exikyut

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by exikyut 5y ago
I wondered this too but didn't have any good ideas (generally speaking, building theory, etc) Just belatedly noticed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30471631 , perhaps you hadn't seen it
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by exikyut 5y ago
> does it actually matter that people don't all the grammar rules No. * ducks *
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by exikyut 5y ago
I reckon this is a seriously good idea, with the only sad caveat being that a lot of Silly Valley money seems to be very risk-averse and scale-seeking, and this is high risk and low/no-scale. Very annoyingly. (I can only chalk the down
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by exikyut 5y ago
Forget the recording, I wanna see a video of it playing on an actual TV showing that it's actually displaying free-to-air signal.
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by exikyut 5y ago
NB: there is a sibling comment next to this one with an updated URL that you cannot see unless "showdead" is on (Not linking the URL in case that's why the comment is dead)
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by exikyut 5y ago
Either this was fixed 4 hours after your comment was posted, or the issue doesn't surface on Chrome on Linux or Android. I opened the site by clicking the link in the GP comment.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Realized just as the edit window elapsed (Arc ate my revised text!! noo) - [12] should be [12,15] (I got them the wrong way around and I can't renumber them now), and [13,14] was supposed to go after "encoded redundantly into th
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by exikyut 5y ago
I was wondering if it was a misconfiguration (or something that amounted to such). That makes perfect sense. It sounds like genuinely useful functionality - on an opt-in basis.
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by exikyut 5y ago
I wonder if that's coming from the software the site seems to be running on (perhaps it's misconfigured) or plain old icky ads :) Just verified that my phone doesn't block location requests, but it isn't generating any f
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by exikyut 5y ago
Googling the IBAN (UA458201720313281002302018611) finds search results [1] from sites including treasury.gov.ua [2], mil.gov.ua [3] and 24tv.ua [4]. I currently see only 23 results for the IBAN code, but I blame this on the newness/nov
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by exikyut 5y ago
Oooh. Humble thanks, I did indeed get the two confused. There was a recent post talking about how iPhones will be able to pretend they're payment terminals ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30259183 ), with Stripe i
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by exikyut 5y ago
That entire list of predictions is apparently from a PDF dated 2004. Aaaand now Brexit is a thing. A long-term pseudo-thing, but still a thing. * Reads the rest of the list *
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by exikyut 5y ago
Woops, apologies I lost this tab mid-reply :( Very cool. I only knew about Knoppix at that point, which being a LiveCD didn't quite like 128MB RAM (just realized that's how much RAM my PIII had too, huh). Properly switched to Linu
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by exikyut 5y ago
*Facepalms in "when a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure"*
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by exikyut 5y ago
From the perspective of someone completely naive to the situation: what's going on, and WHY is this happening? I partially ask "why?!" plaintively, because this is senseless. But I do also want to understand the... rationaliz
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by exikyut 5y ago
I would not like to order my dystopian cyberpunk future from IBM's or Oracle's or Microsoft's mail order catalogues, please. IIUC, you needed to license each individual core of IBM's POWER servers. And then license the
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by exikyut 5y ago
[ Sad mumbling about the ten year gap between United States vs. Microsoft Corp (2001) and the Chromebook (2011) ] (In all seriousness, I just googled both of them for the first time as I typed the above to check the dates expecting it to
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by exikyut 5y ago
FWIW, IIUC the binning process that designates chips as Core, Xeon, Pentium etc series ultimately sources parts from a common set of conveyor belts, identifying final designations using QC processes that further subclassify against what par
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by exikyut 5y ago
I think the AirTag thing has kind of changed my subconscious mental model about losing things: reading the bit about losing the remote, I immediately thought to myself "why not have a beeper in the remote that you can ping via a button
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by exikyut 5y ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen jgs in other ASCII art elsewhere.
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by exikyut 5y ago
I * think * this was part of the shell layer. Which is why it's fascinating how the performance team wanted to prune it out; presumably the fonts were mapped into memory elsewhere and thus deduplic...oh, maybe Windows doesn't have
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by exikyut 5y ago
This sort of strategy feels to me* like it would be ideal in a gamedev sort of environment - considering the nontrivial practical distance between each of the layers in this scenario, I can totally see each layer occasionally showing up out
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by exikyut 5y ago
If making changes to Google-side reach-out is actually possible, that's absolutely the far more realistic scenario here. My previous post is more of a Rube-Goldberg overengineered attempt at making the hockey puck meet the stick rather
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by exikyut 5y ago
Now I'm curious to find out how it works out. That comment was from a few years ago so the poster may be relatively distant to Tumblr nowadays and it might take a few additional people-hops (if it doesn't fall through) to get anyw
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by exikyut 5y ago
Wowch, I'm really bad :) 9.29: https://i.imgur.com/BEEqbKL.png Thanks for the pointer!
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by exikyut 5y ago
Oh, that's pretty awesome! Oooooh, I wonder what happens if I signed up for a service and then requested "all current and future data on, about and related to me"... that would mean it couldn't be deleted until I'd
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by exikyut 5y ago
Yay, I'm learning :D > trying to join the 10 teams together oh no (insert https://webcomicname.com/ here) > rather than picking a solid foundation that they already owned and handpicking what needed. Mmmm. I
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by exikyut 5y ago
Of course . Wow, I never thought about management like that before. But particularly in software development it makes so much sense for people to jump toward this sort of mindset. There really is an art to scaling problems to humans so the
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by exikyut 5y ago
-> 7 (Notices this comment) "...Hmph!" (Tries harder, focuses) -> 12 -> 10 :( Nothing like neural training, eh? Hmph :) Now I'm curious what you think of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409
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by exikyut 5y ago
A totally different style of game which also seriously stretches spatial reasoning: https://vladimirslepnev.itch.io/zigzag Inspired by Super Hexagon (remember that?), you need to repeatedly tell a "snake" which wa

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