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by hunter2_ 1y ago
Aside: I keep hearing of "AI bot" detection, but how does such a detector know that the script (if I may use this term instead of bot) uses ML (or some similar technique that falls under the AI umbrella) and why is that worse than
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by hunter2_ 1y ago
Can a recipient be a member of multiple groups, for example, if I happen to be among coworkers and family (or whatever)? If so, hopefully I would get one newsletter containing all the posts tagged as any of my groups. But this means the pot
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by hunter2_ 1y ago
The real absurdity of 2k/4k/etc is that those refer to approximate horizontal pixel counts, when "lines" (vertical pixel count) such as 480/525/1080/etc has been the typical dimension for such a long time.
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by hunter2_ 1y ago
"Rare" versus "common" is an interesting one. They sound like antonyms, but I don't think the typical probabilities are really symmetrical. Maybe something like 0%-10% for rare (although some sources say 5%) and som
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by hunter2_ 1y ago
For the local OS and sustained workloads like video playback, yes, battery optimization is huge. For an individual app with bursty compute, less so, plus some of that inefficient code can run in the cloud instead, which is costly, but premi
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by hunter2_ 1y ago
The story says that the password reset link was received, which proves the vulnerability without actually denying service, causing loss, etc. As an analogy, the attacker found a key to a door but did not proceed to open the door. It doesn&#
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by hunter2_ 1y ago
The trouble with that is plenty of extensions legitimately need to run on all sites all the time for the user to get the value they want. Ad blockers, coupons for all stores, etc.
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
Good point. If I have 2 oscillators, and no control over their phase as they mix, then an option to choose 25% vs 75% for one of them would at least offer some variation instead of none. As for compression, this [0] is a good intro. Most co
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
The thing is... it's generally safe to truncate a leading zero [0], but it's not necessarily safe to truncate a trailing zero. For example, sometimes trailing zeros convey precision, and then you've got SEMVER [1] causing sit
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
> The given examples seem disconnected from the duty cycle radios on my browser. I mean changing them changes the sound, but it's as if the one I selected is not the one playing. Confirmed. Author, please fix! For example, in the fi
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
> almost identical ... components would be identical I'm having a tough time reconciling how the former could be almost identical while the latter is identical. I guess the former involves a human listening through a speaker which h
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
I tried putting a few of GP's multilingual paragraphs into google translate on detect mode, and it got everything into English perfectly! Interestingly, it declares a single language as having been detected, which varies perhaps based
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
I never got into this aspect of networking, so I truly don't know what I'm talking about and wish someone will correct me, but on some level, IP does indeed have broadcast/multicast capabilities that cause the sender's e
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
Good point. Either way, it's kind of peculiar that getting an en dash in this manner demands flanking the hyphen(s) with spaces, and those spaces persist after replacement, when the typical usage of an en dash specifically doesn'
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
Works fine for me on PowerPoint for Mac, oddly enough. Unrelatedly, Mac also allows easy (non-alt-code) keyboard entry: option-hyphen yields an en dash, while option-shift-hyphen yields an em dash.
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
Across the Office suite: Typing <word><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><word><space> yields an em dash. Typing <word><space><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><space><word><space> yiel
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
Awesome!
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
It just means that you can continue indefinitely with no end in sight. End could come from financial problems, consumer preferences to help the environment, environmental regulations, supply chain issues, and all sorts of other things. It&#
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
How could the same modulation achieve "dimming" and "fully bright" simultaneously?
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
Aside: >1000 comments in 2017 is significant. Is there a straightforward way to list such highly-engaged HN submissions? Ideally sorted by prominence within a short (1yr is fine) time window, but a simpler sort (no regard for prominence,
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
I would've guessed that once it's established that the bug is caused by the app injecting the specified username into the USERINFO portion of a URL without the necessary percent-encoding, a workaround (other than using a different
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
The communication enabled by the internet is incredible, but this aspect of it is so frustrating. The cat is out of the bag, and I struggle to identify a solution. The other day I saw a Facebook post of a national park announcing they'
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
We are actually saying different things, and your point highlights an error in mine (i.e., I assumed they show the eTLD from the PSL plus one extra label, but apparently they have their own shadow PSL which omits things like pp.se and there
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
> the domain Perhaps a contributing factor is how HN shows only the final non-eTLD [0] label of the domain. If it showed all labels, you'd have seen "engineering.fb.com" which, while not a dead giveaway, implies that the p
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
While kph is uncommon and ought not to have come about, the first sentence here [0] acknowledges it, so I don't think it's fair to say that people who use it don't mean what they say. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
To become informed, which is also the stated purpose of FOIA? Some may use their newfound education for good while others use it for evil, as with any education.
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
> look just like In my experience, there is usually an obvious difference between seeing a phone used as a camera versus not, based on whether it's aimed at an interesting subject or not. There are exceptions, like sitting with your
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
And someone, somewhere, has further mangled "deprecated" into "depreciated" when reading it aloud, I'm fairly certain.
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
If research is my job, and looking around is research, then couldn't I look around and see what they have instead of asking them to do so?
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by hunter2_ 2y ago
Clerks fielding FOIA requests have SQL consoles "at hand"?

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