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by thamer 6y ago
Interesting tech, but why not (also) broadcast this information to displays to the side of the road or above it? Much like some other warnings are already displayed on highway signs about black ice, accidents and a whole variety of other ha
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by thamer 6y ago
If folks are interested in a simple implementation to read or reuse, here's a JS version I wrote back when HTML5 and <canvas> were new and exciting (over 10 years ago now): https://nicolasff.github.io/canvas-seam-
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by thamer 6y ago
> What would this look like in multiplayer mode? Uh… no thank you. > How about chat What are you on about? (also we already have `wall`) This list of ideas is terrible and none of them make sense. It almost feels like one of these sta
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by thamer 6y ago
I was hoping to see a full example of how to use your platform, and followed the first example link to what seemed to be a detailed tutorial for how to deploy a web app, with the title "Deploying a Symfony 4/5 Application on AWS F
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by thamer 6y ago
Oh cool thanks! I'll check it out.
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by thamer 6y ago
I used Apache Arrow to store and process a relatively large amount of data, 2-3B records with ~10 fields each (still fits on one machine, but it's large enough that I have to think about it a little bit). I was originally using a simpl
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by thamer 6y ago
I don't know if the author is on HN (also not sure what difference this makes) but a payout of $100k made the news recently for https://bhavukjain.com/blog/2020/05/30/zeroday-signin-with-a... A few
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by thamer 6y ago
For Chromium-based browsers (I used it in Brave but it should work with all of them), create a new bookmark and set this as the URL: javascript:document.querySelector('video').requestPictureInPicture() It works on YouTube, Twitch,
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by thamer 6y ago
> But in countries where wine is more popular than beer, such as Italy, France, Spain and Greece, bingeing and drinking games are rarer and generally frowned on. Being from one of these countries I can safely say this is wrong on both co
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by thamer 6y ago
How to get a BSOD: 1. Open Start Menu 2. Click "Run" 3. Type: con\con and press enter
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by thamer 6y ago
It's no surprise the French government is involved in this. They love these moonshot projects that aim to create the French X for any X that is a successful service by an American company. Qwant[1], launched as "The French Googl
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by thamer 6y ago
Wow. I was going to ask for a source since your mention of hundreds of deaths sounded so unbelievable, but it was very easy to find: > Iran: Over 700 dead after drinking alcohol to cure coronavirus https://www.aljazeera.com&#x
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by thamer 6y ago
After avoiding it for a long time, I recently switched to ZSH with oh-my-zsh and I really like it. But if you're not ready to switch yet and still want to use bash for now, set this to remove the deprecation warning: export BASH_SILENC
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by thamer 6y ago
I've had poor experiences in the past with GitHub pages, with pages failing to build or hosting being terribly slow. This was years ago though, things may have changed since then. That said, I can still count 9 occurrences of degraded
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by thamer 6y ago
The AWS Calculator[1] reports that 70 GB (70k times 1 MB) of transfer out of CloudFront costs ~$3 and another 70 GB to the origin costs about another $3 – this would only be the case if the 1 MB was dynamically generated. The free tier is 5
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by thamer 6y ago
I use Hugo ( https://gohugo.io/ ) to generate static pages and host them on Amazon S3, with CloudFront on top of it for fast delivery. AWS also provides a free SSL certificate, and DNS with Route53. I couldn't be happier
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by thamer 6y ago
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/asia/new-zealand-elimination-...
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How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof?(blog.regehr.org)
3 points by thamer 7y ago|2 comments
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by thamer 7y ago
https://outline.com/7h4Wfg
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by thamer 7y ago
While I can appreciate the benefits of getting enough sleep for a student, I don't really understand how they can cover the full curriculum with only 4-5 hours a day (3 p.m. to 8 p.m. with a break for dinner.) Is it common in the U.S.
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by thamer 7y ago
How long would it take to fall 40,230 feet? I'm guessing the drill doesn't go straight down, but it's still a fun thought experiment. This free-fall calculator[1] (with air resistance) reports a fall duration of 229 seconds (
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by thamer 7y ago
I'm already uneasy with the way Plaid works, I'm not also going to disable 2FA on my account to accommodate the broken way they access accounts (pretending to be a browser instead of using APIs). There are good, secure ways to gra
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by thamer 7y ago
My Wells Fargo account uses 2FA, and recently (November 2019) I was unable to connect a service to it through Plaid, getting an error that said my account type was not supported – or something along those lines. They may have fixed it by no
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by thamer 7y ago
Haskell: https://gist.github.com/nicolasff/fe5668194769c175d9d4dfc78f... 38 bytes source code, 970 KB binary (782 KB stripped) 0m0.003s execution time, 139 syscalls (26 unique). Seeing the list of syscalls is the most
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by thamer 7y ago
This New York Times article covers the same information and much more, including nifty animations and a detailed timeline of the events: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/07/16/world/europe&#x
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by thamer 7y ago
Great example from Malcolm in the Middle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
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by thamer 7y ago
CCC has a CDN, documented here: https://media.ccc.de/about.html To get a list of mirrors for a file, copy the URL of the file you want to download, and append ?mirrorlist to get a list of mirrors. For example, here's t
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by thamer 7y ago
That's the method described in https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.03304.pdf on page 11: > A fast clock (down) is used to increase a counter. Whenever a detection is made (up), the counter is read and reset, generating
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by thamer 7y ago
These improvements to bokeh on the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL show some pretty good results: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/12/improvements-to-portrait-m...
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by thamer 7y ago
> In most U.S. state and local jurisdictions, prosecutors are elected to office. On the federal level, district attorneys are, in effect, members of the executive branch of the government; they are usually replaced when a new administrat

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