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by scoot 5y ago
It was possible of course, but there are good reasons they were intrinsically linked: The AC power line frequency was used for the vertical refresh rate for two reasons. The first reason was that the television's vacuum tube was susce
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by scoot 5y ago
Which also has the effect of making it impossible to spot obviously fraudulent emails from the domain they link to. Not that this is foolproof.
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by scoot 5y ago
Yes, but at a higher refresh rate - 525 horizontal scan lines @ 60hz vs 625 @50hz. Refresh rate is linked to mains frequency.
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by scoot 5y ago
On a related note, why do so many people on HN use "disclaimer" when they mean "disclosure"?
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by scoot 5y ago
Corn's natural purpose is not to provide food. That which most successfully germinates and survives in the particular growing conditions in the wild will prevail, not that which is most likely to be consumed.
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by scoot 5y ago
> have them remotely control relays so I could remap everything No need for relays – you can replace the bulbs with smart lightbulbs that can be controlled via Zigbee. Ikea smart bulbs are high quality and good value.
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by scoot 5y ago
Meanwhile I have no idea what he's talking about. Perhaps it's lack of context, or perhaps the writing is so "extraordinary" that it is unapproachable to mere mortals.
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by scoot 5y ago
That's what's happening in part to frozen assets of the Afghan Central Bank [1], so it's not entirely beyond the realms of possibility – but how that would work in practice in Putin controlled Russia I have no idea. https:&#
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by scoot 5y ago
Modern TVs don't have a composite input. :)
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by scoot 5y ago
NTSC just needed a different modulator; and the ZX81 used a simple transformer/bridge rectifier/smoothing capacitor brick to convert to 9v DC, with a regulator in the computer to convert down to 5v, so 60Hz wouldn't have been
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by scoot 5y ago
The title says "self driving", but the article is about a sat-nav
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by scoot 5y ago
"Mens in Black" would like a word about grammar... Although I guess it doesn't matter for an "acquire and expire" target whose name wasn't publicly recognised to start with.
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by scoot 5y ago
Not forgetting sixdegrees.com (1997-2000). Sure, it didn't access your address book directly, but it did abuse your social graph. In my memory Plaxo was connected somehow (same founder?), but it's a long time ago, so I might be mi
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by scoot 5y ago
I'm struggling to see the connection between this definition and the modern day non-black hat one. If anything, it's completely the opposite. "1)" above sounds more related to yak shaving. A hack on the other hand, far f
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by scoot 5y ago
Apologies, I edit the parent comment to remove mention of the other article with the intention of posting it as a separate comment, around the same time you posted this reply. For context here's what @dfawcus was replying to since I ca
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by scoot 5y ago
Correct about the re-up (good catch!), but not about the headline, which at the time that it was originally posted here was "Ship fight: row erupts over wreck in US waters identified as Captain Cook’s Endeavour"[1]. (Note the use
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by scoot 5y ago
> NextJS, Gatsby - Best for building "websites" that are optimized for SEO "Next.js", not to be confused with NestJS...
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by scoot 5y ago
> I guess Nest.js is actually right Not quite. "NestJS" is actually right. :)
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by scoot 5y ago
> I'd love to see more conventions and less configuration in the JS land. Which is what the parent post is saying NestJS offers. I'm not familiar with it, so can't comment on the veracity of that claim, but I think you mig
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by scoot 5y ago
It's also what the actual headline alludes to, and the subheading makes clear. OP has editorialized the post title to be more clickbaity.
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by scoot 5y ago
I have to agree - my first thought was that the writing looked "pre-cursive". As a late teen I abandoned cursive in favor of something that I could read. These days about the only thing I write by hand is my signature. It's a
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by scoot 5y ago
2048 could be defeated with a simple repeated key sequence. Not so this. No comparison.
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Google has addad a Wordle easter egg(google.com)
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by scoot 5y ago
> I wonder if the author would be open to making e.g. the car data available? Interesting - this is same incorrect use of e.g. that the author made in a couple of places. Contrary to (apparently popular) belief, "i.e." and &quo
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by scoot 5y ago
> the dices "The dice". Single "die", plural "dice".
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by scoot 5y ago
So, basically, you forgot to rate limit your API?
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by scoot 5y ago
"Indentured".
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by scoot 5y ago
I use 33mail.com which forwards (and can block) wildcard email addresses. There’s a free tier, but with paid you can option use your own domain.
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by scoot 5y ago
It takes a bit more effort than that - Discord servers can use IP address, email address, and phone number to blacklist against.
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by scoot 5y ago
> the author of the article uses the term URL a few times Just once, in reference to the domain name, which does in turn link to a URL. > Curious for an "internet historian". Where do the authors claim to be internet histori

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