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by teraflop 2y ago
On my bike lights, the "strobe" mode doesn't actually turn the lights on and off. It turns them on steadily at moderate brightness, with periodic very brief flashes of higher intensity. That seems to me like a really good com
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by teraflop 2y ago
> Another problem, she said, is spoofing, which involves using a fake signal to mislead receivers into believing they are in a different location. The technique is no secret, as gaming communities use it to cheat in location-based games
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by teraflop 2y ago
That's not OP's fault. In spite of the policy saying you should use original titles, HN automatically strips leading words like "How..." or "Why..." from those titles, because the moderators consider such words
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by teraflop 2y ago
HN's automatic title editing strikes again. The title of this submission should presumably be: "99 Bottles of OOP now available in Python".
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by teraflop 2y ago
It's not that the layout algorithm is different , it's that the algorithm tries to optimize the positions of text labels to get an aesthetically pleasing spacing, while preventing them from overlapping each other. If you keep the
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by teraflop 2y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > If you see a [dead] post that shouldn't be dead, you can vouch for it. Click on its timestamp to go to its page, then click 'vouch' at the top. When enough u
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by teraflop 2y ago
"flagging", adj. becoming tired or less dynamic; declining in strength.
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by teraflop 2y ago
That seems like it ought to be straightforward to defeat without OCR. If you know that a particular glyph looks like the letter J, then you just need to parse the WOFF file, find that glyph's data, and find the character that maps to i
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by teraflop 2y ago
> In an emergency you can make use of anything, including a radio without an amateur radio license. Just to clarify: the law in the US (47 CFR § 97.403) says that you can use amateur radio frequencies without a license, or unlicensed fre
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by teraflop 2y ago
Reminds me of "Book-A-Minute" ( http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/ ) from yesteryear. Most of the entries are for specific books, but there are also some authors mentioned, e.g. "The Collected Works of
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by teraflop 2y ago
Nitpick: that's not what "active voice" means. The active voice equivalent of "content will be synced" would be "NotesHub will sync your content".
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by teraflop 2y ago
That's the goal -- to make the wording clearer. As the article says, many people misunderstand "sell by" to mean "only safe if used by".
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by teraflop 2y ago
Vacuum tubes typically have an internal pressure of less than 0.001 atm, sometimes much less. Any seal that can withstand a pressure difference of 0.001 atm to 1 atm from the outside can almost certainly withstand a difference of 0.001 atm
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by teraflop 2y ago
Am I just misunderstanding, or is the paper using "latency" when what they really mean is "throughput"? In other words, if I want 100 tokens of output, do I have to wait 2990 seconds? If so, the terminology seems unneces
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by teraflop 2y ago
That doesn't satisfy the "report the results as they become available" requirement. The desired behavior is that printing the first result should only wait for the first result to be available, not for all the results to be a
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by teraflop 2y ago
A variable you can only read once is a lot less useful than a variable you can read as many times as you want. Same goes for promises.
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by teraflop 2y ago
It's hard to say for sure because this write-up is much more marketing than technical, but they probably mean it uses holographic optical elements. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_optical_element These a
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by teraflop 2y ago
It's a reference to "Postel's law" which is a pretty well-known principle in the networking world, and in software more broadly. Named after Jon Postel, who edited and published many of the RFCs describing core Internet
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by teraflop 2y ago
That's what I was looking at and what prompted me to comment. That repository contains a binary blob (src/verilator/verilator_bin.wasm) without any corresponding source code.
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by teraflop 2y ago
Oh, it's entirely possible in principle (I don't know about the details of T1 in this specific case). Many years ago, there used to be a vulnerability with a lot of modems where you could send a ping packet to a machine connected
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by teraflop 2y ago
It's probably worth reading the actual text of the law: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... It says each school district is required to come up with a policy to prohibit or limit smar
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by teraflop 2y ago
This looks really cool! A nitpick: the Verilog simulation seems to be handled by the open-source Verilator project, which is packaged as a binary WASM blob without any acknowledgement or source code. I don't think that's compliant
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by teraflop 2y ago
I keep seeing people say this, but nobody ever takes the next step of proposing how this "missed opportunity" might have been fixed. The reality is that there is no possible way IPv6 could have been designed that would both solve
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by teraflop 2y ago
You're off by a factor of 1,000. The "calories" used for nutritional purposes are actually kilocalories, and a typical adult diet is about 2,000 kcal per day.
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by teraflop 2y ago
It's true that the mechanism is different, but this still works (to a limited extent) even without any external object to transfer momentum to, just using the momentum of the photons themselves. I can't be bothered to draw a diagr
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by teraflop 2y ago
The sail doesn't have to be oriented directly perpendicular to the sun. By angling it, you can gain momentum in other directions, just like a sail on a boat doesn't have to push you directly downwind. When in orbit around earth, t
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by teraflop 2y ago
"Qualified" dividends from long-term-held stocks are taxed in the same way as long-term capital gains.
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by teraflop 2y ago
The article mentions that the iron has an accelerometer-based idle mode, like most of its competitors. So no special holder is required.
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by teraflop 2y ago
Anybody else remember that time YC funded an international smuggling operation? https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/backpack https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8199286
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by teraflop 2y ago
Yes, but most homes don't have extra 220v outlets except for the ones provided for the specific appliances that need them. So if you want to plug in a device like this "tinybox" at home, it's going to be a lot easier t

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