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by mastazi 4y ago
At one point there were two "search" input fields side by side. They were identical except one had border radius, the other had corners. I selected the one with corners. It turns out I was wrong, and the reason given was "Bor
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by mastazi 4y ago
I knew nothing about Repunit numbers until a few minutes ago. So far, the most interesting bit for me was that: > As of March 2022, the largest known prime number 282,589,933 − 1, the largest probable prime R8177207 and the largest ellip
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by mastazi 4y ago
This is an improvement within the current paradigm of "big ag", but IMHO tech is opening the possibility of a completely different way of doing things. For example, this comment which is below the linked video imagines a robot-mai
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by mastazi 4y ago
Probably but it's one of many factors. When I (not parent) went to the Camino de Santiago, I was already an experienced hiker (I could certainly walk 30kms in a day and I had done it many times) and I brought a good pair of shoes with
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by mastazi 4y ago
Anyone who is getting 404: 1. The article is only available in AMP version so you will need to disable your AMP redirection tool temporarily if you want to read it. 2. If you are using a privacy-friendly browser, AMP redirection could be do
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by mastazi 4y ago
TL;DR: "I used to be on Twitter and now I'm trying to force Mastodon into being Twitter, ignoring what Mastodon actually is and why it was built, and now I'm upset because it didn't work". Mastodon doesn't need
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by mastazi 4y ago
Youtuber "Doctor Mix" recently used it for a rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody, it was interesting watching how he put it to use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkgxhK91kk
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by mastazi 4y ago
At first this was my thinking as well, but then towards the end of the article, the author mentions an "all hands meeting" he had with employees before completing the acquisition, and apparently he said in that occasion that he wa
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by mastazi 4y ago
edit: luckily we can read the story from sibling comment. edit 2: it's back online and I just re-archived the page in case it goes down again: https://archive.ph/vrgsQ -- yes and both archive.org and archive.is have ar
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by mastazi 4y ago
Oh, thank you for explaining that! I found some pictures, and I now understand how it works, those are not extra pegs as I thought, they are basically something similar to a guitar capo.
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by mastazi 4y ago
> I've long believed they were all in on hydrogen fuel as the next big thing, because it would preserve their internal combustion tech investment. I'm not sure about Honda specifically, but in most cases hydrogen cars are actua
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by mastazi 4y ago
In the video embedded in the article, in addition to the musician playing the octobass, there are three other performers; they all seem to be playing some sort of double bass that seems to have perhaps 6 strings? The shape of the pegbox is
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by mastazi 4y ago
I wish there was more info about Finger on the web. You can learn more about the protocol by reading RFC 1288, obviously that's not interactive at all though. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1288
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by mastazi 4y ago
the home pages of happynetbox.com and plan.cat have a list of recent updates. It's worth saving them as bookmarks on your Finger client. finger://@happynetbox.com finger://@plan.cat Unfortunately finger.farm only ha
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by mastazi 4y ago
Thank you! I visited plan.cat before, but forgot to bookmark it. Added to my comment above.
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by mastazi 4y ago
Previous discussions 2021 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28607995 2018 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18065567
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by mastazi 4y ago
If we're going minimal, then why not Finger as a Twitter replacement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_(protocol) Finger communities/hosting: https://finger.farm/ https://happy
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Google to stop Android VPN apps blocking ads – TechRadar(techradar.com)
3 points by mastazi 4y ago|0 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
there is also the problem that in some locales the first day of the week is thought to be Sunday rather than Monday, so regardless of 0-indexing or not, we can't even agree on that IRL :-D
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by mastazi 4y ago
The one in the link by OP is the official Nitter instance. LibRedirect won't help in this case, unless you enable the option "Auto-redirect offline instances to online ones" which is turned off by default.
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by mastazi 4y ago
Interesting video with Obree where his positions are tested in a wind tunnel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9H0INZ2_s
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by mastazi 4y ago
In Chromium-based browsers, you can do it in Dev Tools > "three dots menu" > More Tools > Network Conditions > User Agent > "Chrome - Windows" This worked for me and I was able to watch a movie last night
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Disney+ stopped working on each of my Linux machines(old.reddit.com)
28 points by mastazi 4y ago|3 comments
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by mastazi 4y ago
> A descent from antiquity isn’t something most of us can relate to, What? How so? Did we come out of thin air?
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by mastazi 4y ago
I care and wasn't already there. I went from Firefox to Brave after the mobile extensions fiasco but, now, I'm coming back to Firefox because of v3 (Brave said they will not block v2, but due to the fact that they don't have
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by mastazi 4y ago
I also prefer FF dev tools, even while FF was not my daily driver, I was still using its dev tools. I hate Chrome dev tools with that giant console window that takes up half of the space (even when you are not in the console tab) and even i
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by mastazi 4y ago
At the moment there are 3 posts in HN home page by "green names". Nothing strange IMHO as I've never seen any indication that post ranking is affected by age of poster account.
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by mastazi 4y ago
In addition to what other siblings already said, in Australia we have a scoring system to prove your identity (called "100 point identification") and depending on the score needed, drivers licence can get you there so it's us
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by mastazi 4y ago
Yes, this is true, point taken, I wouldn't try and use that TV to do work. But, as a streaming machine, it is really awesome, I get a level of flexibility that Apple/Google/Fire TV would never allow. But I agree with you, it&
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by mastazi 4y ago
Is there some law that mandates using a remote? I don't really understand your point

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