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by netsharc 10mo ago
The Company has never existed, and never will. https://archive.org/download/HeliganSecretsOfTheLostGardens/...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Maybe it's my bubble, but a video format is a name given to the description of how the video is stored as a stream of bytes/how to get the video from the stream of bytes, and "codec" is the piece of software (more genera
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by netsharc 10mo ago
The second technical definition in this document is wrong. Great way to put the "the author is opinionated but is clueless" marker right near the top. > Actual video coding formats are formats like H.264 (also known as AVC) or
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It's probably worse if it was once reliable and now not, compared to if it's never reliable: if it's never reliable, you've been trained to have a huge safety margin and backup plans, if it's reliable and suddenly i
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by netsharc 10mo ago
> I remember that i did not used to make typos but since a particular period that i vaguely rememebr i have noticed that i make more and more of them. That "rememebr" has great comedic timing :D .. but as far as I can see it&#x
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Are the currency conversions automatic, do they fetch the rate of whatever service you're using? E.g. converting USD to EUR on Wise on 28 Dec 2025 surely gets you a different amount compared to doing it on Revolut, or paying EUR with y
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I remember seeing an online shop that did the whole font substitution to prevent web-scraping of their prices.. I think they even changed the substitution between elements so one couldn't just do a single pass replacement and get the o
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by netsharc 10mo ago
A baby born this year will have their 74th birthday in 2100. Although with the climate the way it is, it'll get progressively harder to reach old age.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
While writing the question "So, how did the money exchange hands?" I came up with a hypothesis: I guess the Russian regime have offshore accounts and would've transferred the amount to another foreign account they assume to b
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by netsharc 10mo ago
And which side is the driver side? Surprise, it depends on the country. And a Japanese car manufacturer will move the driver controls to sell cars in USA/Continental Europe, but flipping everything else will cost more. I've driven
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Yuck.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
OK, since you've apparently delegated all thinking to AI ("lmao"), can you ask it this: "What if there's already an established app called Tasker for Android" Plus what I said about the potential confusion of u
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I guess you didn't ask your AI if "Tasker" is a good name, or your AI doesn't know enough to answer that Tasker is a very well-known app that does what you describe, on Android. Your post made me think Tasker had branche
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Continental USA: 8 million square kilometer. Germany: 0.35 million square kilometer. On the point of the upkeep, locals know German trains are now legendary for unpunctuality and cancellations, so maybe it's not working. But the answer
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Top economists have criticized the EU because of this (a currency union without a federal budget), but since this is HN, of course we have many many more experts, who can accurately (in their heads) dismiss the whole branch as stupid. In th
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Thanks for citing the laws that legally clears the starvation of civilian children and elderly, amongst others! Since it's legal, that means it's also morally ethical? Right? Ok, case closed, let them rot to death! Next problem? H
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Hah, only 9.8? Donald Trump got 10/10.. he's the best at cognitive complexity, the best they've ever seen!
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by netsharc 10mo ago
You'd be amazed at the amount of radicalization Israeli society gets if you'd bother to look with unbiased eyes. Attacking aid trucks? Spitting at Christians, even tourists? Stealing houses of West Bank people? (Oh must be for tha
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I still remember some American forum commenter saying the "just following orders"-mentality of Nazis could never happen in the Land of the Brave...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
If the social media moguls could've remained non-cunty and not polluted their products with their toxicity, they could've had a tool that could see the state of the world in almost real-time. That would've been a very powerfu
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I think the theory is, even if they heard something, they would've shrugged (1) and said "I dunno", because they don't want to reveal to e.g. the Chinese about their listening capabilities. The sentence is also true if y
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I've read elsewhere that maybe the cops were finding bits of information (it was just fragment of files, they were not recovered fully) and the whole thing ("He's been planning to fly to the middle of the Indian Ocen!")
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Man, I need your optimism in 2026...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
But there are also hometowns of the mind that disappear, e.g. someone who grew up in East Germany would lament that the cartoons and foods they grew up with no longer exists...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
"(Nuclear reactor) parts" or "nuclear (reactor parts)"? Hopefully they have more sense then sending radioactive material on rickety ships..
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I feel the same re: killer part... Maybe the smart people are the ones who can intuitively feel the stupidity of the masses and take advantage of that, whereas the dumb are the ones who are too cautious about houses of cards and unstable Po
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Only simpletons can't see the end game of beautiful profits! https://americanliterature.com/author/hans-christian-anderse... I always thought the story ended with the emperor and his entourage being embarassed aft
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I was analyzing my spending in 2025, one of these graphs could be interesting. One could drill down e.g. Groceries > Drinks > Coca-Cola if one is so inclined...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
One probably needs an assistant that tells one news that said assistant knows is important to... one. What news actually is important? E.g. if Bitcoin is crashing? (Probably not just important for crypto-bros, but could affect the broader e
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by netsharc 10mo ago
> On Dec 24th, MongoDB reported they have no evidence of anybody exploiting the CVE Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence...

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