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by ywain 4y ago
Render ( https://render.com/ ) is pretty nice.
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by ywain 5y ago
The page title and the About section both say "SQL Online", so presumably this started as a SQLite-only project then later added support for other DBs, but they kept the same domain name. Just guessing though.
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by ywain 5y ago
> The only thing different is that Ukraine is closer to EU than the rest of the countries. That's one (big) factor, but Putin's casual mention that nuclear weapons were on the table if anyone got in his way was also a good way
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by ywain 5y ago
Yep! In fact, a few years ago Blizzard tried to sunset the Battle.net brand and rename the launcher to just Blizzard Launcher or something, and they eventually gave up on that because the community was really attached to the Battle.net name
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by ywain 5y ago
> elevator surfing I had no idea that was actually a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_surfing
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by ywain 5y ago
I recently cancelled my Netflix account. Cancelling was easy enough. However about one week later, I got a churn email in the style of "Hey Ywain, here are 3 good reasons for you to ~~give us your money~~ subscribe again". I was p
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by ywain 5y ago
Is the Litter Robot really good? Most reviews I've seen said all those auto-cleaning litter boxes are meh at best, but man this is one chore I could really do without.
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by ywain 5y ago
A lot of these scams originate from outside the US though, so presumably it's a lot more difficult for the DOJ to go after them.
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by ywain 5y ago
Yeah, I was mistaken about hate speech laws, sorry about that. My point though was that all countries do restrict speech in _some_ manner (for perfectly valid reasons), and I don't understand this fascination with "free speech&quo
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by ywain 5y ago
What country does? Even the US has laws against libel, hate speech, etc.
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Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370?(admiralcloudberg.medium.com)
3 points by ywain 5y ago|0 comments
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by ywain 5y ago
I like to imagine that some developer commented out that line to allow for spying on Canadian persons and left a "TODO: find better way to identify US numbers" that was never fixed.
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by ywain 5y ago
This is basically the same as the Y component used in JPEG, right? Could the phenomenon described in the article be caused by the fact that they used JPEG images? I.e. would we observe the same thing happen with raw/uncompressed images
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by ywain 5y ago
Out of curiosity, have you given up on hot drinks entirely?
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by ywain 5y ago
I am fairly sure that people with cancer would agree that cancer sucks.
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by ywain 7y ago
It's literally the first sentence of the article: > Temperatures in France crossed the 45 Celsius threshold for the first time _since records began_ on Friday.
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by ywain 7y ago
Holy cow. I've been reading Denma on webtoons.com for over a year now, I had no idea they changed the format. The original looks so much better.
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by ywain 8y ago
Note that only some of your iCloud data is end-to-end encrypted: https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht202303 . The rest is also encrypted, but Apple does have the key and can likely be legally compelled to share it with au
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by ywain 9y ago
This isn't quite true. Support for legacy extensions is disabled by default, but can be re-enabled via the `extensions.legacy.enabled` flag in about:config.
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by ywain 9y ago
According to Wikipedia: > The world consumption of new gold produced is about 50% in jewelry, 40% in investments, and 10% in industry.
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by ywain 9y ago
Haha, thanks for writing it! :)
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by ywain 9y ago
This was linked on /r/programming and I thought it'd interest some people here, but I'm not the post's author. I wish I'd even have thought of trying to make a nearly 30 years old piece of software across multi
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Modifying Microsoft Flight Simulator 4 to run on three immersive monitors(tinmith.net)
259 points by ywain 9y ago|70 comments
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by ywain 10y ago
The author likely meant "observable universe". 2^300 ~= 2*10^90, and it's estimated that there are around 10^80 atoms in the observable universe[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universe#M
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by ywain 10y ago
> What should we call the 13th month? Undecimber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecimber