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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
That's more than I ever could have asked for. Amazing work, thank you so much! What's the script's license?
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
Great post, thank you! I was expecting to see frequency blocks because of quantization, but I'm positively surprised that there are MP3 compression tell-tales like the cut-off and gaps.
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Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively?
65 points by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago|45 comments
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
Netguard is fantastic, although it takes a while to get a safe setup working. I'm blocking traffic by default and get to see all the blocked connection attempts - the extent to which apps transmit data to various parties is depressing.
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
I've written up my experience (going into the 10th year now!) with a DIY home NAS [1],[2]. I recommend a dual setup: - a software RAID 1 for important data (eg. contracts, receipts, emails, family pictures) paired with par2archive to c
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The Dark Side of Sisterhood (1976)(jofreeman.com)
2 points by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago|0 comments
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
> odds are he wasn't competent to "run the company" A 2 people company where neither gets paid and "product development" consists of me coding the MPV, fronting all the work and the risk.
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
> okay I don’t know why I’m getting downvoted Because saying "don't do something because an irrational player might irrationally punish you for that" isn't particularly insightful. To expand on your argument, I could
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
I second your analysis, that's how things normally work. It's just that in these and similar scenarios, there isn't much product development happening before the MVP, so the developer fronts all the work and the risk.
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
> When you watch a great salesperson in action it’s like magic. That, a hundred times. It's otherworldly, transcends laws of reality. That's why I dislike most salespeople I met, who don't tire of iterating how important s
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
> but remember the idea guy also was to run the company Company of 2 where neither receives a salary. > That's a ton of work, too. In this case, I really, really don't think so.
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
> so I started getting suspicious if someone actually shared the video of my app with these people because they were solving literally the same problem I once met a guy who had a good idea about an app, something that became fairly mains
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
Richard Feynman reports in his biography on his own experiments with lucid dreaming. He found sleep to not be restful enough anymore, found it impossible to switch the lucid part of dreaming off and eventually had a negative experience that
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
Thank you so much! That exactly describes the issue!
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Ask HN: Is YouTube on FF Broken?
2 points by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago|2 comments
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
If you come to think about it, in the beginning computers automated existing tasks and only later were giving tasks that people aren't capable of doing (eg. timing in electronics). Maybe there is a range of useful tasks people aren&#x2
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
I'm doing something similar with [1] where pagination (scroll down, click on "Show more") is implemented by requesting the next page as an HTML fragment from the server, loading it into an invisible iframe and once it finishe
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
Yeah, I guess the entire endeavour is naively romantic. I suck at all of these things, so I'd do the rebooting for you if you feed me in return?
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
The persistence of this guy is remarkable. Key points & spoilers: > A new set of APIs affectionately known as Houdini4 give your browser the power to control CSS via its own Object Model in Javascript > It only works in Chrome &gt
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Ask HN: Could You Reboot Civilisation?
4 points by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago|5 comments
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
I think it's a topic of great interest. Maybe turn your answer into an HN submission?
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
Thank you for the comprehensive summary and the detailed references!
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
I vaguely remember reading about a pneumatic (?) transistor that operated with air flow and no moving parts, but I can't find that anywhere. I don't mean the Tesla valve.
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Collection of Linux Shell Scripts(github.com)
2 points by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago|1 comments
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by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago
My collection of random Linux shell scripts (mostly laptop hardware management, some networking & tools). It's my most-starred (199*) github repo, I don't know what people see in this, but here you go.
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A High-Level Technical Overview of Homomorphic Encryption(jeremykun.com)
220 points by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago|44 comments
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Mach's Principle(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ggeorgovassilis 2y ago|0 comments
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Controlling the HS100 WiFi plug from the command line (2016)(blog.georgovassilis.com)
1 points by ggeorgovassilis 3y ago|0 comments
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Running an Offline Copy of Wikipedia(blog.georgovassilis.com)
3 points by ggeorgovassilis 3y ago|0 comments
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by ggeorgovassilis 3y ago
So essentially MVPs need to demonstrate higher quality now, attesting not only to the product, but to the capabilities of engineering organisations. Team topologies [1] is an organisational paradigm that solves a major issue with tribes loc

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