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by geor9e 3y ago
Ironically it doesn't help to use link shorteners on twitter anyway - all URLs posted to twitter count as 23 characters. The hypertext is the truncated original URL string, and the URL is actually a t.co link.
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by geor9e 3y ago
January 1 1970 has been my birthday since I was a 10 year old in 1995, so it never really crossed my mind that some people put their real birthday.
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by geor9e 3y ago
>There is no valid general conversion between speed and Mach number, and things like Mach number relative to the ground is nonsensical. Sure, if you also want to say water doesn't freeze at 0C or boil at 100C. In practice if an auth
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by geor9e 3y ago
The captain clearly decided he was done and radiod air traffic control for permission to go to +4000 ft and gunned the engines to take the plane up another 4000 feet is that better
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by geor9e 3y ago
I know it's not a Ask HN post, but for most of my Windows using years, it boiled down to Gimp. It was, and still is, such a slow-loading poorly-functioning image editor that I assumed all of GNU/Linux was just as bad as it was. Wh
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by geor9e 3y ago
>mathematically prove I'll give it a rough swing. I probably overcomplicated the endgame I describe below, and maybe make some assumptions that aren't actually how the mechanics work, but hopefully it's understandable. The
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by geor9e 3y ago
That just explains why it tends towards balance. It's just like all the air molocules in a room reliably bouncing around where you can inhale them. There's no hard law of nature saying all the air wont move to one side, suffocatin
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by geor9e 3y ago
It's ambiguous. The end condition could be a pixel spawning with overlap on a ball because there's nowhere else to go. What will happen when there's no room left to add one more pixel, and it tries to add one more pixel? Will
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by geor9e 3y ago
You're right. I wonder if it works for me because feedbro checks every x minutes and eventually finds a working one to refresh my feed. I wonder if the situation is getting worse and I just haven't noticed yet.
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by geor9e 3y ago
I get the feeling that you read the headline without even clicking through to see the picture of the bulletproof glass, but I'm not sure if I would call them idiots. They simply tricked you into engaging with their cause, along with a
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by geor9e 3y ago
The Mona Lisa has been behind bulletproof glass for a long time. Any rational person can see that the protestors did not intend any harm. They only intended to make a mild mess that will annoy the janitor for half an hour. The true intentio
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by geor9e 3y ago
Since Linux is a kernel, and Android runs off the Linux kernel, I am confused by that "Wake me up when..." final sentence. I know he probably means desktop Debian on a Pixel phone but it's very poor phrasing.
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by geor9e 3y ago
devolution (n) - (word sense #2) retrograde evolution, degeneration ( https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/devolution ) de-evolution & deevolution aren't words https://www.merriam-webster.com&#x
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by geor9e 3y ago
Make me think more This world has too many politically correct corporate drones. And their work is boring. An actual relatable human in charge? Sounds like an edge.
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by geor9e 3y ago
In theory, anything is possible with months of developer work. The trouble is, there are billions of people addicted to social media. There aren't many widespread solutions to scrape it. Whenever a scraper becomes even remotely popular
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by geor9e 3y ago
I started using RSS again recently for this reason. I use it for for facebook, twitter, hackernews, etc. Feedbro extension supports public facebook profiles. Nitter clones like https://farside.link/nitter/elonmusk/
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by geor9e 3y ago
Good to hear. I only follow specific users via nitter (via Feedbro extension)
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by geor9e 3y ago
I thought this comment was saying they only used html like this other HN post was talking about https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2023/2/ . But no, the comments just saying they put all the .js and .css
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by geor9e 3y ago
3 colors would get interesting, because as the other two bully one into a corner, the small space causes rapid block zapping, quickly bringing it back from the brink of defeat.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Hasn't this always been the case? I remember they released TPUs at IO 2018, and they were nice if you build FP16/FP32 models in Google Cloud TensorFlow/CoLab and never ever port them to anything else. Meanwhile the cool new o
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by geor9e 3y ago
I always thought it was crazy that NASA uses a FPGA/microcontroller/cell phone SOC setup, which makes total sense to me, but mundane industrial things like the traffic light at an intersection needs a giant cabinet with shelves of
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by geor9e 3y ago
The same thing happens in photography: noise removal software removes the static but also causes the photo to lose detail. The human brain is exceptionally skilled at seeing and hearing through noise.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Because Intuit Turbotax lobbyists take congressmembers out on their yachts, and our representatives aren't interested in saving the country's citizens money
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by geor9e 3y ago
You could always try one out for $99 and give it away if you don't like it (example https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0C498LWF5/ )
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by geor9e 3y ago
I hate this. That's not what free means to 99% of consumers. I refuse to use it that way.
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by geor9e 3y ago
To mail me packages of cheap Chinese goods? Yes.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Get two FAANG jobs
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by geor9e 3y ago
Somehow, the restored audio is less understandable to me.
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by geor9e 3y ago
I don't install apps when there is a website I can use from my desktop. So, I guess I have a green light to enjoy Temu.
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by geor9e 3y ago
Amazon costs twice as much, and Aliexpress takes twice as long to ship. I have an adblocker installed, so I haven't experienced the annoying ads people are mentioning. I don't install apps when a website is available, so it's

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