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by gregschlom 3y ago
Gfxstream, used by the android emulator and others.
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by gregschlom 3y ago
This matches the audio signature of the TV ad - basically, it's like Shazam, but for TV ads. It's currently not economically possible to listen to user's conversations, transcribe them to text, and serve ads based on that. It
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by gregschlom 3y ago
Fusion energy will have to wait for 2024 though
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by gregschlom 3y ago
> once upon a time someone needed the Excel 95 icons, and I obliged May I introduce you to reshacker.exe: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ Spent a lot of time as a teen using it to change windows graphics. (E.g
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by gregschlom 3y ago
Small nitpick: the "para" prefix comes from Latin and means to defend, to protect against. Thus "Paraguas" is to protect against water. In French, you similarly have parapluie (to protect against rain), paratonnerre (lig
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by gregschlom 3y ago
This is a modern reimplementation of original version, which was a Flash app made by André Michelle ( http://lab.andre-michelle.com ), in the 2000's
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by gregschlom 3y ago
The easiest option to prevent rusting is to use a paper towel to wipe a small amount of any cooking oil on the surface, after washing and drying it.
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by gregschlom 3y ago
I also wear toe socks, and while I agree with the author's points, here are some other downsides that they fail to mention: 1. Flipping them right side out after laundry takes more work than regular socks, because you need to flip each
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by gregschlom 3y ago
First paragraph in the article: "Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable."
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by gregschlom 3y ago
gregschlom's law of headlines on HN: "Any headline on Hacker News that ends in a question mark will have a comment mentioning Betteridge's law of headlines" I'm not joking. It's been done so often that it doesn
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by gregschlom 3y ago
"still offsets" - yes "just as valuable" - no Reducing the price that the utility pays for solar KWs makes economic sense.
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by gregschlom 3y ago
It's not really common sense if you need a professional to give you this piece of advice, though.
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by gregschlom 3y ago
Depends on how much JS is trying to handle.
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by gregschlom 3y ago
In the comments of the answer the author says they have a 4 and a 9 year old: "Bill, despite your emphatic comments, I know for a fact that counting into the ordinals is something that children can easily learn. I have two young childr
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by gregschlom 3y ago
That's neat, but it's a property of the OS, though, not of IP addresses themselves :) (doesn't work on Windows btw)
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by gregschlom 3y ago
Maybe GP is a non-native English speaker? This construct would be pretty common way for a native French speaker to say they are angry at something. Not sure if it's common in English as well.
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by gregschlom 3y ago
>There was a time when they weren't. I'm not sure if that's true. My impression is that furniture has always been very expensive, and it's only fairly recently (mid-20th century?) that mass manufacturing has enabled i
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by gregschlom 4y ago
Hmm don't think so. It's a well known piece of movie trivia that H, A, L we chosen because those are the letters that come before I, B, M.
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by gregschlom 4y ago
"Solve one pain point for OpenAI's users, get some nice traction, get acquired by OpenAI in a couple of months" is probably the plan here. Not a bad one to turn a quick profit.
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by gregschlom 4y ago
Plot twist: this is secretly sponsored by some of the big AI players so that they can easily identify original human-made material to train future versions of their AI on.
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by gregschlom 4y ago
OT, but the Youtube's auto-generated captions on that video ( https://youtu.be/fPhP1325RkI ) often mis-transcribe "sidekick" as "psychic" and it's amusing that both can work equally well as a nam
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by gregschlom 4y ago
Ken, I've read and enjoyed many of your posts and I always wonder: how do you find so much time to do that? Is that your full time occupation? Thanks!
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by gregschlom 4y ago
The UV doesn't reduce chlorine, it kills bacteria. There's also a filter, and that's what removes the chlorine
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by gregschlom 4y ago
This is a very cool technique. Someone ought to benchmark this vs the method described in the original article.
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by gregschlom 4y ago
yep, it was pretty frustrating to not be able to click on the screenshot to view them larger, especially when right-click -> open the image in a new tabs shows that the images actually are a larger size
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by gregschlom 4y ago
An order of magnitude order of magnitude
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by gregschlom 4y ago
Now if they could please stop using "to say goodbye" as a euphemism for "to layoff", that would be great.
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by gregschlom 4y ago
Haha I had the same reaction. I was expecting some law from the 19th century.
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by gregschlom 4y ago
That's what the article says. Ending the program allows them to save the 0.5% they would have donated and lay off the team that supported the program.
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by gregschlom 4y ago
As far as I know it's a simple string match on the url. If the url is different (for example a new anchor tag is added) then it's considered a new submission.

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