FoeNyx

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by FoeNyx 1y ago
I too waited for the preview to load, but looking in the browser console I saw a file was in 404 ( /static/tritium-c69b2fe84b82a0da.js ) (so it silently failed as soon as "import init, * as bindings from '/static&#x
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by FoeNyx 2y ago
Your list made me remember doesthedogdie.com which lists diverse trigger warnings in movies and other media.
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by FoeNyx 2y ago
It was sadly hinted as a recent or non standard feature by Github's syntax highlighting not recognizing it either
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by FoeNyx 2y ago
> Dinosaurs are also miscategorized as reptilian but I can understand the mistake, because dinosaurs are extinct. Birds (Aves) are dinosaurs (Dinosauria), and dinosaurs are reptiles (Reptilia).
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by FoeNyx 2y ago
There are a lot of obvious cognates between Japanese and Latin through recently borrowed English or Romance words, so I was wondering what was surprising about it. But it seems the author is talking about traditional Japanese words, and loo
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by FoeNyx 2y ago
This should matter if Kagi ever intends to do business in the EU. I suppose a serious breach of regulations, and if Kagi decided to ignore fines, apart from a bad reputation, could ultimately lead to things like judicial decisions of blocki
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
small nitpicking: it ought to be written as "20 m" instead of "20M" or else why bother including the equivalent in meters? (in the International System of Units, M is the prefix for mega: 10^6)
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
Aren't kaomoji a subset of emoticons? most western old emoticons are turned 90° CCW, whereas kaomoji are mostly horizontal and often using CJK characters.
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
> OLVID App by the French Government Recently the French Government required its members to use it, but it's made by a French startup, AFAIK.
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
Oh, it wasn't lost among all their replies, it was in the 4th paragraph of the header text section of that Show HN post.
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
In https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531759 its OP states "A team member has published an open source Python iMessage protocol PoC on Github: https://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush ."
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
After asserting it's a rubber duck, there are some claims without follow-up: - Just after that it doesn't translate the "rubber" part - It states there's no land nearby for it to rest or find food in the middle of t
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
The etymology of "chauve" (bald) in "chauve-souris" (bat) is debated, but I've often read that it could be a deformation of a word designating an owl or a crow (it would be a cognate with the late Latin "cavann
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
The post mentions Tipeee but it "charges 8%" and has "invasive personal documentation requirements". Seems Tipeee is based in Paris, so the cumbersomeness may be related to EU regulations.
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
> When the kids recite the letters they don't recite äöüß. On a somehow related side note, I read that "&", which is derived from a ligature of the Latin conjunction "Et" (meaning "and"), was named
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
Some other things that irk me a little with that font : The "@" looks thinner than the other chars. The "%" has its fraction slash cut in 2 non aligned non rectilinear parts (and not coherent with their "‰" and
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
Is that a reference to the "Universal Paperclips" game?
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by FoeNyx 3y ago
For those wondering like me what "bart" might be in this context, it seems to be the heavy rail "Bay Area Rapid Transit" system in San Francisco, California.
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by FoeNyx 4y ago
btw, seems there's a small typo (see wikipedia article "Immanentize the eschaton", from adjective "immanent")
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by FoeNyx 6y ago
> there's no "caffeine crisis" On a less humorous side node, I remember having read there are scientific concerns about large-scale pollution caused by mankind high usage of caffeine: ground-water contamination, bioaccumul
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by FoeNyx 6y ago
> I know imperial was invented by the British, but it's largely just the US left using it According to wikipedia, the US do not use the "Imperial System" but the "United States customary units" and they are not e
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by FoeNyx 7y ago
> a mix of two ends of the visible spectrum Wasn't that about magenta/fuchsia? ( #FF00FF )
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by FoeNyx 7y ago
> I actually found it a quite disturbing sight when I flew over one of the greenhouse areas by night once There was a link 2 days ago about aerial photography of LED greenhouses in the Netherlands : https://news.ycombinator.c
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by FoeNyx 7y ago
Also in 1968, the french singer — and hobbyist mathematician — Boby Lapointe ¹ proposed a graphical representation and pronunciation system for hexadecimal numbers, named bibi-binary ². The pronunciation part is based on the combinations of
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by FoeNyx 7y ago
"septante", "octante", "nonante" would be coherently based on Latin etymons, but if you want to coherently use "heptante", which relies on a Greek etymon, you should probably also use "ennéante&q
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by FoeNyx 7y ago
> 2. Wikipedia articles (...) pale in comparison to an actual encyclopedia. (...) This is easy to see on pages for cities and countries (...) I'm not claiming Wikipedia is perfect (they are not claiming this themselves) but in contr
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by FoeNyx 7y ago
The grandparent's post might be referring to an article¹ recently featured on HN which stated that complementing cow feed with less than 2% of a specific dried seaweed, called Asparagopsis, might decrease their methane production by 99
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by FoeNyx 7y ago
"These paintings have zero artistic value" is quite an harsh judgement, especially when defining the "artistic value" is so subjective. It's not like commissioned painting is a new thing, and it yielded some masterp
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by FoeNyx 9y ago
Listening to Radio in FM uses passive reception and dedicated chip, and thus has probably much lower power consumption. Not having WIFI or 4G available is also a good reason.
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by FoeNyx 9y ago
> When did you get to vote on anything? October 2000, there were a worldwide online vote to select some members of the ICANN Board of Directors. https://www.icann.org/news/icann-pr-2000-09-21-en

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