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by windsurfer 12d ago
Voting on this site is a GET request to https://news.ycombinator.com/vote , so it's not that unusual.
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by windsurfer 2mo ago
Yes the event horizon would be smaller than the width of a proton. Good luck getting anything into that with 300 TW of gamma rays coming out of it.
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by windsurfer 2mo ago
If you had a small black hole in a lab you could generate power from the hawking radiation, likely enough to power the entire world. A 1,000,000 ton black hole would last over a thousand years without feeding it more mass and produce about
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by windsurfer 2mo ago
The M87 supermassive blackhole is thousands of times as massive as Sagittarius A*, but since Sagittarius A* is a lot closer their emission rings appear roughly the same size in the sky (42 μas vs 51 μas). Both have already been imaged by th
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by windsurfer 3mo ago
Perhaps a [Satire] note should be added to the headline.
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by windsurfer 4mo ago
Yes usually, since an important aspect of steganography is error correction. For example we know that SynthID is robust enough to survive resizing and small blurs.
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by windsurfer 4mo ago
Even if you remove a watermark, the companies still have a record of which images they have generated and for whom. Even if you remove the obvious watermarks, all major image generators are using steganography to embed hidden information th
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by windsurfer 5mo ago
> All types of asbestos fibers are known to represent serious health hazards in humans and animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos#Health_impact
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by windsurfer 6mo ago
https://github.com/Arthur-Ficial/apfel-gui uses on-device speech-to-text and text-to-speech
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by windsurfer 9mo ago
I have been using Nvidia on Linux for years and am able to run 95%+ of my library on Steam.
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by windsurfer 9mo ago
It has been my experience that this is currently the case. I haven't had to even open protondb or search for a workaround in over a year. The only titles I know that don't work are a handful of multiplayer games that have intentio
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by windsurfer 10mo ago
It is officially recommended by the Troy Hunt: https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader/i...
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by windsurfer 10mo ago
You can download the entire dataset using curl (will be 40+ GB) curl -s --retry 10 --retry-all-errors --remote-name-all --parallel --parallel-max 150 "https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,
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by windsurfer 1y ago
They integrated Pocket as a proprietary service in their open source product 2 years before Mozilla acquired it. Removing the integration required editing about:config. The complaints were mostly during that time.
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by windsurfer 1y ago
> Does a faster moving black hole cause more or less damage to a target? When a black hole accretes matter, the matter can create tremendous radiation before it crosses the event horizon due to the atoms experiencing many effects such as
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by windsurfer 1y ago
The black hole in the paper is also ~7 solar masses. If that passed between the Earth and the Moon it would rip apart the earth from just the tidal forces.
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by windsurfer 1y ago
Automatic updates? Node.js? Why would one want to use this over the tried-and-tested Network UPS Tools that already ships with most Linux distributions?
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by windsurfer 2y ago
They do block side loading of audiobooks. You can only play audiobooks from Audible on Amazon Kindles.
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by windsurfer 2y ago
That ACF security update was not made available on WordPress.org due to ACF maintainers being blocked from accessing WordPress.org, according to WordPress.org's blog https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-
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by windsurfer 2y ago
The edge of the Mandelbrot set expands out to infinity and yet the area within the edge is finite. Who is to say that the universe isn't a hologram on a higher-dimensional Mandelbrot set-like object?
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by windsurfer 3y ago
HEVC isn't widely supported by web browsers: https://caniuse.com/hevc AV1 is supported by almost all web browsers: https://caniuse.com/av1
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by windsurfer 3y ago
10 pounds of fentanyl is enough to lethally overdose about 2 million people.
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by windsurfer 3y ago
This often-repeated statement doesn't really communicate how the editor works. While it does use many of the same APIs, you couldn't build the editor from within the editor (bootstrapping). The editor itself is largely written in
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by windsurfer 3y ago
It's interesting how this site gets around the ``rel="noreferrer"`` added to the link from HN. The banner uses a :visited CSS attribute to selectively show/hide the banner client side if your browser has been to the URL
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by windsurfer 4y ago
"Nay, good sir, do not dismiss the AI's composition as mere puffery. 'Tis true, the machine doth not possess the soul of the Bard, yet it doth strive to emulate his style and grace. And who are we, mere mortals, to deem what
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by windsurfer 4y ago
A man fired multiple bullets into a telescope and put many holes in the primary mirror, but the science capabilities were only minimally affected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_J._Smith_Telescope This telescope
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by windsurfer 4y ago
You might be interested in this https://www.fxtec.com/pro1x They are shipping soon after many delays.
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by windsurfer 4y ago
If a second drive fails after the first while rebuilding (which happens more often with larger and slower drives), the data is lost.
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by windsurfer 4y ago
With the satellite megaconstellations being launched it seems important to ban it before it becomes common. Mercury-based fuels are cheaper than alternatives. Coal as being burned for electricity has an industry standard of scrubbing 90% of
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by windsurfer 5y ago
By charging a tax upon fossil fuel use it discourages the use of fossil fuels. It uses the market to control pollution and companies would be forced to consider the full environmental cost of their actions due to it impacting the price.

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