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by rococode 5y ago
Here's his profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts
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by rococode 5y ago
Charles Bargue's Drawing Course ("cours de dessin" - it's a book) is a classic from the 1800s. It's also in the public domain! https://archive.org/details/C.BargueDrawingCourse/page/n2
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by rococode 5y ago
Case in point: Last year, 18-year-old Andrey Esipenko beat Carlsen in classical time controls. It was Carlsen's first classical loss against a teenager in 10 years , and his first loss to a sub-2700 player in 5 years. It was also ju
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by rococode 5y ago
OSHA recommends having the top of your monitor at or below eye level. I used to do the opposite - I figured having a higher monitor would force me to look up which would keep my neck straighter, but it seems that it's actually better t
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Jack Conte(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rococode 5y ago|1 comments
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Chessle(jackli.gg)
3 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
Mullvad seems to be the most popular recommendation on HN nowadays. A couple recent threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28551960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29903695 I've been using
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by rococode 5y ago
Makes you wonder if he left because he realized he could hack $70m in Bitcoin, or he hacked $70m in Bitcoin because he had left and had nothing else to do (the hack happened in August and he left in May).
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by rococode 5y ago
Data and compute power in the 70s probably would've limited the usefulness and led people to try other things (perhaps not even "probably" - that could be what really happened), though maybe it could've been revisited w
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by rococode 5y ago
There's also Elasticlunr which is based off of lunr.js and is what mdBook uses http://elasticlunr.com/
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Hypercane(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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Contrail Shadows(naturalnavigator.com)
2 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
I'm -6 and the risk of complications is what makes me think I'll probably never want to do any corrective procedure. I had been considering it for a while, but one time when I went in for a checkup, I happened to chat with another
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Insufficient Material in Chess(old.reddit.com)
1 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
Thank you! This is exactly the sort of info I was looking for. I really appreciate it!
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Ask HN: How do I turn a B2C SaaS product into a self-hosted enterprise product?
9 points by rococode 5y ago|4 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
Rocket Internet may interest you, if you haven't already heard of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Internet They've had great success doing pretty much what you're describing.
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Competence Development for Lichess Contributors(lichess.org)
1 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
I think the academic side will start shifting towards research on efficiency and speed while companies will continue to push the cutting edge. In the NLP space there's been a lot of work recently around reducing model sizes, since they
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by rococode 5y ago
I think there are plenty of possibilities: - 3d worlds with style transfer on the textures, like maybe there's a cafe with the visual style of Starry Night or something - NPCs with conversation models that are finetuned for each NPC&#x
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Kamchatka(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
Lichess has a distributed network for analyzing chess games with Stockfish: https://lichess.org/get-fishnet https://github.com/niklasf/fishnet There's also the Mersenne prime search which passed s
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Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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The Chaos(wordsmith.org)
26 points by rococode 5y ago|2 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
Wow, off topic but why do the Dutch own so much farmland in America!? That's an unexpected one... -- Ok, I searched around for a few minutes and this was the best answer I could find: > Stephen Raes, economic minister for the Nether
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by rococode 5y ago
I wish there were some kind of master list of things to look out for with regards to health. I know generally "if you suddenly feel consistently worse than before, that's bad", but more specific advice - like what your doctor
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Gradual Change Blindness [video](youtube.com)
2 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
ShareX can do this. It lets you select a region + record with one hotkey, detects window borders and snap to those as regions, optionally converts between gif/mp4, and uploads to a variety of sites. Also handles screenshots with a quic
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by rococode 5y ago
Itoya is amazing, it's like a wonderland of stationery! I also highly recommend kakimori, which builds custom notebooks that you can select all the parts for (binding, paper, cover, etc.). Really memorable experience, and it's in
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by rococode 5y ago
Here's something that happened one week ago, a perfect (and sad) example of what happens when you only have one set of stairs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Osaka_building_fire > The victims gasped for air

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