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by quink 2y ago
Anime doesn't come in 4K, I have no real reason not to get an early 2010s TV before all this garbage, Sony, LG, Samsung, etc. All for about 100 USD, 200 USD for near enough whatever screen size I'd want for a device right at the b
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by quink 2y ago
_Kirby's Extra Epic Yarn_ was released in 2019, same year that the YouTube app was killed by Google. Also, one is a release, which means that's the point in time it started working, while one is the exact opposite, the point it st
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by quink 2y ago
Starting to see this with view counts on YouTube in Firefox after some recent UI updates.
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by quink 2y ago
Actually... they're not meant to have gaps between these lines, so: (never mind, Hacker News stripped some characters, probably because of non-BMP things, it looks like, but imagine the above on subsequent lines without a gap)
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by quink 2y ago
🬼🭈🭆🭑🬽🭋🭎🭆🬹🭑🭄🭎🬭🭆🬿🭊 Teletext in Unicode - each character is three pixels tall, two pixels wide, with separate characters for inverse as well, and diagonals to get you from one set to another. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by quink 2y ago
And conversely https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ to keep your sanity on macOS. The things that annoys me most atm: when I have multiple VS Code windows, and my web browser, if I Cmd+Tab from my web browser to VS Code _all_
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by quink 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML - Firefox had it too, but people at large just didn't want it, so it got removed. It got disabled for web pages with the release of Firefox 17, 6 months prior to th
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by quink 2y ago
That’s why you DCA and diversify… and don’t forget to account for distributions.
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by quink 2y ago
Stock exchange known for going sideways near where it was a year ago. Sounds like global discount season to me.
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by quink 2y ago
http://www.sunai.gob.ve/sunai-web/public/index.php/publicaci... according to the acronym that’s some superintendent related to internal audits, that seems pretty official. But still won’t stop the “the US man
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by quink 2y ago
Or just use any modern DOM-manipulating JavaScript framework like React - in effect putting an `<svg>` tag in very cacheable JavaScript. <div style={...}><p className="...">...</p><svg viewBox=&quot
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by quink 2y ago
That’s a blink and you miss it joke of the highest calibre - well done!
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by quink 2y ago
Base building, collectathons, grand strategy, delivery simulators there’s plenty out there to get ADHD kids into a flow state where their brains start wiring towards sustaining focus. While avoiding hyper focus through gameplay mechanics. T
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by quink 2y ago
The Collins equivalent seems to be the "Grasshopper Club": https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/milit... They mention the B-2 as a platform, that one was the most expensive aircraft cra
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by quink 2y ago
Aoki Uru will never get made and even if Top o Nerae 3 gets made, one can consider TRIGGER's entire early catalogue and Gurren Lagann spiritual sequels of sorts already. And that's it for any of GAINA's projects that have bee
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by quink 2y ago
And, thanks in no small part to the final collapse of GAINAX, they've announced a second season of Panty and Stocking after getting the rights.
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by quink 2y ago
Yeah I don't know what the sell is there... throw away the fidelity of your data when WEMI/FRBR/BIBFRAME/semantic web is coming any ~year~ decade now, soon (lol), while re-learning everything, definitely going out to ten
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by quink 2y ago
Well, until some system comes along that relies on the directory for the tags only and just splits the record using the separator characters. Which is a valid enough approach to either work around bad encoding or if your record is on someth
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by quink 2y ago
Yeah, working an a library system our path was to compose everything (taking into account of course that the octet sizes specified in the directory may or may not actually be accurate depending on whatever system produced the record) and ar
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by quink 2y ago
MARCXML is just a new format to encode what's the vast majority of the MARC 21 standard (or for that matter any other MARC variety). BIBFRAME is gonna make it obsolete Any Day Now! ("any day now" in this sector means that lib
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by quink 2y ago
(2016)
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by quink 2y ago
> You're betting on Flutter and Dart. > So am I. So is Google. RIP Dart and Flutter.
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by quink 2y ago
I know that, I wasn’t expressing incredulity at that, I was expressing incredulity at the price of 3,000 DM… while also wanting to make clear that it wasn’t 3 DM.
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by quink 2y ago
With a price on the invoice of “3.000” Mark, with the decimal point being the thousands separator. Or about 1,500 EUR in today’s money. Yeah, I don’t think so.
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by quink 2y ago
That makes five (5): https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
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by quink 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_for_Legacy_Computing#H... Specifically https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf covering, among others, all the teletext characters.
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by quink 2y ago
Because commercial events will lead Australians to hold the NZ Prime Minister as a hostage. Again.
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by quink 2y ago
It’s happened before: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=manchester+united
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by quink 3y ago
That said, Australia, ironically being one of the most terrestrial TV countries on the planet despite its low density, did trials of DVB-T2 with UHD and HEVC way back in 2018. But it hasn't eventuated into anything further, probably be
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by quink 3y ago
France is doing terrestrial UHD on DVB-T2, a 2008 standard, with HEVC for the Olympics: https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?mux=R9&liste=1&live=1... There's no major obstacle that I know of that wouldn'

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