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by thakoppno 1y ago
Anyone done the tedious work of figuring out the list length? Just wondering how they determined the length was enough? Was it constrained by a datatype or just an assumption on user behavior?
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by thakoppno 1y ago
> associated images fun to imagine whether images help in this scenario
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by thakoppno 1y ago
I wonder if the alleged perpetrators are reading this thread? Are there any comments that would help with the next revision? I think both conjectures are likely true.
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by thakoppno 1y ago
Shockley’s childhood home and the HP garage are separated by two houses. I’ve wondered if there was any interaction between them but cannot find any evidence.
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by thakoppno 1y ago
In college I had the opportunity to ask the CEO how the company intended to compete with online retailers and he responded dispassionately, “with loyalty cards.”
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by thakoppno 1y ago
That’s fun. I suppose flipping up channels is far more common than down, but presumably one direction would be faster with this solution.
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by thakoppno 1y ago
> fond memories of cycling through channels as a child One thing that’s missing is the low-latency old analog systems had changing channels. Has anyone figured out a way to achieve this in the digital era?
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by thakoppno 2y ago
Can you identify a person that best exemplifies this steelman argument?
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by thakoppno 2y ago
> It is about total benefit to society, period. What should we spend the next dollar on to achieve this goal?
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by thakoppno 2y ago
Sao Paulo https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
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by thakoppno 2y ago
NFL season will likely stamp out the CBS and FOX streams in the US.
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by thakoppno 2y ago
It’s just sublime to me the cadence and intonation Sterling Hayden uses pronouncing Mandrake.
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by thakoppno 2y ago
> Google revealed to TechCrunch that a second Google employee had also been caught violating user privacy and was also dismissed. Google didn't reveal any details about what or when this occurred, other than to say the other case di
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by thakoppno 2y ago
> Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
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by thakoppno 2y ago
> I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has already made a deal with Spectrum or XFinity to use those open wifi networks that are open to customers via their account signin. I’m skeptical an arrangement like this could work. The authenticat
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by thakoppno 2y ago
Sony and Samsung were the two TV manufacturers that first introduced this technology of automatic content recognition to my knowledge.
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by thakoppno 2y ago
> In the case of one 15-year-old boy Barksdale met through a technology group in Seattle, Washington, he allegedly tapped into the boy's Google Voice call logs after the boy refused to tell him the name of his new girlfriend. Barksd
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by thakoppno 2y ago
This reminded me of one of my favorite links ever on HN. https://dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-time.html
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by thakoppno 2y ago
What about over a PSTN?
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by thakoppno 2y ago
Are there any opportunities for the local community to help preserve this history? There’s a new development planned for the SRI site and I was hoping there’d be some honorary for that hallowed ground.
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by thakoppno 2y ago
> Wilt Chamberlain averaged more than 48 minutes a game during the 1961-62 NBA season, where he played an average of 48.5 minutes per game; this is considered one of the most remarkable feats in NBA history.
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by thakoppno 2y ago
To clarify, award the offense a point when fouled shooting a 2-point shot and two points if shooting a 3. There’s still a free-throw left to earn the old fashioned way. Mostly the thinking is this encourages post-play since bigs are usually
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by thakoppno 2y ago
My proposal to fix this is to automatically award a point for all non-reboundable free throws.
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by thakoppno 2y ago
Isn’t every physical thing tunable since its materials have a resonant frequency?
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by thakoppno 2y ago
> there are black out rules so that if not enough tickets are sold for the game, the game will not be broadcast in the local area. The NFL stopped doing this in 2015. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_television_blac
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by thakoppno 2y ago
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/13229-Sout... Listing removed a couple weeks ago.
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by thakoppno 3y ago
> How many TVs/tuners are compatible with HEVC over ATSC 1.0? Great question to which I don’t know the answer. My intuition is the video decoder is the compatibility limiter but it’s beyond my expertise but not my interest.
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by thakoppno 3y ago
There are a couple issues. One is rights. It might be prohibited by contract. Also, there’s money left on the table. Server side inserted ad solutions are available and monetize better.
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by thakoppno 3y ago
> Can’t remember a single time they’d screw up basic ui/ux, content delivery or common sense. There are many, many cases of porn websites breaking the law.
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by thakoppno 3y ago
> a very non-trivial dataset to acquire Any crowdsourcing theories about how many samples would be needed to accomplish this mission? Presume phones have sufficient sensors to acquire samples.

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