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   by ginko 1y ago

   I guess early 70s might be pushing it but I'm having a hard time imagining that you could tear down a building like this in a European city without city conservationists getting officially involved.
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   by ginko 1y ago

   I think Star Trek nailed how I would want to interact with a computer by voice. (maybe someone will figure out how to make AI agents do that, including Majel Barrett's voice)
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   by ginko 1y ago

   Pentium M's were magical when they came out.
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   by ginko 1y ago

   >The Victorians––Hapsburg-descended Queen Victoria and Saxon Prince Albert among them––were steeped in Goethe. I've never heard of queen Victoria having Habsburg ancestry and I can't find any details on this other than AI hallu
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   by ginko 1y ago

   Talking about shower thoughts on Collatz visualizations.. A while ago I though of a way of structuring the collatz orbits by arranging integers in a 2d grid with odd numbers being arranged along the X axis and multiples of the power of two
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   by ginko 1y ago

   >1. Entrenches Google, Facebook, etc. because they are the only people that have enough money to comply with the regulation. TFA made it clear that they _aren't_ complying.
7. 337.▲
   by ginko 1y ago

   >If you can afford the specific set of qualified lawyers (up to a ridiculous, plutocratic limit the likes of e.g. Google breach), you can legally offload the risks to an offshore server. You can't. GDPR also applies to processing EU
8. 338.▲
   by ginko 1y ago

   How is this supposed to help pedestrians?
9. 339.▲
   by ginko 1y ago

   They could adopt the EU energy label instead.
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    by ginko 1y ago

    AFAIK it's not at all uncommon for artists of old paintings to be unknown. Especially for religious paintings like this. (if anything it's the default) For instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the
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    by ginko 1y ago

    Really nice project. Would be interesting to dive a bit deeper where this 3s latency comes from. I assume the bitmaps have been pregenerated so I guess it's just the turnaround time when accessing the AugmentOS servers?
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    by ginko 1y ago

    >An EU law stiffles all companies, not just the trillion dollar companies. I've essentially not considered EU audiences because I'm small and focus on the engineering + product directed toward 'everyone except Europe'
13. 343.▲
    by ginko 1y ago

    The iphone and its consequences have been a catastrophe for web design.
14. 344.▲
    by ginko 1y ago

    Any idea what one of those would cost? (and where to buy them?)
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    by ginko 1y ago

    Well, like I said: From open tools I had available b123d was the one that relatively quickly (within a weekend from picking up the tool) allowed me to mock up something to the point where I became confident enough to keep going. I tried to
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    by ginko 1y ago

    I can only talk about my own experience trying to learn FreeCAD for a project[1] I eventually used Build123d for. For me FreeCAD was highly unintuitive. Everything is a chain of operations/modifications on solids(good!) but for some re
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    by ginko 2y ago

    Also, Prolog has the Perl problem. :)
18. 348.▲
    by ginko 2y ago

    >You can modify them again if the automated result is unsatisfactory. The original submitter can for a limited time. Often they don't, leading to butchered titles like this one.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    I loathe this automatic editing of titles on HN. "How X became Y" and "X became Y" has a completely different meaning. If there's submissions with stupid titles like "12 ways to serve Spam" then these shou
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    by ginko 2y ago

    >The problem is the many cities in the West are objectively terrible compared to cities elsewhere in the world. If anything that's more of an American problem rather than a Western one. There's plenty nice cities in Europe.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    >The escapement will have a longer overall lifespan, and may need servicing every couple decades, as opposed to a new battery every couple years. My Citizen Ecodrive needed the first capacitor change after 17 years of daily wear. Literal
22. 352.▲
    by ginko 2y ago

    This should be called "The Insanity of Being a Web Developer". You can be an SE without ever touching JS.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    2005 is incidentally when StudiVZ was founded.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    I'm working on an open source one for myself: https://github.com/ginkgo/trackball Next step is adding QMK support.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    >Many other countries, including EU members and China, already apply tariffs and non-tariff barriers far in excess of what the US is applying now. This has been persistently claimed but I have yet to see evidence on this. In most cases i
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    by ginko 2y ago

    HN should allow comments for job postings.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    You seriously underestimate the size of EU countries' budgets if you think $150M would even register.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    Sounds like a good way to make sure that companies drop SW support as quickly as possible.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    If OP is in Europe Google could be drawn and quartered for GDPR violations.
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    by ginko 2y ago

    I guess this has been long solved, but I remember around 2010 or so it was generally still recommended to use keyboards with PS/2 because of lower latency and support for N-key rollover.