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by thamer 5y ago
I was curious about this too. From the dimensions listed on the website, it looks like the screen is about 6.3×3.7 inches, or about 7.3 inches diagonal. There seem to be 8-inch e-ink displays for sale on AliExpress for $20-$40, actually muc
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by thamer 5y ago
Chrome Dev tools says 2,615,081 bytes loaded in 67 requests for the first 2 pages (home page + form). Some of it is on Akamai as the article describes, but if we had everything on CloudFront and wanted to estimate the cost of 1M orders: 2.3
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by thamer 5y ago
There had been coverage of the eruption between December 29th and January 4th, and landslides due to the island's instability were certainly reported as a possible danger. Among other sources, this was covered extensively by the Geolog
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by thamer 5y ago
First impressions: the font is kinda small; the contrast is a bit too low. My first attempt at scrolling down from the intro screen immediately pushed the most recent entries above the top of the page and I had to scroll up to get back to t
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by thamer 5y ago
I've seen this kind of comment before about his presentation, and I don't really understand it. It's true that he's a fanboy and that's especially visible in his video interviews/visits with Elon Musk, but the
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by thamer 5y ago
For context for "36.15": you would access Minitel services by typing a numeric code followed by a short textual name, the most common code being 3615. Advertisements for Minitel services would say something like "Dial 3615 HO
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by thamer 5y ago
This article was behind a paywall for me ("you have reached your article limit"). Archived copy: http://archive.today/IeVtE
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by thamer 5y ago
Likely just `kubectl delete pod $pod_name`.
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by thamer 5y ago
What happens if the launch fails? If the rocket blows up on the pad? If it doesn't have enough delta-v for even a stable orbit and re-enters weeks later, at a random point on Earth?
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by thamer 5y ago
The accumulation of contaminated water is visible on aerial views on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/dr7DiK76sSWbLKF1A Most if not all of these round structures are massive tanks storing contaminated water. Looking at
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by thamer 5y ago
It is, since Spectacle is no longer maintained. Rectangle is linked from the Spectacle README on GitHub: "Spectacle users have recommended Rectangle as an open source alternative." https://github.com/eczarny/s
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by thamer 5y ago
No, it's not the same warehouse. The article says "The facility in Andover, Hampshire, burnt down [...]" – which is here: https://goo.gl/maps/sKC2oBkL9JJUawuY8 Whereas Tom Scott was at this location: ht
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by thamer 5y ago
Is this a sponsored article? It reads like an advert, gushing over this technology with no mention of downsides, limitations, or competitors. It's all great and perfect and the future is awesome. I believe the term "advertorial&qu
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by thamer 5y ago
Dhall or other typed languages like Cue definitely help a lot. It seems to me that the only acceptable amount of YAML you could have in deployment config is for a setup small enough that it doesn't warrant using Kubernetes, so any use
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by thamer 5y ago
This is a great exercise for anyone who wants to start exploring how a particular compiler works. I went through something similar in 2005, when during an internship I was working on a program reading and displaying generated Python code in
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by thamer 5y ago
The article talks about the limitations of LIGO that make it impossible (currently) to detect such a small effect, but would the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna[1] (LISA) probe be sensitive enough to measure this memory effect?
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by thamer 5y ago
I totally agree! This came up in a recent HN post so I published a user script I had written to automatically switch to the mobile version. You can also switch manually between mobile and desktop with ⌘ + M or ctrl-M. If you've switche
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by thamer 5y ago
Thanks for this paper! This is exactly what I was looking for.
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by thamer 5y ago
I also went to Pompeii ~25 years ago and still remember being fascinated by the latrines. This article has a few more photos from Pompeii and Rome including the Cloaca Maxima, as well as a map of public and private latrines discovered in th
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by thamer 5y ago
I see you've added a sharing feature! Thanks for this. It really says something about the elegance of the image generation algorithm when the sharing code is about as long as the code to generate images. I was surprised when I first sa
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by thamer 5y ago
Something I've noticed that both GPT-2 and GPT-3 tend to do is get stuck in a loop, repeating the same thing over and over again. As if the system was relying on recent text/concepts to go to the next utterance, only getting into
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Hackers Steal FIFA 21 Source Code, Tools in EA Breach(threatpost.com)
1 points by thamer 5y ago|1 comments
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by thamer 5y ago
I would also second the idea of putting the seed in the URL, even with just an anchor link so that all processing is done in the browser. So if someone visits https://tanck.nl/wallpaper/#12345 , use this number as the s
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by thamer 5y ago
Good for you that you can afford grass-fed beef, but this doesn't scale at all. The monocrops you mention as a problem are largely used to feed cattle today: about 80% of land used for agriculture produces feed for livestock, most of i
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by thamer 5y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29346810 – this current submission has a higher ID and was submitted later. Neither have comments so far but both are on the front page. @dang if you read this, can this one be m
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by thamer 5y ago
I've always found the story of the webcam indicator shining through metal to be fascinating. On MacBook laptops from ~2011, a green light would indicate when the webcam was in use. But the magical part of this was that when it was off,
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by thamer 5y ago
This didn't really work for me. I already had Azul's Zulu v15 installed so figured I'd give this a try. I pressed ⌘ ⇧ A and typed "Choose Boot" in Actions, picked "Choose Boot Java Runtime for the IDE", th
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by thamer 5y ago
Pretty cool product. From playing around a little with it, just a few points of feedback. The first issue I noticed was with LaTeX syntax being presented in search results, e.g. "$${\text {O}}\bigl (f\bigr )$$O(f) rounds or $${\text {O
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Reputation Gaming in Stack Overflow [pdf](arxiv.org)
2 points by thamer 5y ago|0 comments
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by thamer 5y ago
Worse: I once set my E*Trade password to something it accepted but wouldn't recognize when I tried to log in… because it was too long. After changing it I got locked out of my account and had to call support to resolve the issue. The w

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