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by bbitmaster 1y ago
I never understood why it's considered strange to take time off to just stay home. We spend so much time away from home, and then when we finally take a week off, we're expected to go through all the stress of travelling just to r
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by bbitmaster 2y ago
If you had legally purchased DVDs and blu rays during mega-upload's time, and hadn't tried to decrypt them for backup purposes (thus circumventing copyright measures, also using tools developed mostly by "outlaws"), thos
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by bbitmaster 2y ago
I remember just learning to code at a young age, but not knowing trig or seeing how it applied because I only knew it as being about triangles. I had learned to use some game graphics library (specifically DJGPP with Allegro, coding in C) a
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by bbitmaster 3y ago
Alas! Didn't get the memo? We're In the era where AI tools are all "software as a service," and you must pay for individual inferences from the model. How could they charge for inferences if they gave you the model to do
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by bbitmaster 3y ago
What a lot of nonsense, where is the executive order banning gain of function research?
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by bbitmaster 3y ago
I don't think I will ever understand how the freedom of separate IRC servers got replaced by a single platform that mistakenly calls each community a "server" when it's clearly all on the same server and moderated by the
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by bbitmaster 3y ago
I read at the link that yt-dl uses ffmpeg and doesn't endorse avconv. Just curious if this is the place to ask, Does anyone know what the differences are between avconv and ffmpeg? Do they still basically do the same thing, or is there
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by bbitmaster 3y ago
Assuming this is real, I would ask what could it possibly be. The whole popular culture "x-files" narrative doesn't make sense to me. If these are craft which are manned with some beings, why would they be leisurely flying ar
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by bbitmaster 4y ago
Most people don't get enough vitamin D. It's probably good advice for everyone to take a little. Above average vitamin D levels have been shown to correlate strongly with many beneficial things, including covid resistance. Low lev
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by bbitmaster 4y ago
The old tech/nerd crowd I remember was very strongly against censorship of any kind. Thinking back to the slashdot days of early 2000s. Everyone used to talk about how bad it is to see the great firewall of China ( for example). Also t
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by bbitmaster 4y ago
This brings back old memories. Amazing how it hasn't changed in 20 years. I was learning c and c++ and this provided a free full development suite comparable to others which were way outside my budget as a teenager. DJGPP + Allegro was
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by bbitmaster 4y ago
Ah, I personally preferred gotoblas to linpack as it was faster (keep in mind this was a few years ago when I did research, no idea how it kept up). I also enjoyed the story of how an unknown Japanese student ( Mr Goto - cool name ) outdid
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by bbitmaster 5y ago
John McAfee claimed they were doing this to him before he "suicided".
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by bbitmaster 5y ago
Not the OP, but Mercari is a good one. (Maybe there are others?)
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by bbitmaster 5y ago
I had all of this information, most of it from a little known "quarantined" subreddit. Luckily reddit didn't outright ban it for so many users proposing the "misinformed" lab leak theory. There was a lot of random&#
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by bbitmaster 8y ago
I'm always struck by the giant CRTs in futuristic 80's movies. Blade runner is one example where there are scenes with CRT screens that even look very blurry/dated compared to the screen I'm watching on. Also, this is a
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by bbitmaster 8y ago
The issue I suspect caused this is all of the newer energy efficient washers/ dryers. The author tested a Samsung dryer. I recently lived in apartment with a similar model, and it was terrible. When visiting parents I was stunned at ho
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by bbitmaster 8y ago
Snopes is very quick to claim things as "False" if it goes against their left leaning lens of the world. As an example arguments used by pro-gun advocates are marked as false. Here's a specific example: They falsify a claim t
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by bbitmaster 9y ago
Any idea the year this was published? I don't see a date, and I googled the title and found several references (even on wikipedia) without a date mentioned.
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by bbitmaster 9y ago
I disagree with the premise. Happiness with a transportation system does not correlate with the absolute speed you can go. Instead, I think it would correlate with "how many interesting/useful places can I reach with x effort&quot
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by bbitmaster 10y ago
Hey Gavin. Of course I remember you, it's been ages but great to hear from you. I would take this to PM but Hacker News doesn't seem to offer such a feature. I currently work in the bay area, in Machine Learning (I only mention it
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by bbitmaster 10y ago
I designed and coded the FCEUXD hex editor shown here. I did this back in 2004 when I was a teenager -- built it in C in pure win32 API. It's great to see it still show up when people are hacking NES games. I remember on my 1.33Ghz AMD
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by bbitmaster 10y ago
This is just what I was looking for, surprised I didn't find it already. Thanks.
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by bbitmaster 10y ago
I'm just going to take a moment here to vent about the nuisance it has become for me to deal with smartphone app notifications. It isn't just facebook, although facebook is probably the worst. I live in a city and I pretty much ne
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by bbitmaster 11y ago
This is believable, the author points out some very real challenges that I think will make it impossible for us to travel to other stars in our present form. Just some criticisms, the author doesn't seem to understand the idea of sendi
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by bbitmaster 11y ago
As others have commented here, this is also exactly why I am not an organ doner. There are cases where people have went into cardiac arrest, where their heart stopped and everything, only to wake up and make a full recovery. "Is he dea
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by bbitmaster 11y ago
The reason you mostly see dog faces is only because everyone seems to be running the default code google posted. It optimizes layer 4c, which seems to be biased to producing dog faces. Running the code on other layers, or other networks pro
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by bbitmaster 13y ago
actually, that's not what happened at all. Read the response of the guy who rejected it here: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015#issuecomment-29538... Hi all, let me try to clear up a few things.
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by bbitmaster 13y ago
Seriously? Fire someone over rejecting a pull request that modified comments of code to change pronouns somewhere? Then go on a rant about how this person lacks 'empathy' and should not have a job at your company. Don't get m