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tetrapods

Cheese with Japanese curry? Sounds pretty whacky, whatever shape it's in.

Also there's an elegant solution to keeping some rice visible out of the curry and it doesn't involve any extra ingredients.

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Paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over

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I dug up the actual paper (Cook, 2004) and it turns out the bicycle was symmetrical... and, in fact, entirely virtual.

It's a plot of a computer simulation, rather than records from a real-world physical experiment.

A bicycle is composed of four rigid bodies: the two wheels, the frame, the front fork (the steering column). Each adjacent pair of parts is connected with a joint that allows rotation along a defined axis, and the wheels are connected to the ground by requiring that their lowest point must have zero height and no horizontal motion (no sliding).

So the simulation has a lot of simplifications from reality, and the picture tells us more about the simulation model than it tells us about the real world. It is a pretty picture, though.

Here's the paper reference:

Cook, M. 2004. It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle.

(I couldn't get it from the Cook's Caltech site, but I found a copy elsewhere.)

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How do I start a new instance?

It sounds more like you want to create a new community on an existing instance.

Setting up a new community can be as easy as clicking the new community button and filling in the fields.

Setting up a whole instance of Lemmy (like lemmy.world, which you're on, or aussie.zone, which I'm on) is way more involved than you're probably thinking - buying a domain name, figuring out hosting, installing the Lemmy software, and a whole lot more.

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Swiss Rule

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Actually, yeah, kinda?

Like, there are only so many one-syllable words. Even fewer words that are just a single letter.

Generally you don't want to waste them on complicated, niche concepts that only come up rarely.

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retain terminal output colors through piped commands?

Color codes will pass through pipes just like any other output.

In this case, your grep is being smarter than you want and actually parsing the incoming color codes itself.

You can try a simpler program like head, tail, or even sed -n /ii/p to see it for yourself.

You can also control GNU grep's color processing with --color but you may not find exactly what you seek.