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by trox 4mo ago
As a traditional painter, I would love to see the individual pigments used, instead of dominant colors. I know this is not straightforward, but maybe doable to some degree based on the range of hue/value/saturation and context?
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by trox 6mo ago
It's true that a single private jet is causing tons of CO2 emissions. But in the end, all consumers control the market. You can jump one link further in the chain to regions with much lower emissions. Somalia/Congo emit over 200x
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by trox 1y ago
Maybe you find this interesting: https://optimizeyourbiology.com/light-bulb-database It's a database of light bulbs tested using a 1-meter barium sulfate integration sphere and calibrated lumen photospectrometer. Altho
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by trox 2y ago
This looks very cool. I really hope the results are not overly cherry-picked like Adobe's first version of the text-to-vector generation that only worked particularly well for the showcased art styles.
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Show HN: Pantone Guessing Game(pascaltroxler.ch)
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by trox 2y ago
Because properly securing your systems is hard, especially if the attack surface is large. The attacker only needs to find a single weakness. Furthermore, you don't hear from all the teenagers trying to find vulnerabilities across the
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by trox 2y ago
Aside from color and translucency, an original artwork shows also the relief. It can tell much about the creation process of a painting and adds additional texture. Furthermore, some pigments were expensive and hard to work with prior to t
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by trox 2y ago
Further down the article, the lawsuit is cited: "As a result of Google’s material misrepresentations and other deceptive conduct, Ms. Vaca has been significantly damaged, including, but not limited to, financial losses of more than $5
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by trox 5y ago
If you've ever wondered about the unusual arXiv.org website favicon: The original logo was a skull with bones as reference to the piratey nature of distributing preprints without the publisher's consent. The smiley face was added
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by trox 5y ago
[1] https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/verisign-q3-2020-doma...
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by trox 5y ago
A very valid comparison, they indeed share lots of characteristics. I also feel that adaption in real estate would have societal benefits. The difference to real estate business lies in the fact that it is much more diverse and way harder t
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by trox 5y ago
I'm shocked by how many commenters here sympathasize with the domain squatting/parking business. Sure it may be a fun side-project or profitable long-term investment. But trying to make money from people who actually create value
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by trox 6y ago
I always assumed that PBRT is an acronym for "Physically Based Rendering Textbook".
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by trox 6y ago
As much as I love the swiss mobile network - saying that it works everywhere is wrong. In the mountains you still have smaller regions without service from all major providers. Especially when you are high up, you have to know that you cann
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by trox 6y ago
Very well written article! For further reading, I would also recommend diving into the conceptual overview of the gradient boosting framework LightGBM. It features some interesting optimization techniques for better overall performance. ht
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by trox 6y ago
> Now I can't open FB in the public The problem here is that the ads would still show on other devices that have no ad block.
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by trox 6y ago
Very interesting to read about the history and etymology of the term "Foobar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar
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by trox 6y ago
statcounter reports it to be 3.11% in the period Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...
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by trox 6y ago
Concerning the second question: I assume it is displaying the placeholder value before replacing it with the actual value.
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by trox 6y ago
Agreed, especially what I often see from search engines related to health and fitness. Many blogs with short, descriptive domain names, that are completely over-optimizing in SEO, changing publish dates of articles and offering bad UX in ge
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by trox 7y ago
From the article: > As they have raged for months in Australia, the fires have pumped 400 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere That's crazy. For comparison, 400 megatonnes is roughly half of what Germany emits in a whole
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by trox 7y ago
Well, in this case, your decisions define "healthier". In fact, it's up to you whether you study the daily snow bulletin and decide to ski in moderate avalanche danger. It's up to you whether you ski down the steepest de
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by trox 7y ago
I think you overestimate the size of Mozilla Corp. As somebody mentioned above, the average CEO salary for a similar sized company is 800k.[1] [1] https://chiefexecutive.net/ceo-and-senior-executive-compensa...
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by trox 7y ago
> I'm just about to hit 50% on the life meter. It's very motivating. I feel like the exact opposite of this. Thinking about hitting x% on the life meter makes me feel kind of depressed. Could you share your mindset behind this
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by trox 7y ago
I wonder where this is heading. The original light phone (version 1 if I remember correctly) was simply for calling and very minimalistic. To that I am a bit disappointed that they are adding more features instead of cutting prices.
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by trox 7y ago
Feels more like 5 years away to me as many of those points are already progressing/are close to success. If you compare to the last decade (for exampet the rise of Bitcoin, Quantum Computing), we can expect many more unexpected discove
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by trox 7y ago
I often get into arguments with people not believing in the consequences of climate change, especially when it's about the melting glaciers. People reason that finding ancient objects hints to low ice levels at numerous times in the la
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by trox 7y ago
> If true, this is interesting from an academic perspective: word meanings can be derived from a space of 60 dimensions. But I’m not still not convinced of the value with respect to language learning. More like 60 x N , since each of tho