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by cbhl 6y ago
I remember my dad had loads of double-density (800 KB) disks for his Mac LC in '92 -- we kept the cases with the disks well into the late 90s (long enough for me to find them and try inserting them into a Windows 95 machine at the age
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by cbhl 6y ago
Oh, nice! I was thinking that this looked familiar; looks like DeOldify was submitted back in Nov 2018 (and the author left comments on HN!). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18363870
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by cbhl 6y ago
Apps work great if you are a repeat customer; I think Starbucks is best-in-class for this because it combines payments, rewards, and "predictive" ("bonus stars", and an obviously-history-driven one-tap reordering). The l
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by cbhl 6y ago
It might be nice for someone to combine one of these with a recoloring model. I remember initially being surprised when my parents told me that "the past was in color; just the photos were in black and white". Apparently, color fi
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by cbhl 6y ago
Sure, if you are in the developed world and have access to traditional or online banks, and a relatively stable local currency. Then there's, like, the other 4+ billion people in the world.
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by cbhl 6y ago
If I'm reading the settlement correctly, Bitfinex will now have even less USD to back Tethers, since they'll have to wire an $18,500,000 transfer to the State of New York.
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by cbhl 6y ago
If there's one thing that always surprises me about the internet, it's that vertical scaling (bigger/faster machines, as opposed to horizontal scaling) can take a well-written service to "Internet Scale".
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by cbhl 6y ago
The MIT license was written in the late 1980s. It was typical for software to be distributed in physical media (floppy disks, and, later, CD-ROMs) through brick-and-mortar retail stores. It was not uncommon for someone to sell physical medi
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by cbhl 6y ago
I apologize if I misunderstood. Isn't this a direct listing? At what point do retail investors get to participate in an auction?
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by cbhl 6y ago
If the person has only 18000 though (300 at 60) then if they put in 100 at $100, they'll only be able to buy 133 at 60. I would still enter two bids; it's just a matter of adjusting how many at each level.
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by cbhl 6y ago
Wikipedia says the 2000-01 California energy crisis was caused by Enron. I believe it will take years of engineering-driven investment (upgrade lines; trim trees; clear flammables from the transmission corridors) to make power reliable in C
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by cbhl 6y ago
This looks comparable to other monthly wine subscriptions. For example, Bright Cellars' subscription was $80+S+H+tax for 4 bottles a month, with regular upsell emails for a 6-pack or 12-pack or a box of cheese. It looks like American A
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by cbhl 6y ago
If you're trying to drive 4K, I would look at the power of the thin client, and maybe try putting a graphics card there, rather than in the server. I'd also check your choice of RDP client -- are you using the official Microsoft c
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by cbhl 6y ago
You should also be able to find it on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/SPINSpringer1995
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by cbhl 6y ago
To an extent, yes -- the current infrastructure is already over-provisioned by a factor of 2. (Each charger has two ports; if one car is plugged in it goes at full speed, if both are plugged in they get half. Each station has 4 parking spot
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by cbhl 6y ago
$dayjob does provide shared charging infrastructure, and discovered there wasn't enough amperage going to the office park to run all of the chargers it does have at full speed. (Each charger can charge one car at full speed, but if bot
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by cbhl 6y ago
NewTek NDI has both Android and iOS apps, and plugins exist to use it with the OBS Virtual Cam. They don't have the greatest open source record though (ffmpeg removed integration after they were found to be violating license terms).
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by cbhl 6y ago
I have found this technique especially helpful in the WFH context created by the pandemic. I also found it helpful to create a pretext for the recurring meetings -- like a "book club" -- even if the week-to-week interactions don&#
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by cbhl 6y ago
I wonder if someone still has a copy of the Tucows CD-ROMs from those days? (Since most folks were still on dial-up and everything.)
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by cbhl 6y ago
I wonder what the calculus was on the Microsoft side of the equation. "It'd take more than 10-SWE-years to build a clone, so we should take his offer"?
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by cbhl 6y ago
Do folks typically turn on journaling at the filesystem layer when running a database? The database itself contains journaling, so one might choose to run with data=writeback or even directly against the block device if they were concerned
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by cbhl 6y ago
It looks like "run-only" is a term-of-the-art in AppleScript, since that label appears on the UI that generates such binaries.
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by cbhl 6y ago
Asahi is for running Linux on M1 bare metal, no? Also super early stage, IIRC.
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by cbhl 6y ago
I actually think those are the cases where they do have an agreement with a restaurant owner. Usually it's a made-up restaurant name for marketing, since the concrete implementation is a different restaurant's kitchen or a ghost
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by cbhl 6y ago
> Producing vast amounts before they have been tested at all would have been costly when they had to throw them out. I'm under the impression that's precisely what the world governments did? There were bar charts going around s
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by cbhl 6y ago
I think the sweet spot is machine-assisted translation. If you can get the output to be 90-95% correct, you can then display the raw and the machine output side-by-side, and have a human make corrections inline. Instead of a team of four wo
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by cbhl 6y ago
If you do two views 90 degrees apart, that limits your FOV to one side of the tree, right? (You can't see the back side?)
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by cbhl 6y ago
There aren't super technical burdens to speech synthesis in games; for example, Jackbox Party Pack 7 runs just fine on the Switch and contains a speech synthesis engine for "Blather Round". I imagine it's mostly a licens
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by cbhl 6y ago
Getting a wired connection above 1 Gbps seems non-trivial -- there are products that do 2.5 Gbps, and other products that do 10 Gbps. It seems like you'd have to pick one or the other and hope the rest of the world standardizes on the
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by cbhl 6y ago
It would be great if you could add an audio/video camera picker before joining the call, for folks who have multiple (e.g. USB sound bar, bluetooth headset, wired mic, OBS virtual cam) and want to make sure they look presentable before

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