foxfluff

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by foxfluff 5y ago
Ok, here's proof for whoever downvoted me. I made a new account, wrote a message, upvoted it with my current account.. and no change in points. I never see any message become black or "less grey" after upvote + refresh. It
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by foxfluff 5y ago
C23 removes K&R declaration lists.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Everyone on HN can uovote I don't believe that's true. I'm pretty sure it's a no-op for me.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> High-quality drivetrains in bicycles can have an overall efficiency of up to 95%, can this system beat that? It almost definitely cannot. I tried researching efficiency of suitably small generators some time ago but it was surprisingl
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by foxfluff 5y ago
If it's an electric bike, one might care a lot less than on a bike that runs on meat power only. You may consider the battery to be the primary energy source, and pedal power a supplement.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> Searching google for war in ukraine returns over 2 billion results. Google always lies about the number of results. You'll see the real number once you dig in. First screenshot shows what you get by default, second shows what yo
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Exit node is where the tor-encrypted path ends and traffic goes to the clearnet.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I recall there being lots of "experts" around during the Fukushima disaster, explaining that there's nothing to worry about (because insert explanation of safety mechanisms in a modern reactor that either weren't there
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> I've been thinking about this myself, having seen a few articles posted recently along similar lines. "Efficiency Drives Energy Use" https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/can-the-internet-r.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I think this is an important topic to discuss, but not right now, if only because whataboutism and deflecting criticism of Russia's aggression to aggression by the US has been part of Putin's rhetoric for a long time now. Releasin
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> So far the Russian protests are pretty anemic (I mean in numbers, not in passion, and I greatly respect those currently protesting) Well I don't know about passion. I've seen videos where there are a lot of people protesting
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Ukraine is not accepting volunteers from Russia. https://twitter.com/KyivIndependent/status/15001175130399825... I think it's the right call, given that they have a problem with Russian saboteurs who snuck i
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> A Russian teenager unable to play XBox is maybe slightly less important than the indiscriminate shelling of hospitals and nuclear power plants. And straight up shooting civilians on the street with assault rifles... this is literally h
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by foxfluff 5y ago
The sadder truth may be that Russians might not be interested in removing Putin. Decades of propaganda, murdering of opposition, and authoritarian response to protests has grown a people that largely believes in their leader and is also af
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by foxfluff 5y ago
There's also people who see it this way: world war 2 ended Hitler, world war 3 may be needed to end Putler. A war might be the only way to take out a genocidal dictator-terrorist who threatens the entire world with nukes.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Can you say what exactly here is a straight up lie? That the Snake Island defenders were thought dead after contact with them was lost following the attack? That Ukraine claims there were 13 defenders while Russia claims there were 82? Th
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> And Ukrainans believe there's a "ghost plane" in the sky that destroyed half russian air force. No, not a ghost plane. Just a nickname given to a pilot (though it could be multiple pilots) who allegedly shot down a hand
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> However, there may still be a number of corner cases of the language like undefined behaviors. This is why people frequently fall into C's traps. I don't think that's true; the UB that is relevant for day-to-day programm
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by foxfluff 5y ago
UNSC vote from last night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UN_Security_Council_Resol... Half the world seems about right, and I'd assume a fair proportion of the grey would be green too if they were participant
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> I think the best advice would be to surrender and avoid pointless loss of life. Everyone gets to decide how much they value the independence of their country for themselves. If Ukrainian choose to fight, so be it.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
1) You don't fight an army the same way you protest your government. Yes there was gunfire, fighting and massacre during Euromaidan, but fighting riot police (most of whom were not shooting the protestors with live ammunition) is noth
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by foxfluff 5y ago
I can't verify the claim that r/youtube was deleting reports but having regularly used ceddit, I wouldn't be surprised. However, there's no need for me to argue about the first sentence. Please take a look at https:&#x
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by foxfluff 5y ago
> If something becomes a net negative "at scale", don't allow it to be "at scale". I've taken to thinking of this sort of scaling as being the digital equivalent of race to the bottom (i.e. cheap mass-produc
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by foxfluff 5y ago
One report came to me personally from a small local IRC channel (less than 100 people) from a person who's been around for years. I trust them 100%.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Those are not usernames, but auto-generated ids of the linked comments/posts. The rest of the url is just a human readable title, which you can erase and still get to the same post.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
On a live stream there's chat and in the "..." menu you can click to see participants.
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Youtube is banning accounts that support Ukraine or watch live streams from Kiev. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467384
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Youtube banning people and channels that support Ukraine or watch live streams from Kiev. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30467384
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by foxfluff 5y ago
Again, simply watching or having watched live streams from Kiev might net you a ban. > If you watched any Kiev livestream it may have been the reason for your termination. It happened to a lot of us too, it seems some Russian bots have b
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Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine
1095 points by foxfluff 5y ago|285 comments

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