exikyut

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   by exikyut 4y ago

   An anecdote about the jank and pauses: I have... many (D:) tabs open in Chrome right now, and I discovered that setting Session Buddy to show the number of tabs in its icon causes the entire browser to pause for a fraction of a second every
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   by exikyut 4y ago

   Hmm. Ostensibly Facebook has a party line and attendant menagerie of moderation and AI tooling as a broad response to self-harm, but at the end of the day all of that has its box to work within, and thinking and breathing this one subject d
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   by exikyut 4y ago

   I understand BackBlaze is more HDD rather than SSD, but perhaps they might have some level of awareness.
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   by exikyut 4y ago

   What if legitimate travelers entering the country were to bring the items in as part of their checked luggage? I feel like there's a whole untapped market here where people could rent out X amount of space in their suitcases - with the
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   by exikyut 4y ago

   :/ Is there a good way to spot this sort of thing from a distance when evaluating stuff off eg eBay?
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   by exikyut 4y ago

   I'm not sure if he's still doing it but someone put together https://theuserisdrunk.com/ and https://theuserismymom.com/ a few years back... I wonder if you could do something similar here, given
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   by exikyut 4y ago

   The main issue with all apps like this is not the reverse-engineering, which is relatively straightforward, but the fact that HN sits behind Cloudflare, with the WAF and ratelimiting enabled. It's not possible to achieve capability-par
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   by exikyut 4y ago

   It's copy-pasted from the description on the webpage :D I was definitely not expecting that either.
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   by exikyut 4y ago

   Huh. As someone completely naive about the exact specifics of what goes into these sorts of considerations, what needed to be taken into account? I can think of the "players interact" element of game ratings (and the fundamentally
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    This is really inspiring. Made me think of a couple things. Not really sure if this is the right spot, but just in case... "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is ac
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    I can('t) imagine, yikes. Now I'm remembering the story of how, when a certain blue website fell off the Internet for a day ~a decade and a half ago (due to some slightly broken database migration logic), out-of-band access boil
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    It's perhaps an arguably unrelated suggestion, but if you like old MIDIs, this recorded livestream of what actually happens to Win95 when it hits 49.7 days uptime exclusively used a playlist of MIDI audio for the background music: htt
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Thanks. A random question this makes me think of: I've had "get an oscilloscope" on the one-day queue for quite a while, and I might be looking at actually being able to get one at last. For someone trying to balance a) und
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    I was curious and poked at the TTS Colab to switch it from Russian to English (language = 'en', model_id = 'v3_en' under "V3", speaker = 'en_XXX' under "Text"). Short "this is a test&qu
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Thanks. TIL I really shouldn't be commenting on things I don't properly understand and not reading listing titles properly... right. Stays extra far away from heavy machinery for today
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Facepalm D:. I don't know how I managed to leave that off. Still not used to the extra fiddliness of typing on a phone keyboard :(
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    1) the URLs are simply missing a "b/" in the path to map to saved copies in the Web Archive, and 2) the comment system switched to requiring JS around 2011 so only comments from before then archived properly (>.>) but t
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Huh, 20-up-to-80GHz for $165. Oookayyyy. Riight then. (NB, the only critical bit an eBay link is the item ID, ie (/itm/[0-9]+).)
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Bork bork: "Cloudpilot, a PalmOS emulator for the web": https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30241462 Mu, a modern PalmOS emulator: https://github.co
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    > There's a cabal that seems to only want new features and never tackle existing bugs in the OS. Huh. That sounds strikingly similar to the culture breakdowns I've observed be associated with Google - the whole focus on newne
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    For reference / FWIW: https://nitter.net/captbaritone/status/1535471373191028737
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Some deployments might be able to leverage GitHub Enterprise, which is a $231/user/year GitHub-in-a-VM-image. It's pretty much the GH source code (running through a modified copy of Ruby so the on-disk .rb files are scrambled
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Ooooooh. I thought "dark" was some weird domain-specific nomenclature to describe "not available on the open market", with the open market being like a transport network of (lit up) lines, and dark = not lit up = not on
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    To be pedantic, the correct URL is technically https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ , which then expands in practice to https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/ and then gets the jumble o
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    That's a bit like the protocol some smart lightbulbs use to connect to Wi-Fi networks, which is simultaneously genius and depressingly dystopian. TIL that Wi-Fi encryption is vaguely akin to a VPN, in that it encrypts at the TCP/U
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    * Hires team of synchronized skywriters to draw SHA-256 hash above crush's location *
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Hmmmm. What about swapping `display_name` + `account_is_verified` for `display_name` + `display_name_is_verified` or alternatively `display_name` / `verified_display_name`? The idea being to tie the verification mark to the display nam
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    Oh, like FaceTime! D:
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    by exikyut 4y ago

    A weekend project idea I just thought of, but wouldn't be able to commentate on as well as someone more experienced in memory management: Run a bunch of memory allocator demo programs (trivial and complex) under blinkenlights ( https
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    by exikyut 4y ago

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