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by tleb_ 6y ago
I have searched around a bit, but could not recognize the motors. Here is the best picture available, in which we can clearly see graphical content that would only be on commercial motors[0]. One of the other drone made by the same company
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by tleb_ 6y ago
I see two possible optimizations for the 10kbclub.com index page. First, you could rely on Brotli for compression (gain of ~1300 bytes on the current page) as you seem to rely on a Chrome headless which I assume would have br in its Accept-
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Why does this website require JavaScript? It won't render anything without it.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
What could be the risk visiting the site?
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by tleb_ 6y ago
I wonder why Signal's locking/password feature is not enabled by default or at least hinted at.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Watched Star Wars 3 yesterday and it's exactly this. I wasn't convinced anyone would ever act like this though, seemed too fake to me (maybe the acting was the issue?).
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Alternatives: zstdmt is an alias for zstd -T0 and zstd will listen to the ZSTD_NBTHREADS environment variable.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
What complexity are you referring to? And do you actually encounter issues while browsing using Firefox? I am curious as I don't relate to this and recommend Firefox to friends and family.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Maybe in the Hacker News bubble but that's not "a great many Internet users". People either use what is pre-installed, what they are used to or what their techy friend recommended them.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
There is a "Clear history" button, but it does not delete the data. Here is the message you see once clicked: Clear your off-Facebook activity from your account? Here are some things to know: - Your activity history will be discon
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by tleb_ 6y ago
I have tried requesting personal data from one company. They quickly said they didn't have anything associated with me; I believe it's just identified by an id that I don't know and that isn't linked directly to myself.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
I hope it lasts a bit, not just five minutes. We might finally question our dependency on Google services.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
> RTMP is very old as a protocol. Would you consider that this is, by itself, a reason not to use it?
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by tleb_ 6y ago
I wonder if this post is to +1 his number of articles on the first page, to sell his HN video course: https://gumroad.com/l/htfphn/hacker
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by tleb_ 6y ago
This has been going on and known for a few years now, why would it change in the upcoming year?
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Hit the Front Page of Hacker News – Paid Video Course(gumroad.com)
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Careful, this graph does not show user engagement, only registered users over time. Maybe 90% of users create an account for a one-timer then forget about the service.
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Scaleway – Meet Our Nuclear Fallout Shelter (2016)(blog.scaleway.com)
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Crocker's Rules(sl4.org)
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The Secret Rules for Getting Hired(shkspr.mobi)
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by tleb_ 6y ago
I have used mbsync & notmuch to do a one time filter on my entire inbox. If you handle your emails locally, this could be a solution.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
In the last section talking about improvements to reduce storage, couldn't the indexes be completely left out? Just storing the chain-end number in an array and using the array's index as the starting number. Edit: this article is
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Not sure about that. I would believe `display: none` means that screen readers won't read every section.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Is this accessible? I wonder if screen readers get it, I'd lean towards the "they don't understand it" side but no proof
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by tleb_ 6y ago
2.4rem for their paragraph font and a 1.75 line-height... How is duospace for programming? Breaking the alignment isn't an issue?
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Another solution is using a private/incognito tab
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Removing cookies for medium domains solves this.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
> The acronym TAI refers to International Atomic Time. Good one. Wikipedia[0] is more helpful and states it comes from "temps atomique international" which is french. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inte
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by tleb_ 6y ago
Nice service. Seems a lot more trustful than a web giant. Would there be an equivalent for long term backup using a technology like tape storage? An alternative to S3 Glacier Deep Archive basically.
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by tleb_ 6y ago
My answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25137787 The big things to consider are file storage, redundancy and long-term stability (availability for emails).

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