · 19 days ago

Wonder how the "online star-rating economy" affects US doctors.

jalk commented on C10kday daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

jalk · 19 days ago

Curl has been in my toolbelt for perhaps 9000 days. Can’t remember when I discovered the retry/timeout options, but that allowed me to remove a large chunk of buggy bash code, from a semi important cron job.

jalk commented on Remote hosting for your telescope sierra-remote.com/... · Posted by u/gregorvand

whartung · 22 days ago

Try to see if there’s a local astronomy club. They tend to routinely have field nights where folks bring their equipment out, point it at something interesting and let the public engage in the activity.

jalk · 21 days ago

Thanks for the tip, but night + travel outside of the city, is why I'm looking for something online

jalk commented on The Fulbright Program: Chock Full of Bright Ideas bastian.rieck.me/blog/202... · Posted by u/Pseudomanifold

jalk · 22 days ago

Surprised that Fulbright scholarships are still a thing, given DOGE. Cultural exchange programs seems like something the current US administration would get a severe rash from.

jalk commented on Remote hosting for your telescope sierra-remote.com/... · Posted by u/gregorvand

markus_zhang · 22 days ago

Yeah looks very expensive unless I can pay say a day.

jalk · 22 days ago

This service is for hosting your own remote controlled telescope, not short term rental of a shared telescope (think colo. vs cloud provider)

jalk commented on Remote hosting for your telescope sierra-remote.com/... · Posted by u/gregorvand

jalk · 22 days ago

I've been looking to take my kids to an observatory, but the logistics makes it tricky (travel + night time), so I have been searching for online services where you can get a guided tour, with "hands-on" telescope control, but have so far come up short. It needs to be guided, since I know very little about astronomy and telescopes.

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