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by rococode 5y ago
They've just posted an update saying that the issue was fixed on July 21. It's certainly good that it's fixed... But that's still over 7 months before it was fixed, including a 2 month period where people were still bu
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by rococode 5y ago
A lot of universities' computer science departments do something like this. They'll have a cluster of machines in a room somewhere for undergrads and grads to SSH into and use as they please. Those are usually run by IT, but grad
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Average Colors of the World(erdavis.com)
1 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
I'd like to see something like this combined with daylight hours. When daylight savings ends in November and twilight starts being as early as 5pm the lack of sunlight makes me feel pretty gloomy. I find myself much happier when it&#x2
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by rococode 5y ago
China's restrictions are pretty new (implemented in 2019) so their long-term impact is yet to be seen. And Korea's law is much less restrictive since kids can play as much as they like before midnight.
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by rococode 5y ago
For context, these are China's current restrictions on gaming for minors (under age 18): - Maximum 1.5 hours of gaming on weekdays - Maximum 3 hours of gaming on weekends - No games between 10pm and 8am (note that school typically star
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The following chess position is, believe it or not, a legal position(old.reddit.com)
28 points by rococode 5y ago|3 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
Sounds like the judge had some very sharp questions, big props to her. It seemed to me like Tim Cook and Apple were not as prepared as they should've been. They didn't have any particularly unexpected/novel arguments, it was
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by rococode 5y ago
To me, VSCode competes with IDEs, Sublime competes with text editors. Startup speed accounts for a solid 95% of that distinction. If I need to make a quick edit to a file or write down a temporary (but reasonably persistent) note, the only
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China lands rover on Mars(bbc.com)
581 points by rococode 5y ago|314 comments
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by rococode 5y ago
Clicked into a couple random videos, looks like all of their video IDs are 11 characters, alphanumeric with cases. So 26+26+10 = 62 choices for each char, 62^11 = 5.2e+19 = 52 quintillion unique IDs (52 million trillions). So, yeah, samplin
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by rococode 5y ago
That's often the only thing that actually substantially changes between editions. Shuffle the exercise numbers and change the font and spacing and voila, brand new edition completely incompatible with older versions!
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by rococode 5y ago
That was my thinking too, surely their school's IRB would have a field day with this. The question is whether they ran this by their IRB at all. If they did it, there would be implications on the ethics of everything coming out of UMN.
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A Brief History of the Chair in World Chess Championships(old.reddit.com)
3 points by rococode 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Is Ask HN Down?
3 points by rococode 6y ago|3 comments
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What shade of light grey can be seen on 99% of monitors?(graphicdesign.stackexchange.com)
1 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
Sounds like a good exploratory step towards reaching the tech capabilities we need to build Dyson spheres (or similar megastructures harvesting energy in space) someday in the far future. I doubt the tech we have now is enough to make anyth
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by rococode 6y ago
Did the mouse make a big difference for you? I came across it recently and was considering getting it as my wrist has been getting pretty creaky. I tried putting my hand in that position on my desk and it certainly feels quite relaxing, but
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The Great Bitter Lake Association(99percentinvisible.org)
1 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
Video walks on Youtube. If you haven't heard of them before, they're simple first-person videos where the filmer walks around some area with a stabilized video camera - no talking, just walking. I've really missed traveling a
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by rococode 6y ago
The video is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=antLneVlxcs I think it's fair to say that there are definitely some sketchy moments in there. The one that surprised me the most was marked "Near Collisi
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by rococode 6y ago
Also very lightweight and pleasant to use are Javalin and SparkJava. I've used them for all kinds of projects with great results. Basically a Java version of Python's Flask - small and concise but stable and performant enough for
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Project Euler(projecteuler.net)
2 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
Technically yes, but they've been in touch with Duolingo's CTO and it seems like Duolingo is OK with it for now. https://duome.eu/copyright https://duome.eu/blog/16.04.2018 > Durung the pa
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by rococode 6y ago
Most IP cameras should be fine, I use Amcrest cameras in my home. They even have a guide on how to stop all outgoing connections [1]. And if you don't entirely trust that, you can always throw them onto a VLAN with no internet access,
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Duolingo's language notes all on one page(duome.eu)
266 points by rococode 6y ago|50 comments
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GitHub Discussions now available for private repositories(github.blog)
2 points by rococode 6y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 6y ago
An interesting thing about paid reviews - you can prove that the reviews are fake, but you usually can't prove that the business itself actually paid for those reviews. In a hypothetical world where companies with fake reviews are regu
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by rococode 6y ago
Is it realistic to expect the US to have the capability to block its northern borders? I can't imagine Russia siding with the US in the event of a serious conflict, and even ignoring Kazakhstan and Mongolia (which the US will likely fi
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by rococode 6y ago
Their Wikipedia page has more context, seems like those stories of Texans getting $1000+ electricity bills and the recent class-action lawsuit involved this company (I'd only seen headlines and didn't know the company's name

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