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by fred256 1mo ago
Verbing weirds language.
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by fred256 5mo ago
“The question of whether Machines Can Think is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.” — Dijkstra
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by fred256 6mo ago
https://tailscale.com/docs/integrations/identity/passkeys
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by fred256 2y ago
The full list is at the bottom of their press release: https://corporate.vanguard.com/content/corporatesite/us/en/c...
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by fred256 2y ago
No inside information, but presumably this means Delivery to other organizations, which, among other things, includes maintaining outbound IP reputation, which is closely related to Spam and Abuse.
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Marissa Mayer's Eternal Sunshine(platformer.news)
5 points by fred256 2y ago|0 comments
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by fred256 3y ago
Semi-related, in a past life, I used ... to indicate "not implemented yet": def not_implemented_yet(): ...
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by fred256 3y ago
> MS-DOS shipped with a TUI text editor since version 5 (1981) MS-DOS 5 came out in 1991, not 1981.
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by fred256 3y ago
A long, long time ago I also implemented tic-tac-toe in HTML. But just as a set of HTML pages with links for each X move (and an implied O move by the "computer" player). Total size of all the pages combined is about 60 kilobytes.
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by fred256 3y ago
The middle light in a traffic light is called yellow in the US, and orange in (some parts of?) Europe.
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Fly.io: Bottomless S3-backed volumes(community.fly.io)
4 points by fred256 3y ago|1 comments
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by fred256 3y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093933
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by fred256 3y ago
Didn't this happen a few weeks ago already?
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by fred256 3y ago
And you can buy a modern reimplementation: https://www.thefuturewas8bit.com/shop/tynemouth-products/min...
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by fred256 3y ago
This reminds me of challenge 28 from the game Human Resource Machine.
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by fred256 3y ago
Unless I misunderstand, it's less than a frame at 60 Hz (= 16.7 ms per frame).
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A chiral aperiodic monotile(arxiv.org)
181 points by fred256 3y ago|83 comments
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Google Trust Services ACME API available to all users at no cost(security.googleblog.com)
4 points by fred256 3y ago|0 comments
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by fred256 3y ago
From the paper: > A single hat is asymmetric, and so in any patch we can distinguish between “unreflected” and “reflected” orientations of tiles.
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by fred256 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_(sex_position)
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by fred256 4y ago
I thought this was going to be a link to https://xkcd.com/195/
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by fred256 4y ago
> He is reportedly the company's new vice president of engineering. Google has dozens of “VPs of engineering”.
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by fred256 4y ago
As an owner of both a manual transmission car and an EV, I enjoy driving them both, but I don’t want the manual transmission experience with an EV power train.
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Art is crime [NFT artist funds seized](art-is-crime.com)
61 points by fred256 4y ago|62 comments
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by fred256 4y ago
These are so good I am scared.
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by fred256 5y ago
No first hand experience, but perhaps vpype with this plugin: https://github.com/zxsq-cc/hpglpype
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by fred256 5y ago
Here's Matt Parker's video from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvlpIojusBE And he ran a bunch of viewer-supplied programs on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7eHTNm1YtU
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by fred256 5y ago
What blows my mind is that vim is now twice as old as vi was when vim was released.
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by fred256 5y ago
It appears to be interlaced: all16777216rgb-scrambled.png: PNG image data, 4096 x 4096, 8-bit/color RGB, interlaced
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by fred256 5y ago
The content is already encrypted anyway for DRM. I'd assume TLS is used in large part for privacy reasons (so ISPs can't sell info on what shows are popular)

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