bambax

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by bambax 4y ago
I'm very curious about this. I'm starting to develop an irrational hatred of all things AI which obviously clouds my judgement, so I'm not sure if I see it failing because I want it to fail so much, or because it actually can
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by bambax 4y ago
Not exactly relevant for hi-def pro photography, but if you're struggling to scan paper photos, and you can't find a proper scanner, a hybrid solution that kind of works is to take a low-res scan (using any tech, even a phone) an
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by bambax 4y ago
That's exactly what I think. It used to be an unpopular opinion on HN (as of a couple of weeks ago?) but it's changing fast, apparently.
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by bambax 4y ago
> Now if my washing machine had a web server built in and I could log into it to see the status of the machine (spin cycle, rinse, finished 22 minutes ago) I would like that. How big is your house? And why do you need to know when the
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by bambax 4y ago
I have Bosch and Siemens appliances and they are quite repairable? I fix some of the things myself and for some others I call a technician, and usually the fix is simple and involves replacing a moderate number of parts.
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by bambax 4y ago
To elaborate on your example, if the last digit cast out nines from the previous two digits, valid numbers are 101 (1+0=1), 112, 123, 134, 145, 156, 167, 178, 189, 191 (1+9=10, 1+0=1), 202. So for example 102 is NOT a valid number — it does
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by bambax 4y ago
> I read, and comprehended the article, did you? > From the HN guidelines [1]: "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article." Is this supposed to be funny or ironic? I find it's neither.
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by bambax 4y ago
You can hide them though.
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by bambax 4y ago
I too only use Reddit via old.reddit.com; if it was ever discontinued I would stop using it... but I don't think I would miss it much.
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by bambax 4y ago
I never tried those but it seems they kind of work, yes? But some people seem to dislike them a lot.
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by bambax 4y ago
Wow. Where and when was this?
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by bambax 4y ago
That's untrue. You (maybe) choose to start smoking, but once you have started, choice is entirely taken away from you. Incidentally, that's precisely what helped me quit (a long time ago): I realized I was a slave to the cigaret
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by bambax 4y ago
I don't think an accident ever occurred because of smoking in the cabin? (Possibly one because of smoking in the lavatory, and I'm not even sure). For smokers, going 4, 6 or 9 hours without smoking is just unthinkable; I know it w
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by bambax 4y ago
In France in the 80s and 90s there was no such thing as a non-smoking section in restaurants. You could smoke anywhere, everywhere, anytime, all of the time. In high school our teachers would smoke, not in class but in the corridor leading
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by bambax 4y ago
>> You can win by getting every contract reviewed, or by just signing them blindly > could you elaborate on that? not sure i understand Not the OP, but what I think they mean is that the time or money spent to review contracts just
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by bambax 4y ago
I don't meditate but I have learned to control and suppress hiccups and there may be a connection. The way I do it is still very relaxed and focus on a point that is somewhere in front of my forehead, and have very regular, simple brea
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by bambax 4y ago
> There is no such relief in the story I have not yet read the story but if the human is recreated every time from the same immutable data, and doesn't have any recollection of other experiences, then each new instance is pretty m
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by bambax 4y ago
I never pick up the phone if the caller isn't already in my contacts. They can leave a message and I may call back, or not. But the risk of being caught into a stupid sales call for a new energy supplier or some such is just too great.
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by bambax 4y ago
> before LinkedIn existed It's surprisingly easy to make up a LinkedIn profile. I have one that has over 50 connections. Many sales people accept connections requests, and some non-sales people do as well. It just goes on from the
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by bambax 4y ago
Some anecdotes about Diogenes (which may or may not be true, of course, but they quite fit the character): Aristotle famously described man as a "featherless biped". Diogenes carried a plucked chicken around, calling it "a ma
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by bambax 4y ago
This is nice. I think it has appeared before on HN. A nitpick is that the piano keys are drawn incorrectly; on a real piano the black keys are not centered between the white keys (most important), and they are also wider and longer.
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by bambax 4y ago
Yeah, I tend to agree. I have built a couple of extensions. It's not fun. The review process, both on Chrome and on Firefox, is long and incredibly annoying. (For example, including minified versions of popular libraries like Lodash ge
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by bambax 4y ago
TFA is a little pompous and purports to give advice nobody asked for. The date selector at the beginning uses the super weird American format of month/day/year that nobody else uses. And, to the best of my knowledge, there is no &
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by bambax 4y ago
> NOTAMs (Notice to Air Missions) OT, but didn't NOTAM use to mean Notice to Airmen? It's still that on the ICAO website: https://www.icao.int/safety/istars/pages/notams.aspx Did it change, or
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by bambax 4y ago
> YAML, as I see it, is trying to be to XML configurations what Markdown is to HTML Yes, that's probably a good analogy. The big difference though is that if some Markdown fails to parse, nothing really bad happens, while a YAML f
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by bambax 4y ago
Namespacing is the opposite of noise: it lets different domains coexist with no possible confusion about which is which. But experience has taught me that trying to explain why XML is great and simple to read and write for humans, to someon
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by bambax 4y ago
Me too!
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by bambax 4y ago
I never could understand the hate XML got, but I'm having a bit of schadenfreude seeing what people suffer through with its replacements. An XML document with a well-thought-out domain-specific DTD would solve all these problems; inste
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by bambax 4y ago
Ah thanks, that explains it! So it makes for quite a useless browser until and if they do.
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by bambax 4y ago
No, but I think I must be doing something wrong, because no form or input field of any kind is ever displayed on any website. I tried the simplest form imaginable on localhost and it didn't work either. Edit: as ketzu points out ( http

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