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by ccooffee 3y ago
This was a really disappointing video. It is a 30 minute infomercial for a book that constantly says "what if <x>? well, you'll have to read the book".
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by ccooffee 3y ago
"The Last Question" by Asimov is a classic scifi short story that parallels this comment (presumably intentionally). The story is a short read and available for free on archive.org[0]. [0] https://archive.org/detai
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by ccooffee 3y ago
The "rolling shutter" graphic in this article is great and I appreciate the details provided. > Activating a rolling shutter can upsample the sampling rate to collect roughly 60,000 measurements per second. By completely fillin
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> Also in terms of accessibility, so long as they're doing CSS-only changes, and the bar is sized compliant and has proper focus states, assistive technology won't care. Eh, it depends on your audience. My father has very poor
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> If you believe that there is never a need for law enforcement decisions to be made that cannot be revealed to the accused party, then that is a separate (and in my opinion, impractical/unreal) point. Well, uhh, thanks for inviting
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by ccooffee 3y ago
If your goal is to acquire an unreleased video game, they may be a very trustworthy person. But probably not the type of trustworthy you want to manage a store. The "steal from your employer" angle isn't so great, but "w
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> Years from now, the extra few days he got to play won't matter at all. While I agree in general with the sentiment that time is fungible, I think the story about getting a job to steal a video game might make the whole experience
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Someone at Reddit has since restored the linked post[0]. I think the content is unchanged, but it may have been subtly edited while it was "[removed]". [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments&#x2F
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> Finally, to ensure that all regulatory requirements are met in the handling of mature content, we will be limiting access to sexually explicit content for third-party apps starting on July 5, 2023, except for moderation needs. Reddit r
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> 50 million requests costs $12,000 I've never worked on a web platform like Reddit, nor with any per-request priced APIs. Reddit's charge of $0.00024 per request still looks like it is _significantly_ above what their own cost
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by ccooffee 3y ago
No idea. I'm not offering solutions, merely complaints that the current approach of "answer a question that is hard for computers and easy for humans" removes disabled people from many places on the internet.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I think cases like this are outside the scope of the Corruption Perceptions Index. At least, your wikipedia link describes it as: (*emphasis* mine) > The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) is an index which ranks countries "by their
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> By late 2019, Lorimer and Justin Moore, then the head of engineering, were ready to form a team to “do the impossible” — create a home-grown mapping system. THE IMPOSSIBLE: A "home-grown" mapping system built on OpenStreetMap
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I'm not sure I agree that it is "a bad thing". The current internet culture seems quite happy to slap captchas all over the place. When they first rolled out, captchas were predominantly a barrier for "write access"
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Good, I can't wait for the CAPTCHA to go away. They're accessibility nightmares _by design_.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Samsung has recently been caught replacing the moon in pictures with a reference image. Discussed on HN less than 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35107601
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by ccooffee 3y ago
From the study[0][1-pdf], the exercise routine was walking on a treadmill with adjustable gradient. The objective was to keep participants in the 50-60% heart rate range for 30 minutes, which was done by altering the gradient and speed. Inc
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> our dummy ancestors were around 50 million years ago While true, this vague statement may be misinterpreted by readers. Per Wikipedia[0], about 55 million years ago is the first fossil evidence of any apes. The 'homo' genus,
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by ccooffee 3y ago
SCOTUS has repeatedly considered the "chilling effect" of government policies to be sufficient to strike down government policies. Here's a long article from MTSU about the history of the "chilling effect" on First
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Very fair point. I've never seen it used, but SignWriting is already in the Unicode standard[0] (at U+1D800 - U+1DAAF). I suspect Meta/Facebook doesn't have a lot of content to work off of. I've only been able to find co
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. This is a well-written and well-presented account of how mass-produced woodprint paintings show noticeable change between early- and later-printings.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
American Sign Language, ISO-693-3 code 'ase', does not have a formal written or spoken grammar. Obviously, the list of MMS supported languages[0] does not include support for 'ase' because MMS is a tool for spoken langua
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> I forget the # and am not willing to look it up right now. I gotchu. 1944's "UTILIZATION OF WATERS OF THE COLORADO AND TIJUANA RIVERS AND OF THE RIO GRANDE" treaty between the US and Mexico established the "Internat
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by ccooffee 3y ago
This makes intuitive sense, but isn't an idea I'd thought of before. Are there any resources you'd point to as an intro to terminal/CLI/etc UX (especially any that contrast against GUI instincts)?
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by ccooffee 3y ago
On its own, the information in those private accounts is probably not interesting. I used to use the "few sites get a unique and secret password, but most reuse the same 10 character one" ruleset, but I became worried about how mu
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I worked for a US government contractor. According to US law, any software we sold to the federal government has to make accessibility a primary concern. The company never paid more than lip service to the idea. (The closest we ever got was
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by ccooffee 3y ago
The problem also occurs when searching for any low-ranking results in the iOS store, regardless of getting the exact name correct. A friend released a crossword game, and when searching the exact name of the app, it still comes up as the se
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by ccooffee 3y ago
From the article on PNAS[0]: > Despite the progress in our approach to achieve HC regeneration in the adult cochlea in vitro and in vivo, major challenges remain before potential clinical applications. First, regenerated HCs need to be t
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I disagree. The question, > Has science ever observed speciation via natural selection amongst a sexually reproducing cohort? posits a world where we can iteratively ask-and-answer questions if scientists are paying attention to speciati
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by ccooffee 3y ago
To me, Lyft's entire brand is "not as good as Uber, but not as shitty to drivers as Uber". Maybe they've done something else innovative, but their PR is so vapid that I've never noticed. Your "maybe ok if your

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