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by WalterGR 1y ago
> it was just a SQL database that stored arbitrary data. I mean, for some definitions of “just”, “SQL database”, and “arbitrary data.” :) It was a schematised graph database implemented on top of a slimmed-down version of SQL Server.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
You’re right. My mistake.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Thank you. I imagine not all Technology Assisted Speed-run techniques are even possible on original hardware, even if you’re pumping electrical input directly into the controller port, since the TAS ‘implementation’ or ‘driver’ would depe
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by WalterGR 1y ago
zero-dependency DOCX converter I’ve read that there are a lot of OpenXML elements that are pretty opaque. They appear to basically be XML-esque representations of binary, in-memory structs used internally by Office. (Maybe this has chan
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Submissions from some domains aren’t prevented but automatically get deaded. It’s not a campaign. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43891088 in which a user reports that moderator dang said why that happens for this
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by WalterGR 1y ago
It’s strange that the sibling comment is flagged. I ordinarily never remark about flagged comments - but as a public service announcement: Direct links to PDFs, as in the first of the above submissions, can be annoying to deal with in mobi
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by WalterGR 1y ago
It’s not meant to be full-featured. It shows how to write a bootloader that’s smaller than 512 bytes.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Pretty incredible! I’m on mobile right now so I can only comment on the demo that runs automatically, which I understand isn’t the _point_. :) More about the demo: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=89435 (For those un
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Good point. I guess by definition, the only ones not using AI are the president / board members. And in flat organizations, no one is using AI! (I jest.)
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Many people on that thread report using Spotify via VPNs just fine. The title should be "Spotify perma bans user who used VPN" which is... significantly less interesting.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880973 Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire (bloomberg.com) 403 points | by mfiguiere | 21 hours ago | 347 comments
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by WalterGR 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43884892
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by WalterGR 1y ago
What's MDMA's addiction risk profile and therapeutic use potential vs. other "party drugs" such as - say - cocaine?
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The author's Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard
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by WalterGR 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43879288
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by WalterGR 1y ago
I presume this is on original hardware?
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Full title: "More people are permanently changing their eye color. How risky is it?" Edited to remove click-baityness.
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People are permanently changing their eye color(salon.com)
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Journalists are covering those topics, though. In fact, if you click on the author's name, you can see that she also writes about the hard-hitting subjects you'd prefer, for the same publication. Consider it this way: lots of dev
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by WalterGR 1y ago
https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/25/meet-the-robot-replacin... has much more information about the robot.
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by WalterGR 1y ago
> That’s when I remembered those books with one language on one page and the translation on the opposite page. One term for this is "Parallel Text" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_text ). Cool idea!
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Sentencing was in 2009: https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/sacramento/press-releases/... "...sentenced MICHAEL LARGENT, 22, of Plumas Lake, to 15 months’ in prison and restitution of $200,073.44 for fraud
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by WalterGR 1y ago
It looks like the template-related error messages aren't GCC 15's improved ones, discussed on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643886 ("Usability Improvements in GCC 15"). I'm curious if they&
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by WalterGR 1y ago
There's some information on the Twitch page for the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/gemini_plays_pokemon Use a desktop browser: that content seems to be hidden on mobile. (Thanks to s-macke for the heads-up on a differen
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Ah, thanks. None of that information shows up in a mobile browser, apparently.
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What would happen?
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by WalterGR 1y ago
320+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43880973
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by WalterGR 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43883040
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by WalterGR 1y ago
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799302
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How does the average person recover from this? One screw up and it’s bankruptcy?

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