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by re 3y ago
>laying flat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping
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by re 3y ago
I'm not sure what exactly "how" is referring to, but by "tight handling" I mean having a smaller turning radius and losing less speed when turning.
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by re 3y ago
A not-so-fun fact about the production of bourbon/whisky is the fungus it feeds in regions with distilleries, due to the evaporation of alcohol from barrels (the "angel's share"). I thought that the article might end up
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by re 3y ago
Heavy characters in Mario 64 have tighter handling than lighter characters and can cause them to spin out when bumping into them.
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by re 3y ago
Based on the title, I expected this to somehow be related to "Office chair turns off monitors" (it wasn't, but that is also a good one). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21978004 [Edit: I see this one has
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by re 3y ago
Irritated by the UX and business model of web-based tax return preparation, I've looked into open source alternatives in the past. I hadn't come across the Open Tax Solver package mentioned in this article which looks interesting.
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by re 3y ago
Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39532586 (28 days ago, 6 comments) The other article posted also has a audiovisual version of some of the study findings which helps clarify the results: https
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by re 3y ago
> Can you spot any difference between “blöb” and “blöb”? It's tricky to try to determine this because normalization can end up getting applied unexpectedly (for instance, on Mac, Firefox appears to normalize copied text as NFC while
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by re 3y ago
If you haven't read A Fire Upon The Deep (or even if you already have), you can read the prologue and first few chapters here: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/-0812515285/A_Fire_Upon_the_De...
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The animations also stood out to me. I took a look at the source to see if they used a library or were written completely by hand and was surprised to see that they were entirely CSS-based, no JavaScript required (although the "metadat
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by re 3y ago
> Making a per order tax/fee isnt the right method to achieve their goals [...] route delivery can keep the costs down. The Seattle ordinance doesn't call for per-order fees! It requires minimum per-mile and per-minute rates, a
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by re 3y ago
New Reddit, per the appendix. I think that Old Reddit is likely to be fairly competitive (I would guess placing near Wordpress), and yeah I agree it would be interesting to have in the table to see how far it's fallen.
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by re 3y ago
Also asymmetric about the relationship is that the asker usually gets something more measurably valuable out of the exchange (getting unblocked on a problem, often one that they're working on for money) whereas the answerer is frequent
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by re 3y ago
The amount of information needed before answering a question can and should vary depending on the question itself, depending on the context. There is zero harm in giving an answer about how to draw a square with HTML Canvas, even if the as
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by re 3y ago
No, it's referring to the tableware -- every word in that position for all the phrases is a container of some sort (or at least a thing that can contain other things).
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A few interesting generations: > You malformed garbage can of podagric pig precipitations That alliteration for the second part is particularly pleasing. Although they wouldn't make good passphrases, it'd be fun to see an &quot
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by re 3y ago
Nothing, but the calculations about bits of randomness already assume that you know how the paraphrase is being generated, including all the possible words.
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Those tablets are sized for a dishwasher that holds about 4 times as many dishes, though.
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At least I think it's pretty rare for a sold extension to be turn malicious in a way that it could do permanent damage, such as stealing your passwords. It's usually more along the lines of excessively invasive tracking or injecti
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I suspect it has to do with the animated geometric background on other non-blog pages of the site, like the homepage, and because the site appears to be a custom Next.js/Tailwind app coded by a college student and not a professional we
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by re 3y ago
> a 50 litre barrel ... At least a year's supply for them That's an unfathomable amount of olive oil to me! To finish off the barrel within a year between the two of them, they'd each have to be consuming 68 mL (4.6 tables
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by re 3y ago
It got no traction any of the previous times, though, and has been posted approximately twice yearly, which isn't that excessive. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=inside-fort-botox&type=story Interestingly it looks li
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by re 3y ago
When did Conde Nast/Advance Publications lose majority shareholder status for Reddit? That comment discusses it happening in 2015, but I've seen mixed citations for later dates, some claiming it still holds a majority stake. 2017:
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by re 3y ago
> Thinking in terms of differentiable programming is a given and I think certainly counts as "from scratch" in this case. I have to disagree on that being an obvious assumption for the meaning of "from scratch", espec
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by re 3y ago
> Let me explain how you can get Unicode revenge without harming a soul. Except, of course, anyone relying on a screen reader or other accessibility tool. https://kence.org/2020/10/02/accessibility-of-unico
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by re 3y ago
https://www.facebook.com/help/794535777607370#custom > Advertisers may get information from you (like your email address) when you interact with them outside of Facebook, like if you make a purchase in their store o
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by re 3y ago
> Claude Zeins takes me up on my challenge. I think Gruber meant to link that sentence to this post: https://mastodon.social/@czeins/111508306096972808
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by re 3y ago
From a quick test it looks like it supports exponents up to 9 digits long (i.e. 1.0e999999999), which, frankly, seems pretty reasonable; it's hard for me to imagine a use case where you'd want to represent numbers larger than that
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by re 3y ago
I believe this has improved in jq 1.7: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.7 > Use decimal number literals to preserve precision. Comparison operations respects precision but arithmetic ope
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Indent the code two spaces for HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

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