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by avian 4y ago
> the fact that adding “artstation” to the end of your phrase automatically makes the output much better… It's like saying "steal from artists, but only the good ones"
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by avian 4y ago
I love this contrast between DALL-E and Copilot threads on HN. It's awesome until it's your copyright that goes out the way. In the days of these massive AI harvesting projects publishing anything on the web feels like just feedin
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by avian 4y ago
> To academicians, the journals are more like "interesting lines of research" rather than "settled results". That may be true around the water cooler. Try publishing any result that goes against a peer-reviewed paper
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by avian 4y ago
I'm an electrical engineer and I just spend the whole day yesterday reworking some factory-made Sn/Cu/Ag boards in the lab. What kind of parts are you soldering? Thru-hole parts are easy. Surface-mount parts can go quickly fr
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by avian 4y ago
One interesting thing is they used a lead-free bismuth-based solder. I was not aware that this is a thing. Apparently it has some history of use in IBM and Motorola [1] for soldering sensitive parts in mainframes. A quick search shows it&#x
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by avian 4y ago
> I wonder what became of the cluster once it was decommissioned? Military surplus PS3s anyone? If it touched at any time any kind of confidential data or algorithms it was probably shredded into tiny pieces.
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by avian 4y ago
It's not just discussions about programming languages. All kinds of HN posts about security vulnerabilities commonly get sidetracked by very predictable "if only it would be written in Rust" threads.
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by avian 4y ago
Shouldn't that be Reduction weasel? The other thing was called Ice weasel instead of Fire fox.
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by avian 4y ago
In theory the domain you set the "From:" field to will have DMARC, DKIM and SPF set up and in theory the recipient that implements those protocols will discard your mail as sent from an unauthorized server.
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by avian 4y ago
No need to click the link, there aren't any images yet.
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by avian 4y ago
> in the literal middle of the 2 year binding contract. I don't know about Croatia, but usually such a change in service allows you to break the contract on your end without any penalty (as in, end subscription right there and not p
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by avian 4y ago
I think the joke here is that starting vim with an empty buffer used to display a message about donating to some charity organization.
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by avian 4y ago
I watched a few of their playthroughs and I sometimes see things in maps that appear impossible in the original Doom engine. I'm often wondering if those are some clever trick in the map or if the map is running on some newer variant o
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by avian 4y ago
A quick search on the supplier page I happen to have open right now puts the cheapest Micro B connector in stock at around $0.20 and the cheapest C at around $0.40 (both at factory MoQ). So the price difference still appears to be around x2
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by avian 4y ago
> Linux kernel also has (or had?) code to check for and also avoid a HLT instruction that doesn't work I wonder how this works. How do you safely check for an instruction that "locks ups unrecoverably" on some hardware? Wi
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by avian 4y ago
> This could be a big opportunity to create a search engine which avoids most of the SEO-spam As soon as it's worthwhile, there will be RSS spam targeting search engines. Many companies already have near zero-useful-content blogs be
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by avian 4y ago
Are these real historical peer reviews, or is this fiction? To me, the peer reviews look like something you might get from a reviewer today, but I'm certain the Einstein's performance review linked on the very top is fiction.
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by avian 4y ago
Yeah. Absolutely unreadable. The site doesn't even override the scrolling in Javascript! Not to mention there's not a single pop-up on that site. Now, how I am supposed to know that my privacy is important to them?
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by avian 4y ago
I have a Hoover washing machine with touch buttons. I can't count the number of times I activated something on it unintentionally by brushing against it. It seems the designers were aware of this problem, because it has a key lock feat
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by avian 4y ago
> Note that Mozilla has nothing to do with Thunderbird anymore. Mozilla the non-profit owns the for-profit corp who owns Thunderbird. In their own words from the footer of https://www.thunderbird.net : > Thunderbird is now
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by avian 4y ago
> here were two red and two green lamps. These are a go-no/go set for parametric failures such as continuity and leakage, and a second pair of Red/Green lamps for functional failures. Interesting idea to have separate parametri
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by avian 4y ago
Hah, good tip. I've been using Sox for ages and it never occurred to me that it can generate noise as well.
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by avian 4y ago
> Someone had to translate GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE into mMaxTextureSize. I fail to see how the fact that the Latin alphabet has upper and lower case is to blame for this. This is more about the coding standards the author has to abide to tha
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by avian 4y ago
Is there any data on the longevity of the tube when ran continuously? I have a mightyohm kit, but I decided against building a monitor device around it because I've heard rumors that the tube quickly degrades if ran 24/7. I don&#x
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by avian 4y ago
Isn't "Mastodon for 3D objects" just a personal website that hosts .stl files? Last time I did a project that included 3D printed parts, I just attached models to a blog post. I understand that not having models in a centrali
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by avian 4y ago
Probably this one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31245118
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by avian 4y ago
The Huygens Optics channel has a fascinating video abut a photon sieve created using a home-made litography setup: https://youtu.be/TshYfYIxR9E
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by avian 5y ago
Interesting. I was not aware of this document. Thanks for the link! The recommendation against using multiple connectors on a single board seems to be largely ignored in the wild though. I've seen similar products that use two or even
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by avian 5y ago
Frustrating that they keep releasing new models when even existing models continue to be unobtainable through normal supply channels. That said, I can understand why they went back to the old form factor. The new high-density connectors req
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by avian 5y ago
> Why isn't everything perfect already? Because it takes time... The corollary of this is that some technology getting close to perfect means it's several years old, obsolete and ready to be thrown away to make place for a shin

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