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> What, specifically, makes you think it has something to do with the time leading up to 1900 CE rather than 1900 BCE Normally when someone says "1900" they are referring to 1900 A…

There was plenty of pirates around still in the 1800s AD. Aka "pre-1900" AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy

> 1900 BCE Nothing in the comment that we are talking about indicates that "pre-1900" is referring to 1900 BCE. It sounds squarely like it's referring to 1900 AD to me. Which is wh…

I applaud you for uploading even if it’s a bit disorganised still, and I do the same. It’s better to have something than nothing. Sometimes I see people talking about something but…

Blender is amazing and I love it. That doesn’t mean that replicating their success is an easy feat or for everyone. If it was easy to get the required funding, wouldn’t Synfig be i…

But did they actually mean literally to use ][ as square brackets. Or is it merely an approximation that is meant to be read as Roman numeral two. And then people in that time writ…

One thing, off topic kinda, that I always wonder when I see mention of said computer. Why people don’t use the Unicode symbol for Roman numeral two? Apple Ⅱ+

https://github.com/chowderman/chowderman.github.io looks to be the original repo for https://github.com/h53d/xp-paint then. And the other is a clone of that repo which was reupload…

Came across this on a recent LGR video on YouTube: “How 1990s Magic Eye 3D Images Were Made” https://youtu.be/uvXY99HysrU The GitHub repo of the linked stereogram solver is https:/…

70!? That’s more than a Googol!

I think this is a result of the strategy that the AI chose for picking languages. I saw when it was planning what to do it said that it was going to use a regex against the post ti…

That kind of confirmation does exist, it’s called using a hardware wallet, such as those made by Trezor and others. https://trezor.io/ The bigger question is, when they said: > G D…

I’ve seen other hardware companies that host firmware downloads for their products on Google Drive and some Chinese cloud drive. I don’t think doing that, nor Dropbox link, is diff…

> frequency of discussion (especially within an obsessive subgroup) does not represent effective implementation I asked the chat tool to count how many times each different program…

> Would love feedback When I go to the link, the URL is indicating that it will redirect me to a /hn page after I log in. I write in my email and get sent a login link. I click the…

Absolutely. Padding it falls under making sure the text is not too short.

If the sentence is too short it might be possible to guess. It’s not going to consist of random bytes. Imagine for example that a high profile celebrity accused of murder has succe…

Another alternative is to encrypt the document with a very strong pass key, and publish only the encrypted document now along with an announcement that the key to decrypt it will b…

Make a PDF or whatever kind of document containing the things you want to reveal. Make a hash sum of the file. Publish the hash of the document somewhere. Like on your Mastodon tim…

For anyone else wondering the GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn Couldn’t find any link to it on the article

In Norway we have a website developed by the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency which has the domain https://www.norge.no/ (Norge means Norway in Norwegian.) But in our case that’s a …

My late grandfather used to teach some classes many years ago. He recounted how one time, after he had graded and handed back some deliveries from the students, one of them came up…

Meteor got a lot of attention and hype on HN a few years ago. Looks at Wikipedia article Well, 12 or 13 years ago probably actually.

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