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by jcynix 2y ago
To plan a visit to a dark sky place, I used duck.ai (Duckduckgo's experimental AI chat feature) to ask five different AIs on what date the new moon will happen in August 2025. GPT-4o mini: The new moon in August 2025 will occur on Aug
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Nice one. I normally do jobs like this with ImageMagick but your tool work fine. As your tool runs inside the browser, as you say, the notions of "Upload" and "Download" aren't the best ones, as these suggest action
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Ruthless business practice? Maybe too, but very good customer support from my point as a customer, e.g. - a shopping cart which kept my choices forever. I remember a startup clone about 20+ years ago here in Europe, whose shopping cart auto
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>I guess the fact that I mostly moved from DOS to Linux never really got me away from thinking about files and directories, and inconsistency in Android really bothers me. Been there too. After some (maybe a lot) investigation I learned
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They soon (for some Definition of "soon" ) will be able to do this, according to this article: "Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a bill that allows law enforcement to cite driverless car companies for traffic violations.&qu
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Interesting small creatures, which (as a side note) can have enormous ecological impacts as the Wikipedia article mentions: "On the other hand, in the late 1980s the Western Atlantic ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi was accidentally introd
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I'm running my own email server for more than 20 years now. And spamassassin still works fine, filtering locally. But even before spamassassin gets stuff to analyse, my postfix server checks if a sender's ip address has a reverse
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AS Lars already remarked, CO2 in water produces H2CO3, which is acidic. NO2 has a sweet taste cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrous_oxide
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"His extradition order was eventually signed on 15 August 2024." cf. [Kim Dotcom]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom )
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Possible Chrome substitutes: https://duckduckgo.com/mac https://duckduckgo.com/windows
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Have you ever wondered why there is laughing gas in your whipped cream?(mcgill.ca)
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> if you were to ask someone why you need to drink this much water every day, they probably wouldn’t be able to tell you. I suspect that the bottled water producers could tell us a bit, especially their marketing divisions.
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> Doesn’t wireguard solve the same issue? Presumably, but my solution is quite a bit older and just a poor man's hack from about 20 years ago ...
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> Presumably you sign the emails rather than encrypt them? That's correct, encrypted and signed. Replaying wouldn't be easy because the payload contains a timestamp. The main purpose was to limit the networks which can attempt
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Emacs with Orgmode on the desktop. That's where most of my editing work happens. And for mobile the app Markor, synced via rsync in Termux with my desktop. Additionally the app Joplin, which syncs via WebDAV to my server and is used by
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Every now and then I use GnuPG encrypted emails (or a web form) to my servers to open the firewall for certain IP addresses. If the server can decrypt such a message it can safely act on it. The server's default is to only allow certai
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Adding (or correcting) opening hours for businesses, libraries, shops, etc in OSM is quite tedious sometimes IMHO. Maybe that could be a useful task for some AI? Pass it a photo of the data and a location and let it generate the needed addi
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> consider installing the StreetComplete mobile app [...] I'll second that and I'd add the tip to install its companion app StreetMeasure too in order to measure things like the width of a street or the length of other things.
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Nice intro, thanks!
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Impressive and a nice site. Regarding font generation, let's not forget Donald Knuth and his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont software which generates raster fonts.
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More specifically Max Planck wrote: "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with
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Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com and @dang will surely help you out.
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The German inventor of a decaf process sold the extracted coffein separately in pills, which might have given him a second income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Roselius
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I'll second that: great article and description of the problem space. Love it. Once upon a time I programmed a solution finder for the game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricochet_Robots because a gaming magazine h
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Sure but multiplying by ten to get the price per kilo shouldn't be the most complicated thing for even those folks that aren't math savy. It means to move the decimal point (or comma) one place to the right IIRC. If you had to con
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Similar to software, so the whole IT industry seems like a miracle sometimes. And the car industry gets more and more software installed ...
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I actually own an original one (and some other goodies from my lispm time), I "just" need an adapter, but my electronics manufacturing / soldering talent is not adequate, sigh ;-0
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Yes Zmacs, my favorite editor of all times. Together with the space cadet keyboard and its control, meta, super and hyper keys.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling_Emacs And I still have the manual in printed form somewhere in my archives. Maybe I should scan it, unless archive.org already has a copy ...
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B550 was that limited initially. Even the Ryzen 9 5950X runs on B550 series motherboards today. B550 is a bit scaled down, e.g. no PCIe 4.x lines, just 3.x, but that's OK with me. My motherboard is an ASUS ROG Strix variety with 4x32GB

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