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by ajnin 3y ago
Interesting, this video has been consistently pushed to me by the YouTube recommendation algorithm for the past 3 weeks. It looks like the recommender pressure is so strong it's influencing HN headlines.
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by ajnin 3y ago
I'm puzzled by this, looking at the resistance versus temperature graph they're not demonstrating zero resistance at 110K, they're demonstrating that at 110K the resistance becomes so low that it reaches the noise floor of th
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by ajnin 3y ago
Not over a single dipole magnet. The "shape" of the field wouldn't make it stable, you'd need to add other magnets or a piece of string to stabilise. As I understand stable levitation over a dipole magnet is indicative o
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by ajnin 3y ago
No, you can't float a regular magnet above another magnet or any number of magnets, that is not stable (it can be proven mathematically). You can float a diamagnetic material but you need at least 2 magnets, it wouldn't be stable
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by ajnin 3y ago
It's not the same thing, Hola was found to use clients as exit nodes, which is definitely an abuse of client trust, resources, and potentially exposing them to major legal trouble or otherwise, but I don't think that can be consid
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by ajnin 3y ago
Strange article. It is about an unrepairable pair of shoes that need to be recycled but its title is "Buy well, buy once". Not really the case, then ? Then he mentions that he has only 192 "worldly possessions". I'd
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by ajnin 3y ago
That would pose issues when iterating over a range that crosses the X/Y axis, you'd need special case for this. Or you might say that -0 +1 = 0 but I think that would probably break some fundamental properties of the ring of integ
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by ajnin 3y ago
I think there is a symmetry problem, there is a A and a nA but not a 0 and a n0 ... It might feel weird but it might also avoid issues to simply forget about nA and go nC, nB, A, B, C and so on, to have the same mapping between numbers and
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by ajnin 3y ago
It probably would, but if you're implying this would absorb a lot of CO2, I don't think so, plants die and when they do they decompose and release the CO2 back into the atmosphere. The conditions are not really met for a new carbo
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by ajnin 3y ago
MHD is nothing new though, so if it has not yet replaced propellers I'm guessing it is because of practical issues like corrosion, electrolysis and so on alluded to in the article that DARPA seems to have found solutions for but which
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by ajnin 3y ago
Pretty entertaining concept, but I guess the site was developed with mobile in mind ? It's frustrating to use on a laptop, it looks like about 80% of the page is unused black space, with a big bar at the bottom, and the actual emoji a
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by ajnin 3y ago
I think the French k7 is because "k-sept" sounds exactly like "cassette". The fact that the number of letters match is just a coincidence.
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by ajnin 3y ago
We might need to build a "web if humans" on the model of the web of trust used by PGP, a network of sites of quality vetted by other people. A bit like the web rings of yore but with more edges. This would also eliminate SEO spam
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by ajnin 4y ago
I remember that the framerate was pretty important in Quake. Because player positions were interpolated linearly, you could miss the top of the parabola when jumping if your framerate was too low. I don't remember any numbers but getti
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by ajnin 4y ago
The "Thought Emporium" channel on YouTube has been exploring this kind of DIY gene editing, up to engineering a yeast with CRISPR technology, and inoculating it himself to cure his lactose intolerance. Very interesting channel in
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by ajnin 4y ago
Firefox developer edition, Linux - I can't give any input. Moving the mouse pointer moves the camera POV slightly, so that it can end up below the ground, but apart from that no keys or clicks are registered.
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by ajnin 4y ago
I wonder if this could be improved by using the Hartley transform instead of the Fourier transform.
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by ajnin 4y ago
Interestingly the source code base does not seem to have any tests. I guess it speaks of the strength of Scala's type system or the rigorousness of the developer. I tried Scala a long time ago but I didn't like it, it felt every s
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by ajnin 4y ago
I don't really buy that "vote with your wallet" argument. It's not like you really have a choice. People can't decide to buy their favorite game with our without an open infrastructure. For example of you want to pl
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by ajnin 4y ago
It's also overlooking that there is an actual hero named X-OR, which is the French name of Space Sheriff Gavan, a somewhat popular (at least in France) Japanese show of the prolific "heroes in shiny suits and rubbery monsters from
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by ajnin 4y ago
> The idea here is to use a minimal wasm binary as a stage1 kernel that is committed to source control and therefore can be used to build any commit from source. We provide a minimal WASI interpreter implementation that is built from C s
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by ajnin 4y ago
No, that's not how it went. People were not stupid and lacking any foresight in the past. Constrained storage space has been a concern since Charles Babbage's analytical engine, that is since forever in computing. No one ever thou
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by ajnin 4y ago
My favorite way is how French website "Le Monde Diplomatique" does it : the footnotes appear at the bottom of the screen in context as you scroll so that only those referred in the currently visible text are displayed. It avoids a
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by ajnin 4y ago
I wouldn't call function typedefs a quirk, they seem pretty useful and common, at least in my world of hobbyist microcontroller programming.
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by ajnin 4y ago
Might still be better as efficiency goes up with temperature and industrial generators can achieve much higher temperatures that what you can at home, and also include some clean sources of energy into the mix.
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by ajnin 4y ago
The article mentions in passing that "The negative electrode is copper; its yellow color in our visualization means it’s denser than the other materials in the battery." So presumably the blue to yellow scale corresponds to materi
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by ajnin 4y ago
How many interactions didn't you have, because the developer read the error message, read the Wiki, and ultimately solved the issue themselves ?
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by ajnin 4y ago
No-one at Steam ever actually said that, and I highly doubt they have the legal and contractual standing to do so if they wanted.
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by ajnin 4y ago
You'd be limited very quickly since Java does not have local methods. This would work for only very simple scripts that fit in a single method.
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by ajnin 4y ago
I recommend the "Privacy Redirect" browser extension which redirects Twitter to Nitter, which is incomparably more usable, especially not logged in. It will also redirect YouTube and Google Maps to Invidious and OpenStreetMaps res

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