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by k0stas 1y ago
Sci-hub stopped updating a few years ago due to an ongoing lawsuit in India: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/205911/why-did-...
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by k0stas 2y ago
There is still a DOM hack to allow installation by re-enabling the "Add to Chrome" button on the linked page. See "Download and install uBlock Origin in Chrome" on this page: https://www.neowin.net/guides
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by k0stas 2y ago
Daft is an unfortunate choice of name.
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by k0stas 2y ago
Beware of talk about benefits without mention of drawbacks. Connecting grids could significantly increase the fragility of the system resulting in higher risk of large-scale power outages. Some of you might have experienced the 2003 blackou
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by k0stas 2y ago
If you want to run an up-to-date version of Docker, look into https://github.com/telnetdoogie/synology-docker/ . It is a script that will back up the existing docker binaries and replace them with the latest. (Note
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by k0stas 2y ago
> This is bizarre but maybe I see the reason why. If it's to restrain foreign ownership of rental properties. The reason is that the government wants its tax money. Since the cash flow is coming from the renter they are also respons
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by k0stas 2y ago
I think this Globe and Mail article about the recently publicized case to be better read: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/article-montreal... ( https://archive.is/fPNZT ). The renter in this
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by k0stas 2y ago
The reasoning provided by YC is in the subsequent tweet: "It's pretty rare for YC to fund solo founders, because startups take many years to get big and it's very hard to stay motivated for that many years without a cofounder
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by k0stas 2y ago
And the author of the post is named Cliff L. Biffle, which is one of the best names I have ever heard.
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Five thousand (paying) teams on Tailscale(tailscale.com)
2 points by k0stas 3y ago|0 comments
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by k0stas 3y ago
Excellent tips. As a corollary to #1, strive to make your own driving predictable to other drivers, e.g., turn signal on before changing lanes or braking to make a turn.
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by k0stas 3y ago
While it's appealing to believe Pinker, his treatment of statistics and probability of war has been debunked. For a mathematical analysis of the history of war see Cirillo and Taleb's paper "On the statistical properties and
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by k0stas 3y ago
I always thought the intention was to get the same deal as Australia: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56163550 . It's not a surprise that Canada's media industry wanted the same deal and the governm
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by k0stas 4y ago
I have designed PCIe compatible transceivers and this will be the last comment I make about it because correcting hardware nonsense on HN is only of transient interest to me. Everything I wrote is 100% correct and in fact incontrovertible.
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by k0stas 4y ago
> Their point about diff pairs being more resistant to noise is correct, but it’s not the primary reason for using diff pairs. The article is correct. This comment is wrong. > Differential signals, at a physical layer level, are faste
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by k0stas 4y ago
> The problem is that engineers like to work in silos and they do not communicate well with other engineers. This is organizational problem that should be solved so that meetings are avoided as much as possible. The main way I have seen
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Airbnb co-founder needed a tiny prefab. He built Backyard ADU [video](youtube.com)
2 points by k0stas 4y ago|0 comments
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How can something be clear and unambiguous and still take decades to resolve(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2 points by k0stas 4y ago|0 comments
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by k0stas 4y ago
I got obsessed with this paper recently, to the point where I have read most of the "Unknown Air Force Document" that Thompson references with giving him the idea of Trojan horse. The document was later identified and is declassif
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Spotify Backstage – Supercharged Developer Portals(backstage.spotify.com)
1 points by k0stas 4y ago|0 comments
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by k0stas 4y ago
I was just trying out the API and noticed the same thing. I found the API key near the bottom on my https://my.nextdns.io/account page.
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by k0stas 5y ago
More information available at https://artsandculture.google.com/story/SQWxuZfE5ki3mQ . I am curious if any art-inclined people on HN can comment on how close they believe the results to be to the original.
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Bringing Klimt Back to Life with Machine Learning(artsandculture.google.com)
1 points by k0stas 5y ago|1 comments
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by k0stas 5y ago
> I agree these are annoying patterns, but I honestly don’t notice them. I don’t read research papers like a book, front to back. I think you've hit the nail on the head. The articles "sins" don't matter because exper
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SimSWE 4: Wants, needs, and chasm-crossing(apenwarr.ca)
8 points by k0stas 5y ago|0 comments
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by k0stas 5y ago
I was wondering how efficiency is defined for a port. I found what I think is a more original post related to the list: https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/new-global-container... Inferring from the description in
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by k0stas 5y ago
It already has been a problem in terms of gate leakage, although largely mitigated by material improvements. Gate leakage is the phenomenon of quantum tunneling through the gate dielectric barrier and started appearing as gate dielectrics b
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by k0stas 5y ago
I'm partial to this story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELoXiuDA_sQ
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by k0stas 5y ago
For context, in wired chip-to-chip communication electronics, femtosecond variations are (statistically) measurable. Picoseconds are rather pedestrian. A 56 Gbaud signal has a single-symbol duration of about 18 picoseconds and perturbations
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How I Became the Honest Broker(tedgioia.substack.com)
2 points by k0stas 5y ago|0 comments

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