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> Now you can do something with your time besides writing pointless one-off doo-dads Writing software one-offs to scratch an itch was historically one of my most enjoyable past-tim…

> A series of 13 cameras, six radar sensors, and four lidar sensors dot the Ojai's exterior, and are fitted with onboard heaters to reduce ice buildup and small wipers and fluid to…

I believe the GP was referring to most quality rips originating from physical media (ie. 4K UHDs). In a world without physical media, the best piracy can deliver is no better than …

If it weren't for the S-Pen, I'd ditch Samsung in a heartbeat. The day iPhone has a built-in EMR/AES stylus is the day I become a customer (despite being an Android lifer). Don't t…

> The US won't allow south korea to enrich uranium on their own. Want to try again? 190 nations have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This includes China, so the very US vs Chi…

I've done a few all-nighters in my 30s and 40s, and they generally feel the same as my 20s. Still get that clear headed, high focus second wind around 4am that carries through unti…

> I am in my 30s Now I'm kinda curious what age cohort is most likely to be Reddit memers Do you think 30s is peak Reddit, yet you manged to be a lucky outlier? Or that peak Reddit…

The Internet itself is the loophole in this analogy. Minors shouldn't have unfettered + unsupervised access to the Internet, that's the solution. The open Internet isn't a kid frie…

Perhaps times have changed, but when I was in grad school circa 2010 smartphones and tablets weren't yet ubiquitous but laptops were. It was super common to sit in a cafe/library w…

TBH, its not even middle/high-school era Internet I miss most either. While I have fond mid-90s memories, I think peak Internet is somewhere in 2008-2012 range. The Internet was mo…

> Do I just miss the freedom of childhood? I loathed my childhood, and have far more freedom as an adult then I ever did then. School, homework, chores, strict bedtime, dial-up Int…

This isn't really random behavior from some mentally unwell person. There's an entire Reddit community for element collectors: https://www.reddit.com/r/elementcollection/ And vario…

> I'm saying the market for what TRU provided had disappeared The market still exists, doesn't it? Kids still exist, kids still play with toys. People simply buy toys from Amazon n…

Is "Measure of the Universe" the book you're thinking of? Alternatively, chapter 8 of "Realm of Numbers" touches on logarithms, and "That's about the size of it" chapter from Assim…

There's a hosted test instance with pre-existing test account: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs?tab=readme-ov-file#te... Logging in just works. Easy to try it out there. The …

You should be able to emulate close to CRT beam scanout + phosphor decay given high enough refresh rates. Eg. given a 30 Hz (60i) retro signal, a 480 Hz display has 16 full screen …

> Modern OLED displays are superior in every way and CRT aesthetics can be replicated in software, so a more practical route would be probably to build some "pass-through" device t…

I know this is meant to be tounge-in-cheek and not serious, but still fun to mull over. IMO, main issue is the assumption that GDP/capita is independent of population size. I suspe…

This really hits home and makes me happy to see on the HN front page. Nearly 10 years later and I still consider my time working on Riak at Basho the highlight of my career. After …

TBH, we shipped fully working strong consistency in 2014. It just had a limited feature set, was disabled by default, and was never promoted/marketed since it didn't fit the direct…

The "hacker" stereotype is certainly stale, but subbing "young person" (and implying not "old person") is equally silly. I'm 41 and have been awake before 7am maybe 20 times in the…

Build 600K houses a year? The fact they aren't is the supply problem. Outside of government policies and potential to tank housing prices, is there some reason you can't build 500K…

It's about not leaking sensitive information. If you have different messages for invalid username vs invalid password, you can exploit that to determine if a user has an account at…

Fortnite generated $5.5B in 2023 alone and is estimated at over $20B in lifetime revenue