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by scoot 3y ago
I'll take the downvote as a measure of the number of HN contributors that still don't know the (important) difference. At least four people have hopefully learned from that comment. A strong signal to continue pointing it out.
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by scoot 3y ago
/disclaimer/disclosure/
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by scoot 3y ago
This sounds similar in some ways to the startup/VC ecosystem - with enough practice you can produce something marketable, but with out the right connections, it's probably going to go nowhere, and even then there's no guarant
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by scoot 3y ago
Meh. We had a PC in the electronics lab circa 1990 that ran perfectly happily with no case on either the PC or the hard-drive - spinning platters exposed.
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by scoot 3y ago
>> Is it less safe to share the “Default Folder” as encrypted then? Its folder ID is always just 'default'. > In the sense that someone could easier pre-brute-force all passwords for that specific folder ID, yes. That&#x2
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by scoot 3y ago
I was reminded of the Irish Natural History museum, which is itself a Victorian (?) era relic, stuck in time, with it's wood and glass cabinets of natural "curiosities": https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum
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by scoot 3y ago
I spotted that too, but also, it didn't recognise the "bird" until it had feet, when it is supposedly better than a human expert. I don't doubt that the examples were cherry-picked, so if this is the best it can do, it&#
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by scoot 3y ago
You'll be glad to hear that MUI is zeroing in (pun intended) on a zero runtime solution right now as an alternative to Emotion [0], although that GitHub issue doesn't capture just how far it has come. Expect more soon! [0] https:
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by scoot 3y ago
Lol, no. "[call|charging] [data|detail] records" (CDRs) are batch transferred over FTP, followed by a pseudo ETL into a billing system. It (mostly) works, but it's an archaic mess.
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by scoot 3y ago
"Grips"? I guess you mean "holds" (indoors). "Placements"? That's where you place gear, not your fingers, and you don't place gear in climbing gyms. I appreciate your enthusiasm, but pretending to hav
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by scoot 3y ago
I tried the YouTube video and was slightly alarmed to discover that I appear to be deaf above about 13.5KHz. I wondered if it might be the frequency response of my laptop speakers, but according to this site [0] it's pretty flat up to
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by scoot 3y ago
Like most software, LLMs can be run locally, or on private infrastructure. This was on the front page yesterday, which is not the only way to run an LLM locally, but about the easiest way possible: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by scoot 3y ago
That's hilarious!
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by scoot 3y ago
Looks like a high school science fair project (with a budget)…
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by scoot 3y ago
> booking.com has its own issues Don't get me started on Booking.com! I booked a hotel last minute, grabbed a pizza, then when I went back to the app to check the hotel's address was greeted with a message that the room was no
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by scoot 3y ago
> then you need to either setup the online store yourself. Or?
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by scoot 3y ago
Did anyone ever actually love Twitter? I can't remember ever getting meaningful value from it. I can't comment on MySpace as it seemed to come and go so quickly (yes, I've been online since before the web, so your dilation ma
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by scoot 3y ago
Good luck finding a UK driver that knows this, or even a pedestrian! I've had people shout at me for legally crossing a junction while the driver of a vehicle decided I was at fault, because... vehicular mass?
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by scoot 3y ago
> And while the bars were shrinking, another feature silently disappeared: buttons to click and hold down to scroll left/right in increments. This feature still exists, with a larger clickable surface, but with lower affordance – th
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by scoot 3y ago
If it's more labor intensive is it a refinement?
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by scoot 3y ago
Possibly the abbreviation of a romance language (French, Spanish, Italian, Portguese etc.) spelling of "for example" ("par exemple", "por ejemplo", "per esempio", "por exemplo"...)
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by scoot 3y ago
It's available already, for free: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
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by scoot 3y ago
3,757 what? KB, MB, GB, TB, PB, LOC, hours to download?
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by scoot 3y ago
As if those of us glued to a laptop for the last 20+ years haven't already... And yes I have nerd-neck and I wish I could fix it, but I fear it's too late. Despite which, my habits persist <facepalm emoji>.
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by scoot 3y ago
Congrats on your progress. Keep it up - you've got this!
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by scoot 3y ago
You can’t do it with aluminium or copper at all. There will be no heat to conduct, so hold it as long as you like.
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by scoot 3y ago
"in this instance"
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by scoot 3y ago
The YouTube video in question: https://youtu.be/eGdUDGo2Gxw The title says 4kb, but I assume it's 4KB, which is impressive but not mind blowing for a procedurally generated landscape.
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by scoot 3y ago
"Mistyped". "Typographical error" ("typo") isn't a verb.
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by scoot 3y ago
You can't determine a repository's licence, because a (mono)repo may contain multiple projects, each potentially under a different license,

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