peterburkimsher

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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   Sounds like everyone is rallying around RISC-V. What does this mean for MIPS? "ARM was probably what sank MIPS" - saagarjha https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24402107
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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   I use public transport as well as a bicycle! In Auckland there's a busway with regular services to the city every 5-10 minutes. The connecting bus to the house goes once every 30 minutes. By bike it takes 10 minutes. To go from the hou
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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   I'm 30 years old and don't have a driving licence. Many people learn to drive because their parents paid for lessons. Mine did not. In university and since, I lived in many different countries. I haven't had a long-term visa.
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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   Do you accept cookies?
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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   You're not alone. If you need someone to talk to, I'll listen. Here's some headphones, MP3s [0], and chocolate. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=welW04
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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   I think any time is fine to ask "Are you OK?" In Chinese, 你好嗎？is as common as hello. The reply indicates the level of trust they have in you. If they say "Yes, of course!" then there's nothing to worry out. "Fi
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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   I'm quite pleased with my submission: Pliny the Elder, “The Natural History”, Book I (79) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15660224
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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   That's true, but thankfully I planned my life around the Express Entry pre-requisites. Right after graduating in 2011 (BEng->MEng accelerated Electronic Systems Engineering), I went to Canada on Working Holiday, decided it was nice,
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   by peterburkimsher 6y ago

   49 months for Canada? Oh no, I guess I'll never be able to settle down, marry, and have kids. Canada was my backup option if NZ doesn't work out.
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    Sorry to say it's a similar story across the entire English-speaking world. There's a whole group discussing the situation in New Zealand, and there have been protests. I'm not particularly involved in the activism, but I am
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    Photo from the article, colourised: https://imgbox.com/YzqSitam
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    Multi-boot it and use it for testing or legacy app development! I did that with a MacBook Pro 2007 that I was kindly given. I've needed to use it to jailbreak & downgrade iPhone 4S to iOS 6.1.3, and more recently, to build an app t
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    Show HN: Building CleanCam for iOS 6 in 2020(medium.com)

    4 points by peterburkimsher 6y ago|0 comments
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    I stayed active on CouchSurfing from then on, and was also able to host in Japan and Taiwan! It's a great community, with meetups as well if you're not travelling but still want to hang out with interesting people. In May 2020 tho
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    Which tour company did you go in with? I guess Koryo. I went in with CYTS in 2010, and didn't understand a word because it was all in Chinese XD. But it was only 1000€ instead of 3000€! These days Young Pioneer Tours are much cheaper,
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    I did a similar journey in 2009, and bought my ticket from Helmut Uttenthaler - the guy who wrote that blog! My trip into North Korea got postponed until 2010, but the rest of the Trans-Siberian (including checking out a purported North Kor
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    Well done for persisting and releasing your projects! I have plenty of ideas too, I usually only get around to writing them up when I'm applying for jobs. My Show HN front-ends are functional but plain; I'm impressed that you made
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    Discussed 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24222491
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    I have a multi-boot MacBook Pro 2007 with Mac OS 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, Windows Tiny7, Windows XP, and Ubuntu. It's been useful to boot into WinXP to play AoE or WoW, or Mac OS 10.9 to run p0sixspwn to jailbr
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    Slightly off-topic, but I've been wanting an HDMI Freeze button for a while. I looked at the auvidea link that kayfox suggested, and could probably implement it in software on an RPi. But that has limited resolution and frame rate (25
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    I also used ClarisWorks in school, and made a bit of money in ~2005 by helping a science teacher convert her old AppleWorks documents to Word. I wrote an AppleScript to open each document and Save As, and within a few hours it was done. My
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    I'm sure they're red! It's interesting to see the limits of the AI. If I were better at art, I'd try to fix it manually, but I'm sure that I'd just end up making it look fake.
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    A couple of days ago I discovered DeOldify [0], so I decided to colourise the pictures from this article. No copyright infringement intended, IANAL but I guess these are old enough to be public domain by now. https://imgbox.com&#
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    In 1937, my grandpa went on a cycling trip through Germany, Austria, and Italy, then back to the UK. My mum made a photo website about it, including links to some hotels that are still operating. http://drmarionb.free.fr/193
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    It's the maximum limit for names on Ruten, a shopping site in Taiwan. That's also the reason I used the name 尸三十三尺 for deliveries for a while! ASCII characters weren't allowed. There are some words that are longer (e.g. Mesop
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    My strategy for tokenising Chinese is brute-force: read 5 characters ahead, is that a word? No -> 4 characters, No -> 3 characters, No -> 2 characters -> Yes, copy to output, move 2 characters ahead, read the next 5, 4, 3, 2. It
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    How does it compare to other islands? I've been to several in the Pacific, but still didn't make it over to the Caribbean yet. With the historical connection to the UK and France (my parents are British but I grew up in France), I
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    Digital Nomad Survey – Do You Want to Work from Saint Lucia?(islandeffect.com)

    3 points by peterburkimsher 6y ago|3 comments
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    Do you have an algorithm that will work with recompressed lossy images? I experimented with steganography before, but simply sending a picture via Facebook and clicking Save To Camera Roll on an iPhone causes serious data loss pretty quickl
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    by peterburkimsher 6y ago

    How big is your home NAS? I've been transitioning to SSD for a couple of years now, though I still use Seagate 5TB HDDs for cold-storage backups. The speed and lighter physical weight makes a huge difference to me.