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by 0xDEFACED 2y ago
How long before someone runs Doom on Tetris?
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by 0xDEFACED 2y ago
When I click on link in an article, almost always it’s because I want to cross reference the information on a different source. If the link takes me to another article on the same site, I usually stop reading altogether. Wikipedia is an exc
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Tell HN: Reddit is blocking access from AWS IP addresses
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
I had never considered that there might be other ways to pronounce it. I’m gonna start saying it “zhee-rá” now
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The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit (2014)(gq.com)
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
> And middle click is for opening tabs. Learning that you can middle click on the back/forward/refresh buttons to open the previous/next/current page (respectively) in a new tab was a game changer for me
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
My ~18 month old son is medically complex, and his pediatricians send him to the ER basically every other week. ER docs run a bunch of tests, shrug and say LGTM and send us home. The hospital is an hour away, and they never get any closer t
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
Seems the discrepancy is more related to whether the “not” is applied like: !A && !B && !C or: !(A && B && C) which the informed readers knows is equivalent to !A || !B || !C So a little m
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
Computerphile has a video about this algorithm and its potential backdoor, it’s a great watch. https://youtube.com/watch?v=nybVFJVXbww
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
Thanks for adding a new word to my vocabulary! I knew that silver had antimicrobial properties but didn’t know the phenomenon had a name. I think the material described in the article is a bit more novel than you’re giving it credit for tho
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
Very cool! I wonder how much performance might improve if you provided the FEN[0] for the game’s position after each move instead of, or in addition to, the move list. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth–Edwards_No
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
> Another consequence is that the final molecules share the same molecular state. Chin explained that the same molecules in different states can have different physical and chemical properties—but there are times when you want to create
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
I work with python a lot and recently learned you can use this %! python If the buffer you have open is a python script. Doesn’t work great if you have a bunch of stdout to read, but good for quick tests
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by 0xDEFACED 3y ago
Here’s a few of my favorites from Virginia! https://blanchardscoffee.com/ https://www.redroostercoffee.com/ https://www.tbcroasters.com/ https://www.broadporchcoffee.com/
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FDA approves Owlet’s baby-monitoring sock two years after halting sales(engadget.com)
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
If using apt, you can add the deadsnakes repository which allows installing the other versions of python3 not included with your linux distro. Then you can install them with sudo apt install python3.X I also recommend similarly s
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Chess.com limiting number of people that can play live games during peak hours(twitter.com)
1 points by 0xDEFACED 4y ago|2 comments
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
My son is a ventilator patient as of recently, and his ventilator has a usb port on the back that can be used to export the data. According to the manufacturer, the exported files can only be viewed using their proprietary software, which t
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
It’s 10 years old, but I didn’t see “The House I Live In” in any of the previous threads. Its an amazing look at the history of The War on Drugs, and its impact on the criminal justice system and human rights in the United States. https:&#
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
I see this leading to a huge spike in the prevalence of SIM-swapping scams. I can’t remember the last time I needed to have my carrier move my number from one SIM card to another, but if this becomes the norm I’ll need to ask them do it for
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
Tardigrades are incredible creatures! Resistance to dehydration barely scratches the surface of their durability feats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade#Physiology
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
My freshman year of undergrad I took a nanoscience course as an elective. Through that, i found out that the department was in the final stages of creating a Nanoscience major, and since the prerequisites lined up with my primary major (eng
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
I received one of these a couple days ago and was curious, so I went to paypal’s password recovery to see what it would take to reset my password. I was shocked to see that providing my SSN (which I don’t really consider private) was one of
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
>That kinda defeats the whole purpose of an ASGI app. Unless I’m missing something, wouldn’t an async ORM provide significant benefit for apps with an internet-based DB connection? I would think the underlying DB ops would be much faster
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
Do you remember what major he switched to?
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
What makes this tricky is that the public and private keys reverse roles when signing versus encrypting. Having these keys represented by different objects (physical locks or keys) depending on the usage can potentially make things more con
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by 0xDEFACED 4y ago
Learning that shortcut was a game changer for me. There’s a similar shortcut for the other google apps too (e.g. sheet.new)