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by avian 8y ago
One thing that I was missing last time I checked was comment ranking data. Neither score nor rank was there for comments posted in recent years. I understand that upvote counts are not available in the API, but ranking should be (as in, the
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by avian 8y ago
It should be noted that this is for US use-only, since it transmits on the 900 MHz band (FCC part 15). In Europe this frequency falls into the GSM band and will get authorities to your doorstep in a hurry.
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by avian 8y ago
Did anyone try this on hand-drawn animation? How does it look? I'm not optimistic, since usually processes made for live-motion don't work that well, but going from e.g. 8 or 12 FPS to 24 FPS with no manual work would be just amaz
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by avian 8y ago
I'm glad that the spam has stopped, but the damage to smaller servers has been done. After months of having channels constantly flooded with revolting stuff I doubt people are coming back, even if admins find the energy to put servers
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by avian 8y ago
I get it why it's useful in practice here, but on a conceptual level relying on proof-of-work always seems weird to me. It's like saying "you have to pay to use this service, but instead of giving the money to the host, you n
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by avian 8y ago
Freenode hosts only free software-related channels as far as I know. There are still some small servers out there, but they are getting rarer. One I used to frequent just recently shut down because it was hit by massive amounts of disgustin
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by avian 8y ago
I know from my own experience that it's possible to dig yourself quite deep into some niche research field without realizing that there's an existing body of knowledge about it. If you or nobody else in your research circle knows
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by avian 8y ago
I don't buy this argument. It works for things like "unlucky" numbers others mention, where there is basically no economic side effect (outside superstitious group no one cares about their seat number) Shops that didn't
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by avian 8y ago
Hey, thanks for this video. I was on a flight that did that some years ago when I was doing a lot of traveling. I don't remember anymore where exactly in Europe it was, but no one I later talked to believed me that the pilot would enga
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by avian 8y ago
Right. I forgot to mention that we also used to be able to resize the browser to the width we personally found comfortable for reading. I guess that's something reader modes still have to rediscover.
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by avian 8y ago
Funny how these things go in circles. I remember the time where many webpages were unstyled, letting you freely choose the font, size, colors, etc. in browser preferences. But that was considered ugly and non-user friendly. Now with various
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by avian 8y ago
I'm happy they don't do that. I have my browser set to delete cookies. For many websites that means that I have to click through multiple such "one-time on next visit" banners/popups/whatever each time I visit
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by avian 8y ago
I’ve seen this behavior in parts of Europe where offending other people in traffic is much less frowned-upon than in England. I think it’s just the case of everyone assuming that someone else has pressed the button.
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by avian 8y ago
I've been using Borg (and it's predecessor, Attic), for a while now and I'm very happy with it. Perhaps my only complaint would be that at one time they changed the hashing function which exploded the size of the repo for a w
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by avian 8y ago
I wonder how carbon dating works in this case. My understanding is that the dating method depends on the organism interacting with the carbon in the atmosphere during its lifetime (where carbon-14 is produced by cosmic rays). The interactio
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by avian 8y ago
As I understand the article, nothing more complex than bacteria was alive in the retrieved samples. It is unclear how recently the animals mentioned in the title died.
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by avian 8y ago
I started with Hack on DOS and later graphic versions of NetHack also never appealed to me. The biggest drawback was recognizing all the different monsters. With ASCII it's quite clear what letters you must fear the most. I played for
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by avian 8y ago
Unidecode maintainer here. I really need to add some commentary to that "Bei Jing" example in the README. Unidecode doesn't do language-specific transliteration and really works best for user-invisible things, like database i
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by avian 8y ago
I didn't have any contact with the maintainers, but I found node-RED pretty reliable. It was nice to work with, even though I'm not a big fan of Javascript and Node ecosystems. The third-party blocks from their web library did ten
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by avian 8y ago
Just a warning for anyone wanting to try it: make sure to set up authentication first thing. Last time I checked, this was not obviously mentioned anywhere in the "Getting started" tutorial. https://nodered.org/doc
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by avian 8y ago
Yes, but network topology is orthogonal to the type of cable used. We could have just as well used coax for modern switched connections.
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by avian 8y ago
Cost and simplicity of installation. Twisted pairs and crimp-on RJ connectors were already widespread in telecom due to POTS. If not for anything else, they were cheap and their reliability well understood due to economies of scale. On the
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by avian 8y ago
From the article: > The rapidly moving magnetic field of the Magsail, seen in the frame of the beam as an electric field, ionizes the incoming neutral beam particles. Nordley and Crowl discuss on-board lasers to ionize the incoming beam,
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by avian 8y ago
Yes, for me physical notebooks are the best solution as well. A notebook and a pen goes everywhere with me (e.g. I don't leave it in the office). It's not that inconvenient. No battery to keep charged, worrying about breaking the
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by avian 8y ago
> if what you claim was indeed true we wouldn't be using it Not saying this is the case here, but cargo culting does exist in tech, so this is quite a weak argument in my opinion.
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by avian 8y ago
The point I was trying to make was that the parent comment completely missed the point. Is the hand-written text really intended for people to read? Why is there a voice-over then? Or a link to a plain-ASCII version of the content in the bo
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by avian 8y ago
I wonder, do you go to an art gallery and complain that paintings don't adhere to the Material design? This is a work of art. It's supposed to be playful and colorful and a bit crude. The message would be quite different if it wou
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by avian 8y ago
> Also, once map(), filter() and reduce() are gone, there aren't a whole lot of places where you really need [lambda]. By far the most common use of lambda for me is the "key" argument for sort() or sorted(). As in somethi
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by avian 8y ago
I find a classical clicky-button mouse to be superior to trackpads (or Apple’s weird no-button mice) and I am extemely happy that not all industry is blindly copying Apple at this point.
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by avian 8y ago
Ok, I'll bite. This is the most straightforward way I can think of to implement the program you described. I think this is more or less what someone would come up with after glancing at the Python tutorial: https://gist.gith

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