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by beervirus 5y ago
Will FFMPEG exist in 30 years? Will it still have all the same capabilities it has today? Will it run on modern hardware?
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by beervirus 5y ago
Things change all the time, even if you don’t do anything wrong. Welcome to earth.
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by beervirus 5y ago
How would that work? Every time you create an object, internally it creates one of everything?
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by beervirus 5y ago
Is HEVC really the best option for a long term format that will still be readable in a decade or three? Something more open and standardized seems preferable.
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by beervirus 5y ago
What does any NFT “ownership” mean?
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Ask HN: Is there any way that using pinch-to-zoom could change/add pixels?
16 points by beervirus 5y ago|19 comments
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by beervirus 5y ago
The article maybe just hints at another issue that’s at least as important. Dictionaries are mostly descriptivist rather than prescriptivist. Adding “deplatform” or whatever to the dictionary isn’t a statement about how proper it is as a wo
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by beervirus 5y ago
We’re one big crash away from a return to value investing. This is fun while it lasts though.
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by beervirus 5y ago
I mean I think AGW is obviously a thing. I’m just not so convinced that “the world is burning” or that the direst projections are anything but… theater. And when people take things that were not caused by climate change, point at them and s
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by beervirus 5y ago
“We’re faking the world burning and you’re nitpicking about the fakery…”
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by beervirus 5y ago
It’s what’s trendy to invest in. It makes as much sense as GME and NFTs.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Tesla, on the other hand, screws things up in novel and exciting ways.
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by beervirus 5y ago
When the sea levels rise a significant amount, sure. How much additional coastal erosion does IPCC think we’re getting now, with sea levels up like 4 inches? My point is that there’s no reason to think that the land Tuvalu has lost has any
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by beervirus 5y ago
Yes, the CCP changing the rules is “the free market.”
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by beervirus 5y ago
Your math is off by an order of magnitude. Sea levels are up by more like 0.1 meter since 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
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by beervirus 5y ago
Pure theater. > Kofe said he delivered the video address, scheduled to be aired at COP26 on Tuesday, in a place that used to be dry land, adding that Tuvalu was seeing a lot of coastal erosion. Coastal erosion, not climate change, not ri
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by beervirus 5y ago
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by beervirus 5y ago
The comment you replied to was mine. It was this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29094670 Yes, there was a higher level comment from someone else. But it wasn’t the one you replied to.
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by beervirus 5y ago
I’m guessing you didn’t click like I suggested.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Good explanation, but it kind of buried the lede. The answer is way down at the bottom: > Fission releases the energy of the electromagnetic force when positively charged parts of the nucleus fly away from one another. Fusion releases th
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by beervirus 5y ago
It’s not really about infrastructure like roads and stuff. It’s about “infrastructure.”
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by beervirus 5y ago
Click on your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29096388 Then click parent. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Smugness indeed.
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by beervirus 5y ago
> Helion has a clear path to net electricity by 2024 That seems impossibly ambitious.
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by beervirus 5y ago
The comment you replied to was mine though…
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by beervirus 5y ago
Yeah it’s a real hoplophobe’s dream.
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by beervirus 5y ago
That’s true, but it isn’t a claim I made.
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by beervirus 5y ago
New Jersey has some of the absolute worst gun laws in the country.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Helium diffusion is a good point though. If you’re right at the edge of non-flammability and you lose some helium over time…
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by beervirus 5y ago
Diatomic hydrogen is bigger than helium, less prone to diffusing through a membrane.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Land, maybe. Hoarding toilet paper and beanie babies probably won’t get you great returns.

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