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Nikon's Small World competition winning entries(nikonsmallworld.com)
3 points by shpx 7y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 7y ago
Web browsers have the best software distribution story. You type a natural language query about what you want, click and it installs and runs the latest version of everything you need, usually in less than a second.
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Unicode Han Unification(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by shpx 7y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 7y ago
Gboard (Google's keyboard on Android) has had voice recognition without the cloud for three months now, no extra work from ARM needed. https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/12/googles-new-voice-recognit... Look
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by shpx 7y ago
There's 2^48 MAC addresses. You can crack 2^48 MD5 hashes in 3 hours using a single Nvidia GTX 1080 Founders Edition https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27... https://www.wolframal
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by shpx 7y ago
The units aren't "waaay too small", it's the humans that are big. Realistically, we might also have shorthands for a convenient order of magnitude for each of the units http://www.ihst.ru/personal/to
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by shpx 7y ago
I have been exposed.
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by shpx 7y ago
If you were emperor of the world, I would implore you to finance a multibillion dollar project to measure the gravitational constant to higher percision so that we could move to units that actually make sense. https://en.wikipedi
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by shpx 7y ago
I like Chrome/Chromium's password manager. You just login the first time you open it and it autofills passwords. Don't have to install any additional software or configure anything, and it'll also autosuggest passwords y
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by shpx 7y ago
It's not and probably won't be any time soon, if ever. https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1034029/pc/geforce-...
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by shpx 7y ago
By the way, Nvidia GeForce Now is free right now. Go sign up for their free beta and a couple months later you'll get an invitation https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/geforce-now/wa...
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by shpx 7y ago
Hopefully Windows 11 is just a reskinned Ubuntu running all the old Windows programs through Wine.
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by shpx 7y ago
You could also buy a Pixel.
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by shpx 7y ago
Guix doesn't package proprietary software.
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by shpx 7y ago
I call it "Hanlon's razor" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by shpx 7y ago
How many articles about jokes from 1913 have you read? Do you care? What makes you think future generations will care about yours?
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by shpx 7y ago
You should learn to break by "stomping" the ground instead of sanding down your shoes. Dragging your foot on the ground to brake should happen quite rarely, when it would be dangerous or really tiring not to. Although if you live
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by shpx 7y ago
On HN, underneath the link there's a list of other links. This thing: 43 points by nwrk 2 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | favorite | 7 comments Click on the one that says "web" then click on the WSJ url in the search r
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by shpx 7y ago
https://azirevpn.com because their documentation is straightforward, their website is pretty and it seems like they were one of the first to support WireGuard VPNs, which I'm a big fan of. If you don't want to use Wire
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by shpx 7y ago
And also in 1997 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout
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by shpx 8y ago
Install uBlock Origin. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpa... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
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by shpx 8y ago
What would the equivalent of the Cloud to Butt extension for "AI" be? I get annoyed every time I see this word now and I'd like to alleviate that.
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by shpx 8y ago
rsync -P -e ssh <username>@<hostname>:/file/you/want/to/copy.txt ~/wherever/you/want/to/put/it "-P" is to report progress and to not delete files that ha
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by shpx 8y ago
Any chance you're going to get the uBlock name back? Explaining the story every time I tell someone to switch to uBlock Origin is annoying.
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by shpx 8y ago
Software archeology in a mature programming environment http://akkartik.name/post/deepness
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by shpx 8y ago
Go to settings and enable "use option as meta key"
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by shpx 8y ago
You can also hit Alt-. to insert the last argument of the previous command.
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by shpx 8y ago
If you take relativity into account (which you should, it's how the universe works after all), traveling 4.37 light years at 1G acceleration/deceleration will take 3.58 years from the perspective of the people on the ship or 6 yea
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by shpx 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_gaming#Cloud_gaming_serv... )
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by shpx 8y ago
or "past".

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