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by arantius 2y ago
I used to think along these lines. But in actuality, not so much. By this definition they're the same thing. An electric motor converts electric energy into kinetic energy. A gasoline engine converts chemical energy to kinetic ener
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How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default(tenbluelinks.org)
173 points by arantius 2y ago|160 comments
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by arantius 2y ago
I guess I'll be that guy. "forgery" is an even better form of the word to discuss (the noun -- and of course a forgery is forged), specifically: 3 : an act of forging especially : the crime of falsely and fraudulently making
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by arantius 2y ago
A few years ago I made a temperature/humidity/barometric pressure sensor. https://www.tindie.com/products/arantius/wi_ther-wireless-th... https://arantius.com/wi-ther/ As per the ma
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by arantius 3y ago
> It is really asstonishing how dev hostile those game consoles were... What's actually astonishing is the range of things that seem strange at first, but are actually very clear and logical, IF you also understand the historical c
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The Life and Death of the Bulbdial Clock(ironicsans.beehiiv.com)
138 points by arantius 3y ago|24 comments
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An analysis of title drops in movies(titledrops.net)
4 points by arantius 3y ago|1 comments
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by arantius 3y ago
> Of course, I'm sure it predates being able to effectively use the canvas... Predates it at all. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ca... says browser support didn&#
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by arantius 3y ago
This reminds me a lot of Big Clive's "supercomputer". See any video https://www.google.com/search?q=big+clive+supercomputer reveals. It's just a panel of self-blinking LEDs. But they're cheap and
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by arantius 3y ago
Part of me loves this idea. I've had things fail, and would have been happy for warranty coverage. But: * What about the market for truly inexpensive things? Do I get e.g. my plastic knife replaced every time it gets dull, for 20 ye
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Smoother sailing: Studying audio imperfections in Steamboat Willie(windytan.com)
4 points by arantius 3y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 3y ago
In at least one case (I've most clearly observed this in cheapish Android tablets): inexpensive flash storage. I've been able to observe, most obviously with my first gen Nexus 7 but also with other devices, that pure CPU benchmar
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by arantius 3y ago
It took me several tries to find it but the Projectivy launcher ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spocky.pro... ) is a great replacement for the Android/Google TV launcher like it used to be
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by arantius 3y ago
Not OP, and they said what they use (Red Pocket) but I also pay $5/mo for service from Tello ( https://tello.com/ ). 500MB/mo, data only, calls through Google Voice via data. (100 minutes of voice $1/mo ext
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by arantius 3y ago
You're aware that (Open)SSH can have its behavior, including port forwards, modified at runtime after launch? See e.g. https://linux.die.net/man/1/ssh section "Escape Characters" and "~C'
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by arantius 3y ago
Streaming. What if the part(s) are being generated on the fly, and don't exist to have a length? Requiring that the sender specify the length up front requires the length to be known. Maybe I'm (e.g.) tarring/zipping up a
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by arantius 3y ago
> ... batteries that use flat cells (called "Pouch Batteries") ... They are but I think the more official/rigorous term is "prismatic cell". https://www.google.com/search?q=prismatic+cell (As opp
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by arantius 4y ago
FF is "front front", i.e. engine in the front, drive wheels in the front. (Or: ~all regular every day cars.) FR is front-engine rear-wheel-drive (i.e. "sports" cars), etc.
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by arantius 4y ago
Doom was from the early 90's. The internet wasn't a common thing, so TCP/IP was not as thoroughly established then as it is now.
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by arantius 4y ago
I've used WinDirStat but not Wiztree before -- Wiztree is so much faster!
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by arantius 4y ago
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/eng... "to cook something in hot fat or oil; to be cooked in hot fat or oil" Because of what the word means?
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by arantius 4y ago
Is this true? I've heard this story/anecdote before, more generally and not ascribed to any particular person, and to a general big company, not Ford specifically. (Just a general "know where to draw the chalk X" kind
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by arantius 4y ago
Missed this good series of questions for a while but: * The "?" about link says a lot of this. * It was an old idea that somehow solidified recently, after spending enough time with color wheels and other things, to assemble this.
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by arantius 4y ago
Interesting, can you be more specific? Developed in Firefox, reports that Chrome is OK. I don't have a Mac to test with.
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Show HN: A color picker for named web colors(arantius.github.io)
731 points by arantius 4y ago|169 comments
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by arantius 4y ago
This sounds interesting. Sadly the link (to the tweet) in that article is broken. This appears to be a screenshot of the tweet in question: https://old.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/a4y3n8
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by arantius 4y ago
I do this, except Google Voice for calls over data, usually via WiFi.
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by arantius 4y ago
I am a native English speaker, but I also despise this phrase. Exactly because it's so awkward that it's hard to truly know what the speaker means. This pattern is unfortunately common. In my experience when used, they mean &qu
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by arantius 4y ago
> If you start "self hosting" on a cloud based instance ... I can't anti-suggest this more. Everything I've done on anything labeled "cloud" is weird and special, in ways that would impede learning or dilut
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by arantius 4y ago
I wrote https://bookmarklets.arantius.com/unfix several years back. Ended up using the "nuke" variant in practice.

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