hnaccy

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by hnaccy 5y ago
what if the executive had been pick-pocketed
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by hnaccy 5y ago
imgz will flag you to NCMEC too ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28676746
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by hnaccy 5y ago
larger cloud providers are free/cheaper https://catbox.moe/ et al are free and no account needed B2 and similar with a little effort is half a cent per gig I don't know why you would use this unless you like OP&#x
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by hnaccy 5y ago
This is ~17x more expensive than B2 served through Cloudflare.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
I use social media because it's social. A one way rss feed of content is the complete opposite.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
It's not a blanket statement about a state but the legislature which is much smaller group of people.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
I get letters and my internet turned off if I torrent on my ISP I don't using VPN. Simple as.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
Why? My impression was that the low orbits used by Starlink and similar are the best place for this since it will all naturally deorbit on short timescales. It's just space who cares if we clog it up some with more useful things.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
I've tried using this for encoding short clips and it was 10-20x slower than native ffmpeg.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
The video you linked claims it's a hoax.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
Even if this is true (I don't trust apple's claim) I think this should still be used as a talking point to scare normal uninformed people about the surveillance tech. The other side started it first. Look at the government's
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by hnaccy 5y ago
I'd like to try using this at work for an internal tool but AGPL is a no go.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
The averages are weighted equally even though your traffic pattern may not be.
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by hnaccy 5y ago
Blacklist and similar are not race based.
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by hnaccy 6y ago
If we're taking descriptivist approach wouldn't it also apply to ESL speakers? There is probably many more Indian english speakers than AAVE speakers so wouldn't any differences not be mistakes?
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by hnaccy 6y ago
> which is currently fairly hard to discover, and we assume gets low engagement. >We want to make sure that we design defaults that suit most users and we'll be retiring the compact mode for this reason. >The word from Product
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by hnaccy 6y ago
Why did you not decline if it was costing your own money?
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by hnaccy 6y ago
I reach for SQLite if I need persisted state for a local application or custom file format but why use it for things that may need more write concurrency like web server? Postgres is basically just as easy to use and backup.
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by hnaccy 6y ago
I know far more people that use discord (on both desktop and mobile) than those that use signal.
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by hnaccy 6y ago
Bugzilla link since I didn't see it in paper: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618257 I find it kinda weird that Solomos reported it as normal defect and even prompted for fix update months later without m
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by hnaccy 6y ago
It's pretty easy to post online pseudonymously so I don't feel like it's a big issue. I post online a lot and the vast majority is pseudonymous or anonymous.
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by hnaccy 6y ago
I host a site with lots of videos so am curious about this. If I add this and another peertube syncs with mine it sounds like I would still be responsible for bandwidth to their users watching my videos from their peertube? Does any have ex
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by hnaccy 6y ago
I find it funny the number of hackernews users who continue to defend or minimize trump's behavior and actions. When a comment describing Trump as fascist (he is one) is flagged due to downvotes it's a bit odd.
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by hnaccy 6y ago
The Dallas police used a police robot to blow up a suspect with C4.
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by hnaccy 6y ago
>At the start of the pipeline we can afford to run lots of memory-cheap filters in parallel. Only a subset of incoming packets make it past these filters, so we need less of the more memory intensive filters running in parallel behind th
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by hnaccy 6y ago
When the top 30 100m times all belong to athletes that have been popped for doping with the exception of Usain Bolt you have to ask yourself is he just THAT amazing or is he amazing plus have the best doping team and protection. You have en
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by hnaccy 6y ago
Why is there so little call for reform from congress and new administrations etc? Obama or Trump had no part in building the original system so why do they continue it? Is the political class as a whole 100% on board with authoritarian, pri
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by hnaccy 6y ago
I was lucky enough to come upon a similar speedup in some code that was used a fair bit at first job; multiple order of magnitude speed up by applying some data structure knowledge. I feel like base level algorithm/ds knowledge is gett
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by hnaccy 6y ago
I've always defaulted to squaring the radii for circle collision to avoid the sqrt. Is it a premature optimization these days?
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by hnaccy 6y ago
If covid-19 were contained why would there be a mask shortage? Transmission in the general population seems necessary to cause a nationwide shortage in first place. >The CDC (and frankly every major government in the world) believed that

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