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by mastazi 3y ago
oh yes that's right I see that as well, I notice it less because of the more benign topic. I just clicked on a few links from the home page and it seems to depend on the section the article is on (science, tech, gaming etc.), in the &q
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by mastazi 3y ago
Apologies if this is OT. For a very long time (probably more than a year) I have been seeing the same link at the bottom of every single Ars Technica article; it is a link to a video titled "SITREP: F-16 replacement search a signal of
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by mastazi 3y ago
If you look at the animation linked in the article, you can see that they did orbit each other, not only that but if you look at the time scale in the lower part of the screen, you can see that they were doing that at a crazy frequency (abo
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by mastazi 3y ago
Wow this passage > Terrible situations, once exited, often become funny stories or proud memories. Mediocre situations, long languished in, simply become Lost Years—boring to both live through and talk about, like you're sitting in
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by mastazi 3y ago
If you are in Sydney at sunrise and you look towards the rising sun and keep looking in the same direction, after a while the sun will be to your left. If you are looking North, the sun moves from right to left. If you are looking South, th
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by mastazi 3y ago
I guess the article implies that you're facing towards the sun, so if you are in Australia you will generally be looking North.
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by mastazi 3y ago
Almost 13 years living in Australia and it didn't occur to me that of course the moon phases must be the other way around. So for us this is a waxing, not a waning crescent: https://emojipedia.org/waning-crescent-moon
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by mastazi 3y ago
This reminds me of this classic post that was discussed many times here on HN. Maybe newer readers will enjoy it. https://gwern.net/doc/cs/2005-09-30-smith-whyihateframeworks...
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The internet is imploding [video](youtube.com)
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A New Trace – The MH370 Story So Far [video](youtube.com)
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by mastazi 3y ago
Is it safe to assume that these were overwhelmingly on Cloudflare's free tier? I don't expect that someone who gets a domain for free is going to pay for hosting; if that's the case I don't see this as a big loss for Clo
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by mastazi 3y ago
> While reviews note that you can run PUBG and other 3D games with decent performance on a Tecno Spark 8C, this doesn't mean that the device is fast enough to read posts on modern text-centric social media platforms or modern text-c
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by mastazi 3y ago
I am a non-native speaker living in Australia, I have been here for 12 years now; my experience is that this eventually goes away. Until about 5 years ago I was experiencing the same as what you are describing but now it no longer happens.
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by mastazi 3y ago
I have done some research about this topic some time back, these are the links I had gathered back then. I was researching Java edition specifically, however among the ones linked below, at least one (Nukkit) has a Bedrock (C++) edition. Ma
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by mastazi 3y ago
Very high end digital pianos have an action that is quite similar to a real grand. This is a relatively cheap digital piano action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_VT0IpM66k These are 2 versions of a mid-high range digital
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by mastazi 3y ago
As someone who used to be in the field of public relations before starting a career in software - I don't understand why they are doing this. Surely they realise that this stuff is going to end up on mainstream media and damage their i
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by mastazi 3y ago
Apologies for the low quality submission title. RED is obviously a maker of digital cameras; in this context the expression "film camera" is misleading; the HN bookmarklet just adopted the title that was being used at the time by
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Nikon buys film camera maker RED(techcrunch.com)
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by mastazi 3y ago
What you said is true but not to the extent that you might think if you are used to the legal systems of countries like the USA or UK. Since Brexit, almost all EU member countries follow the civil law system (the only member country followi
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by mastazi 3y ago
Just a heads up that the video linked above has been cut, the full length video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWxl921rMgM What you said is still valid though, since the full video is not much longer.
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by mastazi 3y ago
I see they have a "small Youtube" page. For a different take on the "small Youtube" concept, also see http://astronaut.io/ (featured here on HN a long time ago)
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by mastazi 3y ago
yes, I don't think most Thais would find Cornish Cross chicken palatable - and I don't blame them
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by mastazi 3y ago
> Starbucks in Asia is pretty upscale My wife is from Thailand and I've lived there for a while, I've noticed the same thing there with Western fast food chains. We think of KFC, Dominos or Maccas as junk food but over there, t
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by mastazi 3y ago
Makes sense, thanks for explaining.
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by mastazi 3y ago
The IRA discount only applies to the US market, where AFAIK BYD is not even present, right? So it doesn't really explain why Tesla is trailing behind BYD globally. Or maybe your point is "Tesla is not helped by its government as m
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by mastazi 3y ago
are you talking about Pyright or Pylance?
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Pyright works for me on VSCodium, Pylance doesn't.
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the 15c/bag ones are made of paper in most supermarkets around me (NSW).
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> (and owner) of Nitter. I would say that Nitter as a whole is not owned by anyone, that person is the owner of one of the Nitter instances, in addition to being the primary maintainer of the project as you correctly stated. I agree with
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Mozilla calls on Apple, Google, and Microsoft to play fair(theregister.com)
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