hidroto

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by hidroto 17d ago
technically Antarctica is covered in (solid) water. "technically incorrect the worst kind of incorrect".
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by hidroto 25d ago
is it possible to read out the state of a flipdot display? with a small amount of additional memory the display could hold the game state and you could manually flip the dots to input the cells.
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by hidroto 2mo ago
the billboards are moving into the cars, and if it is self driving then you have more time to stare at the ads.
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by hidroto 2mo ago
I think that this setting should be promoted out of developer settings as i find it so useful
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by hidroto 2mo ago
the fish shell manpage has ':' as an alias to 'true'.
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by hidroto 3mo ago
Not understanding the answer.
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by hidroto 3mo ago
all right let me buy one of your kidneys, after all you only need one.
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by hidroto 4mo ago
being skeptical and determining the truth takes a lot of work. I fear that we may just refuse to wade through all the lies and just accept a enforced willful ignorance.
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by hidroto 6mo ago
This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
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by hidroto 6mo ago
It has been that way for a while now. I see Veritasium video titles and thumbnails change quite often, it can be quite annoying as it sometimes gives the appearance of it being a whole new video. A/B testing a title feels wrong to me,
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by hidroto 7mo ago
would it not just produce 'b/c'? assuming 'b/c' is an existent file path what else could you justify it doing?
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by hidroto 9mo ago
Thanks for the correction. It seems that all the layman’s explanations on Galois theory i have seen have been simplified to the point of being technically wrong, as well as underselling it.
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by hidroto 9mo ago
I am no mathematician, but i think you may be overstating Galois result. it says that you cant write a single closed form expression for the roots of any quintic using only (+,-,*,/,nth roots). This does not necessarily stop you from e
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by hidroto 9mo ago
isnt most of the advantage of soap is that it gets the germs off your skin and washes them down the drain. the soap does not have to kill them to work.
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by hidroto 9mo ago
i wonder how sensitive your equipment would need to be to read it from the back scatter off the interstellar medium.
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by hidroto 9mo ago
unobtainium predates Avatar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium and at least that exposition makes more sense then the "fountain of youth brain juice" in the sequel, when the humans can literally reinca
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by hidroto 9mo ago
a collision can send debris into an orbit with a higher eccentricity. these orbits may not last very long as they would also have a lower perigee.
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by hidroto 9mo ago
> Like if one of the things you have to do is claim to the other device that you’re 2.1 would that get you in trouble? nintendo tried that with the gameboy. games had to have a copy of the nintendo logo in them. i dont think it was ever
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by hidroto 10mo ago
To an archeologist both artifacts are worth having, just look at Pompeii the frescoes tell you alot but the graffiti on the sides of the buildings tells you something as well.
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by hidroto 11mo ago
i use the rss feed of the channels i am subscribed to and download the videos i want to watch with yt-dlp. i may browse the homepage every so often but i just copy the links and download them.
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by hidroto 1y ago
looks like a bottle top opener to me, in fact i think it would work just fine as one.
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by hidroto 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wJ4ARj67xn8
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by hidroto 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South
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by hidroto 1y ago
These might not technically be cancers but the similarity is there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burl
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by hidroto 1y ago
little endian vs big endian.
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by hidroto 1y ago
I would have thought it was a typo of 'seafloor' rather than 'seabed'.
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by hidroto 1y ago
a simple solution is to have emergency contacts written in your wallet, with the added benefit of letting bystanders call for you when you are incapacitated.
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by hidroto 1y ago
that seems to be in the same vain as this presentation by guy steele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 .
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by hidroto 1y ago
4 / 28 "You would have scored higher by guessing at random." I think my strategy for JavaScript going forward is to 'drop & run'.
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by hidroto 1y ago
LLM attackers to find the LLM vibe coding bugs and flaws. sounds like they already have a man on the inside.

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