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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
nice idea but I think not knowing exactly when the animation will change is really a negative. it's fine if you are reading and scrolling slowly in a linear manner, but whenever you want to do other things like jump 3 sentences etc. it
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
this reminds me of CollapseOS https://collapseos.org/
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
looks very nice and thorough! can't wait to have some free time in my hands to dive into it, thanks for the work.
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
now that is only weirder what is the meaning of "3lJQa6w" then ? surely you didn't randomly type that ?
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
neat! I had no idea that rpi used a closed bootloader SoC? are there no open source hardware alternatives ?
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
I have no idea how people solve constraint problems without prolog and clpfd/z. these types of problems seem to be everywhere, and yet prolog still has a very small user base, how come?
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
kinda unrelated but can someone explain to me how this one korean company has access to infrastructure to lock any phone anywhere in the the world? am I misreading something?
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
quite the rabbit hole this decision theory business. for the uninitiated, I'd recommend reading about Roko's basilisk. it's easy to dismiss these as new age techno religion crap, but I feel like there's more to this than
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
I thought the idea was to get data out/transmit out of an "infected" computer when it has no public network access: and not actually sniffing normal traffic. so it assumes a compromised air-gapped computer, is that not a conc
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
so freaking weird, even if you change only the cable between the display and the motherboard the phone knows and stops working properly. how do they even do that ? I assumed the cable doesn't have any logic or chips in it.
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
really interesting share. a reminder of the arbitrariness of our current metrics of "citation"s and "h indexes". consider Ludwig Boltzmann's non-existent google scholar profile and his paper "Further studies on
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
it's also worth pointing out the author of nanocolors https://github.com/ai has multiple PRs in the last few days asking libraries to replace chalk/colorette with his nanocolors. smells bad to me but maybe that&#x
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
love made up words! this reminds me of "The Meaning of Liff", the "dictionary of things that there aren't any words for yet" by Douglas Adams & John Lloyd. here's an online version (with dubious legality?):
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
so true! I've been trying to figure out a way to get my social sciences student friend learn programming and I was dreading to install python/conda/jupyter ? on their computer. A single-click jupyter app with electron indeed
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
cool project, though the name was confusing for me: I believe to most people "paper" first means actual paper, so I thought this was some kind of OCR system converting printed material to html?
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
oof the calibration process seems VERY daunting, involving breadboards multimeters and tinfoils. I thought HRNGs were already included in chipsets? doesn't every CPU has it ?
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
surely if you "query the endpoint a few times per day" the captcha indeed shouldn't be an obstacle to that. I thought the idea is to prevent ddos and spam, and not to distinguish between an actual human and bot. like it shoul
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
FAQ says: What does [flagged] mean? It means that users flagged a post as breaking the guidelines or otherwise not belonging on Hacker News. Moderators sometimes also add [flagged] (though not usually on submissions), and sometimes turn fla
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
I'm asking as an outsider who wants to learn: do you mean people in european universities got harassed because they were against Mao? do you have any articles about this that I can read?
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
> It increasingly looks like we live in a region in the universe that happens to have a significantly lower density than the average in the visible universe. This area of underdensity which we live in has been called the “local hole” tha
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
to me the most interesting part is "contexts" https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/contexts.html where you can define relationships to convert between things like wavelength-frequency or time-frequency.
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
it's a clear cut case really, the elementary dev issues an ultimatum to the repo owner, the repo owner points out that they do not have any legal basis to issue such an ultimatum. if elementary os people do not have a registered tradem
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
from what I understand, the main problem with a "conventional" satellite is that the transmitter beam is fixed and the shape of the antenna physically determines the shape of the coverage, which cannot change once the satellite is
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
wanted to drop a link to buzzard's very interesting talk https://youtu.be/Dp-mQ3HxgDE starting at 13:00 he talks about that frailness. also loved the bit about "elders" at 40:37
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
so true. I have a similar beef about the popular explanation for uncertainty principle: "well you see the light hits the particle very hard so we know where it was but we don't know where its gone now". urgh.
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
such great points! I've always found the tooling lacking for teaching beginners programming, sure there are good languages, but as he points out the environment is also vital. I find it very hard to introduce programming to my social s
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
I thought it was blatantly dishonest: "GPL people should ignore GPL violations because pursuing them will make them look like the giant corporations" is clearly not a defendable argument (although I might be building a strawman he
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
seems to be similar to the argument "GitHub Copilot is not infringing copyright" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27736650 : "GPL people should not push for a extension of the copyright because that will
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
what a useless and counterproductive argument. so self driving is hard, and anyone attempting to do it is a scam looking for profit? we should all listen to Dr. Cummings and stop researching self driving, because apparently it is "hard
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by oolonthegreat 5y ago
Read like a literary peace than a scientific one. I understood that dataome is a "very provocative", "intimate and inextricable" concept, but not what it actually is.

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