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by pvillano 4y ago
"reduce, repair , reuse, recycle" Plastics are some of the most long-lasting materials. It's kind of insane that we treat them as disposable.
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-2000 Lines of Code (2004)(folklore.org)
332 points by pvillano 4y ago|167 comments
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by pvillano 4y ago
A Pelton water wheel uses a similar effect as sailing perpendicular to the wind. A normal water wheel moves at nearly the same speed as the water and extracts little useful energy, like sailing DDW. Note that the energy of the wind is kinet
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by pvillano 4y ago
Other thoughts: A 2-of-3 secret sharing scheme can guarantee that a breach of any single server would not result in any information being revealed, and the destruction of any single server would not result in any information loss. A more co
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Ask HN: Legal implications of multinational secure secret sharing cloud storage?
5 points by pvillano 4y ago|5 comments
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by pvillano 4y ago
> but also bugs that just slow things down unexpectantly. They can sometimes go undetected for decades like this one. Reminds me of the GTA Online quadratic time JSON parsing bug
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by pvillano 4y ago
For me, the real power of containers is that all the mistakes I could've made during the install are in ~a single file instead of a long forensic goose chase
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by pvillano 4y ago
That kind of editing implies the audience is incapable of their own judgement, which is a little insulting. Then again, supposedly some people idolize the Joker, Walter White, Don Draper etc.
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by pvillano 4y ago
In the Japanese translation of Inside Out, the animation was changed to replace broccoli with green peppers. This is obviously not a literal translation. However, the change serves the point of the scene. The point of the scene is to introd
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by pvillano 4y ago
I've only tested craiyon but I'm sure SD and D-E the others fail the "shirt without stripes" test
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by pvillano 4y ago
Mai re-gret is reusing my first username for multiple accounts when I first joined the internet. I've tried to transfer accounts to separate work, personal, and anonymous emails, but nothing is ever really deleted.
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by pvillano 4y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/xrxez... A machine with 3d understanding from 2d samples predates computers
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by pvillano 4y ago
There is though. Project Farm has unsponsored empirical comparative reviews of multiple products for the same use. He has affiliate links for every product tested so he makes commission no matter which one you buy. Compare this to a one-at-
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by pvillano 4y ago
One theory: If a game is GPU limited, which most are, it will be at 100% utilization no matter how much power it steals. However the CPU can't be power limited too much. Games have a physics loop that has to runs at a constant rate, in
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by pvillano 4y ago
Why manual and not a dynamic allocation of power budget like gaming laptops use? The driver decides which of the CPU or GPU is "starved" and gives the other more power.
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by pvillano 4y ago
The relevance/connection of the following now escapes me but I already wrote it so here it is. I want to detect cheating in high level chess by estimating the humanness of chess moves with AI. The idea is simple. Take a huge database o
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by pvillano 4y ago
Yes, in the current context of the need for client side rendering.
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by pvillano 4y ago
That's a fun idea: remaking good products that no longer meet the volumes for mass production, but still have enthusiasts who could finance a limited run. Like the new Commodore 64
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by pvillano 4y ago
It's probably hard to come up with a better interface. A pocket calculator can be operated with very little cognitive load. It's easy to memorize because things don't move and it's easy to discover because ~every action
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by pvillano 4y ago
some people just can't see the value in other human beings, even when it's literally dollar value
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by pvillano 4y ago
I wonder what can be generalized from this experience to empower workers in other industries. My guess is that the tradesmen you worked with have negotiating power because they can find another GC. That relies on there being many competing
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by pvillano 4y ago
I could imagine HPSC being useful for edge "compression" of sensor data. A continuously running high speed camera (or whatever they're doing at the LHC) generates terabytes of data per second, too much for direct download. Th
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by pvillano 4y ago
earlier this week a website wouldn't let me create an account with my spam@mydomain.com address, but I could use myname@mydomain.com. Do they think spam bots have emails with spam in the address? Do they think I won't just filter
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by pvillano 4y ago
yeah, but not if you're in the US > Currently, we only sell and ship Fairphone products to countries within the EEA and to Switzerland, the UK, Norway and Croatia.
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by pvillano 4y ago
Eventually, YouTube-dl might have to simulate an entire browser and human user to fool Google. Until then, the usefulness of YouTube-dl is that it's less heavy than a full browser. I bet someone's already started a YouTube downloa
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by pvillano 4y ago
Many useful recommendations can't be bought at all. My recommended pan is any antique cast iron, my recommended antidepressant is exercise, my recommended boat is don't get a boat. These options are part of what makes going to Red
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by pvillano 4y ago
Looria's ranking algorithm has no effect on what happens to the actual quality of content for Reddit users. Volunteer moderators cannot be expected to keep up with paid bot programmers. Paying objective moderators is essentially imposs
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by pvillano 4y ago
If the site becomes influential, brands will be motivated to pollute the source data, ruining both the usefulness of Reddit for reviews and Reddit communities as a whole.
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by pvillano 4y ago
If you don't have one hour to meditate, meditate for two hours. If you find the article hard to read, consider listening to it. It will take longer but it will be easier. The author's reading of the article has a little extra humo
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by pvillano 4y ago
A speed running cheating expert on YouTube has observed that many cheating scandals start with a genuinely skilled player breaking records legitimately. However, that player starts cheating later in their career to maintain their status whe

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