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by pxndxx 21d ago
I use Nitter/Xcancel entirely because I don't have an account, and Twitter is now unusable without one. There's still content of some value there. People still link to it and now I can't read what they shared with me.
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by pxndxx 2mo ago
The cloud is just someone else's computer. Do you think there's spare GPU compute available during the AI craze?
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by pxndxx 5mo ago
We all find different people weird. You just need to find the weirdos you vibe with.
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by pxndxx 6mo ago
The details were destroyed long ago by the poor compression, you aren't getting them back either way.
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by pxndxx 8mo ago
What course of action would you have suggested?
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by pxndxx 8mo ago
Sampling does not lose information below the Nyquist limit, but quantization does introduce errors that can't be fixed. And resampling at a different rate might introduce extra errors, like when you recompress a JPEG.
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by pxndxx 10mo ago
They are tiny and the ones not on your fovea don't register enough "pixels" for your brain to recognise the rotation.
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by pxndxx 1y ago
"wrote" came up as 2 syllables :(
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by pxndxx 1y ago
This is a haiku I need one to test this app Love the internet!
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by pxndxx 1y ago
Some of the keywords are quite sus, but I enjoyed the boolean literals being based/cringe.
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Ambr AI – Practice High-Stakes Conversations with Voice AI(ambr.ai)
2 points by pxndxx 1y ago|0 comments
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by pxndxx 1y ago
Vueling, the largest airline in Spain is actually shifting from the 320 to an all Boeing 737 MAX fleet in the coming years. I was really sad to hear that given it's size and presence in Europe.
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by pxndxx 1y ago
Is this an important distinction? Goose or duck they suffer the same.
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by pxndxx 1y ago
Yeah there are multiple accents in Spanish, but each accent is still a 1:1 mapping from written word to pronunciation, there's no enough/through/dough nonsense.
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by pxndxx 1y ago
monochromatic light as emitted by LEDs is quite disorienting.
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by pxndxx 1y ago
Steve Mould has a "rotating flame" video which also helps visualize this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqhXQUzVMlQ
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by pxndxx 1y ago
Are the people that create the content okay with this?
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by pxndxx 1y ago
Inscryption captured the "videogame creepypasta" genre in an actual, pretty good roguelike video game, if you want more of this!
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by pxndxx 2y ago
I just realised I was writing a thought-out reply to someone named Cumpiler69.
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by pxndxx 2y ago
People do drive to smelly, expensive _gas stations_ to power their gas-powered cars. Having to drive to plug your EV is not worse UX than that.
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by pxndxx 2y ago
He does move his mouth a lot but I wouldn't call whatever sounds he produces "coherent speech"
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by pxndxx 2y ago
What? Who mentioned the government paying for them? Who said that the fabric needs replacing often?
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by pxndxx 2y ago
Yeah but dishwasher soap is a different kind of soap, it's way stronger. Plus dishwashers also use rinse aid which has its own set of problems.
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by pxndxx 2y ago
what about the eelectric field?
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by pxndxx 2y ago
That line refers to the 'u' substituting for 'μ', the greek letter mu, not the L symbol. https://www.nayuki.io/page/common-mistakes-when-using-the-me...
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by pxndxx 2y ago
That's just a temporary name (un-bi-nil-ium, meaning one-two-zero-ium) and will be assigned a new name once it's actually discovered and verified.
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Show HN: Conway's Game of Life, but as a div full of Braille characters(px.neocities.org)
104 points by pxndxx 2y ago|29 comments
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by pxndxx 2y ago
the chunnel goes _under the sea_ for 30 miles.
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by pxndxx 2y ago
The long scale is common in French, German and Spanish for example. English usually uses the short scale. The scientific community uses SI prefixes, which aren't part of either scale (you don't say a billion joules which is ambigu
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by pxndxx 2y ago
From TFA: [...] the assumption of 'less but better' being a superior approach to product design is rarely practically evaluated. The third umbrella in the series takes durability to an almost cartoon-like level [...] This was a s

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