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by rixrax 3y ago
While I want to be really excited about this, I am already terrified they'll give it a 'Foundation' treatment. E.g. take a great book, and then sort of re-write it while re-using some names and elements from the original. Or
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by rixrax 3y ago
I can't even begin to describe how excited I am about the Vision Pro and how much I want it to be everything it claims to be! Are there any info available from people who have received their headsets that are 'standard' produ
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by rixrax 3y ago
So how do I know if there is bug bounty available for vulnerabilities in exiftool? Or ghostscript? Or ffmpeg, openssl, gnutls, sox, or any number of other packages I may be using?
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by rixrax 3y ago
I recently had some old super8 films shot by my parents scanned into 1080p resolution in ProresHQ. Because of the poor optics of the original camera, imperfect focus when shooting, poor lightning conditions, and general deterioration of the
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by rixrax 3y ago
I backtracked all the way to Bash. Because I seem to write some amounts of bash scripts, it seems living inside bash is helpful. And it's really not much I feel like I am missing in my use from zsh (or fish). Bash even supports CTRL+R
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by rixrax 3y ago
Or having only ever worked at FAANG(s), many of them completely lack the skills that would make them effective as an entrepreneurs and it would be nigh useless to try to incubate new businesses out of them. Maybe. Not all. I am thinking of
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by rixrax 3y ago
Japanse live feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz2EeMSzqHg
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Magnitude 7.6 earthquake strikes Japan(reuters.com)
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by rixrax 3y ago
Loved playing Worms as a kid, not so much Liero. But before Worms, it was really Scorched Earth[0] that got me introduced to the genre. And with which I must have spent untold hours. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sc
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by rixrax 3y ago
When (if ever?) will midjourney support Dall-E style prompts where you can reason about the created image with the 'AI' instead of just trying to engineer your prompt to generate desired output?
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Raspberry OS (Bookworm) removes headless setup support(github.com)
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by rixrax 3y ago
Thanks for the tip! Already an Affinity user, but had missed the whole version 2.
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Ask HN: Black Friday Deals for Software?
11 points by rixrax 3y ago|20 comments
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by rixrax 3y ago
This is a bit similar to roll your own crypto conversation. It is fun, and a great way to learn. And once done, you should do well to never deploy your own crypto in any real life application. Friends don't let (or shouldn't at le
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by rixrax 3y ago
This. Especially now that after Putins speech/plea on national TV[0] for the army to put a stop on the rebellion, Wagner in telegram appears to have stated: “Putin made the wrong choice. ... Soon we will have a new president".[1]
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by rixrax 3y ago
Will current regime resort to use of nuclear weapons against Wagner formations as they approach Moscow? After all, the state and the power regime are facing an existential risk.
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Senators Graham and Blumenthal News Conference on Russian Nuclear Threats(c-span.org)
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Kola Superdeep Borehole – deepest artificial point on Earth(en.wikipedia.org)
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‘America First’ case for supporting Ukraine(washingtonpost.com)
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by rixrax 3y ago
The underside of the plane, and especially the part that 'drags' underwater - have you had any trouble with the sealife or other underwater objects? I would think bumping into large sea lion, shark, whale or even a large school of
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by rixrax 3y ago
- Ads crank up the volume to 11. We were watching Eurovision singing contest the other day from YT and my gawd was that annoying. Adds in the middle of every song, volume being cranked up for the adds, and as a icing on the cake, probably d
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FBI says it has sabotaged hacking tool created Russian spy agencies(news.yahoo.com)
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US sanctions Russia's FSB for taking Americans 'hostage'(dw.com)
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by rixrax 3y ago
Search located Pathfinder without problems[0]. But not the Ares III landing site[1]... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)
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Cisco Systems pulled out of Russia: destroyed $23.42M worth of equipment(gagadget.com)
80 points by rixrax 4y ago|65 comments
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by rixrax 4y ago
For anyone hailing from russia to be taken seriously, can you please answer these basic questions first: 1) Is Ukraine a sovereign country that belongs to the free people of Ukraine?, 2) Who does Crimea belong to?, 3) is russian army commit
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by rixrax 4y ago
I don't think SVB going bust is generally a big problem for a foreign startups that banked there. This is because typically(?) they are structured so that their US subsidiary has account there, not the main company. And especially if t
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by rixrax 4y ago
Sort of related question, if you have a brokerage account in a bank that goes the way of the SVB, what happens to the securities account? Will it get liquidated and you will then eventually be paid some cents on a dollar of your brokerage a
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by rixrax 4y ago
"As of December 31, 2022, the amount of estimated uninsured deposits in [SVB] U.S. offices that exceed the FDIC insurance limit was $151.5 billion. [from total deposits of $173,11B]." [0] [0] https://ir.svb.com/fin
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by rixrax 4y ago
I think you nailed it! I think there is a bit of cognitive dissonance here because a lot of the workforce at Google (and indeed at other FAANGs) are people who have worked their entire careers at Google or similar companies and now their en

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