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by pushedx 2y ago
10 * 10 * 10 * 10 in base 12 is 10000. <12> * <12> * <12> * <12> in base 12 is 10000 Assuming that you mean the decimal number "12" and not the number 12 in base 12 which is the decimal number 14. In base 1
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by pushedx 2y ago
For some reason I expected this article to be a horror story of bad behavior from the new community upon porting to other platforms (complaints about the port etc.), and how it wasn't worth the effort. Glad to see that it's mostly
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by pushedx 3y ago
Right, Neural Networks were considered simply an academic curiousity for about 65 years. Disregarding the past is simply ignorance.
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by pushedx 3y ago
Computing systems are built in layers. The text field that you used to write that comment has a rendering layer that was only universally present across devices and operating systems about 8 years ago. We are now operating in an environmen
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by pushedx 3y ago
In the original post he mentions that he purchased the containers specifically for the purpose of the donation, so it's likely that the containers sat full for years after being donated and were only incidentally re-used. He also menti
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by pushedx 3y ago
Very very cool, mindblowing actually, seems legitimately useful. There have been a few art installations over the years that use these lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd077pa-5CI For a second I thought that the vide
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by pushedx 3y ago
KGS is where I used to play, this is the homepage: https://www.gokgs.com/ and this is the web client: https://shin.gokgs.com/ The homepage hasn't had a redesign since at the latest 2007, but the commun
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by pushedx 3y ago
Right, it was ex-Palm employees at Handspring that created the Treo. Nice documentary about this with interviews: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9_Vh9h3Ohw
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by pushedx 3y ago
Also keep in mind that the 3.0.0 patch for Deluxe changed a bunch of stats.
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by pushedx 3y ago
Mirror of the report, since the Openwall servers appear to be down. https://web.archive.org/web/20240329182300/https://www.openw...
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by pushedx 3y ago
The OpenWhisper protocol, which is supposedly implemented by Messages and WhatsApp, was designed specifically to enable anonymous key agreement between the two or more parties sending messages, and no one else, including the service provide
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by pushedx 3y ago
wouldn't do much to prevent bots
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by pushedx 3y ago
I recently booked a trip in India through a travel agent, and they shared the itinerary via https://travefy.com/ . I enjoyed using the app to review the schedule for the upcoming day and that sort of thing. No idea how much
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by pushedx 3y ago
GOOD LORD! What is happening in there Seymour?
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by pushedx 3y ago
The various documentaries on the Barkeley are some of the most memorable videos I have watched on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IEIerVw1vsw https://youtu.be/LZ-DE-hmiGE https://youtu.be/NDZdsqbc
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Tox Core is one of the nicest-to-read C codebases(github.com)
3 points by pushedx 3y ago|0 comments
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OpenDrop: An open source implementation of the Apple AirDrop protocol(github.com)
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by pushedx 3y ago
The research on the (ineffectiveness) of multivitamins I found fascinating: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivitamin#Research Rather than take a multivitamin I take a high dose of some specific supplements every fe
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by pushedx 3y ago
Most recently released board games have a quick start setup "mode" (where some random things are chosen for you), combined with a tutorial, along with summarized rules, more detailed rules, and a glossary. I have found as suggeste
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by pushedx 3y ago
from my understanding of the tarsnap client, it performs the deduplication then encryption locally to achieve high compression. still the cost is too high for my exact use case.
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by pushedx 3y ago
Ever since watching the robo-tape floor at a company where I did an internship, I have been fascinated by high density tapes. I probably won't do this but I like the suggestion.
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by pushedx 3y ago
Thanks for surfacing the story about Backblaze. I had the same type of thing happen to me with the LastPass leak, which made me very wary of closed-source supposed-e2e encrypted services. Looking at Borg, it doesn't seem to have native
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by pushedx 3y ago
Cost: Given a quick look at the cost of archival cloud storage, I guess I would be willing to spend up to $60 per month on a remote copy. How often: I would expect to access the remote files rarely (maybe once a month), and need a complete
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Ask HN: How should organize and back up 23 TiB of personal files?
46 points by pushedx 3y ago|100 comments
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by pushedx 3y ago
Dogs sniffing butts?
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Zxaaa.net – Collection of ZX Spectrum demos with video(zxaaa.net)
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by pushedx 3y ago
This has an unfortunate naming collision with the M/M/1 queue, a common stochastic model for the study of queueing theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M/M/1_queue
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by pushedx 3y ago
Where are the benchmarks? Where's the stress testing? Where's the acoustic testing? What kind of review is this? These large commerical outlets are put to shame by Gamers Nexus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUqY
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by pushedx 3y ago
If this is their advice, imagine how helpful they are in getting your car returned to you. My mom had her car stolen in the Baltimore area around 15 years ago, and they actually chased down the guy and got her car back. It was all in one pi
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by pushedx 3y ago
Ah, great! Seems like there was a tradition of having fun with the course title.

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