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by gradschool 3y ago
I wish I could make friends with systemd like y'all. I spent at least a week wrestling unsuccessfully with systemd (admittedly starting from complete ignorance) to make a service that synchronizes a local directory on a laptop with a r
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by gradschool 3y ago
Another explanation is that it's too radical of an idea even for HN. I see no reason a judge in a hypothetical anti-trust case against Apple couldn't give it a choice between ceasing operations and open sourcing its whole technolo
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by gradschool 3y ago
> my contacts mess with the eye tracking I've heard of people with stereo blindness able to perceive VR in 3D thanks to the eye tracking. Do you have any idea whether it could benefit a wearer with intermittent amblyopia ("lazy
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Ask HN: Predatory Aggregator Site?
5 points by gradschool 3y ago|3 comments
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by gradschool 3y ago
The scanner is an Epson ES-580W, but any model would be adequate that can scan directly to a network folder by FTP or FTPS over wifi or ethernet. Some are claimed to support SFTP but I think the copywriter meant FTPS. They seem to follow th
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by gradschool 3y ago
I bought a high speed sheet-fed scanner to be used with paperless-ngx based on a recent thread on HN. Before that my filing system for financial statements and other important documents was verging on meltdown and causing me considerable an
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by gradschool 3y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong about this, but according to one of the author's cited references, the time needed for metastability to resolve is theoretically unbounded. Why wouldn't every solution based on introducing a fixed dela
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by gradschool 3y ago
While they're incentivizing me to learn the ropes and be more efficient, I'm secretly incentivizing them either to respect my privacy by accepting cash payments or to compensate me with a discount for giving up some of my personal
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by gradschool 3y ago
Well-known game developer Jonathan Blow has a lot to say about software and technology more generally being in decline due to skills being lost when older generations retire [1]. In my own experience, writing code with pointers in it used t
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by gradschool 3y ago
If you're interested in machine learning applications like this, others are being researched here [1] and there's an upcoming online event about them. [1] https://fdleurope.org/
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by gradschool 3y ago
Is it time for some enterprising startup to invent a Dune-style stillsuit? https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Stillsuit
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by gradschool 3y ago
If you think anyone might care about your software in a hundred years, explain it in writing in a technology-independent way that would make it easy for anyone to re-implement it by reading your explanation, along with a reference implement
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by gradschool 3y ago
Another advantage to building your own system not mentioned (unless I missed it) is that pre-built systems might not be available with the latest and greatest components because the vendors are limited to what they can reliably source with
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by gradschool 3y ago
Startup idea: video content moderation service for big social media companies with moderators given medically supervised Midazolam; no more high turnover due to PTSD and no counseling needed
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by gradschool 3y ago
Random thought/nerd snipe hazard: would a Wolfram-style classification of cellular automata running on this tiling kick up anything interesting?
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by gradschool 3y ago
FWIW, Barr and Wells in a well respected reference on category theory [1] use a different definition of a function than the one in this book. Essentially they avoid insisting on the concrete model of a function as a set of ordered pairs (wh
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Ask HN: Insane Azure Charges?
2 points by gradschool 4y ago|2 comments
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by gradschool 4y ago
I'm a big fan of asynchronous design, though more as a spectator than a participant in recent years, and I'm really glad to see a bold new idea like yours because I was beginning to wonder whether the whole field had been stagnati
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by gradschool 4y ago
> we don’t know if anything from archeology is “for ritual use (for real).” I apologize for being unable resist thinking of a counterexample any time someone makes a generalization. Would household utensils found in a sealed burial chamb
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by gradschool 4y ago
> That Nixon character sounds so evil. How does one decide to veto the clean water act? On the other hand, Nixon created the environmental protection agency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPA
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Ask HN: Cissp, OSCP or Certificates from GIAC, Crest
2 points by gradschool 4y ago|0 comments
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by gradschool 4y ago
Why couldn't a relatively nearby galaxy recede from us faster than a more distant one due to causes beyond the limits of our observation? I'm thinking primarily of gravitational attraction to a massive object past the boundary of
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by gradschool 4y ago
Me too. According to the the way it's always explained to me it should be impossible for airplanes to fly upside down sustainably because the force of gravity and the lift should add to each other rather than cancelling, yet they often
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by gradschool 4y ago
> maybe wolfram knows of a simpler alternative Wolfram on combinators: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/combinators-a-ce... not any simpler, but maybe these are: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by gradschool 4y ago
not to mention the film "I Care a Lot", with an admittedly outlandish plot but a disturbingly plausible dramatization of the legal aspects of guardianship https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9893250/
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by gradschool 4y ago
I've gotten good results with both Pinegrow and Bootstrap Studio. The author of Pinegrow is on HN and might comment if he sees this. https://pinegrow.com/
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C gets out of your way and lets you do your job without buying into a lot leaky abstractions and without going to annual C conferences. C doesn't argue with you about whether something is a number or an array of bits. C is blazingly fa
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by gradschool 4y ago
https://github.com/baszoetekouw/pinfo mature project packaged for Debian and other distros, nice colorful curses-based UI, fast muscle-memory conducive keyboard control, you're welcome
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by gradschool 4y ago
Use this handy fake word generator. https://github.com/nwtgck/go-fakelish
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by gradschool 4y ago
On top of everything else, Cloudflare blocks Tor users or makes them solve captchas, which won't work without javascript and cookies enabled. It was making some noise at one point about having developed some sort of privacy-preserving

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