cmroanirgo

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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
... but it's so frustrating to click on some element of the page and then click/swipe back only to find suddenly you're back here on HN. Then, 2nd time around on the page you notice they've redesigned a simple web interf
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
> So they had her sign up for the Screen Actors Guild (everyone who has a line in a film has to be a member) Anyone know why this is? Why a person uttering a line must be part of a guild? Is this a U.S. thing, or international? Also,
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Those "pushing the boundaries" always end up using a similar logic. However, there's always going to be a large segment of society whose rules are based around non financially oriented methodologies, such as: "morals&quo
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
For those interested, the (linked) source article from Phoronix, which shows the code change: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-RT-100x-Improve
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
> ...served from a CDN, and subsequently cached Due to cache partioning in browsers now, this will still be a big issue for all clients. Don't also forget that many clients are in poor internet speed zones. A 2MB "buy in"
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Completely agree. His public work helped me with some 3d game development back in the mid 90's, mainly with geometry and 3d projections. Back then, in the pre-google era there wasn't a lot of places on the web to get good informat
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DNS Response Policy Zones(dnsrpz.info)
1 points by cmroanirgo 4y ago|0 comments
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
In Oz, you can often and easily find rooms in an ordinary motel that has pots and pans, a little 2 element cooktop/oven combo & a sink. They're more expensive to rent of course, but they're very widely available. We also
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
The thing is, there's no gaurantee that google nor microsoft nor apple do anything more. With products like nextcloud, at least you can see exactly what's going on. We already know google, microsoft and apple have unfettered acces
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
In Australia during droughts there are reminders to not throw cigarette butts out the window of cars. Lightning also plays a large role in starting fires, but I also recall, as a child, being told that rubbish (litter) such as bottles and
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
This story reminds me of the man behind the movie "Stand and Deliver" (1988), Jaime Escalante, who in the 80's made his school famous for generating students that passed the Advanced Placement Calculus exams. https:/&#x
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
> Delta passengers can opt in to the experience by scanning their boarding pass once they are through the security checkpoint in Concourse A of DTW’s McNamara Terminal. Customers enrolled in Delta’s biometric digital identity program ne
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Some are real head scratchers too. My favorite, from the first book: "Reflected sound of underground spirits" -> echo gnomes -> economics. An easier one: "Inn sewer ants" -> insurance
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
How have I not heard of this? Doing a quick HN search I see it's been posted multiple times over the years, but with minimal uptake. https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcryptomator.org%2F Perhaps the problem is tha
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Witness 2 gives detailed information, but it's completely unlike the information given by both the victim and the other 2 witnesses. The victim, Witness 1 and 3 present the same story, although Witness 3's is very sparse on detail
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Quantum scientists deliver world’s first integrated circuit at the atomic scale(newsroom.unsw.edu.au)
75 points by cmroanirgo 4y ago|27 comments
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
This is a short video showing a) how to make one b) the kinds of voltages /charge it can store as well as c) make a device to test it. I found it pretty cool. https://youtu.be/1DR-tTU8uIM
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Thanks for this and parent too! I didn't realise that this is precisely what I've been missing in my compositions: I never quite understood that poly aftertouch is actually rare! Anyone know of weighted keys that implement this?
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
It's taken a decade, but it's pretty much moved back to the permission model that j2me had, which iOS and Android deliberately removed & sold as better UX. Seems like the original devs of j2me knew what they were doing - only
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Agree. At this point I'm a little bewildered at what iOS and Android has brought to mobile development that wasn't already in j2me, at least in a preliminary way. At the start of iOS it was "look, pretty icons" and &quo
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
> * the real problem is getting the bloody things out again after 10 years of weathering or other age effects. * Try putting grease on thread as you drive it in. 90% or so of the bolts and coach screws i've removed from hardwood or
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
...and yet because there's only Apple and Google providing hardware that's used by the masses, exactly how is this going to work? If the environment we're using is completely contained (pwned) then how will this not be a drac
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Well, there was this guy a couple of thousand years ago who made some remarks contrary to your point: turning the cheek and loving your neighbor. He also went as far as saying to resolve conflicts before you're put in front of the judg
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Wow. Just No. What an incredibly unbaseless attack. I wish to retain my soul! Research into this topic does not require watching porn, & definitely not disgusting black topics. There are enough victim reports and videos that show how ba
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
The alternative is iOS, a more consistent UI/UX, but you lose out on projects like F-Droid, where you can bypass Google HQ nonsense.
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
It's a pandora's box of horror, if you dare to begin research it. We all need to though, otherwise it won't stop. Here's an Australian Senator talking about a list of top level government people & politicians that ar
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Agree. I would add that even good old, rock solid assembler isn't a straight entry point into controlling the CPU, but is now just an abstraction over µOPs. Abstractions surround us these days, and for each of us, we find differing lev
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
Fantastic! Has this been shared on HN before? > We would come back about 20 ns older compared to her [the wife who stayed behind]. ≥ Or, the other way to look at it (since this is relativity after all), is that she would become 20 ns
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
The article mentioned 100-160ft from the surface, so i'm not sure where the "deep" part mentioned in the headlines comes in. Perhaps their ultimate plan is for deep & this demo didn't try to address the deep part? Th
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by cmroanirgo 4y ago
I don't disagree, but borland c++ and turbo pascal both had excellent debuggers, the latter is still working under the guise of lazarus (but i'm not a fan of the gui). What spoiled me in vc++ was remote debugging, statement comple

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