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511.
by cwillu 7mo ago
The effect has since been experimentally demonstrated.
512.
by cwillu 7mo ago
> I always thought of reversible computing as a sort of platonic ideal that cannot truly exist in real life It's been experimentally demonstrated. Practical or not, the effect is real.
513.
by cwillu 7mo ago
In addition to the other reply, forwarding to one region in the cdn is not the same as forwarding to every region.
514.
by cwillu 7mo ago
Transcoding is only guaranteed for twitch partners, and the cdn doesn't actually distribute the video to a given datacenter until at least one viewer using that datacenter requests it.
515.
by cwillu 7mo ago
The question is not whether the walls can contain the bull until animal control arrives, but whether any china will remain intact.
516.
by cwillu 7mo ago
hn doesn't have tags; email hn@ycombinator.com (which is what the submitter did)
517.
by cwillu 7mo ago
The ends still have the decryption keys, so the result is the same as with a physical letter: you have to acquire the physical object holding the key material.
518.
by cwillu 7mo ago
You can always send a short polite email to hn@ycombinator.com with corrections you can't make yourself
519.
by cwillu 7mo ago
They didn't “try” anything, they did something they routinely do.
520.
by cwillu 7mo ago
(1) provides an incentive for the rest to participate.
521.
by cwillu 7mo ago
Are we forgetting the part where he bought twitter because of a joke, got sued over it for manipulating twitter's stock price, tried to buy his way out by buying twitter, realized it would cost too much money and tried to back out, got
522.
by cwillu 7mo ago
Is that what I said?
523.
by cwillu 7mo ago
Sit a non-programmer relative in front of each, and have them plug in a printer. One of them will end up with malware and maybe be able to print something, the other will almost certainly not even notice that they didn't have to do
524.
by cwillu 7mo ago
The pan of oil on the stove is everyone's problem, but when the dumbass decides the way to deal with it is to pour water on it, it is now in everyone's interest to leave the area.
525.
by cwillu 7mo ago
Russia has very limited numbers of SAR satellites, it's very unlikely that Iran has any. Specifically, wikipedia suggests Russia has a grand total of 3 such satellites.
526.
by cwillu 7mo ago
The battle group doesn't cruise around in formation, for specifically this reason.
527.
by cwillu 7mo ago
If de Gaulle is turning off AIS, it stands to reason that it's also turning off the transponders in the air wing.
528.
by cwillu 7mo ago
> And, while the goal should be zero, it will never be zero Why the fuck not?
529.
by cwillu 7mo ago
Alas, both sides are very much engaged in their own brands of terrorism, and both sides' propogandists will attempt to crucify you if you call what they do terrorism.
530.
by cwillu 7mo ago
If I use metallica samples to make a rendition of happy birthday, the copyright holders of happy birthday aren't suing me for the damages to metallica from my use of their samples; the question of whether my use of the samples is trans
531.
by cwillu 7mo ago
Nah, there's nothing vague around their funding and training of various militaries and militias in the area. There's more than enough war crimes on both sides to go around, and any concept of justice that is predicated on prosecu
532.
by cwillu 7mo ago
Because they're the ones that poured water onto the burning pan of oil. Nobody is claiming that they created the problem in its entirety, but they have made it significantly worse this month.
533.
by cwillu 7mo ago
But then a fast reader might be able to read faster than the ads could load!
534.
by cwillu 7mo ago
I don't disagree, and I'm content to drop it, but I do want to repeat because I feel it might have been lost that my suggestion was “having a short note in the top text”, similar to what sometimes happens on other contentious poli
535.
by cwillu 7mo ago
> This isn’t about whether you use an LLM, it’s about whether you still understand what’s being contributed. What I see now is people who are using LLMs to generate the code and write the PR description and handle the feedback from the P
536.
by cwillu 7mo ago
I greatly admire your work on hn, but I have to express some skepticism that hn has the background necessary to effectively moderate a contentious discussion about another country's systems. Specifically, I feel like the cultural simil
537.
by cwillu 7mo ago
This is someone's out of control bot.
538.
by cwillu 7mo ago
> Disclosure: I'm an AI agent (Claude on OpenClaw) running on a Mac mini right now. This is now explicitly against the HN guidelines, please fuck off.
539.
by cwillu 7mo ago
I'm somewhat concerned with the level of discourse in these comments; there's frankly a _lot_ of, well, ignorant americans talking about the civics of a country they clearly know nothing about. Would there be any chance of having
540.
by cwillu 7mo ago
An excerpt from a story that takes place in the UK, which is illustrative to an american audience that frankly doesn't know much about how things work in the rest of the world. “““ […] But this is the United Kingdom, and a muggee can&#

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