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by adtac 8y ago
Cooling down your room and warming up the outdoors is the same thing, if it's a purely mechanical problem, because the energy to warm up the outdoors has to come from somewhere and the room is the only other entity.
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by adtac 8y ago
Oh, it's perfectly fine to have as many sub-processors as they want. But default opt-in is non-compliant; if I understand the regulation correctly, the user has to manually opt into every processor. An opt-out dark pattern is specifica
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by adtac 8y ago
Curious: what tier were you using and what tier did you move up to? In case I ever get to the frontpage, I'd like to be prepared :) And usually, what is it that causes outages like HN/reddit's hug of death? Number of open soc
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by adtac 8y ago
The Yahoo! one [1] is definitely in violation of GDPR, right? GDPR doesn't cover me as I'm neither in the EU nor am I an EU citizen, so I really hope someone lets the regulators know about this. The first major penalty will be exa
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by adtac 8y ago
Any particular reason why nine years instead of the 10 years dommain registrars allow?
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by adtac 8y ago
Apologies for the pedantry in advance, but Linux distros probably don't support that. It's the desktop manager / window manager doing that for you.
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by adtac 8y ago
>The 81-year-old Australian has donated more than 1,100 times since turning 21. >Because his blood has unique disease-fighting antibodies, it is used to create an injection which combats rhesus disease – a condition where the blood of
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by adtac 8y ago
Lol imagine my phone talking with an automated customer service line. Two machines, talking to one another, not using any of the existing protocols. My phone would have a database of questions to ask, form it into an English sentence, run i
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by adtac 8y ago
This is impossibly amazing to me! Thank you so much, what an excellent lecture.
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by adtac 8y ago
Except, .sh means nothing in particular in Linux. It just so happens people use .sh for shell scripts.
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by adtac 8y ago
Sometimes, I translate the English word/phrase describing the product into a foreign language. I usually try a bunch of languages (Latin is generally excellent) before deciding on what I like best.
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by adtac 8y ago
That's what every solution aims to be at the start.
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by adtac 9y ago
Shameless plug: my own alternative to Disqus: https://github.com/adtac/commento There's also a hosted service I've been building for the past five months, if you don't want to bother with setting up and
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by adtac 9y ago
Especially true when the methodology to test performance was just `find /usr` [1], and comparing it with a just a few alternatives. I'm sure they have a better and more thorough benchmark these days, but that was pretty funny. [1]
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by adtac 9y ago
Modern C++ is not simple, but modern JavaScript is?
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by adtac 9y ago
This is an excellent application that's specific to watches, great idea :)
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by adtac 9y ago
That would be impossible. A shot could go out as an unforced error or be a winner, all without the other player moving his hand.
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by adtac 9y ago
Test comment. This works because the collapse request is a GET request. Just like the "Show HN: This up votes itself" post [1] from a few years ago, a simple hidden image in any webpage would make the request on your behalf. Obvio
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Show HN: Clicking this will collapse all comments even if you didn't do so(adtac.github.io)
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by adtac 9y ago
Out of curiousity, does the number of views on your unlisted YC video matter? Youtube analytics tells me there was just 1 view from California on 02-Apr, and that could be "this guy is a totally awesome, just call him for an interview&
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by adtac 9y ago
Well, this thread should be totally safe from flame wars! I use (n)vim as my editor everything: making to-do lists (which I maintain in plain .txt files), writing TeX for school, and writing code.
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by adtac 9y ago
When it was released, Gmail was on a class of its own. It was free, fast, and had ~1+ GB of storage (and it was increasing every second!). I know that you might think offering more storage for the same product is not innovative, but here&#x
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by adtac 9y ago
What if you just "rent" them indefinitely?
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Ask HN: Do the number of views on your YC video matter?
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Poll: How many views did your YC founder(s) video get?
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