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by nayuki 1y ago
> I refuse to buy digital only media. DVDs are digital-only media - "Digital Versatile Disc". There is no analog component in it. The disc stores data digitally. Furthermore, if by digital you mean online distribution, well, yo
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by nayuki 1y ago
The article and comments show that as usual, the general public doesn't use metric prefixes effectively. While it is technically correct to say "1.2 million km" or "1,200,000 km", it is needlessly verbose. It is wri
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by nayuki 1y ago
> how would tattoos last so long Answered by Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGggU-Cxhv0
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by nayuki 1y ago
Today, we all agree that "byte" means 8 bits. But half a century ago, this was not so clear and the different hardware manufacturers were battling it out with different sized bytes. A reminder of that past history is that in Inter
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by nayuki 1y ago
Interac is a debit network in Canada, and the merchant fees are impressively low. They're generally under $0.10 as a flat fee, not a percentage (credit cards would cost the merchant around 2%). https://www.interac.ca/en
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by nayuki 1y ago
Additional good videos: * Vox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHuZkUUYM4 * MinuteEarth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aFzQdWQTg * MinuteFood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1hbV3EzOD
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by nayuki 1y ago
You make a good point there. I found https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/13/toxic-fo... : > Toilet paper should be considered as a potentially major source of PFAS entering wastewater tre
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by nayuki 1y ago
> Drinking demineralized or acidic RO filtered water is harmful! What is the evidence for that? I drink homemade distilled water without any remineralization steps and it's perfectly fine. Also note that pure water becomes slightly
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by nayuki 1y ago
Why does the paper contain PFAS? It's not like wood products naturally contain fluorine. Is it like water-repellent paper used in food packaging?
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by nayuki 1y ago
> if you can trap it and compress it, you’ll have enough briquettes for a weekly bbq Compressing CO2 will not create briquettes of combustible charcoal. You still need a way to chemically remove the oxygen from CO2.
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by nayuki 1y ago
Can PFAS be removed by consumer-grade reverse-osmosis (RO) water filters? Addendum: It turns out that a linked article from Le Monde answers that: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/our-times/article/2025/03/
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by nayuki 1y ago
Donald Knuth bucks the trend by insisting the KN to both be pronounced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth
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by nayuki 1y ago
> English isn't actually a language: it's three languages stacked on top of each other To give an example, number words are often covered 3 times in English - one from English (Germanic?) roots, one from Latin roots, and one fr
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by nayuki 1y ago
I learned the foundations of theoretical computer science in university. I agree with the sentiment of this post, though it is hard to perform in practice. In addition to pre-conditions and post-conditions, I would like to emphasize that lo
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by nayuki 1y ago
I wrote one: https://www.nayuki.io/page/a-fundamental-introduction-to-x86...
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> Somewhat confusingly, we can also give our function expression a name. One that’s separate from the variable name [...] This throws an error. If we can’t use that name, then what’s the point of it? Well, takeyWhiley will show up if we
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by nayuki 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table ?
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by nayuki 1y ago
> Ideally browsers would have a shortcut to enter a text selection mode They do - Firefox has the option "Search for text when you start typing". I have it enabled for decades.
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by nayuki 1y ago
Fun fact: Similar to DAT, digital audio also had the option of being stored as video signals on VHS tapes. It is also the origin of the awkward 44100 Hz sample rate, compared to the cleaner 48000 Hz with smaller prime factors. https:/
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by nayuki 1y ago
> https://i0.wp.com/www.desktoponfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2... And what are the tombstones of TALIGN1, Amigo, and UUS?
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by nayuki 1y ago
I think English monolingual people have a harder time learning and distinguishing homophones (words with same pronunciation but different spelling) - such as to/too/two, there/their/they're, its/it's, etc.
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by nayuki 1y ago
Correct. The parent of your post should have written "10 trillion kelvins", "10 terakelvins", or "10 TK". The article wrote "Temperatures there reach an astonishing 30,000-50,000 kelvin" instead of &q
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by nayuki 1y ago
A somewhat related explanation that also covers groups and fields: https://explained-from-first-principles.com/number-theory/ , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32879801
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by nayuki 1y ago
Java's virtual threads really seem like the correct solution to this problem. Each SMTP connection would get its own reader thread, and would spawn a DNS query thread and synchronously wait on it until the response comes back.
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by nayuki 1y ago
Similar to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265851 "Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch" [2025-06-13], https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client
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by nayuki 1y ago
And the 13-episode podcast from them: https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
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by nayuki 1y ago
> https://maxdamantus.gitlab.io/bayan/ Here is how to imitate it on the Terpstra keyboard web application: http://terpstrakeyboard.com/web-app/keys.htm?fundamental=261...
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by nayuki 1y ago
My favorite variant: https://novayashkola.org/janko/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isomorphic_keyboard Since a year ago,
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by nayuki 1y ago
Related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44299970 , https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44304156
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JPEG XL and Google's War Against It (2024)(vale.rocks)
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