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811.
by mkl 2y ago
I think that's because people are commenting on mobile, where the lines are way shorter. What looks like a paragraph on my phone (e.g. this comment), turns out to just be a line or two.
812.
by mkl 2y ago
But see the current OpenSCAD thread for plenty of reasons you might not want to, and for alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41543386
813.
by mkl 2y ago
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=72.833333&mlon=-26.95&zo... Pretty typical-looking for the area, so it seems likely we will see more events like this as the glaciers recede. At some point we'll probably ge
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NASA Postpones Upcoming Mars Mission, Citing Delays with Bezos's Big Rocket(gizmodo.com)
2 points by mkl 2y ago|2 comments
815.
by mkl 2y ago
Everyone who uses italics on HN, which is a lot of us: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
816.
by mkl 2y ago
With braces or brackets it would have been immediately clear; I have seen that version.
817.
by mkl 2y ago
To be fair, I've never seen it used in prose like that, and had trouble understanding your comment at first. I did university boolean logic 30 years ago and have been on the internet in programming communities nearly as long.
818.
by mkl 2y ago
It says to put the --create option in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa. tftpd-hpa does support --create (at least on Ubuntu). The client program tftp-hpa (no d) doesn't support --create, but that's not what the instructions
819.
by mkl 2y ago
A4 paper has a diagonal of about 364mm (≈14.3 inches). I've not seen an e-paper e-book reader that big. Several companies lie and claim to have A4 screens when they're considerably smaller.
820.
by mkl 2y ago
It's for laptops, so no, it won't be 275W. Peak is 37W: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-unveils-core-ultra-200v-lu...
821.
by mkl 2y ago
Only after you've set up the keyboard layouts. Most computers won't have your favourite layout set up and ready to go.
822.
by mkl 2y ago
Easier to access here: https://archive.org/details/mir-titles
823.
by mkl 2y ago
Yes, those are different enough. QWERTY+Workman is no trouble either. The problem is if they are very similar.
824.
by mkl 2y ago
This seems risky. Many years ago, I could happily type in QWERTY and Dvorak (Colemak and Workman didn't exist yet), 60wpm on each in consecutive minutes. But I was having trouble with my joints (genetic condition). Moving my hand ov
825.
by mkl 2y ago
I was about to write a similar comment, but I think they're referring to other people's keyboards.
826.
by mkl 2y ago
Or Workman, which has advantages over both: https://workmanlayout.org/ I like Workman. With that and a keyboard that has many thumb buttons (Moonlander and Ergodox clone) my wrists are much happier. I wouldn't recomme
827.
by mkl 2y ago
The vagus nerve doesn't go anywhere near your wrists or ankles, and that science page doesn't mention the vagus nerve at all.
828.
by mkl 2y ago
From the article: > However, some people have taken the vagus nerve’s expansive bodily influence as an invitation to engage in pseudoscience. In some corners of the internet, so-called polyvagal therapy — physical or breathing exercises
829.
by mkl 2y ago
Conveniently left out of the HN link, and mentioned nowhere in the page body.
830.
by mkl 2y ago
Miniforge [1] provides almost all the same benefits and features without the licensing headaches. The commercial/sign-up nagging is gone, and the GUI launcher is the only thing I've noticed is missing, but I don't use that a
831.
by mkl 2y ago
Seems like it's supposed to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41415637 by jasode, which is in turn quoting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18003253 by coffeemug in 2018.
832.
by mkl 2y ago
I like the idea, but these tasks seem incomprehensible. I looked at some near me, and one is about traffic lights at an intersection that doesn't have traffic lights, and the others just say "Highway not on ground and no tunnel,
833.
by mkl 2y ago
That was my hope at first too, but it seems very unlikely. It's implemented in Mathematica and seems quite specific to Mathematica.
834.
by mkl 2y ago
This is a common feature of mathematics; doing many things is much easier in one direction than the reverse. Encryption systems are built on this idea, e.g. RSA relies on multiplication of large integers being very easy and factoring large
835.
by mkl 2y ago
Denormal and subnormal are synonyms as far as I know and can find. That first sentence is awkwardly phrased: "subnormal numbers are the subset of denormalized numbers (sometimes called denormals)" would be better as "subnorm
836.
by mkl 2y ago
Not in floating point, which is the whole point here. Floats can only represent a finite subset of the real numbers (there are only 2^32 or 2^64 possible bit patterns, after all). They can represent lots of small numbers close together ar
837.
by mkl 2y ago
> I will note that the author says there are 1,056,964,610 "normal floating-point numbers" in [0,1) and I am not entirely sure why this disagrees with the number I produced. The reason is there in the quote. You counted both n
838.
by mkl 2y ago
That's the blog author's idea, not KDE e.V.'s: > This is a question the KDE e.V. board of directors as a whole would need to answer, and any decision on it will be made collectively. > But as one of the five members on
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by mkl 2y ago
Yes, hopefully the board that makes the decision will understand that. Or maybe improving Neon is what is meant there. There are certainly plenty of abandoned Linux distributions to demonstrate the folly of such thinking.
840.
by mkl 2y ago
I use KDE a lot, and have for almost 20 years. I far prefer it to all other desktop environments I've tried. I've never donated though, as I don't remember ever seeing anything asking me to, so I consider this change to be

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