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    realtimecolors.com

    Live testing color palettes and fonts for web design. Made by a designer who’s really great, she runs a YouTube channel and made the site for free use by anyone.

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      How accurate are the palettes? Would we need to calibrate our monitors or does the site do that for you?

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        I doubt the site is able to calibrate to individual monitors, as there’s almost no way for it to know what you have.

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    If you like to play chess, check out www.lichess.org

    It’s free and open source, and it’s very easy to find a game there, no matter what level you play.

    It doesn’t display annoying ads.

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      It always makes me sad that chess.com was the site that blew up. I always had to convince my friends to use lichess when I played back in school.

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      All of the games ever played on lichess along with puzzles, evaluations etc are also open and free to download at database.lichess.org

      The site’s founder and lead developer Thibault also often streams the development of the site on his Twitch channel!

      I’m honestly suprised sometimes at how free, open and transparent this site is, truly an inspiration for anyone looking to build an ethical platform.

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      Anytime I get new shoes I go to Ian’s Shoelace Site to pick out a new lacing pattern.

      And Ian’s Secure Knot is a godsend for winter boots that usually have a bit thicker laces which come undone with a regular knot. Learning that knot is great because it’s as strong as double knotting without needing to pick apart the knot afterwards.

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      Oh my, this is beautiful. Brings me back to the glory days of the Internet – when sites were quick to load, text was king, and you didn’t feel your privacy was violated at every turn.

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    There is this really cool place called Lemmy, I’m sure many people here have heard of it but not anyone I ask in other places. It’s like Reddit, it’s a forum-esque place where people can exchange their thoughts. The people are a little biased on the extreme Marxist side of things, but overall it’s pretty nice.

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    I needed Unicode symbols for a story I’m working on. (I want to use them as “magic runes” so I could type them into a document, but without using the standard “runes” that are typically used.)

    Shape Catcher let me draw what I was looking for and then get a list of Unicode characters that matched that drawing. It’s not exact so if there’s no perfect Unicode match, it will give you ones that are close. This actually turned out to my benefit as I found shapes I hadn’t considered but which worked nicely for my uses.

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      I wonder who’s renewing the domain? I guess I could do an ICANN lookup for registrar info, but I’m lazy.

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        I saw in a documentary that a few of the cult members were ordered to stay alive to keep the site up. Apparently you can email them and talk to them too.

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          💀 imagine being told as the IT team for the suicide cult that your job is to tirelessly maintain a site and renew the domain and SSL cert for eternity and provide Q&A

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          Okay, cool! I had some fun looking for words in the pages. But if I understand it correctly, what we’ll end up with individual words surrounded with gibberish on the pages. You’re never going to get a page full of real words, right?

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            I haven’t looked at it yet but if u understand correctly you just have to search for a page where surrounding gibberish is also words. Probability plummets to zero fast, I’d guess

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            Every possible page is generated somewhere. I think there’s a checkbox on the search page that fills the rest of the query with spaces.

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          That statement may be false, a simple explanation is that if you make a number out of π by removing all 9s it will keep the properties of π being infinite and non-repeating but never contain 9.

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              PI is not proven to be normal number. It means that those infinite digits repeating may not have uniform distribution, so somewhere far away in PI you can start just getting 1s,2s and 3s for example.

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              The point is that just because π is infinite it isn’t guaranteed to have any combination of numbers in it

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        Yeah sorta. It’s apparently an algorithm that can produce every possible page of text, given a number. So it contains a staggering amount of gibberish, plus every page of every book that’s ever been written, and many wildly incorrect, many vaguely correct and one exactly accurate description of the circumstances of your death.