omoikane

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by omoikane 3y ago
My first reaction when I see one of these is "where can I buy one?" And then I realize that it's not unlike having an open-face blender with those flywheels spinning at 6000 rpm. I am not sure I would feel comfortable with
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by omoikane 3y ago
I do something similar: strings -10 /dev/urandom | head It's less efficient but easier to type, and also helps with websites that requires non-alphanumeric symbols.
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by omoikane 3y ago
I didn't even know .gov changed operators until this news, but looks like there was an earlier news that said it would happen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34403055 - Verisign Loses Prestige .Gov Contract to Cl
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by omoikane 3y ago
Related, there was this post from few months back about how everything was more responsive with an older OS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933 - Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?
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by omoikane 3y ago
Reminds me of this site: https://shouldiuseacarousel.com/
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by omoikane 3y ago
Some people are very sensitive to certain words. I remember there was one time during a certain company all hands, where one guy said something along the lines of "employees violating these policies will be terminated." And then
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by omoikane 3y ago
> In Go 1.22, each iteration of the loop creates new variables This was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33160236 - Go: Redefining For Loop Variable Semantics (2022)
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by omoikane 3y ago
Can people bypass the phone number requirement with invites? I still have a few invites left and I am wondering if they have value going forward.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Same here, I was on the waitlist for a few months, during that time I saw no evidence that anyone joined Bluesky via the waitlist. Eventually I got lucky and found someone who was giving out invites on Twitter, but by then all of my friend
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by omoikane 3y ago
John Cage's 4'33" is probably one of the best jokes in music. I personally learned about 4'33" in a music class, where it was performed live -- basically it was 4'33" of ambient noise, but there was a lot
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by omoikane 3y ago
You are probably thinking of the physical fake IDs that kids use to buy alcohol, where the picture on the fake ID must resemble the owner. The application here is for certain websites that require pictures of realistic-looking IDs to regis
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by omoikane 3y ago
Articles about feature phones seem to show up every few months, this thread has a list of pointers to previous articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37875480
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by omoikane 3y ago
See also: https://observablehq.com/@d3/projection-comparison
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by omoikane 3y ago
I was looking for Dymaxion in the dropdown list and it's not there :( It doesn't have Euler Spiral[1] either, but maybe that's expecting too much. [1] http://andersk.mit.edu/euler-spiral-projection/
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by omoikane 3y ago
It seems like a truncated Pkl file can still be a syntactically valid file? This is a problem with TOML and YAML (but not JSON) where the language itself doesn't protect against truncations, and applications will need to add end-of-fi
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by omoikane 3y ago
The non-rectangular grid idea was great but didn't feel as fun for me. I wish the grid was non-rectangular but regular , like the alternative grid types available in Loopy: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham
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by omoikane 3y ago
Maybe they are actually real Confluence servers pretending to be honeypots. It's like the iocaine powder scene from Princess Bride.
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by omoikane 3y ago
From the title alone, I thought the article was going to be about "in praise of physical buttons as a better interface than touchscreen".
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by omoikane 3y ago
I think the expectation from the early days of the internet was that information could be contained, and the realization from recent years is that the expectation no longer holds. So creators either have to make their own contents accessib
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by omoikane 3y ago
Also "The Alchemy Game" from 1997. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Alchemy_Game_The_1997
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by omoikane 3y ago
Little Alchemy might have itself been inspired by an earlier game: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Alchemy_Game_The_1997
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by omoikane 3y ago
In the "countermeasures" section of the linked paper[1], it mentioned that there are some new techniques available, but repeatedly mentioned that they are not yet available in consumer systems. Maybe rowhammer will eventually be
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by omoikane 3y ago
Maybe it's a homage to the naming scheme of another NES emulator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NESticle
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by omoikane 3y ago
Is it still called a "selfie" if the rats don't get to see the resulting pictures? The dictionaries I consulted define "selfie" as the photographic output, and not the act of taking pictures.[1][2] I don't see
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by omoikane 3y ago
> The Martian The thin atmosphere bit is acknowledged by the author, you can watch his talk here around 32:35: I just want to be as accurate as I possibly could. There are a few places that are inaccurate. The biggest place that&
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by omoikane 3y ago
These reminds me of the PHP hammer: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/
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by omoikane 3y ago
I wonder if there is a special name for this patching pattern, where not only does a piece of code depend on undocumented behavior, it's depending on the exact binary bytes. See also: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
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by omoikane 3y ago
You can tell Inkscape not to insert those scripts (edit -> input/output -> SVG export -> uncheck the two options for inserting javascript), but you have to know to look for them, and I suspect most people don't look at th
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by omoikane 3y ago
If you use mesh gradient with Inkscape, it will append about 17K of Javascript to the end of the SVG that starts like this: <script id="mesh_polyfill" type="text/javascript"> It surprised me the first
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by omoikane 3y ago
> After half a year we moved on to our second language: Lua, specifically in the video game system Roblox. I almost wish we had skipped this one because it was a bit too advanced for these students I wonder if they meant Lua or its inte

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