p1necone

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811.
by p1necone 4y ago
I have one! I think they're still pretty common in New Zealand too. They're awful though, I've only got one because I'm renting. The old school exposed spiral element ones are the best non induction electric stoves imo.
812.
by p1necone 4y ago
I doubt we live in the same place so I won't recommend anything specific. But I would find local roasters and try to buy beans that were roasted in the last couple of days. Freshness makes a pretty big difference. Finding specific ones
813.
by p1necone 4y ago
In my experience drip coffee in a halfway decent machine from halfway decent beans is miles better than most/all instant. Just because drip coffee is convenient doesn't necessarily mean it's bad. The beans you use are more im
814.
by p1necone 4y ago
> *water boiling phase excluded Why is the part of the process that consumes the most energy arbitrarily excluded from this, am I missing something or are they just being dishonest so that they can include a bigger number in their market
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by p1necone 4y ago
I imagine part of the efficiency of electric kettles is due to the heating element actually being submerged in the water, or at least directly adjacent to it. Compare to a stovetop where there's a big heavy pot between the element and
816.
by p1necone 4y ago
This is a bizarre thing to put in the fine print. They're literally just excluding most of the cooking process from their calculation and I can't see any reason why other than to artificially inflate the efficiency stat.
817.
by p1necone 4y ago
It might have something to do with the paying bit.
818.
by p1necone 4y ago
Some third party forum/social media site failing to host your writing for eternity is not even slightly the same thing as censorship. If you've written a bunch of stuff that you think is valuable and you want to make sure it'
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by p1necone 4y ago
> 575TB I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few bored and cashed up engineers with private plex servers this big out there. 575TB is way smaller than I would have guessed, although 575tb of SSD is still much more expensive than
820.
by p1necone 4y ago
Poor example maybe - you can't buy an iPhone 4 anymore. Maybe camera quality mattered when it was current because there were lots of bad cameras around, but now the range is more from "good enough" to "great" and so
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by p1necone 4y ago
> The focus on cameras is in part because shopping is easier than making pictures. I feel like this is a trend in a lot of hobbies. People (myself included) find it really fun to deep dive into research and collecting things related to
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by p1necone 4y ago
Stocks don't lose value, they just go on sale ;)
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by p1necone 4y ago
You could remove the need to explicitly specify the permissions somewhat by enforcing semver for permission addition. If you own a package at version 1.X.X and you want to add a permission requirement you have to bump the version to 2.0.0
824.
by p1necone 4y ago
This helps, but it's still unintuitive that the "standard unit drink" is not the same as the actual standard drink that most people consume. 330ml @ 4.5-5% abv (a fairly typical mass market beer) would make way more sense to
825.
by p1necone 4y ago
> maybe opiates and cocaine are not really any worse The negative health effects from moderate use of these are really not that bad, but it's very hard to moderately use them, they're a bit moreish. Although alcohol is pretty
826.
by p1necone 4y ago
I for one am very excited about real life Tamiya car racing.
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by p1necone 4y ago
The CPU isn't particularly relevant is it (although the CPUs in the PS4/XBone generation were exceptionally terrible compared to what was standard on PCs at the time)? Graphical fidelity is going to depend much more on the GPU (
828.
by p1necone 4y ago
Lower graphical fidelity than what? PlayStation?
829.
by p1necone 4y ago
Likewise, gmail would be totally useless if it was actually centralized and you couldn't email non gmail users.
830.
by p1necone 4y ago
Email is decentralized. It's mature enough that there's a bunch of trusted providers out there and you can use it without caring about the technical details, it's basically a perfect example of a successful mature decentraliz
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by p1necone 4y ago
(repeating second hand knowledge from a past HN thread here) I believe Intel provides a lot more support to third parties around motherboard design and overall hardware integration - it's possible that this is the reason that AMD wasn&
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by p1necone 4y ago
AI denoising may be making information that actually is in the image easier to spot, but AI upscaling is just inventing detail that doesn't actually exist in the source image, which seems rather dangerous for this use case.
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by p1necone 4y ago
I'm curious, did it say anything negative about anyone? I feel like it's just throwing a bunch of stuff at me to stroke my ego, and none of it felt particularly spot on (although none of it was outright wrong either). I'd be
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by p1necone 4y ago
When I say features I mean actual HTML standards, not just random features browser vendors decide to implement.
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by p1necone 4y ago
Sure it's nowhere near as bad relatively speaking as IE was at it's worst, but Safari is still consistently slower to make new features available than other major browsers. This still isn't really a problem (if it gets bad en
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by p1necone 4y ago
I don't think google did anything wrong here (at least in the first half), afaik android app privacy permissions don't differentiate between "app has access to contacts locally" and "app has access to contacts remot
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by p1necone 4y ago
> frankly nobody else's business, seeing as it's a private business Uhh, wut? How many people have to die inside a private business before it does become other peoples business. And how do you know if you've got your blind
838.
by p1necone 4y ago
Cryptocurrencies "avoid debt" only as much as regular currencies "avoid debt". If I borrow USD from someone, I sign a legal document promising to pay it back in a certain time frame and they give me the full balance of t
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by p1necone 4y ago
> I'm not sure I understand this. Wouldn't you expect higher-order code to be easier to optimise, since it comes closer to telling the compiler what you want to do, so that the compiler can figure it out, rather than forcing th
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by p1necone 4y ago
Yeah this makes me really uncomfortable. We have no idea really what causes consciousness to arise, but "enough actual animal/human neurons to perform complex tasks" doesn't seem like an unlikely way to do it to me. &q

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