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by avian 9y ago
On Imgur: https://i.imgur.com/GoMXGWm.gifv
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by avian 9y ago
Interesting how none of the workers in the video use gloves to handle cels and glass plates. I would be afraid of leaving visible fingerprints.
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by avian 9y ago
> it's still possible for a user to open arbitrary file for writing with root privileges, which is bad. It appears that way at first, but: O_WRONLY mode will not create a new file, so you can't make files as root. If you open a
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by avian 9y ago
Apart from confirming the vulnerability, that page doesn't really give any technical info. Does anyone have any details on the problem? It's such a simple program that I'm fascinated by the fact that it has a security vulnera
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by avian 9y ago
Definitely not all people. I have an 11 year old account with no copyright or community guidelines strikes. YouTube says "Your account isn't eligible at this time" under "Custom thumbnails". As far as I know, it w
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by avian 9y ago
> I don't know how YouTube deals with generating a representative preview image After uploading a video, YouTube will present you with 3 choices for the thumbnail. These are single frames, chosen with some randomness from the video
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by avian 9y ago
> Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait. Don't editorialize. Above from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I've seen this rule commonly applied to HN submissions. To m
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by avian 9y ago
Can a mod change the click-bait title of this submission to the actual title of the linked page? "Notice to stakeholders: withdrawal of the United Kingdom and EU rules on .eu domain names"
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by avian 9y ago
Did you stop to think that perhaps GIMP's developers are in fact its users? I'm an engineer and I draw as a hobby. I don't mind developer-oriented features in my drawing program. If I wanted Photoshop, I would be using that.
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by avian 9y ago
I've recently taken up drawing and animation as a hobby. I found Gimp to be perfect for what I need. It has good support for my drawing tablet. I didn't find it hard to use at all and I see the fact that the interface isn't c
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by avian 9y ago
Forks of a private repo can't be made public through the GitHub web interface.
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by avian 9y ago
> I believe the striking voltage varies with incident illumination That is the principle behind this entry for the flashing light prize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8VJft5Xq5g
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by avian 9y ago
Mars colony helps with asteroid impacts. For interstellar events, like gamma ray bursts, distance between Earth and Mars makes no difference.
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by avian 9y ago
I really hope Amazon will publish a post-mortem for this bug.
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by avian 9y ago
> Some people just seem to treat it as a bigger like button. But isn't that exactly what it is? The line between retweet and like is pretty blurry with the algorithmic timeline. I often see tweets that were merely liked by someone I
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by avian 9y ago
I would think that getting Python up and running is a valuable lesson.
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by avian 9y ago
They are a "hm, that's interesting" kind of a signal. They simply mean that a simplistic chemical view of the atmosphere does not explain the observation. It could mean the presence of life, or it could mean some other unknow
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by avian 9y ago
I would never be comfortable having an exposed, multi-watt laser in my living room. One failure of the (most likely software) safety device and it will burn a new blind spot on your retina in a fraction of a second. Having had a brief worki
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by avian 9y ago
Hayabusa was an active probe that had working thrusters capable of changing its orbit. Elon Musk’s car is an inert hunk of plastic and metal at this point, without as much as a communication link back to Earth.
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by avian 9y ago
Pioneer 10 and 11 probes left the solar system as well. I think it’s also likely that all the stuff left on the moon might be longer lived than a car shooting randomly around the solar system.
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by avian 9y ago
jsonmerge is heavily based on JSON Schema. https://github.com/avian2/jsonmerge
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by avian 9y ago
Isn't the whole point of the post that it wasn't a hardware independent jump table?
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by avian 9y ago
“Scientific evidence appears lacking.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel_soap
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by avian 9y ago
Do you have any link with more information on that?
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by avian 9y ago
> Nadlinger’s grand prize photo shows an atom as a speck of light between two metal electrodes placed about 2mm (0.078in) apart. From https://petapixel.com/2018/02/12/picture-single-atom-wins-sc...
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by avian 9y ago
I have a similar sentiment towards Thunderbird. Every once in a while I try using other Linux desktop clients but I always go back to Thunderbird. Feature-wise I don't miss anything. My biggest problem are various long-standing bugs an
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by avian 9y ago
> There is not a really good, open source, Email client on mobile. I know that mobile is more than Android, but I find K-9 mail to be a really good, open source, mobile mail client. https://k9mail.github.io/
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by avian 9y ago
My take-away from the article is actually "encryption as a solution to protocol ossification". If some data (headers, etc.) is available as clear-text, there will be routers that act on it and possibly misbehave or block traffic
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by avian 9y ago
First thing I usually do on a new Linux system is dial down colors in “ls”. Default colors are ridicuously distacting and most don’t convey any new information. I like directories and symlinks highlighted. But the fact that a file is a .jpg
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by avian 9y ago
Several years ago I made jsonmerge, a Python library for merging standard JSON structures. The rules for resolving conflicts are encoded in a standard JSON schema document that is extended with some (non-standard) keywords. https:/&#x

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