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by interestica 2y ago
Who is HN? What makes something official? Should HN run it? HN is a community. This is a community effort. And it can be vetted or modified or subscribed to by that community.
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by interestica 2y ago
As a Canadian, constraining the data viz by political border is annoying.
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by interestica 2y ago
While trying to take photos of last night's aurora my phone touch screen was acting a bit wonky. I wondered if it could somehow be related.
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Solar storm (G4) forecast for Friday May 10. Aurora possible in Alabama(swpc.noaa.gov)
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by interestica 2y ago
A friend recently discovered a very strange plant growing in their garden. It seemed utterly alien. They used an online visual tool to identify it. It turns out it's something called "horsetail" and it's considered a &
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by interestica 2y ago
What about if people "refuse to leave voluntarily"? https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/united-airlines-flight-over... > Searches for ‘Volunteer’ Definition Spiked 1900% After United Airlines Incident h
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by interestica 2y ago
update: The quote discrepancy has been mostly corrected today. We'll see if there are any other ramifications considering the slight-misquote did lead to other criticisms. It's a dangerous game when news articles are rewriting co
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by interestica 2y ago
MacOS + TimeMachine + iPhone/iPad + Chrome/Google + Chrome Remote Desktop is my 'elderly stack'
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by interestica 2y ago
What challenges did you face with them and iPhone?
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by interestica 2y ago
Today in Toronto, Canada, a man that was charged with First Degree murder of a police officer was acquitted. I'd only really absorbed the initial news story in passing. The initial news releases relayed the police account of the incide
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by interestica 3y ago
I had the exact same thought! I just saw this portion in DC earlier this year. You can get quite close to it.
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by interestica 3y ago
Nah, it was 2MB. ! (Which is what I remember) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19000696 Contemporaneous discussion: https://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=19510
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by interestica 3y ago
> "I thought universities required students be able to read" Clearly there was a UX/Design issue with the door. A person approaching a door is already thinking about what's on the other side. Maybe the warning needs t
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by interestica 3y ago
It's on an 11-year cycle so the data rate to us is really really slow.
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by interestica 3y ago
> They were a clever idea at the time, but they're hardly "lounges" these days. They're just buses, at a time when you really, really don't want to be taking a bus. Yeah they're definitely just buses that ca
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by interestica 3y ago
Those skylights? Just pop em out to exit in a hurry.
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by interestica 3y ago
I was at Dulles/DC and the air-side transportation was interesting: the jetbridge was also a bus. It's a "mobile lounge" and I guess a few airports have them. There's definitely something interesting when transit is
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by interestica 3y ago
If a new human artist emerges that sounds a lot like a previous AI artist, is the human prevented from producing music commercially?
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by interestica 3y ago
Yeah. Especially coming from our "Ministry of Innovation". FTA > The intent is to move forward with measures to restrict the use of such devices to legitimate actors only So, what's going to define a "legitimate actor
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by interestica 3y ago
The full site editing thing really changes the wordpress paradigm. It's a different mental model. I've had people reach out for help because it ends up being a wall for them. The communication/education aspect of it needs wor
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by interestica 3y ago
Ah, your description mentions svg animations.
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by interestica 3y ago
My back door has a literal 'slide to unlock.'
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by interestica 3y ago
But then we wouldn't have the popcicle patent war of the 1920s https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2005/spring/p... .
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First mass-produced snowmobile, Joseph-Armand Bombardier's B7(museebombardier.com)
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by interestica 3y ago
> Then we nailed it down in 1769 with James Cook's voyage to Tahiti, the primary purpose of which was to observe the transit of Venus from the other side of the world. He was captaining the Endeavour for that journey! Which is what
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by interestica 3y ago
Do you have svg output examples?
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by interestica 3y ago
Number of comments and upvotes doesn't suggest lack of curiosity... It's the fact that it got bumped off front page
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by interestica 3y ago
Yeah. But same spelling, different sound when spoken. Like Dominican/Dominican. (The Dominican Republic and Dominica share the same demonym when written, but it tends to have a different prononciation).
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by interestica 3y ago
What if they charged you a fee because they now have to restock the bananas that you removed from their display?
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by interestica 3y ago
Maybe AI is facilitating a new "Commons" in that people will feel more of a right to take and reuse and consume things created by these sites with a better understanding that they collectively contributed to their creation.

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