IvyMike

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by IvyMike 2y ago
I added this to the original post, but here's the incident that I saw that made me aware of the whole scene: https://www.instagram.com/p/C7IEFxQSJQw/?hl=en&img_index=1
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by IvyMike 2y ago
> They mostly do it to cops and people in authority. In Santa Barbara there is a group that targets random businesses; random shops and restaurants with outdoor eating. It sucks for the business, it sucks for their clients, it sucks for
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by IvyMike 2y ago
The one thing I hate about this: There are so-called "first amendment auditors", who professionally annoy people on the street, trying to provoke a reaction. They monetize the resulting video on youtube. You used to be able to p
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by IvyMike 2y ago
I agree with your annoyance here. I did end up clicking thru to get the full story. On their pricing page ( https://elevenlabs.io/pricing ) they are up front, with several monthly tiers; their "most popular" $11&#x2
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Is good code never altered or extended? Can good code serve as a learning tool? Can good code explain a complicated process in precise detail?
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Off topic, but: isn't user agent always a lie? Right now, mine says: > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/125.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 I get the evolution of how w
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Los Angeles area, so the only issue here is heat, and even that is usually only a few bad weeks a year. The Tempest app tells me the hottest day was when it hit 109F the first week of September 2022, and that whole week had highs above 100
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Put mine up in January 2021, zero maintenance, and it's been working great the whole time. Hopefully I haven't jinxed it. :)
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by IvyMike 2y ago
It's easy to say "this is old news" but as a non-expert, I have no idea if you are an expert, or just some random blowhard. I did a quick search but, once again, as a non-expert, I have no idea what to search for and don&#x
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by IvyMike 2y ago
When plants remove CO2 and release O2, they have to do something with that carbon atom. They can use it to make sap or fruit, but mostly they use it to build more plant. A plant that isn't growing, like, a LOT, can't possibly be r
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by IvyMike 2y ago
The outlier to this the US Navy's experiments. Discussion on an older HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19863319
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Just in case: some systems "can't run windows 11" because the TPM module is disabled in the bios. If that is the problem, enabling it allows the upgrade. You might need to update the bios first. If you already knew this, s
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by IvyMike 2y ago
This is my only real issue with Windows 11: > There’s also the fact that the OS has been forcing ads as "recommendations" into the Start menu and has even begun testing promotional recommendation pages that take up your whole s
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Following convention and using standard capitalization rules makes things easier on the reader. Going to all-lowercase is harder on the reader, and thus is disrespectful of the reader. I will die on this hill.
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by IvyMike 2y ago
I'm curious exactly what this means. I mean, the plane will still be broadcasting ADS-B info of some sort, right? If it's an empty registration number, well, to quote The Simpsons, "We'll look for the house with no numb
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by IvyMike 2y ago
This might be a lost cause, as there really isn't a great word to use instead, and that usage is in modern dictionaries. Some alternative words are proposed here, but none of them really seem adequate: https://english.stacke
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Also of interest, from a few years ago: TOTP board that fits into classic Casio F-91W wrist watch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33243434
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by IvyMike 2y ago
Putting together a promo packet is hard work!
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by IvyMike 2y ago
This passes the Turing test.
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by IvyMike 2y ago
There's something called a "Wandering Hour Clock" that, well, displays the current time in an interesting way. When I ran across a 3d printable version online, I knew I had to build one. A picture (or two) is worth a thousan
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by IvyMike 2y ago
It feels like any form of recycling water would mean pumping water back uphill, which is energy-intensive, at least relative to the current model of "just pull water from Lake Gatú and assume it never runs out". But using less wat
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by IvyMike 2y ago
It appears that Dr. Eric Levi works in England.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
For a slightly later version of this: My most popular YouTube upload is the telecopier scene from Bullitt, where you can see the police use the latest and greatest "fax" technology of 1968. I uploaded the video without almost no
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by IvyMike 3y ago
He's giving business advice, and it's hard to argue a success from that perspective.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Even those "24/7/365" people technically agree, today is a day off.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
> Running a thread per client is famously known as The C10K Problem. Gonna have to be that guy: the C10K problem was "how to serve 10000 clients from a single server" specifically in the 2000ish time-frame. The article links t
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by IvyMike 3y ago
You are asking what if this guy has "web crawl data" that google does not have? And what if he says no, he does not have permission.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
They had a good run.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
Technically Google just released another chat app.
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by IvyMike 3y ago
The AT protocol? Gonna start typing Hayes modem commands into this thing and see what happens.

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