abhiminator

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NASA’s James Webb telescope is about to arrive at an exceptional point in space(popsci.com)
2 points by abhiminator 5y ago|0 comments
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Webb telescope has it ‘made in the shade’(easyreadernews.com)
3 points by abhiminator 5y ago|0 comments
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ISS Docking Simulator(iss-sim.spacex.com)
224 points by abhiminator 5y ago|91 comments
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by abhiminator 5y ago
>After the defense cutbacks in the 90s, he could only find minimum wage jobs for the rest of his working life. That's unfortunate to hear. Hope he's doing well now, in his retirement life.
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An Aluminum-Ion Battery That Charges 60 Times Faster Than Lithium-Ion(azonano.com)
2 points by abhiminator 5y ago|1 comments
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Houses Are Affordable, Carbon Neutral, and Assembled Like IKEA Furniture(singularityhub.com)
2 points by abhiminator 5y ago|0 comments
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Can we stop it with the comically big phones now? (2020)(androidauthority.com)
14 points by abhiminator 5y ago|13 comments
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Microsoft releases Windows 11 a day early(theverge.com)
2 points by abhiminator 5y ago|0 comments
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by abhiminator 5y ago
That's a pretty accurate description of the site, lol. On a side-note, I think you'll enjoy some of the videos by the YouTube 'Internet Historian' on 4chan: * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvjwXhCNZcU
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Thank you!
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Absolute textgasm. Wonder how 'text-only first' prioritization is being implemented, algorithmically speaking?
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Rapid release cycle FTW! [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history#Rapid_...
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by abhiminator 5y ago
It's also about saving a night's worth of hotel/accommodation money, especially if you happen to be a broke college student traveling across the country on a budget (like I was not too long ago). I absolutely love overnight &
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Young Chinese gamers vent at Beijing's new rules(reuters.com)
2 points by abhiminator 5y ago|0 comments
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Haiti and the surrounding regions are tectonically f'cked, unfortunately. At least the United States is relatively close by, so humanitarian assistance isn't super far away. I remember the US deploying its hospital ships, among ot
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Teens around the world are lonelier than a decade ago(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by abhiminator 5y ago|0 comments
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Loneliness Is Breaking America(nytimes.com)
3 points by abhiminator 5y ago|1 comments
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by abhiminator 5y ago
This article from Amnesty International's Security Lab is a good primer on the attack vector used by the Pegasus exploit https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-...
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Beautiful story. Please pass on my gratitude to your lawyer buddy for making that stranger's life better. Gosh, HN can be wonderfully soothing sometimes! :)
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The vital art of talking to strangers(economist.com)
249 points by abhiminator 5y ago|277 comments
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by abhiminator 5y ago
On a related note, I highly, highly recommend watching this well-made documentary on JWST, released around 3 and a half years ago -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLD9LKq0u9E This documentary was produced by Northrop Grum
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What happens when a city bans cars from its streets? (2019)(bbc.com)
2 points by abhiminator 5y ago|0 comments
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by abhiminator 5y ago
I believe Discord also uses Opus codec IIRC. But wonderful to see the codec in a fully open-source project. Added noise suppression would also be great, especially a FOSS-based one (Discord uses AI-based noise suppression from Krisp [0] -
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Below are some relevant articles I keep going back to that highlight the same phenomenon on the 'decay' of web as a platform (by decay I mean extreme commercialization, excessive bloat, endless tracking and whatnot) made by the li
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Looks like they're currently applying a fix. https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Holy smokes these Wikipedia writers are quick! I'm sometimes impressed by how fast a page on a super recent happening gets populated with all of the currently known details.
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by abhiminator 5y ago
PayPal seems to be working for me at the moment. Rest of the sites are 503s.
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Can confirm this. Can't access reddit from both the web and through API powered indie app on Android. Most likely a fastly issue as other commenters mentioned.
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by abhiminator 5y ago
I'd argue the opposite -- why not order from Amazon? Lots of folks have come to trust Amazon's reliability and customer service over the years, so it does make sense for customers to order expensive things from Amazon or any other
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by abhiminator 5y ago
Yes. Judicial overreach is as common as bribery in India.

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