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by rob74 2mo ago
Yeah, I noticed that too and kept wondering who this Canny was that the author wants to be? Felt a bit un-Canny...
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by rob74 2mo ago
You mean honeybees? Because there are lots of other (wild) bee species that are very specialized. And they also contradict most of the other things we think we know about bees: they are usually solitary, and they rarely sting (honeybees onl
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by rob74 2mo ago
One of those moths is this guy, who (in flight, not so much in still images) looks and sounds like a miniature hummingbird: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird_hawk-moth
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by rob74 2mo ago
The most annoying thing about that is not even the "accept or pay" banners. There are more: - even if you accept the tracking, you might still not be able to read the article, because while the site may be free in principle if you
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by rob74 3mo ago
I wonder how the real House of Saud would feel about having their name used by some random news website? Not amused, probably...
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by rob74 3mo ago
Completely agree. Also: some people enjoy fiddling with their tools, installing extensions and configuring everything until it's just perfect. Other people (most, I would argue - the proverbial "silent majority") want to get
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by rob74 3mo ago
I hope I don't get into hot water here, but (without knowing the buildings you are referring to) one person's large villa/mansion can be another person's small chateau, so I'd argue that probably not all small chate
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by rob74 3mo ago
Sure, you could argue forever what should be included, what's significant enough (only still existing buildings or also ruins? how well-known does it have to be?), if only historical castles should be included or also things like Hears
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by rob74 3mo ago
Nice project, but unfortunately (as others have also commented) a bit incomplete. Some stuff missing in Romania (which I'm reasonably familiar with): - Arad fortress (similar to Alba Iulia, but less well known, currently a military bas
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by rob74 3mo ago
That reminds me of the buses with huge CNG tanks on the roof that were driving around in Romania when I was younger: https://newsweek-ro.translate.goog/auto/foto-povestea-autove... Of course, Romania had oil too, but i
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by rob74 3mo ago
If only all (or almost all) of it was flared! Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, and unfortunately there is still a lot of it escaping from oil installations unflared ( https://www.iea.org/data-and-statist
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by rob74 3mo ago
Also, the market eventually gets saturated when all the gamers willing to pay 400-650 dollars for a Steam Deck already have one. That's when a company usually launches the next generation of the hardware, or reduces the prices for the
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by rob74 3mo ago
"And to think that we just finished digitizing all those paper files five years ago! Oh well, back to square one..."
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by rob74 3mo ago
"Offline backup", as in "thousands of shelves full of dusty binders spread across offices all over the country"?
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by rob74 3mo ago
Nice! But whatever happened to "Show HN"? I see more and more people posting their own projects here (which is completely ok!) but avoiding (or unaware of?) the "Show" option. About the game (sorry, sim) itself: it was r
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by rob74 3mo ago
I wonder if Moonlighting (which is the title of a 1980s TV series, but also refers to "having a second job, typically secretly and at night, in addition to one's regular employment", as in "my phone is moonlighting as
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by rob74 3mo ago
An older sedan-style car might still be more aerodynamic than a modern SUV, simply because the frontal surface area is smaller. The less air you have to push out of the way in the first place, the better.
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by rob74 3mo ago
Case in point: the Claude Fable debacle. It's not a big stretch to imagine that one day, they might decide any AI platform developed by an American company is too dangerous to let those shady foreigners access it. Not to mention the po
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by rob74 3mo ago
Yes, it's possible . It's also possible for experienced pilots to fly an airliner completely manually for the full duration of a transatlantic flight without crashing. Still, over the last decades, autopilots and other assistance
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by rob74 3mo ago
People tried to "just do that" (write their programs in a memory safe way) in C and other languages with manual memory management for decades, and we have countless vulnerabilities that prove this simply doesn't work. That&#x
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by rob74 3mo ago
I guess it's "generic" in the sense that everyone calls a sparkling wine "champagne", same as everyone calls a copier a "Xerox machine", but if some other company would try to sell their copier using the X
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by rob74 3mo ago
I can only speak for myself, and I wouldn't necessarily describe myself as self-centered - except maybe for the fact that I resent two hours of my time being taken from me every time I have to go to the office, and not even getting any
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by rob74 3mo ago
That school of thought echoes today in statements like (paraphrasing) "you may like home office more, and I may not have any hard evidence that working from the office is better, but trust me, it improves collaboration, even if the peo
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by rob74 3mo ago
> I'm Comic Sans, asshole! https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole That text would have sounded a whole lot more convincing if it had actually used Comic Sans... EDIT: turns out it actually
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by rob74 3mo ago
So much for "Go's safety" in the quote above. Ok, it doesn't explicitly say memory safety, but what other safety could if be referring to?
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by rob74 3mo ago
Microsoft Comic Chat - the only place where using Comic Sans is appropriate
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by rob74 3mo ago
I didn't say that the prices exploded, I said that (according to the maybe dodgy experts who I read/heard) they were practically guaranteed to explode. And by explode, I mean go up. But if SpaceX was only added to the index two da
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by rob74 3mo ago
Yes, it is an obvious scam, but as far as I understood, it was a scam that was guaranteed to succeed: SpaceX is listed on Nasdaq and added to the Nasdaq index after only two weeks thanks to the rules Nasdaq changed at SpaceX's behest,
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by rob74 3mo ago
Another big reason is probably the infamous Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber which also saw use during the Battle of Britain ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Ju_87 ). Or any of the other military Junkers aircraft built d
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by rob74 3mo ago
Actually it's a little bit more complicated: the appliances are made by a company called BSH ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSH_Hausger%C3%A4te ) which was originally (since 1967!) a joint venture between Siemens a

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