codetrotter

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by codetrotter 1y ago
> What, specifically, makes you think it has something to do with the time leading up to 1900 CE rather than 1900 BCE Normally when someone says "1900" they are referring to 1900 AD. Unless BCE had already been mentioned, which
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by codetrotter 1y ago
There was plenty of pirates around still in the 1800s AD. Aka "pre-1900" AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
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by codetrotter 1y ago
> 1900 BCE Nothing in the comment that we are talking about indicates that "pre-1900" is referring to 1900 BCE. It sounds squarely like it's referring to 1900 AD to me. Which is why people are saying it's ridiculous.
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by codetrotter 1y ago
I applaud you for uploading even if it’s a bit disorganised still, and I do the same. It’s better to have something than nothing. Sometimes I see people talking about something but they don’t want to upload their code yet because they have
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by codetrotter 1y ago
Blender is amazing and I love it. That doesn’t mean that replicating their success is an easy feat or for everyone. If it was easy to get the required funding, wouldn’t Synfig be in a position to rake in funds and hire people to improve Syn
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by codetrotter 1y ago
But did they actually mean literally to use ][ as square brackets. Or is it merely an approximation that is meant to be read as Roman numeral two. And then people in that time writing it as ][ because Unicode didn't even exist yet. And
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by codetrotter 1y ago
One thing, off topic kinda, that I always wonder when I see mention of said computer. Why people don’t use the Unicode symbol for Roman numeral two? Apple Ⅱ+
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by codetrotter 1y ago
https://github.com/chowderman/chowderman.github.io looks to be the original repo for https://github.com/h53d/xp-paint then. And the other is a clone of that repo which was reuploaded manually inst
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by codetrotter 1y ago
Came across this on a recent LGR video on YouTube: “How 1990s Magic Eye 3D Images Were Made” https://youtu.be/uvXY99HysrU The GitHub repo of the linked stereogram solver is https://github.com/piellardj/
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Stereogram Solver(piellardj.github.io)
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by codetrotter 1y ago
70!? That’s more than a Googol!
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by codetrotter 1y ago
I think this is a result of the strategy that the AI chose for picking languages. I saw when it was planning what to do it said that it was going to use a regex against the post titles. Probably it only included the specific languages above
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by codetrotter 1y ago
That kind of confirmation does exist, it’s called using a hardware wallet, such as those made by Trezor and others. https://trezor.io/ The bigger question is, when they said: > G Data's research showed that the Bitc
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by codetrotter 1y ago
I’ve seen other hardware companies that host firmware downloads for their products on Google Drive and some Chinese cloud drive. I don’t think doing that, nor Dropbox link, is different really from hosting it on Mega.
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by codetrotter 1y ago
> frequency of discussion (especially within an obsessive subgroup) does not represent effective implementation I asked the chat tool to count how many times each different programming language is mentioned in different “Show HN” post ti
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by codetrotter 1y ago
> Would love feedback When I go to the link, the URL is indicating that it will redirect me to a /hn page after I log in. I write in my email and get sent a login link. I click the button to complete login. I land on a page that ask
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by codetrotter 1y ago
Absolutely. Padding it falls under making sure the text is not too short.
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by codetrotter 1y ago
If the sentence is too short it might be possible to guess. It’s not going to consist of random bytes. Imagine for example that a high profile celebrity accused of murder has successfully defended himself in court and on that day he tweets:
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by codetrotter 1y ago
Another alternative is to encrypt the document with a very strong pass key, and publish only the encrypted document now along with an announcement that the key to decrypt it will be published on such and such date. If you are on a platform
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by codetrotter 1y ago
Make a PDF or whatever kind of document containing the things you want to reveal. Make a hash sum of the file. Publish the hash of the document somewhere. Like on your Mastodon timeline or on Reddit, or on HN, or as an ad in a national prin
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by codetrotter 1y ago
For anyone else wondering the GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn Couldn’t find any link to it on the article
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by codetrotter 1y ago
In Norway we have a website developed by the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency which has the domain https://www.norge.no/ (Norge means Norway in Norwegian.) But in our case that’s a little bit different from the Canadian one.
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by codetrotter 1y ago
My late grandfather used to teach some classes many years ago. He recounted how one time, after he had graded and handed back some deliveries from the students, one of them came up to him with a confused look on his face. The student said:
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by codetrotter 1y ago
Meteor got a lot of attention and hype on HN a few years ago. Looks at Wikipedia article Well, 12 or 13 years ago probably actually.
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by codetrotter 1y ago
whomst'd've'ly'yaint'nt'ed'ies's'y'es
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by codetrotter 1y ago
> we got rejected because of "Mac*" in the name. we pointed them to a dozen others that had it, where it seemingly was no problem. didn't help. To be fair, it’s understandable for many reasons that they don’t want other co
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by codetrotter 1y ago
How about on an MacBook Pro M2 Max with 64GB RAM? Any recommendations for local models for coding on that? I tried to run some of the differently sized DeepSeek R1 locally when those had recently come out, but couldn’t manage at the time to
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by codetrotter 1y ago
Yggdrasil is from Norse mythology. So I’m not surprised that a bunch of different people name software after it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil Just like many might pick cool and important names from Greek myt
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by codetrotter 1y ago
As someone who is also not a mathematician it sounded perfectly normal to me.
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by codetrotter 1y ago
It’s a very valid question. I don’t have one currently. But I did hear later that others were using radio to get news. Thank you for bringing it up again. I’m gonna buy a small battery powered radio :)

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