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by pierrec 11y ago
HN's obsession for trap locations is starting to become uncanny. I'm not going to complain about it, though - no matter how obscure and niche it is, I gotta agree that it remains an interesting topic. How far can we push the obses
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by pierrec 11y ago
You should at least explain why you might want to say that: yes, GHB has fewer chronic effects on health (or possibly none). In that sense it's "better" than alcohol, assuming all users dose it correctly. This is, for example
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by pierrec 11y ago
Framing someone for dealing heroin is criminal and morally terrible. The guy's certainly paying and going to prison for it, and for his other crimes. This is justice doing its job. The question that I'm trying to ask is whether pu
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by pierrec 11y ago
It's interesting to see the moral ambiguity in this, in the comments and in the article itself. Perhaps the comment with the rarest insight of empathy is the one by Matthew B.: " The people who conduct this type of crime often thi
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by pierrec 11y ago
script and scriptreplay are awesome, but this isn't exactly the same thing. The docs clearly state "asciinema was inspired by script (and scriptreplay) commands". The magic of asciinema is all about playback in the browser. I
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by pierrec 11y ago
A static site still designates a site with no server-side processing, just serving of (static) content. As for it being plain HTML, no, it can be full of JS, videos, whatever, it's still static. I do remember a time when the expression
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by pierrec 11y ago
Sounds like the BRO (Border Roads Organisation) signs you can see in the Indian Himalayas. These are some of the scariest (and most dangerous) roads in the world, so it's a special sort of relief whenever you come across their subtle l
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Ad Blocking and Native Ads – No Room for Complacency(nativeadvertisinginstitute.com)
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by pierrec 11y ago
I would love to, but I'm probably severely under-qualified (apart from having used LuaJIT extensively). I'd probably get lost pretty fast while delving further into the inner workings of the compiler, a domain in which I only have
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by pierrec 11y ago
I sort of expect a top-notch compiler to perform this automatically (especially if it allows profiling). The MSVC++ compiler has pretty impressive auto-vectorization, as I've verified several times by testing the performance of my DSP
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by pierrec 11y ago
In light of this example, it's interesting to consider that world-class pen spinners [1] might have opportunities as advertising consultants. "Let us perform or teach you the exact pen spin that's required for your advertisem
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by pierrec 11y ago
>Bouldering should be in the Olympics in 2020 Climbing has been shortlisted among other sports that might get added, and the proposition includes lead, speed and bouldering. Whether it will really happen is doubtful (final decision wil
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by pierrec 11y ago
>Scroll buttons: up/down buttons, move the list 2 positions The first thing I would do in this situation is that I would sit down with Obi-Wan (or his hologram) and try to smooth out any problematic requirements. "Master Kenobi
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by pierrec 11y ago
I don't think GMail exposes the "primary/social/forums/promotional" classification (which they call categories). However, there's a workaround: in the GMail web interface, type "category:promotions&qu
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José Mujica, president of Uruguay, interviewed for the Human film [video](youtube.com)
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by pierrec 11y ago
Some people seem to unironically agree with this, so I'll say the obvious: I don't think the absence of a meaning to life has anything to do with the wastefulness of sending your ashes into orbit. It's more wasteful than spre
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by pierrec 11y ago
There's a slight weirdness in this paper in the way they measure similarity (which is admittedly a very hard problem). It's entirely derived from the recommendation networks of IMDB and Amazon, which are mostly built on the basis
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by pierrec 11y ago
I wonder if a touchscreen version is doable using the frustrated total internal reflection technique [1]. Relatively cheap projects have been done with that technique, but never with a mirror, AFAIK. It's somewhat different since it re
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by pierrec 11y ago
Genesis looks super interesting. After going through the first posts I have a lot to say about it - I will probably write to you, or post a rant somewhere. But I will say this right away: I'm unlikely to ever use it, unless some holes
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by pierrec 11y ago
It relies on WASAPI for Windows, so it should work on Vista which is the first version to introduce that API (unless I missed another requirement). And as a side note, that is definitely the way to go. WASAPI is a massive improvement over
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by pierrec 11y ago
And the first word in the list, hubris, refers a personality trait that the question is likely to reveal. Well played.
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by pierrec 11y ago
You're overdoing it a bit. I believe the most popular API/library for server-side manipulation of images is ImageMagick, and it has a few options for specifying limits that will easily protect against decompression bombs. That bei
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by pierrec 11y ago
I have a relatively good understanding of how we came to have 12 notes to the octave, you just misinterpret my statement: keyboards already had 12 notes per octave long before ET came into widespread use. And trying to reconcile this divisi
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by pierrec 11y ago
I appreciate a good attack on 12-tone Equal Temperament from time to time (and more importantly a good defense of natural intervals), but this article really goes over the top in being extremely opinionated while forcibly trying to sound fa
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by pierrec 11y ago
I was doing some research for making a similar setup and stuck with these two: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2z0evz/gpu_pa... http://vfio.blogspot.fr/2015/05/vf
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by pierrec 11y ago
Because the battle between approaches to fusion power is not so much on the grounds of how easy they are to build, but how likely they are to generate more power than they consume.
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by pierrec 11y ago
Wishful thinking. They actually make an effort to make sure OSX is not virtualizable onto other platforms. We recently had a pretty long-winded discussion about this very problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9644773
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by pierrec 11y ago
Because your citation does not refer to anesthetic use but to experimental treatment of depression/post-traumatic stress. While the other replies to your comment right now refer to real phenomenons, I don't think any of the effect
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by pierrec 11y ago
It's difficult to pinpoint the earliest description of virtual architecture. Maybe in Stanley G. Weinbaum's wonderfully foresighted Pygmalion's Spectacles (1935). Then there's also The Trouble with Bubbles (1953) by Phil
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by pierrec 11y ago
>it has many uneeded bizarro decisions I somewhat agree, though it hasn't stopped me from using it extensively. The example that you give isn't a very good one, it makes more and more sense as you get to understand the language

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