asgerhb

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by asgerhb 4mo ago
When you say "dig up," do you recommend the remaster or the original?
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by asgerhb 5mo ago
I used to be able to stick to precise language in my professional communication. After I got thrown into fields I was less familiar with, I had to do the circling-around-the-point thing. I think of it as technical pidgin. It's worked
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by asgerhb 7mo ago
I'm unfamiliar with Italian piracy laws and surveillance but I can tell you that accessing torrent sites for me was a simple matter of choosing a proper DNS provider.
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by asgerhb 8mo ago
Sawing the first shot, I thought the LED candle on the coffee table was the device. That would have also been cool, having flickering affected not by wind, as with real candles, but by radio waves.
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by asgerhb 8mo ago
The question is about systemic solutions: - Invest in 3rd places: · Zoning that allows small businesses and cafés to be near where people live. · Invest heavily in public libraries. · Invest in public parks and spaces. For places where it r
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by asgerhb 8mo ago
> Having content you want to hide? This has some use cases. Besides, keeping content from users was already present in HTML through the practice of not sending it to the user.
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by asgerhb 10mo ago
I have lamented the fact that download buttons can be hard to find on software home pages sometimes. But having just a download button and a "more" button on your landing page seems to be taking things a bit too far.
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by asgerhb 11mo ago
"This technology will radically transform the way our world works and soon replace all knowledge-based jobs. Do not trust anything it says: Entertainment purposes only."
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by asgerhb 11mo ago
I like to imagine a world, a worse one, where programming languages were localised. This might initially have been a versioning nightmare, with different compiler binaries for each localisation. Later, it could become standard practice to
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by asgerhb 11mo ago
Not to mention they have to store the data after they download it. In theory storing garbage data is costly to them. However I have a nagging feeling that the attitude of these scrapers is they get paid the same amount per gigabyte whether
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by asgerhb 11mo ago
Although this is objectively an advantage, it means I've spent just as much of my time mucking about with customisation in Typst, as I have in LaTeX :p
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by asgerhb 1y ago
Way back when, my prof was using his Linux machine to demonstrate how to use GCC. He called the end result .exe but that might have been for the benefit of the Windows users in the room. (Though Linux users being considerate to Windows user
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by asgerhb 1y ago
Maybe using VLC Media Player from an early age has left me with too high expectations. But if I have a program designed to view or edit a certain class of file, and it doesn't support a certain file format, I will blame that program.
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by asgerhb 1y ago
Never mind quality - how can you achieve the same reach as someone with an advertising budget?
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by asgerhb 2y ago
I slammed the reader-mode button, which unfortunately killed the videos. Not having looping/procedural animations in your articles is an accessibility feature. People with ADHD simply can't read blocks of text if there's visu
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by asgerhb 2y ago
My thoughts immediately go to all the queer kids in rural areas who stand to be cut off from the only support networks they have.
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by asgerhb 2y ago
My goal is explicitly to publish, and I have the impression this is the case on a national level.
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by asgerhb 2y ago
I don't want to speculate why this is the case, but tech enthusiasts rarely have the social capital that it takes to move friend groups or local forums over to specific platforms. The sad reality is that we can either accept the monopo
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by asgerhb 3y ago
I can see many benefits to this approach, but there is one area where I'm sceptical: The article mentions moderation in different cultures several times, and this made me curious – what would be the "default" culture assumed
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by asgerhb 3y ago
Interesting! I was wondering what in the world you could do with a computer inside a toothbrush. From the product page[1]: - Zone reminder for uncleaned aread - Intense pressure reminder - Some kind of tracking through an app - Send each ot
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by asgerhb 3y ago
Hahah I'm in formal methods, not graphics, so I'm picturing a literal green glowing fog. But what I'm gathering is polygons partitioned into cube chunks. This is of course not including the particulars of this impressive cont
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by asgerhb 3y ago
Wow! What am I even looking at here? Polygons, voxels, or something else entirely? How were the benchmarks recorded?
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by asgerhb 3y ago
The use of AI and voice recognition seems mostly designed to make the result seem more sensational than it actually is. Does any computation actually happen in the "organoid" part? How would you even train such a cell to perform a
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Adversarial patch camouflage against aerial detection(spiedigitallibrary.org)
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by asgerhb 3y ago
Good of a platform to stand up for their users against DMCA abuse. Obviously Shopify relies on credibility if they are to handle the business transactions of their customers, so it is a smart move. Though it may be costly for them. Wish cer
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by asgerhb 3y ago
I know sarcasm is frowned upon on HN but I am compelled to point out that in the 1830s there were also a lot of people who couldn't write fizzbuzz. If you cherry-pick random people today and compare them to historical figures, of cour
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by asgerhb 3y ago
There are so many great games out there which can run on anything 64bit, that I'm still letting my old desktop PC chug along with its 740 and whichever harddisks I've had thrown at me over the years. Might upgrade at some point to
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by asgerhb 3y ago
If you can reliably recreate this, then you may be on to something interesting. I couldn't guess what. Otherwise, the most likely answer is coincidence.
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by asgerhb 3y ago
There is also the question of inertia. People are used to certain software, and recommend this to others. In many cases I'd rather have a CLI that I know how to use, than a finnicky GUI that I don't.
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by asgerhb 3y ago
Even this is not always the case. I gave it a very rough draft and it actually made my structure worse, while at the same time using imprecise language. It looked like the correct style, but the content was not salvageable.

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