nanis

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Tell HN: TIL accessing old.reddit.com now requires accounts
21 points by nanis 2mo ago|7 comments
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by nanis 2mo ago
Because no one around me understood how to calculate false positive/false negative probabilities, I put together this calculator[1] in 2020. [1]: https://www.covid2020.icu/false-positive-false-negative-simu...
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by nanis 3mo ago
> Governments need to wake up to this insane level of Evil Governments are made up of people. People who have at best median level understanding of the things they are ruling about but great self-interest in following the biggest purse t
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by nanis 5mo ago
I was able to test the keystroke-doubling and that works well in Windows Terminal now. I am going to try out the formulas later.
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by nanis 5mo ago
This looks good, but, I noticed: > Supported Functions (v1) > SUM, AVERAGE, COUNT, MIN, MAX, IF I would recommend switching to numerically stable algorithms for adding numbers and taking their averages sooner rather than later. Lookin
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by nanis 5mo ago
Might want to add /sarc just in case someone believes it :-)
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by nanis 7mo ago
> Unfortunately, the rest of the interviews from that event have never seen the light of day - until now! Not really -- It invites speculation as to why they were not published for 9 years. And, are the words spoken a decade ago still va
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by nanis 7mo ago
> 2026-02-22 by GIMP Team I am confused > This interview took place on February 4th, 2017
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by nanis 9mo ago
HTML + CSS works great for this kind of thing. Once you get the print scope correct, you really never need to think about it again.
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by nanis 1y ago
> too much punctuation I thought you were joking. ... After a while, I started expecting a comma after each and every word.
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by nanis 1y ago
First time I heard about the Moomins. I thought this was about Mumins[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumin
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by nanis 1y ago
It is your twist and unjustifiable generalization of the author's words about the author himself: > "aging is a synonym of cognitive decline" compared to: > As I near 60, I’ve come to realize I simply don’t have the sam
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by nanis 2y ago
This is why Firefox's changes are so frustrating[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203096
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by nanis 2y ago
This is pure speculation, but what are the chances this change is simply an attempt to provide legal cover what they might have started doing 50 versions ago?[1] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29082856
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by nanis 2y ago
1 is 2 to the power 0 ... 0b0001 shifted left once, it becomes 2 to the power 1 ... 0b0010 shifted left twice, it becomes 2 to the power 2 ... 0b0100 shifted left three times, it becomes 2 to the power 3 ... 0b1000 etc until shifted left 13
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by nanis 2y ago
This was corrected to: > ... SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called valid_principals which indicates it wasn't just the spelling of `principals`.
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by nanis 2y ago
> the SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called ValidPrinciples Having implemented similar systems before, I was interested to read this post. Then I see this. Now I have to find out if that really is the field,
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by nanis 2y ago
> if (argc above 1) I give up.
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by nanis 2y ago
> I am a simple sole, ... go back to the halcyon early days of the web before Netscape dropped the JS-bomb. You know HTML for the layout and CSS for the style. I am not sure if this is intended as humor, but JavaScript came before CSS.
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by nanis 2y ago
Early in the A-B craze (optimal shade of blue nonsense), I was talking to someone high up with an online hotel reservation company who was telling me how great A-B testing had been for them. I asked him how they chose stopping point/sa
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by nanis 2y ago
Number one criterion for finding a good beach to swim: A prominent sign saying "Swim at your own risk: No lifeguard on duty."
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by nanis 2y ago
This[1] links to http://www . workmanlayout.com/blog/ which is a 404. (space inserted to avoid auto link generation). Going to the main page of that site reveals some articles from the past few years, but also has onlin
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by nanis 3y ago
The rather troubling part of this announcement in a GitHub issue is that this nugget comes out in a seemingly innocuous comment[1]: >> Firefox still uses MLS for `browser.region.network.url`; will that also move to Google Location Ser
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by nanis 3y ago
A much more logical inference would have suggested that being surrounded with other individuals with familial ties is important, not others who are only there purely based on financial motives.
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by nanis 3y ago
> [The Queen] granted her charter to their corporation named Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies.[15] For a period of fifteen years, the charter awarded the company a monopoly[26] on English trade wit
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by nanis 3y ago
Also note https://www.nu42.com/2014/12/https-everywhere-and-hr4681.htm...
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by nanis 3y ago
Exactly. In particular, "perfect information" means you know all the strategies available to your opponent. You also know that your opponent knows this. And you know that your opponent knows that you know that your opponent knows
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by nanis 3y ago
What are the "legitimate" uses cases for this kind of service where they would expect to make money from individuals who want their voices cloned? Dub movies? Audiobooks?
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Statistical and Numerical Errors by the US CDC During the C19 Pandemic(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by nanis 3y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 3y ago
I don't think they have. It becomes particularly hilarious when you RDP to a Windows machine with the extra large cursor theme/

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