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Ask HN: How are web browsers monetarily supported?
1 points by uticus 10mo ago|4 comments
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by uticus 10mo ago
> I wonder how we can make automakers make more repairable cars...Maybe mandating... No, mandating / regulations are not the answer, unless you're looking to artificially enforce something that the consumer doesn't want.
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by uticus 11mo ago
Interesting to me that all of your pain points involve legislation and certification, as well as insurance. Is socialistic health care not subject to legislation and certification? Or is it that legislation and certification don't cont
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by uticus 11mo ago
> legally obligated...then...costs are covered Costs aren't covered . They are obfuscated . Which is why in the US, socialistic health care is not a good alternative to our current insurance situation. Money goes from patient (or
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by uticus 11mo ago
> ...eliminating the health insurance industry and moving to some form of socialized system... I empathize with the struggles from the hassle and bloat. But what is it about socialized healthcare that is so dynamically opposed to insuran
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by uticus 11mo ago
Step 1: build a robotic arm with larger components...
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Unsigned.io(unsigned.io)
4 points by uticus 11mo ago|0 comments
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by uticus 11mo ago
First time I heard of BitBLT was the Win-11-breaking-ColorForth discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45953001
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by uticus 11mo ago
I don't understand what "tree-shaking" means, can you point to a reference to give me a better understanding?
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by uticus 11mo ago
> The reason I put “gate” in scare quotes in the illustration is that the circuits are not readily composable to implement more complex digital logic... Any good suggestions on resources talking about building complex digital logic out o
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by uticus 11mo ago
> Illustrates the relationship between the maximum keystroke distance required to navigate between two letters in a text and the number of randomly inserted newlines: I'd love to see a comparison between Vim and Kakoune or Helix.
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by uticus 11mo ago
Most of the comments here ask "what's the point?" I'd like to submit this has no practicality from a Vim tutorial perspective. However, from the perspective of anyone wanting to learn about graph theory and who understan
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by uticus 11mo ago
Yeah but MS Word is also designed with the guidance of an army of accountants and corporate shareholders. Your study plays into that, but there's a much bigger picture when you talk about analyzing how any product came to be that has M
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by uticus 11mo ago
this is the way
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by uticus 11mo ago
> It takes a single strong-willed defender, or some sort of onerous management structure... I'd say it's even more than you've stated. Not only for defending an existing project, but even for getting a project going in the
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by uticus 11mo ago
In my experience, this is a communication issue, not a logical or technical or philosophical issue. Nor the result of a fixation caused by an idea out of the blue. In my experience it may be solved by both parties spending the effort and ti
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by uticus 11mo ago
...followup after looking through comments on OP, indeed someone else already had the idea to tie in OEIS sequences in the comment at https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/10/26/987654321/#comment...
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by uticus 11mo ago
this reminds me of the online encyclopedia of integer sequences ( https://oeis.org/ ). anything similar for things like 987654321 / 123456789 ?
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Marine artillery shell detonates over freeway during Camp Pendleton event(taskandpurpose.com)
2 points by uticus 1y ago|0 comments
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Die shots of as many CPUs and other interesting chips as possible(commons.wikimedia.org)
226 points by uticus 1y ago|41 comments
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NASA's HLS Data Now Available on Microsoft's Planetary Computer(devblogs.microsoft.com)
1 points by uticus 1y ago|0 comments
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What's that animal on the front of your O'Reilly book?(oreilly.com)
5 points by uticus 1y ago|0 comments
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by uticus 1y ago
also https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/self-propagat...
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by uticus 1y ago
> In general it's impossible to "find usages" or "go to definition" > Anecdata that something is effective in 98% of cases is different from provable static verification that works 100% of the time. Ruby has i
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by uticus 1y ago
Then you realize how this actually discourages interaction with bug reports and feature requests. I've added "look how active and healthy the bug reporting and feature request systems are" to my checklist for tool evaluation.
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by uticus 1y ago
Great point.
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by uticus 1y ago
Good point. I agree, framing it as a way to store and move energy from another source (especially a more sustainable source) makes a lot more sense.
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by uticus 1y ago
> The focus for these kind of alternatives should be on aviation—with the most difficult fuel to replace. Why is aviation fuel the most difficult to replace?
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by uticus 1y ago
No doubt, it's a double-edged sword. And to be clear, I wouldn't have a problem if only the facts were put down: current methods, advantages (probably compared to other methods) and drawbacks. But to say this is "potentially
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by uticus 1y ago
> It’s essentially a manufactured replica of gasoline, designed to power internal combustion engines while potentially offering a more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Key word: "potentially". Because it is less accurat

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