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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> I bought all new Philip hue bulbs going on 7 or 8 years ago now and not a single one has gone bad. I had a bulb go bad once (out of almost 50 bulbs), but I called their support number and they shipped me a new one for free without any
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> That's a double edged sword because bots will eventually get through too, and unlike humans, their time is dirt cheap. Yeah, I really have no idea why Anubis works right now: residential proxies are far more expensive than compute
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> And if you're getting a turnstile challenge it's unclear how it's different than an anubis challenge. You are guaranteed to pass an Anubis challenge eventually [0], whereas it's possible to get stuck forever in an i
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
Reuters is Canadian, so the OP is already Canada-side coverage (but the additional links are still appreciated)
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
I'm on Fedora too, so I probably should have said "getting hardware decoding to work in Firefox is no harder than getting it to work with any other Fedora program" rather than claiming that it's actually easy :)
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
Interesting, I've personally had the exact opposite experience: Chromium hardware decoding was always half-broken for me and nearly impossible to get working, whereas in Firefox, I had to modify a single setting in "about:config&q
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
Was it BaKoMa TeX [0] perhaps? [0]: https://bakoma-tex.daniel-aldrich.ca/home
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
The author said that Ti k Z works correctly in a message during their presentation [0]: > 3:27:36 @lodepublishing : I have tested tikz but not yet tcolorbox. TikZ works, with some wiring. But a different tool was posted here a few weeks
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> There doesn't seem to be any reason functionality like this couldn't also be added to Typst though. Correct, and the paper author even suggested that they could add that in their presentation earlier today [0]. > In genera
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
This is (surprisingly) intentional; see my other comment [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48966387
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
You can't tell from the URL, but this link is to a preprint [0], and the bad boxes there are intentional, since we compile all the preprints in draft mode [1]. The final article will be published some time in August [2], and should be
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
This was presented earlier today, and you can view the recorded video at [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/live/6riWbnT0grs?si=zIePpHrC6TEZpc_I... (starts at 2:52:46) [1] [1]: Once the conference is over, I'll sep
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
When was the last time that you used FreeCAD? Even 18 months ago, I would agree with you that it was a buggy mess, but I tried it a few weeks ago and it was super stable. The UI is still a little confusing, but that just comes with the doma
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
In Europe, even rural areas tend to be fairly close to cities, whereas in North America, lots of farms are really remote. This map from NASA [0] should give you an idea of how remote some areas can be. Now, 99% of these areas have electri
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> Tracking which devices still send lots of data when no one else is using the network? That's what I personally do at least: I have nlbwmon [0] installed on my OpenWRT router to track data usage per device, then I scrape it every m
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> The Bluetooth spec is horrendous The Bluetooth Classic spec is indeed fairly awful, but the Bluetooth LE spec is not too bad. Plus, the entire specification is available free-of-charge, without even needing to register an account. Blue
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
You are 100% correct, but this is still mostly fine: without SGX, you need to completely trust Signal, since it could trivially modify the server-side code. But with SGX, you only need to trust that Signal and Intel won't both collude.
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
- Spoofing SafetyNet used to be trivial, and not many apps depended on it; whereas these days, it's between hard and impossible to spoof Play Integrity, and it feels like much more apps depend on it. (At least, that's why I stop
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> You can not do this with BTRFS There is actually a btrfs driver for Windows [0]. I've used it a few times before, and it works surprisingly well. You probably wouldn't want to use it for any serious work, but that's not
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by gucci-on-fleek 3mo ago
> Running ZFS on anything but Solaris/Illumos/FreeBSD is asinine. > ZFS is a permanent second-class citizen on Linux Linux is the primary target of OpenZFS [0] [1], and has been since 2020 [2]. It may not be supported by the
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
If I'm reading the USGS report [0] correctly, it looks like this was a 3.8 magnitude earthquake with "light" shaking, which Wikipedia [1] describes as: > Felt indoors by many, outdoors by few during the day. At night, some
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> If you have watched the EU's approach to U.S. tech cos (DMA, DPA) you can see a trend of increased regulation Sure, no dispute here—I agree that in general, the EU has recently being making it more difficult for large American tec
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> Meanwhile, the EU decides that its most important issue is adjudicating whether a Supreme Court ruling will prevent its citizens from using Instagram. The EU hasn't decided or prioritized anything here yet. NOYB has decided that t
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> Have you ever actually tried using Windows 10 with 1GB of RAM? I wouldn't consider it suitable for "standard computing tasks." I have [0], and it's actually not quite as bad as you would expect. It certainly wasn&#x
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
This comes up fairly often in TeX, where you can use ^^J to insert a newline character [0]. For example, the following code: \message{before ^^J after} prints the following message: before after This is common in other old
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
What do you recommend instead? Standard floating-point ("float"/"double"), fixed-point arithmetic with thousandths (or smaller) of the minor unit, arbitrary-precision decimal numbers, or something else entirely?
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> I find math and compsci reasonably understandable, can read research papers in both fields ( and have published papers) etc. There’s something specific about physics I don’t get but I’ve never been able to figure out what. The main sym
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> utf-8 encodes code points in one to four bytes, it is byte oriented vs utf-16 etc. In zig u8 is a byte, and is also (by convention) a char, although there isn't an explicit char type in zig. […] > 24bits (3 bytes) in utf-8 gets
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
> The 24 Bits (3 Bytes) [3]u8 to u24 example is exactly related to utf-8 that covers all the languages but excludes the emojis. I'm not familiar with Zig, so maybe it's doing something weird here, but that doesn't really m
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by gucci-on-fleek 4mo ago
I personally use a hand-written C wrapper program (which is not much more than a dozen lines long), and then embed the Lua scripts using objdump. This isn't quite as easy as Go since cross-compiling C programs is often somewhat tricky,

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