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by avian 4y ago
786 days is time spent in the vicinity of the comet. From 6 August 2014 (arrival at comet) to 30 September 2016 (mission end).
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by avian 4y ago
Privately owned top-level domains have existed for almost 10 years now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Expan...
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by avian 4y ago
Yeah, have to protect those professional private designs! Otherwise someone might train their AI on them and take your job.
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by avian 4y ago
Thanks. This looks more like a "how to manage a company" text book. I was looking more for a historical view of these companies. For example, all history books on HP I found focus on their rise and "the miracle" of buil
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by avian 4y ago
Are there any good books that cover what happened with US companies like HP, Compaq, RCA, ... ? How and why they went from producing top-notch professional equipment to selling off their core engineering departments and reduce themselves to
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by avian 4y ago
I don't write much about it these days, but my blog has a number of old posts about Sinclair Spectrum and Galaksija, a Z80-based computer from the 80s that I made a replica of some 15 years ago: https://www.tablix.org/~
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by avian 4y ago
Randall missed a joke there where the Lite universe doesn't come with a full set of fundamental forces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakless_universe Still gave me a good laugh though.
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by avian 4y ago
The table omits the fine print that says that you just get bigger pins with the more expensive plans.
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by avian 4y ago
Maybe someone here can explain the following weird effect: My previous laptop (an HP EliteBook, the exact model escapes me at the moment) had an issue with Linux drivers where it would sometimes crash. When it crashed, the laptop's scr
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by avian 4y ago
> Blacking out [...] unplug the power cable, and plug it back again As someone with a monitor that's prone to blacking out like this (not due to Lunar) and was at one point convinced that the monitor got bricked: the key is waiting
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by avian 4y ago
None of this supports the parent's claim that TV went "from black&white 625x625 to color 300x300", which is just wrong on several levels.
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by avian 4y ago
> Black&White-tv was almost HD, 625x625. Then they added 3Mhz color-carrier in 1966 and it was 300x300 Maybe adding color did decrease the luma bandwidth and hence the horizontal resolution. I'm not sure about that. I think bw s
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by avian 4y ago
> The Needle Point [...] The fine point is prone to breaking The fragile point can be a benefit. When I was taking my first drawing lectures I was constantly reminded that I use a too heavy hand and that I'm fixing the lines on my s
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by avian 4y ago
> The operator claimed they don't run them in the dark I think the following progression of events leads to many of those blindingly bright digital signs at night: Original sign conforms with regulations and comes with a light senso
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by avian 4y ago
If I judge by the examples posted on OpenArt, Dall-e is currently perfectly happy to produce art "by [artist name]". What would they gain by starting to pay commissions? I doubt that will happen unless some legal action forces the
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by avian 4y ago
> she has been able to associate her name and personal identity even with her commercial works Doesn't this just mean that her future former customers will add "in the style of [her name]" to their prompts?
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by avian 4y ago
Here's another spin on this: Imagine you're a software developer. In the near future, your manager wants a feature implemented in your company's app. He throws together a short mail with requirements and sends it to the promp
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by avian 4y ago
> taking a high concept output created by AI artists and touching it up to perfection. When you put it like that, it sounds like a nightmare up side down world. It's not AI that's the tool for enhancing human creativity. It&#x2
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by avian 4y ago
> I could use the headphones on AirPods but not the mic This is still the case. I was just trying to get this to work. You can't use the mic on a Bluetooth headset. There's supposedly a workaround that requires you to install a
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by avian 4y ago
Are the default brushes computationally expensive? I've never got far enough with Krita to play with custom brushes.
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by avian 4y ago
I tried using Krita several times, mostly because of its animation features, to replace my current GIMP + a custom set of animation plugins setup. But it's always unbearably slow on my computer for some reason. By slow I mean lag when
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by avian 4y ago
> ML revolutionized translation a long time ago and the demand and pay for translators went down. ML translation also caused a noticeable drop in the average quality of translated text in my experience. Companies now ship machine-transla
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by avian 4y ago
> No Investment Advice Anyone else surprised by the caliber of the legal disclaimer on the site? I can't decide if that's part of the joke or if this is a serious result of the author consulting a lawyer and coming up with this
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by avian 4y ago
Usually such PyPI packages with malware are typo-squatting other, well-known packages. They count on people making mistakes in their pip command-lines or requirements.txt or whatever. But "secretslib"? It doesn't ring a bell
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by avian 4y ago
There are old copies of the source code floating around. You can study them to figure out how the data is stored. See links in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28155134
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by avian 4y ago
It's not just the Mac app. My local storage for slack.com on Firefox currently takes 1.5 GB. It goes up with time and Slack takes longer and longer to open, so every so often I go to preferences and clear it out.
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by avian 4y ago
They fixed Copilot returning verbatim snippet of Quake source code by just blacklisting a word! How can they still pretend Copilot is not just copyright washing other people's code? https://twitter.com/moyix/status
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by avian 4y ago
I started my PhD in my mid-30s. I was working as engineer support staff at a science institute at the time and was encouraged to enroll in a PhD course. I dropped out of the course and academia all together after 5 years for various reasons
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by avian 4y ago
Bad search that tries hard not to actually show you search results is another one of those dark trends I see everywhere. Have you seen Twitter search lately? The search tab in the app doesn't even have a text field visible by default.
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by avian 4y ago
Trivializing the work of people outside of one's profession while giving more importance to one's own is as old as the human civilization. There are plenty of people cursing software developers right now for pulling six digit sala

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