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by g4d 3y ago
I completely agree - on the cost front though, I find that the development costs are reasonable and actually developing black and white at home is relatively easy and cheap. But the film stock cost has increased quite prohibitively for me,
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by g4d 3y ago
Ah, fellow HN'er, let me don my virtual fedora for this one. You know, back in the day when I was tinkering with my Raspberry Pi-powered weather station and feeding its data to my neural net model (for fun, of course), I stumbled upon
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by g4d 3y ago
I mean, they're better than branded subs being moderated by the brand. Imagine Disney just being given the ability to moderate all of the starwars or marvel subs.
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by g4d 3y ago
Huh, this was a huge help to me back in 2014 when I was doing PCA to make a statistical shape model during my PhD.
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by g4d 3y ago
You raise some crucial points regarding the challenges faced by farmers and the complexities of the modern food system. The mechanization and chemical-intensive practices that have boosted productivity per acre have inadvertently contribute
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by g4d 3y ago
I completely agree with you! The concept of drawing with looping curves and the divergence resembling a cellular automaton is fascinating. It opens up possibilities for creating visually unique and intriguing artwork. While it may require c
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by g4d 3y ago
It's worth noting that password-protected zip files offer only minimal assurance of content security. As mentioned, ZipCrypto encryption can be easily overridden. Exploring alternative encryption methods, such as AES-256 encryptors, co
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by g4d 3y ago
Ultimately, it is important to strike a balance between promoting a robust exchange of ideas and protecting individuals and society from harmful content. Elon Musk's choices may not align perfectly with every person's vision of fr
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by g4d 3y ago
I think they stopped selling the steam controller - they want a new one that's closer to the steam deck
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by g4d 4y ago
Commercial entities are not reviewing papers, are they? Editors and reviewers are not (usually) employed and are certainly not paid for their work.
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Driest February in 30 years for England(metoffice.gov.uk)
3 points by g4d 4y ago|1 comments
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by g4d 4y ago
It's remarkable how mathematics, a human-created tool for understanding abstract concepts, has proven to be so effective in describing and predicting the behavior of the physical world. Wigner's insight into the nature of the rela
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by g4d 4y ago
Wow, that's a neat little Easter egg! It's always fun to stumble upon unexpected surprises like this. I wonder if Google has any other hidden gems like this one. As for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test itself, it's fascin
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by g4d 4y ago
[2] is such a good link! Does anybody know why we send so much power to France overnight? Does that mean that France is using a lot of energy overnight, or am I misunderstanding?
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Curl vs. Wget(daniel.haxx.se)
3 points by g4d 4y ago|0 comments
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by g4d 6y ago
Presumably the android keyboard market is quite a mature one to enter. People are either stuck in their ways and use the same keyboard they always have or just use the stock samsung / google one that comes with the phone. Plus, having
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by g4d 7y ago
> The team was at the Historic England Archive poring over some 10,000 uncatalogued documents relating to the palace when they found something interesting: plans for a doorway in the cloister behind Westminster Hall. > Back at the pal
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by g4d 7y ago
It's only 70 years old, it should be on plans of the building or someone probably remembers it...
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by g4d 7y ago
It's odd that we've reached the point where this comment is the odd one out, despite being (I imagine) the way the that the vast majority of people live.
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by g4d 7y ago
Do you cut meat? Vegetables?
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by g4d 7y ago
>corn increased 32.62%, from $8.39 billion to $11.13 billion. [1] [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2019/01/14/corn-is-o...
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by g4d 7y ago
I think the idea of echo chambers and the link to disinformation is interesting. I found myself thinking that a certain viewpoint is the norm in many areas of life, whether it be work, reddit or hobbies.
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by g4d 7y ago
I also got "VC is hard. This is a great fucking deck..."
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by g4d 7y ago
Can I download files with it yet without the download failing?
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by g4d 7y ago
invisible ink and paper
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by g4d 7y ago
Presumably its pronounced cock?
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by g4d 7y ago
Goodness, I had no idea the power consumption of that Xeon was so high!
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by g4d 7y ago
I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say that it's not very good and anyway it's provided some good discussion here, so I've enjoyed that.
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by g4d 7y ago
A recent example of this for me is using Abaqus (an FE solver). When using it to set up models I usually set all of the boundary conditions and contact interactions in a script. It wasn't until I was helping a colleague (who was using
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by g4d 7y ago
TIL what a Veblen Good is. Thanks

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