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by crote 2mo ago
The usual way of doing backlight is by having the LED underneath the switch and letting the switch transmit the light upwards. Many switches have special cutout positions for this, so the lighting for all the square keys is identical. The o
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by crote 2mo ago
It supports multiple dials, including some flatter ones. It even lets you 3D print your own dial.
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by crote 2mo ago
They are almost certainly the Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile[0], or else an almost 1:1 clone of them. Identical design, identical height and actuation distance. The actuation force is a bit off, but those numbers are more of a suggestion anywa
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by crote 2mo ago
> Hetzner asking for ID is an outlier, probably inspired by German bureaucracy. No, it was 100% their own fraud prevention. They blocked my account almost immediately after registration, and they refused to unblock it even after I sent t
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by crote 2mo ago
I don't disagree with you, but I think there's a bit of a difference between setting up an entire cloud infra to the point that you can phish people with it, and making a basic account on a random website to post some comments.
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by crote 2mo ago
"Hijacking"? No, those clouds providers are happily hosting phishers. They simply believe doing the bare minimum of half-hearted anti-abuse is more profitable than doing proper KYC and risking missing out on a legitimate custome
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by crote 2mo ago
Like this: { 'schema': 'c3ab8ff13720e8ad9047dd39466b3c8974e592c2fa383d4a3960714caef0c4f2', 'data': [] }
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by crote 2mo ago
We still teach primary school children how to do addition, despite the fact that during their working life they'll have access to a calculator virtually all of the time. A decade ago posting your CS assignment on StackOverflow and hand
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by crote 2mo ago
That's because they are using a fixed-height container element with an "overflow: scroll" on it, which is needed to get that little grey bar at the bottom to complete the "page of paper on grey background" feel. Whi
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by crote 2mo ago
It causes annoying flickering when you resize the window, as it is constantly fighting the browser.
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by crote 2mo ago
Of course, but "physical buttons have to match up with website elements" isn't relevant in either case.
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by crote 2mo ago
But those have to be carried in by planes, and the US doesn't have absolute control over the airspace yet, so that means risking crews. Is the general public willing to accept downed planes, captured crews, and botched rescue attempts
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by crote 2mo ago
Don't like a comment? No need to complain, just downvote or flag. > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. https://news.ycombinator.co
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by crote 2mo ago
Measles has a vaccine, ebola isn't found in the wild in the West. The chances of catching either from a random person at a meetup are basically zero. It is no longer a pandemic which is killing tens of thousands of people, but covid is
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by crote 2mo ago
Yes, but actually no. In the embedded space the only other language worth considering is C/C++. The default is that everything is unsafe, so any Rust is already a massive improvement. Add to that the basic language UX and a lot of
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by crote 2mo ago
This is such a painfully obvious solution that it is almost embarrassing that it even needs to be mentioned. The "but sometimes..." crowd is obsessed with the few hours a year when it is dark, windless, battery storage is empty,
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by crote 2mo ago
The main enviromental complaint is in flooding huge areas of land, which is the case with both dams and reservoir walls.
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by crote 2mo ago
Alternatively: the spike in demand will result in a similar spike in production capacity, leading to overall lower prices due to better economies of scale. Battery costs have declined by 99% in three decades. Solar isn't much different
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by crote 2mo ago
> we're not sure we could win in a war against China The USA couldn't even win a war against Afghanistan - which had basically no army and is the second-poorest country in the world. It couldn't win in Iraq, Niger, Yemen
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by crote 2mo ago
> I don't think anywhere has population-wide genetic databases and I struggle to see how it would be compatible with GDPR? Because the GDPR is only concerned with data collection not explicitly required by law. If a government passe
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by crote 2mo ago
> well within a human lifetime from today You can just say "at this very moment".
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by crote 2mo ago
That is a coincidental match, though! It's the risk of a false positive when you compare exactly two samples. The problem is that we're proposing a DNA database , so you're now comparing 1 sample found at a crime scene w
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by crote 3mo ago
And doing "only alcohol" vs "alcohol plus energy drink" research is quite misleading: college kids are using it to mask the taste of alcohol, so it is basically a certainty that they'll drink more alcohol and drin
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by crote 3mo ago
My favorite Larry Ellison story is "Do Not Anthropomorphize The Lawnmower": https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=2309
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by crote 3mo ago
Is it just me, or is "cost plus drugs" a horrible name? I know they probably intend it as "[Cost-plus] drugs", but I can't help but read it as "I'll do the job for you for the material cost, plus some dr
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by crote 3mo ago
I disagree. The Neon Ramen example look really cool at first glance, but if you spend more than a second or 5 looking at it you keep finding visual glitches, inconsistent design, and elements which don't belong. It's nice for a
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by crote 3mo ago
Easy: it was going to be a (mostly) closed competition. Competition gets boring real fast when it is always the same handful of teams. When there are no real consequences to losing, winning becomes meaningless. Bayern v Chelsea matches st
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by crote 3mo ago
Validating existence should already be trivial: virtually all journal already have publicly-available indices which contain at least author information and an abstract. Combine that with DOI citations and you're basically done - even
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by crote 3mo ago
Your device seems to be an off-the-shelf Raspberry Pi running custom software. Have you considered making the platform available in a BYOD form, either for fulltime use or for evaluation?
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by crote 3mo ago
It reduces the value of their ads. Let's say you are an ad buyer. Previously 1M clicks resulted in 1000 sales, now 2M clicks result in the same 1000 sales. If you previously paid $1000 for 1M clicks, you paid $1/sale. If they are

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