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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
What's the generate_204 thing? Low effort web searching revealed something about a default path on google services for clients to check network status. Is it more nefarious than that? Also, please tell me the ":wq" was unint
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
It seems like you are arguing against yourself now. If the phenomenon you describe is real, and you think it's also present in audiophile circles, then you agree with the post you replied to in the first place. Your earlier allusion to
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Wouldn't that just be a contrived session ID?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
If that is a bulletproof way to handle water intake, why would you worry about "forgetting"?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Was a while since I read it, but isn't this pretty much the plot of The Circle?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
How does it matter? If it gets rediscovered and is found interesting today, why is that bad? It's clearly dated, and if it was uninteresting it would simply die.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Haven't heard of any large scale phishing operations on CEF/Electron/whatever apps. Then again I'm not keeping up with infosec news. Are they a big problem?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
This is by far the most effective way to make sure said door is locked in the future. This guy deserves a reward.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
It has the potential, but it is still so hampered by the physical constraints. You look like an idiot, you're not very comfortable, performance is meh, battery life is horrible and you need ample space to play in. Even if all of this w
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I'm not a big fan of Apple, but this makes me genuinely happy. Seeing discussions and benchmarks of CPUs where Intel isn't even a contender is fantastic. What a lovely day!
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I feel the XR revolution is like fusion energy in how it's constantly 5 years away. Maybe I'm just jaded.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
The "level of security" (~tech effort) is the main competitive selling point when DRM-vendors lobby studios for endorsement. The studios are probably partly being sold a pipe dream of "unbreakable DRM", but the person yo
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
My hot, highly uneducated scoop on nuclear: we're too late to put a lot of effort into fission from an environmental perspective. If we had continued on investing and deploying as per pre-chernobyl, we might have significantly reduced
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I think much of the hate is because the thread title wasn't prefixed with a "Show HN" to indicate a pet project. Instead it's read as a possible contender in the editor space. Combine that with the somewhat naive, selly
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I did not know that. So when ordering stuff in the US, the tax is added at the checkout stage? Is it because of state tax laws being different or something?
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
It's just a cool demo. And it's interesting to see the browser being a universal runtime for stuff that's traditionally been out of its domain. Not everything has to be state of the art mind blowing brand new breakthroughs to
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
It's not a straight conversion, parent poster refers to GB/EU pricing of the product. A straight conversion would be ~54£. I did a double take as well, and had to look it up.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Bryce! Holy shit what a nostalgia bomb. Creating guns and starships using only boolean primitives. It was so weird, and in the end, only landscapes came out beautiful. I wonder what happened to that.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
They have endorsed solutions, but as it's still quite new it's a moving target. Originally they pushed for BLoCs, and now I think Provider is the preferred state management solution. There will probably be another one soon. At the
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Not the OP, but I have heard that the google assistants with screens run Flutter.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
So the reason they require a FB account is only pure altruism to create a better multiplayer experience for customers? That's cool and not absurd at all. Tuning the omnipresent Algorithm by your actions in VR might not be a major drive
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
They used to be. From what I can tell from personal experience they have fixed a lot of their QC problems. I suspect they had a push to capture market share by simply being cheapest with disregard for quality in the late 2000s/early 20
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
If they were employed to do so, they would. A curated encyclopedia with paid researchers would not be bound by the whims of weebs.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I'm not sure were it would be on a timeline compared to Encarta, but I'd add the hay days of Flash on the web to that. Much like you describe there was such a sense of fun in those days. Flash had enough abstraction and was simple
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I'm not sure "done" and "obsolete" are mutually exclusive. Something can be completed but also not relevant any more. Moment is doing its date thing excellently, it's just not the best solution nowadays.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
How so? Semantic versioning shows no indication of project status. It's just a set of numbers that defines the impact of changes since the last set of numbers.
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
The 50s analogy is only to point out how we like to extrapolate contemporary technical understanding into the future. The envisioned dyson spheres I've seen look like our current understanding and use of photovoltaics extrapolated in t
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Thank you for digging that up! It makes a lot of sense, Nick is a wise man. I still feel like it's incredibly hard to quantify just how much a difference a discovery like this (if it indeed turns out to be microbial life) would make. I
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
I have wondered about this too. I suppose the reasoning is that every solar system has a massive source of energy in the middle of it, and that mega civilizations would be stupid to not utilize it. Sounds probable, but I can see many possib
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by mekkkkkk 6y ago
Bostroms original article was about how finding intelligent life would be concerning. He even goes into detail about how a great filter could be somewhere in the evolutionary steps between simple life to complex, intelligent, civilization

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