targonca

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by targonca 7y ago
>This thing is Pontiac Aztec bad. Is it just me, or DDG really shows an image of a turd when searching for "Pontiac Aztec"? :D
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by targonca 7y ago
Parent meant that it can't obscure the environment. E.g. you can't put your finger behind the cover of the compass in your image.
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by targonca 7y ago
You would need a beefy machine to render 45 8k images per frame.
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by targonca 7y ago
So now everyone's pet project gets a language extension in Swift? Apple extended the language with @_functionBuilder for SwiftUI. Now Google wants to extend it with this differentiable stuff for TensorFlow. Why won't they implemen
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by targonca 7y ago
Because you don't want to be the one whose team is lacking in agility on the next company all-hands meeting ;)
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by targonca 7y ago
I prefer this one: Where the Laplace Transform comes from (Arthur Mattuck, MIT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqOboV2jgVo
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by targonca 7y ago
So, you'd like to expose the whole kernel to Spectre-type attacks. Wonderful!
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by targonca 7y ago
Sounds like gentrification to me.
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by targonca 7y ago
Why not have carrier executives install 5G base stations on their houses as a publicity stunt?
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by targonca 7y ago
Sanctions aside, Iranian pistachios taste so much better.
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by targonca 7y ago
Cauliflower ears are caused by the ear cartilage dying off and being replaced by fibrous scar tissue. That's definitely not cartilage overgrowth.
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by targonca 7y ago
Yes, Epstein committed suicide, and Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Every sane person knows that.
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by targonca 7y ago
Are there no dedicated parking spots for the disabled in the US?
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by targonca 7y ago
>although I would dispute the beauty of some of the proofs in it Agree. In my opinion, the proofs in that book are not so much about beauty, rather how one can prove seemingly complex stuff with surprisingly elementary tools.
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by targonca 7y ago
Yep, it's confirmed with p = 0.049
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by targonca 7y ago
I personally prefer buying FLAC from Bandcamp. It's the most artist-friendly option I'm aware of (and the most environmentally friendly too!). Some of them even include the same artwork in PDF that would be printed for the CD&#x2F
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by targonca 7y ago
This. Just give me FLAC with vinyl artwork in PDF. Vinyl actually has less dynamic range than CD - it's the equivalent of around 12 bit dithered PCM.
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by targonca 7y ago
>And then Mr. Tripathi went missing False. He went missing a month before the bombings: >Soon after, another redditor named Sunil as a plausible suspect after asserting a resemblance between the suspects in the FBI's pictures and
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by targonca 7y ago
keys = (f"command=\"buildsrht-shell '{b64key}'\",restrict,pty " + f"{key_type} {b64key} somebody\n") Now it depends on how b64key is sanitized.
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by targonca 7y ago
In Safari: View → Zoom In It's smart enough to remember the zoom level the next time you open HN too.
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by targonca 7y ago
His employer considers him trustworthy.
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by targonca 7y ago
There are tons of resources online about why UTF-32 doesn't make sense. I'm not gonna repeat them. Do your own research. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8195827 https://softwareengineering.stackexc
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by targonca 7y ago
That's... a very bad idea. First of all, there's graphemes are inherently not one-to-one with code points, e.g. Á = A + `. There's simply no Unicode encoding that will let you safely index into an array without paying attenti
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by targonca 7y ago
"your adrenals are gone" Wtf. Adrenal crisis [1] would be fatal. You're talking nonsense. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_crisis
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by targonca 7y ago
>white noise over the speakers W-what? I know some people swear that white noise makes them concentrate better, but forcing everyone to listen to white noise? Wtf. I'm not even sure that's legal from an occupational health &amp
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by targonca 7y ago
Hint: it's not actually "developers" per se, rather CEOs of data-siphoning companies.
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Developers accuse Apple of anti-competitive behavior with iOS 13 privacy changes(techcrunch.com)
1 points by targonca 7y ago|2 comments
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by targonca 7y ago
What data? - you ask. Let's see: - audio recordings (smart TVs have microphones) - photos of your living room (smart TVs have cameras) - still images of TV content - SSIDs of neighbouring WiFi routers for geolocation - data from scanni
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by targonca 7y ago
Good luck with that. It will simply connect to a neighbouring open WiFi and transmit your data anyway :)
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by targonca 7y ago
Ishkur's guide to electronic music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishkur's_Guide_to_Electronic_M...

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