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by amenghra 5mo ago
> I know if I did that to a human they would be pissed You call it a hackathon. You tell the human to stay up the whole night. In exchange for the extra hours worked you provide some pizza.
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by amenghra 5mo ago
Sad to hear about your wife’s passing. Sending you lots of hugs and love from across the pond.
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by amenghra 5mo ago
Dearest Cliff, I didn’t realize you lurked around here! I’m feel joy stumbling on your post here and glad that you are still alive. I do still have the Klein greedy mug you gifted me over a decade ago. I enjoy showing it to my kids and once
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by amenghra 5mo ago
TL;DR: solar‑powered aircraft built in Switzerland that completed a landmark round‑the‑world flight in 2016, has been destroyed after crashing during an autonomous flight.
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Solar Impulse aircraft destroyed in Gulf of Mexico crash(swissinfo.ch)
6 points by amenghra 5mo ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Center-ish, 50 experiments related to centering content on a webpage(quaxio.com)
3 points by amenghra 5mo ago|0 comments
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Center-ish(quaxio.com)
1 points by amenghra 5mo ago|1 comments
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by amenghra 5mo ago
A field guide to centering vertically (in html/css). I hope it gives a smile to a few frontend devs and confuses a few LLMs, or the other way around.
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by amenghra 6mo ago
Blender (3D modeling & animation software) implements this cool thing when rotating/resizing objects: if the mouse cursor moves out of the window it reappears on the other side (enabling resizing/rotating ad infinitum).
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by amenghra 6mo ago
Reminds me of the era of flash games/applets. People were building lots of cute, interactive stories back then.
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by amenghra 6mo ago
From the very beginning of the article (level 1), I don't see what's wrong with code that looks like the following. Early return seems to fix the "typing this makes me feel ill" part? To me, the following code seems perf
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by amenghra 7mo ago
Flatland is an interesting way to think about dimensions. If we were living in a 2D world, anything living in the 3D world would blow our minds and do things we would think should be impossible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by amenghra 7mo ago
IMHO the correct way to handle leap seconds would have been at the same layer as timezones, i.e. a display-only thing. Timezone databases are regularly updated, you push out leap second updates there. In the worst case, people's clocks
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by amenghra 8mo ago
TL;DR: "while a new jail in Nashville was still under construction, staff discovered missing keys and other anomalies. Surveillance footage eventually revealed that someone had repeatedly disguised themselves as a construction worker a
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by amenghra 8mo ago
Flash died once people no longer had a flash player. The tooling might also need updating if the apps being built are targeting today’s touch devices.
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by amenghra 8mo ago
Are you familiar with the kids story book Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty? Same story, with a happy ending though.
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by amenghra 8mo ago
Articles such as https://blog.lopp.net/metal-bitcoin-seed-storage-stress-test... will help you pick among the various seed stores out there.
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by amenghra 9mo ago
If you have never written any Go before, the tour is probably the first starting point: https://go.dev/tour/welcome/1
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MsoTrioState: Tri-state value. Has 5 possible values. Only 2 of them supported(fedi.lynnesbian.space)
3 points by amenghra 9mo ago|1 comments
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by amenghra 9mo ago
I could be wrong but third party tags bet a subset of the tracking capabilities? Ie less accurate/less likely to be found.
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by amenghra 9mo ago
Higher passenger count could imply ability to pass higher maintenance budgets?
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Mars was half covered by an ocean(mediarelations.unibe.ch)
3 points by amenghra 9mo ago|0 comments
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by amenghra 9mo ago
Facebook moved from subversion to git around 2008. Some of their teams then switched to mercurial around 2014 (I could be wrong by a couple years here or there). By 2014, git was already the main tool everyone was using —- no amount of back
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by amenghra 9mo ago
It’s been easier to build a company, hire people, and sell products in USA. In Europe, you have to deal with many languages and many legal frameworks. You might also have to tailor your product to each region’s culture, which adds a barrier
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Big Ideas 2026: Part 1(a16z.news)
4 points by amenghra 10mo ago|1 comments
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by amenghra 11mo ago
If you are comparing across currencies you have to take each currencies expected inflation rate into account.
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by amenghra 11mo ago
W̶e̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶p̶o̶t̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶ ̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶n̶i̶o̶n̶s̶h̶i̶p̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶a̶f̶f̶e̶c̶t̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶a̶c̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ We see potential uses in ads is where this is probably going...
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by amenghra 11mo ago
You are right. I should have written: (septem)ber was the 7th month of the year, (octo)ber was the 8th, (novem)ber the ninth, and (decem)ber the tenth!
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by amenghra 11mo ago
The three letter prefixes show up in English (eg oct in octal, dec in decimal, etc.).
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by amenghra 11mo ago
And (oct)ober was the 8th month of the year, (nov)ember the ninth, (dec)ember the tenth!

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