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Amazing engineering here, but isn't this equivalent to raising your camera above the wall and then snapping a pic? This wasn't really seeing behind walls in the sense I expected.
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Literally from the article: "Popkiewicz believes these coins may have belonged to the German soldier, possibly a numismatics enthusiast, as they hail from several countries the German 73rd Infantry Division likely traversed, to which t
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This was similar to my reaction to that question, and how I'd respond to it in the interview (with curiosity around what they're trying to get out of it). It's not that I don't have strong opinions, but they are necessar
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I doubt aphantasia is related. I have it, but have been a huge book reader all my life. Have you tried audiobooks? That's been my go to whenever I'm driving, cleaning, brushing teeth, etc.
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Interesting choice to go with a PI who's focused on recovery rather than criminal convinctions. Given the lack of sophistication in this operation, I suspect recovery would have happened either way, and the thieves might have faced som
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Same memories, and even the same timeline :) I still recall being blown away by the concept of "code is data", the magic of which I haven't encountered in professional development, alas.
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Setting trolling aside, this could also be an act of a person who is very scared and angry at the diagnosis, and who is dealing with the news by looking for external factors they can blame and redirect their feelings toward. It's a ver
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Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Unknown Genius of Colour Photography(carusel.tours)
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Become a consultant and set your own hours.
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I love the fact that an early digital format for sound recordings is used here for early sound recordings. Fun fact - RealNetworks is still around.
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Sounds like DoubleSpace (later renamed to DriveSpace), which was built into MSDOS and early Windows versions. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
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The good news is that this is the final outcome, basically. While the original site did become a museum, the owner bought a building next door and opened up a trattoria there (albeit almost twenty years after starting the dig). https:&#x2F
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Please don't post ChatGPT-generated text on HN. You're very likely to be downvoted/flagged, which is what happened here. People here are capable of using ChatGPT themselves, and most of that text is not interesting in the HN
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Not just the US. As a kid growing up in Russia, I was very aware of Alexander's prominence (known to us as Alexander the Macedonian).
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Hah, and I liked 3BP but didn't care much for Egan's books (excellent ideas, poor writing IMO).
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I agree about having AI write the text, it's usually easy to tell that something is off. I do wonder if there's some merit in having AI analyze and give feedback on comments prior to posting them. Something along the lines of: &qu
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Another "haunted domain" check is by trying to post about it on social media. I ran into this with my current project's domain name. After building an MVP and trying to test the social sharing functionality, I found that Face
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I don't know about favorite ever, but I've discovered Harry Mack freestyling about a year ago and have spent dozens of hours catching up on the entire backlog, this man is a genius (and this is not a music style I even care for) .
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Teams, Meet, Skype, BlueJeans, WebEx, GoToMeeting, etc, etc. I still think Zoom is the best of the lot.
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by the same author was pretty good as well, though I liked the Genghis Khan book more.
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What is this new trend of describing recurring phenomena that one does not understand as bots? The term aphantasia was coined in 2015, so yes, it is new. We aphantasiacs only heard this described relatively recently, and my mind was blown t
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> That’s a pretty bad design decision How would you design it?
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You can extend your Quest with third-party accessories to do this. I got a better head strap with external battery support + 2 batteries and charger from BoboVR. With the magnetic snap-in the batteries can be easily replaced mid-play, in es
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This is probably the most actionable advice here. Nothing guarantees getting a job and getting interviews without much experience in current environment is going to be very challenging, but at least you can be well-prepared when an opportun
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https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/the-discovery-of-apache-zooke... - an old postmortem that I still think was a masterclass in debugging, uncovering two bugs in ZooKeeper and two in the Linux kernel. https://ab
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Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer(csoonline.com)
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My favorite video about the madness of timezones: https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY . Many great examples, but the one that blows my mind is Israelis and Palestinians living in West Bank observing different timezones in the same
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What an odd dismissal. I don't know where you're based, but in most of the US the experience of hailing a cab vs getting an Uber is night and day. The ease of use, the ratings, the price transparency, the availability - are all wa
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This is the answer. Most people don't know about levels.fyi.
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While I agree that FAANG data should be present/available, I will say that the only reason those companies are able to pay such amounts are due to their outsized valuations and the market shares they have captured. Vast majority of com

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