The wiki appears to have been deleted. Maybe you can recover it?

Does this really work? I would think the ping time would not be dominated by speed of light, but by number of hops, and connection quality.

As a hypothetical example, an IP in a New York City data center is likely to have a shorted ping to a London data center, than a rural New York IP address.

The speed of light sets a minimum bound even if you don't account for that, and these are coming up less than the minimum bound.

It also reminds me of this old story: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Would be even slower as the light will travel slower in the optical fiber and there will be time associated with each repeater as well.

That is a great one!

while I definitely agree the autocorrect has gotten worse, what I find more of a problem is all the various other pop-ups that occur. For example, they recently added the ability to 'undo' an autocorrect, but this pop up grabs focus, and you can't click on text near this pop up, because the pop up will claim the click.

I've also had trouble getting rid of pop up menus (copy, etc). If I want to click on text, but it has decided to pop up a menu, it can be a real pain to get rid of it. (I had no problem on previous versions of IOS).

There's a fundamental law of features: Every feature you add may may make it better for people who use it, but it makes it worse for everyone else.

If you keep adding features, anything will eventually become unusable.

Hah! I have exactly the opposite problem, I hit the space bar, instead of N, and the iPhone doesn't understand this a possible typo, so all the suggestions and auto-corrects are wrong.

perl died because "Perl is write once, read never"

Executable line noise.

There seems to be a minor bug. When I switch tabs and come back, sometimes the spring is moving. Some times a small amount, and other times it appears to be streched to the max, and extending off the top and bottom of the screen, until it calms down.

Safari, Mac.

I just wanted to write about a similar observation when using it in FireFox on Linux:

When wiggle the spring, keep the mouse inside the white area until it is at rest, press CTRL+u to see the source code, move the mouse to close the source code tab and close it - for some magical reason the spring is moving again for a little bit.

Yes, good sleuthing, that was one of the last remaining things I wanted to fix before launching.

Just fixed, should be live soon.

and then, to make money, they'd have to stop giving the correct answer, just like search engines

The standard definition of life is too restrictive.

I suggest

  If it can reproduce and mutate heritably, it's alive. 

Or, in other words, things that can evolve.

I find the idea that viruses aren't alive ridiculous.

That's an interesting definition, but it does have some issues.

Is an infertile animal (which can't reproduce) dead? What about a nerve cell (which have differentiated too far to become a reproductive cell)? Or a red blood cell (which has no genome)?

From the other end, is a genetic algorithm alive? What about a manuscript? Manuscripts are copied (so they reproduce), and have frequent copying errors, which propagate.

Atoms and sub-atomic particles fit this definition.

Machines fit this definition.

Fire fits this definition.

Truth is "life" is not a distinct category. We just think of life as complex life. A complex system that mines energy gradients to preserve and replicate its forms.

But there's no hard boundary. It's just in our head.

How do any of those things fit that definition?

Code can fit the definition. Genetic algorithms.

Yep.

People always come up with people-centric definitions. They need to be updated based on what are the fundamental characteristic of something that is alive.

The current, more standard definition, seems to be based on metabolism. I disagree and argue for reproduction and evolution.

No, none of those can mutate, that's the point of "and mutate heritably"

Crystals can "reproduce", but it's always the same (there can be errors, but they don't inherit), so they don't count.

And atoms don't reproduce, so I'm missing your point there.

Reproduction in time and reproduction in space are connected. If atoms couldn't reproduce (I can sense most readers knee-jerking reading this), they'd be all unique, wouldn't they. And yet they aren't.

You could say "they have no heritability", and not the way you expect, I guess, but they all inherit the same local laws of physics, and they may even impact those laws, thus forming a feedback loop, and clearly there are googols of them in clusters, same weight, same energy, same polarity, same properties, same states, much like you see with any other species in nature, in fact in far lesser numbers.

If robots are made in a factory, does this count as reproduction? If not, why not. Does a mother's womb not resemble a "baby factory". A baby does not create itself. Always something else creates you.

We have clusters of "common sense" about these things, and most of what I said immediately sounds stupid to "common sense". Yet common sense falls apart if you start thinking about it. But Internet is not EXACTLY conductive to "thinking about it". It's all about the hot takes and the current consensus. Then time passes, and that consensus seems truly unenlightened.

The calendar system already changed. So this won't get correct dates, meaning the dates actually used, past that date. Well, those dates, as different countries changed at different times.

Ok, I tried convert body to 3d, which is seems to do well, but it just gives me the image, I see no way to export or use this image. I can rotate it, but that's it.

Is there some functionality I'm missing? I've tried Safari and Firefox.

If you open inspect element you can download the blob there. It is a .ply file and you can view it in any splat viewer.

I didn't look too close but it wouldn't surprise me if this was intentional. Many of these Meta/Facebook projects don't have open licenses so they never graduate from web demos. Their voice cloning model was the same.