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by avian 6y ago
Scott Manley has a video with a more realistic view on this company [1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT9HBkWGg7s
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by avian 6y ago
Is there a way to see when an image was last pulled ? I can see the last push date, but not pull.
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by avian 6y ago
A small fraction of users of a big service is often enough to run a small, non-VC funded business.
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by avian 6y ago
Linktree, the service the author aimed to replicate had similar problems according to Wikipedia [1]. > In 2018, Instagram banned the site due to "spam," although it was lifted and Instagram issued an apology. > Rumors circul
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by avian 6y ago
AMD said back in 2016 to have a neural net predictor [1]. I found this slide following references in the Wikipedia article that rowanG077 linked below. [1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/
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by avian 6y ago
Well, that's certainly the most surprising thing I've learned today. Thanks.
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by avian 6y ago
The GitHub page links to a video that explains some of the internals [1]. Can someone comment on the result that they show at 14:26? My understanding is that they run a code that does 2000 branches based on a pseudo-random sequence. Over ar
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by avian 6y ago
Flattr sounded good on paper, but had a lot of practical problems. This comment sums it up pretty well why basically only Flattr was making money with Flattr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15558406 If there was one t
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by avian 6y ago
> there is already more excellent content that has already been created than you could possibly consume in a hundred lifetimes. I hear this often. Where is this excellent content? 99% of things online recommendations float up for me is g
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by avian 6y ago
I'm sad that spamming users via Firefox account email is now becoming a regular practice for Mozilla. Last time it was for the picture-in-picture feature. Now they're advertising their VPN. I'm pretty sure I again unchecked a
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by avian 6y ago
> Is also good at "photo journals" or galleries. I have also been looking for something like this for a while and I can't find it. All the static HTML gallery generators seem to be focused on dumping all images into them a
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by avian 6y ago
I haven’t heard about this giant helicopter idea before. Here’s an article I found about it: https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1045/1
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by avian 6y ago
> I assume that cpio is very rarely used these days. From Wikipedia: > The use of cpio by the RPM Package Manager, in the initramfs program of Linux kernel 2.6, and in Apple's Installer (pax) make cpio an important archiving tool
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by avian 6y ago
For someone in a country with VAT (e.g. Europe) this trick typically does not work since billing is different for companies vs. individuals.
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by avian 6y ago
Running my own mail server. Off the top of my head, I would also say that the .xyz domain is predominantly used for spam. I remember reading on HN once that this is because it's a TLD where it's easy to register throw-away domains
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by avian 6y ago
Is anyone else annoyed that Mozilla chose to spam them with an ad for this new feature via the email address they received when creating the Firefox sync account? Is this really such an important thing that warrants sending an unsolicited m
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by avian 6y ago
Way back in another life I did some calculations similar to that. I don't remember details anymore, but there were some observations that some (deep space) astronomical object somewhere was accelerating and there were no models at the
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by avian 6y ago
I guess that's a reasonable position to take. It reminds me of paper publications where you have all the figures on color plates bound in the middle/end, so I guess it isn't without precedent On the other hand, it made me thi
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by avian 6y ago
> Blogs, [..] are perfect for the Gemini format. > Gemini lacks in-line images This is the only part that I don't really understand about Gemini. Even the most basic printed publications can include illustrations. <img> go
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by avian 6y ago
> It would be quicker and easier to sample the vapor plumes I feel like the question of whether there's life out there or not is such a big and loaded one that nothing short of a video of Europa's equivalent of a kelp forest wi
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by avian 6y ago
I feel like a good approximation would be to just turn Bayesian priors on or off (or whatever is their equivalent of "push this widely popular thing, even if it's not supported by this person's specific interests learned from
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by avian 6y ago
I'm fascinated by this idea of a civilization harnessing the power output of an entire galaxy to facilitate the movement of small green pieces of (virtual) paper.
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by avian 6y ago
This reminds me of a case years ago when I had a small-ish video file on my server that would cause Google Bot to just keep fetching it in a loop. It wasted a huge amount of bandwidth for me since I only noticed it in a report at the end of
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by avian 6y ago
The shitty IoT products can then also use a shitty battery/power supply because the advanced brownout protection the grandparent is talking about won't be spazzing out every 5 minutes that a LED causes voltage to droop. It's
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by avian 6y ago
> Many problems with SD cards are actually rooted in power issues Does anyone have any info on this that's more substantial than hearsay? Experiments, measurements or at least a more technical explanation than "bad power source
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by avian 6y ago
I completely agree with you regarding Interstellar. I think it’s all about expectations. It was advertised to be this hard sci-fi with plausible physics and it wasn’t, as you say. On the other hand, I remember enjoying watching the Core. It
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by avian 6y ago
No. Because of thermodynamics they would necessarily emit some thermal radiation and we’re not seeing it.
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by avian 6y ago
I believe it works well for you. For me one of the important parts that got me to consistently write a journal years ago was also switching to the cheapest notebooks I could get. With something (relatively) expensive I always had that small
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by avian 6y ago
The two biggest takeaways from Bullet Journal for me were the task markup you mention and numbered pages + index. When I have to refer to some previous work I did, I note the past page numbers I had to look up. It's a simple way of cro
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by avian 6y ago
Make sure to disable container sync when using this combination. It's easy to accumulate hundreds of temporary containers which somehow hoses your Firefox profile on Mozilla's sync server (and can also produce gigabytes of logs in

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