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jerbear4328

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About jerbear4328

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #48821362

    They want to sign up for the Amazon Brand Registry[1], which requires a valid US trademark, and these crazy names are approved faster because they're obviously unique. See NYT[2] […

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    Comment #45533234

    It (hopefully) took exactly 30 seconds, the page delays every item until 30 seconds after its posted date. It doesn't poll HN's server, it opens a websocket to the official HN Fire…

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    Comment #45533212

    I tried this, but it required making a request for every comment and would probably call for a backend, wheras this can run just off of the Firebase websocket stream on a static HT…

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    Comment #45533195

    Haha, my version makes a websocket connection to the official Firebase that the HN servers already send everything to, so it is zero extra load on HN

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    Comment #45408111

    The instance https://cobalt.meowing.de is currently working for YouTube, which is very useful

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    Comment #45023417

    https://altstore.io is the big one. You might want the AltStore fork SideStore (you can do the weekly reinstall without a computer, https://sidestore.io ). Other tools exist, like …

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    Comment #44415783

    Currently, we're pretty limited on 5-character ab.xy domains, and they'll cost you over $1000 USD to register[1]. However, 6 and 7 character domains are available, and can indeed b…

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    Comment #44408585

    https://archive.ph/wFgG5

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    Comment #44110557

    It looks like it's just the HN submitted title which is wrong (currently "Why the Original Macintosh Had a Screen Resolution of 512×324"). The article's title is "Why the Original …

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    Comment #43519892

    How would the OS know if the app that the browser is querying about is actually the current page? For all the OS knows, the user might be quickly visiting a ton of play.google.com …

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    Comment #42217073

    Those articles are paywalled: https://archive.is/GWvCX https://archive.ph/ckFB2

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    Comment #41900500

    Reproduced here on NVIDIA as well.

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    Comment #41610774

    Llama 3.1 isn't under that license, it's under the Llama 3.1 Community License Agreement: https://www.llama.com/llama3_1/license/

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    Comment #41316736

    I think they meant that you lose your windows after a reboot, because Firefox only restores one window, compared to all of your groups.

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    Comment #41091116

    Theoretically, yes, they could, I think. However, with Certificate Transparency, the fraudulent certificates these Certificate Authorities could create would have to be published i…

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    Comment #40902297

    Woah, it works with multiple fingers! This is wild for pure JS. Interestingly, more fingers means more lag, I guess more stuff being sent between threads.

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    Comment #40900322

    PairDrop is quite nice, it's my go to as it always works. It's a fork of the simpler SnapDrop.

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    Comment #40871584

    Note that the paper and article are from (2021).

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    Comment #40706416

    Perhaps you are kind, which is a great way to be. Niceness is artificial, while kindness is a genuine, caring trait. There was a thread on the distinction yesterday: https://news.y…

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    Comment #40687701

    He was interpreting it generously, which is a pretty good way to keep discussions civil. The site guidelines say to "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someo…

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    Comment #40683070

    Oh, I didn't realize that it was a standard term. I'm sure there's a good motivation then, it doesn't seem so bad.

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    Comment #40682618

    I read that as "NVIDIA encourages you to be ethical and prohibits breaking the law. That doesn't seem so bad to me. What is bad, however, is section 2.1. > 2.1 ... If You institute…