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by nyx 4y ago
It really is remarkable how far cancer treatment has progressed, even in the last few years. I'm one of the unfortunate people who, through a close family encounter with cancer, knows more about this stuff than anyone should have to. T
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by nyx 4y ago
That one looks good, pity it's an iOS exclusive. Been using FatSecret[0] myself on and off for the past few years. Name is terrible, and over time it's slowly been becoming more of a featurespam bilkfest, but for the time being it
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by nyx 4y ago
Michael Davis, comedy juggling act: "They say a comic says funny things, but a comedian says things funny. This makes me a juggler." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKRrfAzdpW8
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by nyx 4y ago
Actually, the robot in the video appears to retail for US$2700: https://shop.unitree.com/products/unitreeyushutechnologydog-... You could probably build two of these, small arms included, for that 10K GBP (if you did i
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by nyx 4y ago
"Sorry, we can't be friends anymore, you use bad software." Look, I guess I kind of get what you're saying, but unless you're Stallman this kind of lifestyle just isn't viable. Real people just want to use the
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by nyx 4y ago
Gab's userbase is described as far right in the lede of its Wikipedia article[0], which goes on to justify that descriptor by describing the types of views (neo-Nazism, white nationalism, antisemitism, QAnon, et al.) that can commonly
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by nyx 4y ago
I've given this problem a lot of thought, particularly the notion of cataloging recipes in some machine-parseable format and using them to either generate shopping lists or suggest meals based on pantry contents. I think it's a no
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by nyx 4y ago
I'm relatively new to the industry, so this is the first recession I've been around for, but I've been noticing some patterns in the public layoff announcements I've read. One thing that seems popular is a mass notificat
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by nyx 4y ago
Enrique Peñalosa, Colombian politician and past mayor of Bogota, put it well: "An advanced city is not one where the poor can get around by car, but one where even the rich use public transportation." Crime on public transit doesn
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by nyx 4y ago
Well, this is stupid and darkly hilarious. I'm only slightly ashamed to admit I created something similar, albeit much less sophisticated, several years ago. Before Reddit started worrying about advertiser friendliness and cleaned up i
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by nyx 4y ago
I've used both, though not for anything especially complicated. Your guess about the polish level is correct; ESXi blows Proxmox out of the water interface-wise, especially for some specific tasks like configuring networks or managing
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by nyx 4y ago
The title suggests it's going to be a cool ecomodernist story about efficient agricultural use of land, and it turns out it's a luxury strawberry grower selling berries a dozen at a time for $2 each in a giant plastic tray. Ick.
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by nyx 4y ago
Yep, Discord has been a hunting ground for child predators since it got popular as a chat system for gamers (many of whom are children). This has been a problem since long before a certain American political faction started throwing the wor
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by nyx 4y ago
Many of us would argue that providing privacy-invasion-as-a-service, at scale, to people who want to sell us shit is harmful and villainous. Even if you set aside the dangerous aspects of some of the "free online services", like Y
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by nyx 4y ago
Do marketers care whether their marketing is intellectually honest? Maybe that matters if the people you're marketing to are very discerning or cynical, but I'm not sure I'd put the typical Apple customer in that bucket. As l
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by nyx 4y ago
> The only way you can make such a significant shift is by saying from a particular date, you won't be able to buy a new gas boiler." Or... subsidize the installation of new heat pumps via tax credits or whatever mechanism make
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by nyx 5y ago
Entertaining read. Some of it is clearly before my time, and some of it is timeless, I think. Was kind of amused when I got to the section on avoiding detection, specifically this bullet: * I would keep in mind that the numbers I dialed on
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by nyx 5y ago
(2005)
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by nyx 5y ago
Not exactly the same question, but I think this fictional Wikipedia article is persuasive on this sort of topic: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo Won't spoil it, but it's definitely worth a read.
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by nyx 5y ago
Most people get baked, wonder if we're alone in the universe, and take a nap. Astrophysicists get baked, wonder if we're alone in the universe, and publish papers like this. Jokes aside, is there really any practical value in this
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by nyx 5y ago
The thing that stands out the most to me here is the constant drumbeat blaming the "regulators", as if the only thing keeping their buggy, shitty murdercars from going fully autonomous is those backwards gummermint bureaucrats. I&
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by nyx 5y ago
This article is a lengthy preamble to an advertisement for a SaaS product, but I'm thankful you at least get to a conclusion before the evangelism begins: there's a basic pattern here, i.e. "get data from X, transform it, and
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by nyx 5y ago
I've been following this company for a while now, and others like it, and I'm really wondering how the economics of these rent-a-big-GPU services shake out. The specs say you get a GeForce GTX 1080 (or equivalent, so maybe they&#x
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by nyx 5y ago
I haven't thought about Clover in forever, but didn't it add tabs to your existing Explorer, versus being an Explorer clone plus tabs? The behavior required for the former probably looks a lot like malware to a heuristic detection
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by nyx 5y ago
I've visited Bruce and his home as well, and it's almost startling how welcoming he is. When I went, it was the middle of a nice afternoon, and so he already happened to be outside conversing with some other guests, but if you pok
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by nyx 5y ago
This is such a sleazy game to play, and it looks to be getting more popular as corporations realize the average consumer just accepts it. Zero Motorcycles, the longest-standing electric motorcycle manufacturer, has announced for their 2022
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by nyx 5y ago
I, uh... should preface this by saying that vim is my main editor, and I always install a vim plugin if possible when using a different one. It's great, it makes me faster, etc. etc. Alright, that aside, when all is said and done I thi
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by nyx 5y ago
The progress bar is neat, and it's impressive what modern fonts are capable of and everything... but I'm personally not a fan of ligatures in code fonts. Not sure I can articulate why, but it just feels like we should draw the lin
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by nyx 5y ago
I think that's a fine way to characterize nostalgia, but it seems like a needlessly reductive, even perhaps dismissive, way to respond to the author's point of view. I think there are plenty of reasons to dislike the direction the
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by nyx 5y ago
Original comment was definitely a Poe's Law contender. Hacker News, despite its "gratify curiosity" motto, has never strayed far from its Silicon Valley VC roots, and so these comment threads are brimming with corporation lov

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