foxfluff

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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Casio 6510BC What's this?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I disable web fonts. That makes many sites very difficult to use. Yes, icon fonts are a part of that, but also the change in metrics messes up some layouts rather bad.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Does that include don't ride dirtbikes? I'm wondering how the risks compare in blasting through busy highways on a 650cc superbike vs dirt bike on a path vs a lightweight 125cc on 'burbs and rural back roads never going faste
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The RISC-V hype is crazy, but I feel like it must be a product of marketing. Or I'm missing something big. I've read the (unprivileged) instruction set spec and while it's a nice tidy ISA, it also feels like pretty much a t
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by foxfluff 5y ago
What's driving the price decrease in wind?
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Maybe views are not the sole purpose , but isn't it a bit depressing to think that no-one ever reads or cares about what you put up? Surely you want someone to witness that expression and perhaps even engage with it.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Diminishing returns. I think most people would agree that 1Mbps 1080p AV1 looks ok ( https://demo.bitmovin.com/public/firefox/av1/ -- use the quality selector and wait a while) and the vast majority of "
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I feel like there's a poor buffering algorithm involved. It was a bit choppy for me even though the playback bar indicated that the video had loaded well ahead of time. Downloading that video with wget took me 0.4 seconds. Connecting
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Wikipedia is not distributed, anonymous, or censor-proof.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I don't see how this would be feasible without giving them a backdoor to snoop around in my home network. No thanks.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Have you been unemployed in the early 20s without a degree and desperate to find a job while nobody takes you seriously and you only get ghosted or turned down, while job ads seem to keep raising the bar all the time? It is a horrible horr
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I know exactly what goes on in their head. They could abstain from things they like and make their lives more miserable, but it has absolutely zero impact unless millions of others also do the same. And there's no way the masses are
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> If you see a sign covered in snow you're going to recognize it as such and make your best guess as to what it says and weather you care. The first winter after I got my license, I was driving around at night on a road I hadn'
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The mostly JS-less web was fine, fast, and reliable 20 years ago and I never had ActiveX. I hear stories about Flash and ActiveX but I literally never needed these to shop or pay bills online. Payments also didn't require scripts from
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Crazy GPU prices aside, I haven't really noticed any problems. So maybe the global economy is fine, or the local economy here isn't nearly as affected by the global economy as one would think.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Even on HN, the most voted submissions (this one included) tend to be some sort of outrage or controversy -- very often something you can do little or nothing about. I'm seeing rather polarized views, but even without it, neverending
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by foxfluff 5y ago
There's a phone repair shop in my town and every single time I've passed by when it's open, there are customers inside. I don't think those people are hobbyists.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
https://i.imgur.com/YSjsxB2.png
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by foxfluff 5y ago
"It also focuses on websites in English, Swedish and Latin and tries to identify and ignore the rest (best-effort)." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28551183
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Wait till you learn that modern CPUs run billions of cycles per second. With multiple cores in parallel! And they can reach transfer rates of tens of gigabytes per second to RAM, or around a terabyte per second into L3.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> > The other company didn't even care to see my code even though I brought my laptop.. they just took it for granted that I can code. > With such a company I would have doubts that I might start in a team with people who cann
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> The way I see it is, the most condescending interview for a programmer is the one that contains no coding at all. Why is that? The last two interviews I had involved no coding. Both led to an offer. In one of them, I demoed a personal
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Every time someone mentions meetup, I go check it out and search for events around me. Nothing in 50 miles.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Well I think my skills suffer more because of work: after a day of "being productive" at work, I no longer have the time and energy to explore and learn new stuff, which is how I gained and expanded my skills in the first place.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> At the same time, there have been some valid criticisms of pledge/unveil by capsicum people; IIRC something to do with its restrictions not persisting following an exec? The validity of that criticism is so-so. It's a common
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I searched for captcha. I searched for "checking your browser." No hits. Cloudflare, you are the problem. Plz get off the internet.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/children-per-woman-by-gdp...
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The most carbon emitting plant is in Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%82chat%C3%B3w_Power_Stat... "The plant releases each year more carbon dioxide than the entire country of Switzerland."
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Well, the first thing I thought upon reading the headline is someone somewhere is going to build an AI based on this and there will be false positives and it'll suck.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Following the leads, DOI:10.1145/2742647.2742658 says the accelerometer in Apple iPhone 6, Google Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy S5 supports 4kHz sampling. However, the OS limits it to 200Hz to conserve power. Googling around, it appears

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