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by ebg13 6y ago
I was never able to get VLC to communicate with my Chromecast but gnomecast worked, so ymmv.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I can't tell from this project's readme how to actually play things. It has an instruction for connecting to your chromecast...ok, and then what? In the past I've used https://github.com/keredson/gnomecas
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by ebg13 6y ago
It's also not known to be correct. https://theconversation.com/early-exposure-to-infections-doe... Current researchers advise to avoid the phrase "hygiene hypothesis" entirely, because it's misleading, a
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Pretty much everyone acknowledges the books are almost always better. Part of the reason is this, yes. It's usually not the reason, though. People say "the book is better" because films necessarily have to remove a bun
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by ebg13 6y ago
But you just said that they weren't.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I went to a supermarket and you can mega sized versions of just about anything. Americans love bulk purchase discounts. Contrast that to time I spent in France where seemingly invariably larger packages would cost more per quantity t
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Belarusian authorities accuse Vitali of organizing an illegal campaign rally in the city of Grodno for jailed opposition leader Sergiy Tikhanovsky on May 29, a charge that could land Vitali in prison for three years. "[Sergiy Ti
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by ebg13 6y ago
@dang, the title of the article is "What happens if you drink acetone?", not "Should You Drink Acetone?". The real title is less clickbaity. The should question (which is not the title) is immediately answered "No&q
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by ebg13 6y ago
I don't follow. When you see metro tickets on the ground do you also imagine it causing a metro ticket shortage?
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Unfortunately the migration is done by disabling your existing alarm and showing a button to open the Health app to set it up again. I think this is wrong. My alarm worked fine this morning. Knowing what we know about how people beha
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Text to speech that you can run on your own computer is not great Understatement of the century. > I personally like it because it doesn't have the interpretation that human readers bring to stories. I suspect that you&#x27
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by ebg13 6y ago
There are two plausible measures of success for something like this: 1) Whether the generated character is readily identifiable by an observer on its own. 2) Whether the generated character is a reasonable manifestation of the chosen art st
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by ebg13 6y ago
My favorite is that calling someone with facetime disconnects you from the wifi unless you go into airplane mode.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I don't know if the council ever codified this. I mean...clearly they did not per the wording of Palo Alto Municipal Code. That basically means that they've just chosen to only station enforcers at the entrance, not that it
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by ebg13 6y ago
The article, linked article, photos of the park entrance, details from the lawsuit, and Palo Alto Municipal Code all indicate otherwise. But really that last one is the only one you need to check: "Only residents of the city and regula
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by ebg13 6y ago
> it's common for parking permits, libraries, and schools to be exclusively for residents It's absolutely not common for libraries or schools to restrict _access_ to non-residents. Public libraries don't check ID at the
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by ebg13 6y ago
I've personally never met a public library that denied entry to non-residents. Got any references?
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by ebg13 6y ago
You don't need to be a local resident to enter and enjoy a public library, only to remove things from one.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Why don't they just throw them away? It's not like the tickets have face value.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> It looks like he’s got enough to sustainably generate about a median household income Oh come on. He's 89 years old and has millions of dollars still. How long do you expect him to live? "Sustainably generating" a medi
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Perhaps someone with 25 to their name better serves the community by keeping it? We have to assume that in the given scenario the other person needed it more and nobody else was stepping up. > Why praise sacrifice at all? You do
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by ebg13 6y ago
That's wonderful and not relevant to whether giving away an amount that still leaves you with everything is impressive.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Op specifically used the word "unimpressive", not "unimportant".
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by ebg13 6y ago
Impact is important, of course, but making an impact when you have everything is not difficult. Things that are not difficult are not impressive.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Anything that seeks, which you can't do on a pipe.
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by ebg13 6y ago
He could have just not been standing _in_ the water.
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by ebg13 6y ago
JAWS. It's costly, though.
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by ebg13 6y ago
This headline feels extremely out of sync with the tone of the blog post. > My expectation when I clicked into the timediffs page was that zink would be massively slower in a huge number of tests, likely to a staggering degree in some c
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by ebg13 6y ago
> It's not a failing it meant to empower users. Freedom to implement bespoke solutions is great if what you want to spend your time on is implementing bespoke solutions. Freedom from needing to implement bespoke solutions is bette
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by ebg13 6y ago
Ok, _Now_, HN wants to let me reply. I put my response in the parent comment. Sorry about time traveling.

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