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by akovaski 2y ago
> The real problem is laws that protect IP like the DMCA and the patent system. That is A problem, but that is not the problem seen here. The problem here is trade secrets. Specifically electronic secrets that prevent third parties from
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by akovaski 2y ago
The last image is a pair of pictures of Needle Tower and Needle Tower II, which you can search for if the image doesn't load in the article for you.
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by akovaski 2y ago
You judge it as if you're getting this advice from an acquaintance or a stranger. It's just some guy talking about his experience. If something from the post is novel to you, maybe ask a dentist, or find standard practices that de
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by akovaski 2y ago
I recently leafed through "Mathematics for Engineers"[0], originally from 1926, which begins with many such methods for making arithmetic easier. Though maybe not always more space efficient. Luckily I got to use a calculator for
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by akovaski 2y ago
Really they should charge more when it is colder out. What's the point of a free market if it can't respond to consumer demand? Our ChargeTooshie seat warmer uses our comprehensive 5g wiretapping network and innovative AI to provi
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by akovaski 2y ago
Several email providers provide catch-all/wildcard functionality which can handle arbitrary tagging. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000277942-Ca... https://help.zoho.com/
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by akovaski 2y ago
Its fairly common to refer to Linux distros as an OS, or even include OS in the distro name (Pop!_OS, NixOS, CentOS). Linux is the kernel, and disros add stuff to make a functional operating system.
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by akovaski 2y ago
It should be left aligned, but it should also be vertically centered within the resizable black-bordered box.
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by akovaski 2y ago
In case anybody is wondering, Firefox doesn't block muted videos by default. The above poster had changed their settings to block muted video, which can be overridden per site.
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by akovaski 2y ago
One thing I noticed was that when I build in Debug mode `zig build`, I got: Baseline,3.92809172 Spice 1 thread,19.1012624 When I built with ReleaseSafe mode `zig build --release=safe`, I got: Baseline,3.264224280000001
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by akovaski 2y ago
I'm not terribly familiar with this space, but I do like the concurrency model presented here. I think the README here is very well written, and I have a good idea of what's going on just from reading it, but there are a few areas
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by akovaski 2y ago
huh? The current XPS 13 and many other laptops do not have a barrel plug. My Dell laptop without a barrel plug didn't become bricked when it ran out of battery.
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by akovaski 2y ago
One might argue that CAD is "computer-aided human design" whereas this engine was designed using "human-aided computer design". That is, the computer isn't aiding in the design, the computer is the designer (and I a
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by akovaski 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna Huh, I did not know that this image was supposed to be sexually suggestive.
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by akovaski 3y ago
Do you have a source for the claim that sperm count for many mammals has been declining? I was only able to find "Sperm counts in semen of farm animals 1932-1995" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9401823/ Whic
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by akovaski 3y ago
It might help to think of the tub of water as a heat battery/capacitor: the energy you put in is the energy you get out. So, yes, it will slowly absorb energy when you are heating the room. However, it will also release an equal amount
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by akovaski 3y ago
In sixth or seventh grade, we had to write an essay on a historical figure. The teacher gave us a long list of people and we could choose whoever we wanted. I chose a random name from that list: Immanuel Kant. We went to the school's s
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by akovaski 3y ago
Also, if you're on mobile, switch to the "Desktop site" mode of your browser. I wasn't able to see the figures without setting this.
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by akovaski 3y ago
I think the term to search for here is usually "price fixing" and maybe "price gouging". Usually artificial scarcity is used to raise prices. Think cartels, monopolies, Da Beers diamond artificial scarcity, drug companie
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by akovaski 3y ago
I was a bit surprised when I read "4x USB, HDMI and 2x Mini DisplayPort". It looks like it doesn't have 2 actual Mini DisplayPorts, but instead the 2 USB-C ports support DisplayPort 1.4. It's been a while since I was tem
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by akovaski 3y ago
> It also doesn't say not soldered on RAM and SSD which means it probably is. > Just like the CPU, the LPDDR RAM is also soldered onto the motherboard [...] > Another advantage of LPDDR RAM is its space-saving design, which cr
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by akovaski 3y ago
> when you too are ready to grow up The antagonism is from effectively calling them immature (and thus implying that their opinion is coming from a place of naivety) and placing yourself above them. This is a pretty standard insult that
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by akovaski 3y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37840371
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by akovaski 3y ago
> Did you try it? Yes > Because that's not what it does. [...] I don't see how your description significantly differs from my description.
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by akovaski 3y ago
It actually increments each word it finds, so while most words will turn to "1", "356" will become "357". I have to imagine this ending up in the blog is the result of a copy-paste mistake, a LLM hallucinatio
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by akovaski 4y ago
"Marshall McLuhan in Conversation with Norman Mailer" came up from a DDG search. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1968, "The Summer Way" Transcript: https://marshallmcluhanspeaks.com/media/mcluhan_p
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by akovaski 4y ago
> There is no diversity in ownership nor opinion now. There is the one party... Is this referring to the "Republicans and Democrats are the same party" trope, or is there a different intended meaning here? You're comment
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by akovaski 4y ago
> I'd happily donate 10x more to Ivory as an open source project than you'd make from selling it to me as a closed source app Tweetbot apparently cost $6/year, so are you saying you would donate $60/year if they relea
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by akovaski 4y ago
Awesome! This isn't a feature I have a frequent need to use, but it was always disappointing to try to save a page in Firefox for Android and being unable to do so. Now there's one less reason to open Chrome.
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by akovaski 4y ago
With a 7 digit denominator, 5419351/1725033 is quite nice. The offset jumps down to 2.21447793E-14. https://gist.github.com/akovaski/ce7a4230ed2ea0275f70e33c77e... see also: https://qin.laya.com/te

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