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by marc_abonce 2y ago
I've always been able to read The New York Times through Tor by using their official onion address: https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2l...
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by marc_abonce 2y ago
For anyone wondering (because title is clickbaity): Two new dengue vaccines were recently announced by the Takeda and Butantan companies. Takeda: https://www.takeda.com/newsroom/newsreleases/2023/Takeda-De
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Show HN: [Satire] React language selector library with "language flags"(github.com)
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
I'm also wondering to what extent does the stack or framework force you into prioritizing velocity. For example, I've never worked with Vue but if it's anything like React, I can imagine that a library could quickly become &q
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
> Zompist That's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time. This website has the best guide (afaik) on how to create a conlang[1]. Or at least it was the best guide back in the 2000's, probably something better has been
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
The pedantic answer you'll probably get here is that there's no such thing because that wouldn't be trve FOSS, but that would be missing the point of the question, so: There's the Business Source License[1] used by Maria
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
I originally wanted to "correct" you because of the 1968 Mother of All Demos, but TIL it wasn't even given that name until 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos#Origin...
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
Probably not. Youtubers can get copyright strikes for playing original interpretations of Bach or any other classical music that has been in the public domain for centuries. One example on top of my head comes from TwoSetViolin commenting o
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
I assume it's hidden to stop users from accidentally setting brightness to its true lowest and then being unable to revert the change because the screen would now be too dark for most users to see anything at all.
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
The New York Times's official onion address also works without a paywall (or at least I haven't been blocked yet): https://www.nytimesn7cgmftshazwhfgzm37qxb44r64ytbb2dj3x62d2l...
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
Most open source licenses already include that in a "no warranty" clause that is supposed to cover this. I don't know anything about law, but it looks like in jurisdictions where this clause doesn't apply, signing a sepa
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
The "useless" programming language that OP created is actually pretty interesting. It only uses exception throwing and catching as the only control flow and apparently that's enough to do pretty much anything. I mean, obvious
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
> Several of the music genres were flat out made up I will always defend that buttrock is a real subgenre of psytrance. I don't care if Ishkur meant it as a joke or that nobody in the scene recognizes it.
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
TIL that invidious is an actual English word. I always suspected that it was video related pun, something like "in-videos".
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
This is really cool, I had no idea that this has been going on for at least over a year now. It looks like Firefox for Android will be getting more extension support by the end of this year according to the last comment here: https:&#x
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
> We now have a distributed crawler that runs on our volunteers' machines! If you have Firefox you can help out by installing our extension. This is a very interesting idea that other search engines have tried before. Actually, the
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
The linked article about Alekhine's visit to Japan in 1933 is definitely worth reading if you want to read the point of view of a shogi player* learning Western chess: https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter80.h
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
The article mentions that "the study of modern languages is falling across the board in many rich countries" so this phenomenon is not exclusive to Chinese. I think it's part of a larger trend of people choosing not to learn
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
Tangential comment, but since this is Hacker News I just want to remind everybody of that legendary Reddit post that used Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics (which the Cree Syllabics are part of) to mock "generic" looking types in Go b
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
I've seen this type of post/thread many times, and yet I still learn something new every time. For example, I'd never noticed until today that so much of Scotland is actually west of England because Great Britain doesn't
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
> but e.g. beef is "ternera" in Spanish Beef is "res" or sometimes "carne" as the article mentions, "ternera" is specifically the young calf's meat.
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
I don't like software patents but are SIFT and SURF really obvious? Even after 2 tries of trying to read and understand how they work, I've still only gotten the most superficial high-level view of them.
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
I got my current job by posting on a "Who wants to be hired" thread in 2019. To be fair, though, I was only contacted by that one company (and like 2-3 spam emails) so I wouldn't really count on HN as my main strategy. On the
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
There's a similar issue with the Mexican coat of arms in Wikipedia. The Wikipedia eagle has black claws and red eyes but the official one doesn't. [1][2][3] One time I tried to fix it but I don't know how to use Inkspace and
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
> Is democracy working out for Mexico? Yes. The biggest problem we face here is cartel violence which isn't caused by democracy at all, but rather by political corruption, which is only possible due to an extreme power imbalance. If
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
Do you not consider the Swiss Confederation to be a democracy? If so, why not?
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by marc_abonce 3y ago
Sorry but I don't understand how does the first sentence in your post relates to the second one. To me it reads like you didn't know the local language but they're the illiterate ones for not knowing your language? Or did I c
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by marc_abonce 4y ago
Disclaimer: I only learned about the New Mexico Spanish variant today and my experience is limited to OP's article plus 2 YouTube videos. That being said: I think that if you want to, you could learn "standard" Spanish and st
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by marc_abonce 4y ago
While the RAE recommends calling the language Spanish, it recognizes that Castilian is a synonym of Spanish. [1] My personal experience also corroborates this. In common usage, Castilian is the same language as Spanish and in fact I hear pe
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by marc_abonce 4y ago
I mostly agree with the quote, in fact, I occasionally see bad works of art that would otherwise get quickly forgotten become more famous because of the negative criticism. On the other hand, when I read reviews I always go for the negative

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