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by ddalex 6y ago
One should not ever sell Bitcoin, because it's a deflationary coin. Circulating Bitcoin is just lowering its value.
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by ddalex 6y ago
It had to be cancelled because the extensive (and expensive!) sets burned :( and it wouldn't be cost effective to recreate them...
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by ddalex 6y ago
> the only legal way to actually play Widevine-protected content is to license Widevine or re-implement a Widevine-compatible plugin outside the US where DMCA doesn't apply of course, say goodbye to ever setting foot on US soil aga
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by ddalex 6y ago
you can't make a good omlette without breaking a few eggs... Harari's books are decent entertrainment and popular science, nobody pretends them to be Nature-worthy articles
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by ddalex 6y ago
I'm definitely grateful to my parents for shelling out (after ~1 y of begging) for the first computer, an ZX clone; then for a 386 ! I think starting on a ZX was a blessing and a curse at the same time :) I shaped my career, but I cont
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by ddalex 6y ago
Thanks for pointing these out! What I'm looking for is Lightroom-album style tagging (keyword and star-rating) that I can apply to photos manually - I dont' have my archive tagged in anywhere, and I need to do that somewhere I&#x2
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by ddalex 6y ago
The problem with this thing is that it doesn't work. So having played with this for several hours today * installation was ok, but I had to reach out to the discord channel to be able to configure it properly * started to index the pho
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by ddalex 6y ago
absolutely; but they can't pretend to be X at all
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by ddalex 6y ago
that's actually illegal in the EU
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by ddalex 6y ago
My personal photo archive is 100k+ I'll test this out and report back.
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by ddalex 6y ago
The problem is that it's not easy to determine who is vulnerable. I have a 39 yo former colleague who passed away due to the coronavirus, previously in peak athletic form with no known health problems. How would you know who to isolate
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by ddalex 6y ago
Portability was a long desired attribute of computer software up until it turns out that it doesn't matter at all. When software was deployed on floppy disks and there were 10k architectures going around, portability was critical to ex
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by ddalex 6y ago
Thank you - definitely I'm in the second category. Will take a look at PhotoStructure!
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Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
7 points by ddalex 6y ago|3 comments
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by ddalex 6y ago
since sway and i3 are pretty much interoperable, I see no problems there.
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by ddalex 6y ago
Military have been doing the belly flop for years https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9vljzfywJI
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by ddalex 6y ago
not OP, but currently a manager at Google (full disclosure, opinions are my own, company is not involved, etc) I fully expect that everybody at Google will create the designs for the problems they own, get the designs through peer review, w
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by ddalex 6y ago
During my time at Intel I've only seen once the "badge on the table" and the manager took the badge without hesitation. I guess it only works if you have a good enough reputation that people actually want to you to stick arou
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by ddalex 6y ago
a container, with all the things that this implies - no direct network hardware access, for example
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by ddalex 6y ago
All comments are written by neural networks,in the end.
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by ddalex 6y ago
> Simple unwillingness to accept a direct competitor has already beaten their ass to market and mindshare? I have not seen any shred of competition suggestion here. But even if there is competition, that should be encouraged - competitio
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by ddalex 6y ago
That was an excuse, not a trigger for war. War was desired by all parties - at least in the beginning. People celebrated when war started - look up archive photos and movies. Everybody thought that they'll have a nice fight, down a bee
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by ddalex 6y ago
that's why we need to stop treating phone numbers as personal identifiers... nobody in the world would dream of using IPv6 addresses as personal identifiers to this point you (everybody, really) should have a burner phone number
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by ddalex 6y ago
If the device can work without that ID (which Apple admits it can, since they say they never READ it), then obviously it's not essential
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by ddalex 6y ago
The consent MUST be received before storing cookies. As Apple stores the cookie without consent, they break the law, even if the cookie is never read by anybody without consent.
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by ddalex 6y ago
More like Window Overflow, amirite?
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by ddalex 6y ago
> Very embarrassing for me at the time it shouldn't be, it should be a badge of honor of some sorts - it points to somebody reading to expand their knowledge that is not available in oral form around them, so kudos to them !
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by ddalex 6y ago
Put together one thousand of the most fit young people on the planet, what do you expect to happen ? :)
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by ddalex 6y ago
Let's not forget that Otzi also killed at least two individuals before his death (one of the arrow heads has traces of two different types of human blood, and he managed to retrieve his arrow both times)
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by ddalex 6y ago
I've been told that every vote matters

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