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by oofabz 5y ago
I'd like something like this but for houseflies instead of mosquitoes. Although, I suppose a simpler solution would be to install a cat door rather than propping the back door open.
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by oofabz 5y ago
My idea for a health tech start up: make a (relatively) cheap MRI machine using high-temperature superconductor tape
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by oofabz 5y ago
Quad9 is based in Switzerland, so the German court should only have jurisdiction over whatever servers are in Germany. It seems like the worst case scenario is that Quad9 shuts down their German servers, but still serves German requests fro
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by oofabz 5y ago
>I remember getting a call from the fire department commander telling me that they were not sure they are going to be able to contain the fire. "I said, "you know, we've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest t
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by oofabz 5y ago
What is the practical application of this? Free energy?
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by oofabz 5y ago
I use GNU Parallel for long-running jobs for its --eta option. If a job will take days or longer it's useful to know that early in the process. You might want to cancel it and try something else, and if you want to proceed with the lon
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by oofabz 5y ago
This is a well-written and insightful article, but I don't think it's good for HN. Divisive political and culture war issues are thoroughly covered elsewhere. I would prefer HN to focus on its unique niche and show me new ideas I
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by oofabz 5y ago
I recommend CARTA, the Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny. They have many academic lectures on human evolution on their website. In particular, check the "Past Symposia" section. https://carta.a
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by oofabz 5y ago
CGNAT is standard on mobile connections, it's more common than getting your own IPv4 address. Over the last few years, it's becoming increasingly common for residential connections, because ISPs can no longer get additional IPs fo
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by oofabz 5y ago
IPv6 is faster and more reliable because the user can connect to your site natively instead of going through NAT and CGNAT.
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by oofabz 5y ago
This is like Edward Tufte meets Donald Knuth
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by oofabz 5y ago
>why would they be trying to actively get rid of people? It's extremely demoralizing to work with people who are bad at their job. It makes me feel as though my hard work is unappreciated, because someone who is not working hard get
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by oofabz 5y ago
I cook in titanium pots. They are marketed to ultralight hikers, and are mostly too small, but you can find ones large enough for kitchen cooking. It's easier to clean than iron or steel, but not as easy as teflon. The nice thing is, u
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by oofabz 5y ago
I don't think gender ideology is an appropriate topic for HN. There is little to be gained and much to be lost from discussing it here. Little to be gained because it has nothing to do with software development, and because gender issu
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by oofabz 5y ago
Are the numbers the size in bits? If so, those are very small blocks. It seems like you would get more effective redundancy with larger blocks. Does Reed-Solomon scale so poorly that only tiny blocks are computationally feasible?
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by oofabz 5y ago
I second this. For those who don't know, tkrzw is the less-memorably-named successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet.
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by oofabz 5y ago
Noise shows up as light gray lines or dots in the DFT. In the Imagemagick example, this noise is removed by replacing those parts with black. But you want to do the reverse, so you should add noise by adding light gray features to the DFT.
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by oofabz 5y ago
If you want to go even further, Imagemagick can operate on the discrete Fourier transform of an image. The effects are unintuitive but powerful. Read the documentation at: https://legacy.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier&#x
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by oofabz 5y ago
You want to legally mandate backwards compatibility? That would cause all kinds of unintended consequences. The ability to break backwards compatibility has been central to the continued development of every platform. Windows, Mac OS, Andro
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by oofabz 5y ago
Do you plan to remove invasive weeds and plant native wildflowers/trees?
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by oofabz 6y ago
I don't see an ATX header on the motherboard. I wonder if this will be compatible with a standard PC power supply.
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by oofabz 6y ago
If this happened to me, my gut reaction would be to connect the hard drive to another, working computer, and do the recovery in a fully functional environment. With all the physical work required, it probably would have taken longer. But if
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by oofabz 6y ago
For me, it was Avara. An online multiplayer FPS in 1996, when 3D graphics and the internet still felt like science fiction. The skill ceiling was high and games were very competitive. Shout out to the ®ed §quadron, the clan I was in. I am s
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by oofabz 6y ago
>only fixed-size types I agree that intmax is silly, but I believe there are legitimate uses for variable-size types, like int_fast8_t and uint_fast16_t. These are their nominal size on x86 because the architecture has arithmetic operati
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by oofabz 6y ago
You fumbled the math. >doubling wind speeds gives ~8 times the power This describes a cubic relationship; 2 cubed is 8. >doubling the length of the blades gives something like 4 times the power output This describes a quadratic relati
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by oofabz 6y ago
This reminds me of Dave Taylor's idea for "pinky processors". These were similarly minimal, relying on conditional branches to do much of the work. Taylor thought massive numbers of these clocked at high frequencies would del
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by oofabz 6y ago
I don't believe there are any POWER machines using UEFI. The standard POWER boot process uses OPAL (Open Power Abstraction Layer) instead. But POWER does use GPT disk partitioning, which is from the UEFI standard.
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by oofabz 6y ago
I use Mate and I think it's misleading to characterize it as a reheated Gnome 2. That's how it started, but the project has come a long way since then. Mate now uses GTK3 instead of GTK2. It supports GPU-accelerated compositing an
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by oofabz 6y ago
Presumably involving MDMA in an MC-303
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by oofabz 6y ago
SubEthaEdit is a nice enough text editor that it deserves consideration even if you never use its networking features.

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