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by avian 7y ago
To be honest, I don't think taking the sentence out of context distorts much. This quote (which I see in full length for the first time) pretty much says how I always understood the shorter version. It's not "optimization is
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by avian 7y ago
I used to have a job that involved parsing large textual datasets. It was fascinating to me how far you could reconstruct a history of a dataset just by looking at encoding errors - and practically no dataset I've seen came without the
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by avian 7y ago
Nobody claimed that it's impossible to have hardware implants in principle. You can find papers that predate the Bloomberg story and discuss much more advanced approaches than what was presented there. The problem with that story was t
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by avian 7y ago
> Ghost-like moving lights, resembling will-O’-the-wisps on Earth that are formed by spontaneous ignition of methane, have been video-recorded on the Martian surface; I was surprised by this statement. I thought atmosphere on Mars is too
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by avian 7y ago
> SpaceX solves that with refueling in low Earth orbit, that allows to scale rocket fuel needs linearly with regard to payload instead of exponentially. I don't think that's the case. The rocket equation has the delta-v under e
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by avian 7y ago
I'm starting to think GIMP's problem is that it is too similar to Photoshop. People open GIMP, see a different dialog for the exactly same thing in Photoshop and go "this UX is a nightmare". They don't approach it a
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by avian 7y ago
Works for me on Firefox 60.9.0esr. No sound though.
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by avian 7y ago
I never understood why they had video media ship their own UI. It’s usually annoying to figure out and sometimes absolutely idiotic (like The Fifth Element that forces you to “catch” menu entries by timing your keypresses). It’s like if mus
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by avian 7y ago
Not a significant difference, but China does have more land area than US: China: 9.32 million km^2 of land US: 9.14 million km^2 of land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
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by avian 7y ago
The rotating disk is only there to replenish and renew the oil surface on which the electron beam is drawing the image. The speed of disk rotation has no effect on the latency. It does have an effect on persistence of the image, but my unde
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by avian 7y ago
> He had sent a minister on a voyage far over the eastern seas in search of a mythical potion of eternal life. But that expedition never returned Makes me wonder about the details of that arrangement. What promise could possibly make the
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by avian 7y ago
Edison was pretty annoying to work with in my experience. To use the Edison CPU (without their Arduino-like breakout board) on your own hardware you needed a fine-pitch connector that was more or less impossible to solder in a typical home
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by avian 7y ago
Switch to Arch Linux and live the dream. It has had python3 as /usr/bin/python since 2010. https://www.archlinux.org/news/python-is-now-python-3/
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by avian 7y ago
Are you referring to that "Python 2.8" thing [1] that happened some years ago? A comment from PSF [2] makes it clear that they don't have any issue with people continuing to develop their Python 2 codebase further. It is what
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by avian 7y ago
Maybe Exim people are smarter than you give them credit for. Exim does use separate processes and privilege separation. SMTP daemon itself does not run as root (on default Debian it runs as "Debian-exim" user). Some processes do n
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by avian 7y ago
Reminds me of the self-destructing speakers on the old Samsung Chromebook. Set wrong mixer settings and they silently burn up. In my case they melted through the case before I realized what was wrong. https://marcin.juszkiewicz.c
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by avian 7y ago
I can't think of any ferrous parts in a modern phone. Enclosures are all either plastic, aluminum or magnesium. Circuit board will be copper. Maybe some internal structural elements or RF shield cans are made of steel? Microphones are
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by avian 7y ago
Because it's such a rare corner case. I've been running my blog for 10+ years and apparently I've never seen a request without the UA header - until a post got to the front page of HN a while back and someone like you caused
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by avian 7y ago
> Are there some fundamental technical limitations in the spec? It's the same issue as with practically everything else digital these days. Hugely complicated thousand-page standards that few, if any, understand in their entirety. I
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by avian 7y ago
Interesting. Thank you for sharing this!
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by avian 7y ago
Here’s one that’s distinctly not blob-like (note the hair curls, I don’t think those are separate pieces): https://media.entertainmentearth.com/assets/images/e9792a6af...
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Opportunity Rover – Front Hazcam Movie [video](youtube.com)
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by avian 7y ago
Does anyone know how plastic figurines like that are cast? I've been recently looking at some similar toys and they have many concave features and small details that seem impossible to make with simple injection moulding (as in, you wo
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by avian 7y ago
I don't know. I've found a few discussions on Reddit and elsewhere, but everyone seems to credit this particular Imgur post with no context as the source: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments
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by avian 7y ago
> I dont even think it would play major role, measurement is done by correlation, moving closer/further only scales the picture. Scaling the picture is the problem. What parent is trying to say is that the distance the physical pape
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by avian 7y ago
Apart from what others have mentioned, they "boost up" to a graveyard orbit instead of down to avoid old satellites or their potential debris clouds from eclipsing Earth for their replacements or posing a collision risk on the geo
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by avian 7y ago
If anyone else went searching for this: https://imgur.com/RVVnTNR
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by avian 7y ago
Maybe just have something like the USB killer [1] to "sterilize" cables. Zap the cable with a high voltage/high energy pulse, beyond what normal on-die ESD protection could handle. A bunch of copper and plastic won't get
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by avian 7y ago
From the article's "Methodology notes": > That includes millions of Android-powered devices and millions of PCs as well. They have much lower coverage on iOS devices and so don’t report on visit data from those browsers. I
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by avian 7y ago
What was wrong with wxgui? I never understood that. For years everyone was saying don’t use it, but wxgui widgets always seemed much more polished and usable. For example, the wxgui waterfall diagram was far beyond anything I could find in

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