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by rozab 9mo ago
Similar discussion on similar blog post from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196688
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by rozab 9mo ago
This really is a fantastic piece of writing, one of the most entertaining I've read on HN
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by rozab 9mo ago
Since smartphones became too large to reliably use with one hand, I've been an avid nose user. It helps to naturally possess a pointed proboscis not unlike the one pictured. I wonder if the clever interaction designers at Google had th
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by rozab 9mo ago
I wonder why an empty set takes so much more memory than an empty dict
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by rozab 9mo ago
Another low tech example - those telephoto crowd shots that were popular during covid. The 'deception' happens before the light hits the sensor, but it's no less effective https://www.theguardian.com/australia
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by rozab 10mo ago
In one of his essays, Philip Pullman suggested reading Paradise Lost out loud which was a revelation for me. I never considered reading anything out loud for myself but it changes the nature of the experience entirely. Tolkien recorded some
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by rozab 10mo ago
I've noticed for a while these bizarre and sometimes inaccurate AI summaries of pages showing up in Google search results where matches to actual page content used to be. I assumed it was Google generating them, not the 3rd parties the
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by rozab 10mo ago
Curly braces can be really hard to distinguish from parens because they appear in the same sort of place in e.g. JS, and IDEs and highlighters often render them in stupid low-contrast colours. I hate it aesethetically, but I get the usabili
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by rozab 10mo ago
All of the Google Docs icons are really thoughtfully designed, with distinctive silhouettes. Instead of making 5 tiny illegible variations on inserting a row/column/etc, they just use the + symbol. Because the symbol is the same,
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by rozab 10mo ago
More concretely, a bunch of Scottish nationalist accounts were unearthed as Iranian by the recent X location switch-on
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by rozab 11mo ago
I think she's in the mines working on her Blender/Maya alternative, Half Edge. https://half-edge.handmade.network/
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by rozab 11mo ago
What's with the entire dev board crammed in there? Is that... normal? What board is it?
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by rozab 11mo ago
That seems like the opposite of what the quoted Reddit post says: >those with newer machines needed to either have the HEVC codec from the Microsoft Store removed entirely from [Microsoft Media Foundation] or have hardware acceleration d
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by rozab 11mo ago
The source of this claim, which you helpfully did not provide, is Rupert Lowe, a far-right UK politician and shite-merchant who is so toxic he got kicked out of Reform. He does not give any indication as to where his number came from. http
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by rozab 11mo ago
That doesn't mean the process is happening naturally as asserted. For instance, wild black wolves in the US got this trait from hybridization with domesticated dogs. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2903542
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by rozab 11mo ago
SanDisks are very frequently fake, even in brick and mortar stores. Could it be you had a fake one?
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by rozab 11mo ago
The recent YouTube updates made me disabled my adblocker for a bit. Almost every ad I got was a scam. I reported one to YouTube, a deepfake investment scam. They actually got back to me and said they had removed the ad. 2 days later, I got
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by rozab 11mo ago
Lowtech magazine recently had an article about cooking with solar power: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2025/10/how-to-build-a-sol...
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by rozab 1y ago
Where do you live? Here in the UK, a company called Klarna has managed to wriggle their way into almost every single online storefront and offers plans for sub-£5 purchases.
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by rozab 1y ago
The most important feature of a launch site is having no populated areas downrange. Kilimanjaro would have Mombasa downrange. I don't know of any launch sites significantly above sea-level, the marginal performance increase wouldn&#x27
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by rozab 1y ago
I painstakingly type out MAC addresses etc. on a retro embossing-style label maker beacuse I prefer the aesthetic. I think that's the point to start making personality judgements!
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by rozab 1y ago
It was Google that featured a bicycling pelican in a presentation a few months back: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/#ai-... So I think the benchmark can be considered dead as far
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by rozab 1y ago
Wonder if this is related to the (dreadful) redesign that's rolling out today?
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by rozab 1y ago
This is not a good rebuttal since it still does not explain why terrorism gets 20,000 times more representation than accidents (which are mostly road traffic accidents).
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by rozab 1y ago
She made a mistake by saying it, but she meant it for sure. "Saddam Hussein could have prevented any child from suffering simply by meeting his obligations." I struggle to believe that cessation of food imports, medicines, medical
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by rozab 1y ago
The US-led sanctions regime against Iraq in the 90s did lead to high rates of malnutrition and excess deaths, with Madeleine Albright publicly insisting that half a million dead children would be 'worth it'.
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by rozab 1y ago
I can confirm that this does not happen in Windows 98, but does happen in Windows XP.
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by rozab 1y ago
People said the same about PlayStations, to be fair
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by rozab 1y ago
Well, no. This article has some clarifications: https://petapixel.com/is-lens-compression-fact-or-fiction/
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by rozab 1y ago
So is the cockney rhyming slang! aris -> aristotle -> bottle -> bottle and glass -> ass I wouldn't actually worry about it, it's not commonly used but I think most UK people would know of it

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