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by lgl 6y ago
The 2010 eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull [0] was a small sample of the perturbations that a volcanic event can have on day to day lives. And it was a relatively small eruption. Anything much larger than that will most likely hav
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by lgl 6y ago
Well, at 13 years old, Carlsen (#700) was already giving Kasparov (#1) a run for his money while looking kind of bored and casually checking out the other matches around them [0] so I'm fairly sure a GM rank on a website isn't rea
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by lgl 6y ago
lichess.org's creator, Thibault Duplessis has an hn account [0] and has made some posts around here (although his last post appears to have been in 2015). The entire thing is also free, open-source and with a very diverse tech stack be
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by lgl 6y ago
Mildly interesting, this guy [0] setup a giveaway with 1 btc where he would drip release the seed words for the private key on his social media accounts. Somebody has managed to bruteforce the last 4 words in around 44h according to the aut
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Hacker takes 44h to bruteforce last 4 seed words from Bitcoin private key(twitter.com)
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by lgl 6y ago
The only way this picture could get any better was if the house in the background was exploding.
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by lgl 6y ago
Probably also features the plasticky hollow frail feeling of most chinese knockoffs. Still, if anybody wants to buy 7 of these and pit them against 1 Spot, I'd watch that :)
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by lgl 6y ago
I guess more importantly, when an AT-AT [0] sized one? [0] https://www.starwars.com/databank/at-at-walker/
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by lgl 6y ago
Or get a Chinese lookalike for, supposedly, less that $10000 [0] [1] [2] [0] https://youtu.be/2H3dzZEi-qw [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/unitree-new-robot-dog-compar... [2] http://www.unitre
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by lgl 6y ago
Where exactly is it mentioning this is due to health reasons? Both this article and the Intel press release only mention "personal reasons" so I'm not sure where all this is coming from.
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by lgl 6y ago
From the article: > In February of 2019, someone accidentally paid 2,100 ETH in fees to move .1 ETH. Coindesk reported at the time that the South Korean blockchain firm behind the error admitted to the mistake, contacted the mining pool
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by lgl 6y ago
Yet the saddest thing about your comment is that even in the face of a virus pandemic that sees no borders or races, you still see it as a "good thing" against your "adversaries" as if you're somehow worthier that e
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by lgl 6y ago
My 2 cents: It's a dev job, and you're a dev in need of work so I'd say take it until you find something better. The unethical part is relative because from that point of view, the people working at FAANG would probably also
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by lgl 6y ago
This [0] is a much more interesting and enlightening documentary about China and Xi Jinping. It's in French but english subtitles are available. [0] https://youtu.be/7QDktp_i6eY
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by lgl 6y ago
That's one of those typical US healthcare problems you think you're so great for. For example in Europe, medical professionals are free to seek work in any member country [0]. Although definitely not perfect due to "EU member
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by lgl 6y ago
I always thought the Oort cloud was a scientifically proven thing but apparently it's "a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals proposed to surround the Sun at distances ranging from 2,000 to 200,000 au (0.03 to 3.2
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by lgl 6y ago
Well, they did pretty much "stole" the word messenger that is now mainly associated with their app so I wouldn't put it past them. I wonder if they ever considered going for "Facebook Dollar". I think we all know th
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by lgl 6y ago
Still think "Libra" was a badly chosen name. In (at least) spanish and portuguese languages, the word "Libra" is most of the times used to refer to the british pound. So "50 pounds" is actually literally transl
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by lgl 6y ago
> Just like when plutonium was first discovered it was used for health [citation needed] because this doesn't really seem to be the case. Although apparently there were eventually some plutonium based pacemakers in the 70s, plutoniu
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by lgl 6y ago
Well, Debian does use systemd by default now unless you want to go through some hoops to remove it (which I believe is still possible but not sure). I personally have really no issues with systemd and now even go as far as completely removi
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by lgl 6y ago
Those videos (that being the most infamous) will never stop being hilarious. The node.js one is also pretty amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg
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by lgl 6y ago
Also my first choice for servers and have used it several times on desktop so Debian would also be my recommendation even for a desktop these days. Plus, if you're already familiar with how Debian works it should be a no brainer. None
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by lgl 6y ago
I didn't know the guy before this, just came across his video somehow after the recent UE5 demo and was thoroughly impressed by it. That mixed reality camera and lighting demo at the beginning of the video was seriously cool.
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by lgl 6y ago
I don't know if this is true but I don't see why it would be absurd. The man is pretty much an absolute gaming and coding legend and from what I've read about him, he's genuinely interested about code and tech so if that
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by lgl 6y ago
Agreed, I think Unreal Engine is much more suitable for VFX than Unity. Most people here on hn probably already seen the Mandalorian use of the engine. I have also recently watched this video [0] of an independent film maker using some of i
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by lgl 6y ago
Yeah I get that, it does take a bit of work and time to learn and get used or comfortable with this stuff which a lot of the times could be better spent building or promoting your app and then just hire someone in the future to deal with th
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by lgl 6y ago
> Who took the pictures? In a sane legal system it would boil down purely to who owns the copyright, barring an exceptional circumstance like revealing medical information. So I could just follow you around taking pictures of your face,
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by lgl 6y ago
"Coerce" has a negative and unlawful connotation/definition. There is legislation for this so it's basically a lawful request for removal.
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by lgl 6y ago
You're not wrong in the sense that things get cached, mirrored, scraped, etc, and probably live forever inside Facebook's datacenters even when "removed", but there is still a valid case for not wanting the pictures post
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by lgl 6y ago
Whoa, you just blew my mind. We need this in our lives :)

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