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nekopa

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About nekopa

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    Comment #40201278

    Great game BTW!

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    Comment #38988699

    What happens after 20K books? I am at about 13K books, and I haven't run into any issues yet. I make extensive use of virtual libraries in Calibre, and tags for organization.

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    Comment #38383871

    I have to back up the others: just buy the microfreak, it is awesome. It was my first hardware purchase, and I am so glad I got it. They keep adding functionality via firmware upda…

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    Comment #34706077

    I found it on there. It seems to include ArXiV.

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    Comment #33871533

    First attempt it didn't try to respond, just said it didn't know anything about sparrows or coconuts. I asked it to retry, and got this: function calculateSparrowFlightVelocity(coc…

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    Comment #33505307

    Great site! I found a small typo: Explore images genereted with getimg.ai

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    Comment #32969772

    One step closer to a dream I have: To describe scifi objects to Stable Diffusion, use the image to create a 3D object, print that object on my 3D printer. All on my laptop. (Well, …

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    Comment #32674842

    Jeff Koons did that (kinda)

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    Comment #30857986

    If you are referring to this section: Mar 2019 - H. Left the company, all permissions removed except on one game which we were still using H.'s consultation on - The app was unpubl…

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    Comment #28836114

    It's funny you mention this, as there is a big thread above that discusses his contribution to learning by reading, and his second point here is "Program. The best type of learning…

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    Comment #27500563

    Makes me smile to think that one day my bank account will be drained of all its BTC because I forgot to patch my bedside lamp last tuesday...

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    Comment #25623739

    I don't understand this viewpoint. This type of data is being misused already. I think it would be a net positive for individuals to get their own data and use it for positive outc…

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    Comment #25516544

    I can second this recommendation. Mapy.cz is especially awesome for me as I live in the Czech Republic. It has more updated satellite imagery for the CZ than Google, and shows all …

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    Comment #25440849

    I think that is kinda normal for lawyers though. In the Czech Republic (I've been here 16 years and work with a lot of lawyers) it's normal for lawyers to be "contractors", very fe…

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    Comment #25316945

    I prefer the idea behind the steelman technique (as opposed to a strawman argument): state the position of the person you disagree with so well they say "I wish I had put it that w…

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    Comment #25202335

    That, is fantastic.

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    Comment #25154084

    And it has an ad on it. (Boy do I miss the days of Google's text only ads)

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    Comment #25154068

    And it looks much nicer zoomed in (as in your link) ;)

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    Comment #24811057

    Just to let you know OP, HN doesn't show your email in your profile, so even though you ask people to send you an email, it's no where visible. You need to add the contact info you…

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    Comment #24809492

    I think video takes longer to consume information versus text. Or maybe I am just a fast reader...

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    Comment #24620488

    I found this gent's articles quite helpful: http://blog.konradvoelkel.de/2010/01/linux-ocr-and-pdf-probl... http://www.konradvoelkel.com/2013/03/scan-to-pdfa/

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    Comment #24430118

    After some clicking around: https://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ Second post on the page.

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    Comment #23914726

    This has been discussed a lot under the term "shadowbanning" in various places. HN does this too, if enough people downvote a comment it will disappear from the conversation, but n…

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    Comment #23911061

    It is a language thing, even for native speakers :) That is why he went to a lot of trouble to define each term in the beginning, and kept referring back to his opening definitions…