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I believe HN automatically removes 'how' from the start of titles on submission.
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That's a great comparison. For a real number, I just checked Runpod and you can rent a system with 8xA100 for $17/hr or ~$700 for 38 hours. Not cheap, but also pretty close to the cost of renting a premium vehicle for a few days.
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> But wouldn’t you agree that if I run a private professional library, I have the right to add or remove books by any (legal) process I deem appropriate? Of course. I don't think this is a question of freedom of speech or anything l
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Agreed. This is social media style moderation being applied to a website that is more similar to infrastructure or a library. If I were a member of a private, professional library* and a colleague was found to hold racist views or had submi
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My girlfriend volunteered with a program that supplies books to children and teenagers in juvenile prisons. As you might expect, those facilities tended to take a very paternalistic attitude. In general, young adult literature dealing with
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I'd be ok with this if it were a tradeoff that I was choosing to make. Stripe withholding $400k can end a business. Google locking me out of my account can upend my life. I'd like to be able to pay the premium required to ensure t
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This isn't really the tool for that. With FatFS, you provide a way to interact with the storage medium (disk read/write and so forth) and FatFS handles everything at the filesystem level (file open, directory listing, etc.) It wou
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The essay doesn't agree. > You shouldn’t confuse the Zen Anti-Interpretation with “Shut Up And Calculate.” The latter phrase, mistakenly attributed to Feynman but really due to David Mermin, is something one might say at the beginni
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Is it infeasible to compress a portion of the helium to a heavier than air density instead of venting it?
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Some cities in Europe use underground containers. (An arm on the collection truck can lift them right out of the ground. It's pretty neat.) I wonder if that is feasible for NYC. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JtoSa
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I wonder if most people who appear to be concerned with status are actually worried about belonging. They seem to be playing a zero-sum game with their peers, but they really just want to be secure within that group and not at the margins o
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by jetrink 4y ago
Have you ever used a manual focus lens on a mirrorless camera with focus-peaking[1] on? It's so easy to focus, it feels like cheating. It makes a 50mm usable wide open. (This is assuming your subject is relatively static or at least co
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by jetrink 4y ago
I've tried a few of my own black and white photos and the description of each starts with "a stock photo of a..." Is this a comment on my style of photography or is this always added for the base palette prompt? (The colorize
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I wonder what would happen to the two player game if the rewards were set up so that win=1, lose=0, tie=-1? It would be interesting to see how the strategy changed as the penalty for tying is increased.
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> I dunno, that's the intended interpretation from the headline My only intentions when writing the headline were to avoid the click-bait format of the original and to communicate that it is suspected that counterfeit electronic com
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Suspected counterfeit components found in ejection seat after fatal F-16 crash(airforcetimes.com)
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Source (PDF): https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN11977 > In addition, the IRS would receive $15 million under this bill to fund a task force that would study the cost and feasibility of creat
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They did themselves a bit of a disservice uploading the full-resolution version. Enlarged to 3m x 3m and viewed from 20cm away, which is approximately the situation when you view this one at 100% on a computer screen, you can see every impe
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by jetrink 4y ago
> we should see a proliferation of light trucks just long enough to avoid the classification That's certainly possible, but is that necessarily the outcome? What if there are two maxima for optimum truck size and the line that this
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The bidding process had ISPs to declare what speeds they could deliver down to a minimum of 25/3 Mbps. SpaceX didn't need to bid at such a high performance tier if they didn't want to.
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That's a great story. The inability to represent a name with standard characters reminds me of when Prince changed his name to a symbol and they had to send all of the media floppy disks containing a custom font with a single character
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> There was a media article regarding Nikon's withdrawal of SLR development. This media article is only speculation and Nikon has made no announcement in this regards. That's not really a denial though, just a statement that th
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Does anyone use darktable for inverting color film? I currently use a plugin for Lightroom and while I love the plugin, it would be great to be able to get rid of the Lightroom subscription.
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For anyone interested in this subject, the BBC produced a great miniseries called Victorian Farm in which three historians worked on (and lived at) a farm using authentic 19th century tools and techniques. The highlight of the show for me w
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> Unfortunately Polaroid film is a ripoff. It's certainly expensive, but have you seen what it takes to produce photographic film, let alone instant film? My guess is that there isn't much of a profit margin for them, even at o
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They do force you to prove you have their app installed on your phone to use it, though installing it and uninstalling it afterward isn't that much of a hassle.
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In a benign example of the YouTube algorithm's radicalizing influence, in a little over two years, I went from watching videos about developing film at home to following some large format photographers' channels and purchasing a l
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Additionally, you can use Leiningen's `check` to quickly identify all the places that need hints. It's not something you need to keep in mind while you're working.
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You might be experiencing trypophobia[1]: Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps. It is not officially recognized as a mental disorder, but may be diagnosed as a specific phobia if
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Here's an archive link for now: https://web.archive.org/web/20220124201438/https://eleanorko...

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