Rychard

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by Rychard 2mo ago
I think the issue is that color blindness is typically the result of a physical abnormality with the rods/cones in the retina. Your claim is essentially akin to saying a black-and-white printer could somehow print in color. It's
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by Rychard 2mo ago
There is something to be said about this particular style of argument, as it's akin to the "paradox of tolerance". Ultimately I think the most fair thing is to let both sides attempt to build support until a clear victor emer
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by Rychard 6mo ago
I'm not saying that Firefox on Android has significant market share; rather that Android has significant market share, and those users could be served by switching to Firefox solely for the purpose of using an adblocker. If all And
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by Rychard 6mo ago
Firefox on Android supports it without any issue. That would cover a significant enough segment of the population that it might encourage actual change in the industry if people started moving to that platform.
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by Rychard 6mo ago
You'd be required to jump through the hoops to get your custom firmware approved by the necessary regulatory bodies, just as Tesla did for theirs. It's not really feasible for a private owner, so I can see why it's not offere
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by Rychard 7mo ago
I live in a not-so-great area of town. There were two murders in the last 6 months. One in my neighborhood, and the other in an adjacent public park. The always-on lighting is a deterrent to anyone trying to hide from police.
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by Rychard 8mo ago
The lights are indeed outdoor, and cover most of my backyard. It's a neighborhood within a major metropolitan area, but the light doesn't bleed beyond my property lines. As for the "why", the answer is security. If s
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by Rychard 8mo ago
I have a pair of PAR38 LED bulbs from Cree Lighting (2100 lumens) that are rated for 25,000 hours. They're in a flood-light mounted under the eaves of my house. I never got around to putting them on a dusk-to-dawn timer, so they'
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by Rychard 9mo ago
As the saying goes, "past performance is not indicative of future results"
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by Rychard 1y ago
If we consider that roughly 73.6% of Americans are overweight[0], perhaps there would be some benefit if substantially more people started taking GLP-1 medications. [0]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-ove
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by Rychard 1y ago
It's 40% of the _starter dose_ (2.5 mg), which is what patients begin taking to get their bodies accustomed to the drug. The "maintenance dose" that patients build up to can be many times higher (10-15 mg). 40% of the starte
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by Rychard 1y ago
Not all supporters of a given political party agree on everything. They may simply align with the party on the topics that are most important to them, even if they disagree with other topics that are lower on their priority list. It is dis
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by Rychard 1y ago
Not to mention that these "phone books" also included everyone's address, and married couples were usually listed together.
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by Rychard 1y ago
If they already have your password (i.e. it has been compromised) there is no social engineering taking place. In fact, they're doing the honorable thing and not simply trying the credentials to see if they work.
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by Rychard 1y ago
What would be the benefit of using SFP+ on mainstream consumer motherboards? It would further increase the effective price to consumers as they'd have to purchase a separate transceiver, which are bulkier and might overly crowd an alr
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by Rychard 2y ago
The comment is referencing the "Dropbox" comment of lore https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Basically, something along the lines of (paraphrasing) 'this can be done today by using existing tooling&#x27
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by Rychard 2y ago
I'm having a hard time reading this as a reasonable suggestion, so I apologize in advance if I'm being closed-minded. Do you not believe that this would lead to further bad outcomes? Children need something to do during the day,
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by Rychard 2y ago
All the browsers on my machine report my resolution as 1080p despite using 4k. I assume this is because I run at 200% scaling (I believe this is relatively common among anyone using a 4k resolution) If the above-linked website uses data re
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by Rychard 2y ago
There is a level of trust involved as unless you pull down the code, audit it and only ever run it locally, you really have no way of knowing that on any given page load the code hasn't changed. While I also appreciate tools that don&#
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by Rychard 2y ago
I think you're referring to a similarly named N64 game. This story is about a game played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkers
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by Rychard 2y ago
The widespread adoption of Chrome was largely driven by word of mouth, people like you and I installing it on our friend's/relative's computers and telling them it was safer/faster/better. Nothing stops us from doin
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by Rychard 2y ago
If you don't acknowledge them, they'll get bored and move on. They're only looking for attention, so your best weapon is to not give it to them. Definitely agree about it being cute/impressive. There's lots of cli
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by Rychard 2y ago
> you cannot avoid all ads (for example, sponsored segments). Look into SponsorBlock, as it allows the community to mark such segments, and your browser will automatically skip them.
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by Rychard 2y ago
I went to pick up my dog from the groomer and they asked me for a tip as soon as I said I was there to pick him up. I replied "Can I see my dog first?" It just shows that there's an expectation, and at that point it should si
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by Rychard 2y ago
I fully expect the data to be de-anonymized and then used against people that have familial links to those who have donated their data. "Oh, your great great-great-grandfather had <disease>, so now you're classified as a hig
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by Rychard 2y ago
The initial QR code isn't a TOTP code, it contains the secret used to generate the TOTP codes.
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by Rychard 2y ago
> what does high GI mean? Glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how quickly a food can make your blood sugar (glucose) rise. Source: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000941.htm
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by Rychard 2y ago
I use the N64 controller with my PC, it's available for purchase by anyone who subscribes to NSO. It connects via bluetooth (the USB connection is for charging only). https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/product
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by Rychard 2y ago
If you were standing on top of Mt. Elbrus (elevation: 5.6km above sea level), you could see the horizon roughly 271km away (assuming the horizon was at sea-level, there were no obstructions, atmospheric or otherwise, etc). The inverse of t
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by Rychard 2y ago
Due to the curvature of the earth, it's unlikely you were able to see anything 300km away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_distance_observations#Gro...

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