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by lgl 4y ago
Well, we know for a fact that every once in a while, we get hit by an asteroid (which is exactly what this is about). I'd call that cyclical and not made up.
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by lgl 4y ago
> (...) wouldn't it be much more efficient if we let this computer create computer language directly? I am not an ML/AI engineer but this is most likely much easier said than done and probably more into "true AI" terr
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by lgl 4y ago
A perfect anti-spam solution doesn't exist. Even if you switch e-mail provider, as long as they're also using some sort of anti-spam system, false positives will always happen occasionally. The obvious recommendation is to always
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by lgl 4y ago
Agreed. Way too many people seem to think that any asteroid impact would be similar to a thermonuclear device and could somehow be "survivable", which would only be true for relatively "small" asteroids. The reality is t
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by lgl 4y ago
I'll have to say, very few games gave me the combination of extreme frustration as well as extreme satisfaction as KSP. Highly recommended if you're willing to spend some time learning it while failing a lot.
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by lgl 4y ago
Hello HN, This was my on-and-off side project for a good part of this year. It's a small 3 in 1 Windows utility that I've released on the Microsoft Store. The app is a fullscreen modes manager, wallpaper manager, and a custom menu
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Show HN: LumoTray – A 3in1 Windows Tray App(lumotray.com)
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by lgl 4y ago
Capitalism is definitely not the apogee of survival of the fittest from the "evolution theory" side of things, only in the "society we created for ourselves" side. Extrapolating from our current understanding of civiliza
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by lgl 4y ago
> I’d say any form of life out there would have to go through some form of capitalism This is anthropomorphizing at its best because we humans have largely decided that capitalist is the best "*ism". Alien intelligence could ha
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by lgl 4y ago
Most likely yes, as it is also done by many electronics companies. It's called "planned obsolescence" [0]. There's a particular video from Veritasium [1] that comes to mind regarding this. [0] https://en.wikip
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by lgl 4y ago
Gambler mentality: 1. "Invest" (borrow/steal) large amount of money 2. Bet as a madman and obviously win big cause I'm such a hot shot 3. Repay every debt and take profit! 4. How could that have gone wrong?!?!!1 What&#x2
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by lgl 4y ago
QuakeWorld (the "Internet" version of quake 1) is still very active. The source code was open-sourced by Carmack many years ago and the community has been evolving the clients ever since. Today the most popular one - ezquake [0] -
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by lgl 4y ago
> I get that 100 years ago similar literature was OK in the west too, but we moved our societies quite a bit since then. 100 years ago? Today, the ratio of militaristic "America F** Yeah!" sci-fi vs every other language is prob
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by lgl 4y ago
You can read about their formation on several publications. For instance: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/james-webb-spikes/
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by lgl 4y ago
Thanks for this gem of a link. I had a good chuckle all around but found this part particularly very funny: Apache Kafka was named after Franz Kafka, who lived as an author in turn-of-the-20th-century Austria. Like the project named after
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by lgl 4y ago
Not sure about the other ones, but they do have a comparison against ClickHouse from October 2021 that's available at: https://www.timescale.com/blog/what-is-clickhouse-how-does-i...
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by lgl 4y ago
> Instead of providing high paying job's like apple does... Is this a joke? You do know that people living outside the US are actual human beings right? Because the people that were building the actual $1500+ iphones were literally
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by lgl 4y ago
AFAIK, Netcode for game objects is merely a rebranded version of a previously existing third party plugin called MLAPI that Unity acquired and hired its developer. It is very close to what they already had before and was probably mostly to
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by lgl 4y ago
This seems like a good time to remember when an (apparently solo) spanish speaking hacker completely owned Hacking Team's (italian company that sells spyware to governments and that was mentioned/used in this post/attack) net
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by lgl 4y ago
Context: https://tme.miraheze.org/wiki/Ellis_(sigil)
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by lgl 5y ago
It's clearly in Celsius, which is the metric system's temperature unit and it is clearly stated on the website's about page: By default the page loads and displays distances in miles, temperatures in Fahrenheit, ie English un
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by lgl 5y ago
Ok, I'm from the EU and even I disagree many times with some of the more ridiculous laws that the EU tries to impose on the internet, but on your examples I'm not really sure what exactly is the big deal? What alternatives do you
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by lgl 5y ago
While I kind of understand your point of view and not all businesses are equal, a free trial is not stuff for free permanently. You should be confident that your product will be able to make the customer willingly add their credit card afte
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by lgl 5y ago
Agreed, Redis is truly wonderful, I've used it extensively as both a cache lookalike and also as primary datasource (as long as your data size/growth is known and manageable on RAM, which is pretty common for many projects and cur
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by lgl 5y ago
Ah, you're right, i interpreted that comparison wrongly. In that sense then it's most probably right. Still, we don't have any evidence that this impact was from a comet, it was most likely just an asteroid plunging into it.
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by lgl 5y ago
Right? Besides that, considering Shoemaker-Levy was a 6 million megaton impact (according do wikipedia), saying this was "similar" is just very wrong. Still interesting and pretty cool to have been caught on camera though.
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by lgl 5y ago
> unless you count that his CPU was a neural net processor [btw, James Cameron or whoever saw that coming in 1991] Neural nets had been around for almost 50 years [0] by then so it wasn't really that much of an insight as one might
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by lgl 5y ago
The doomsday device on Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove is also a fictional cobalt type bomb, or as quoted [0] in the movie: "If you take, say, fifty H-bombs in the hundred megaton range and jacket them with Cobalt-Thorium G, when
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by lgl 5y ago
> Could it be a small black hole? It could, the relevant part of the whole thing is the object's mass (and therefore its gravitational influence) and its orbit. Lex Fridman did a podcast interview a few months ago with Konstantin Ba
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by lgl 5y ago
The first time I ever saw something like this was a program called Tempest for Eliza, which would generate patterns on a CRT screen that could be captured by an AM radio. The website appears to still be available at: http://www.e

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