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As a traditional painter, I would love to see the individual pigments used, instead of dominant colors. I know this is not straightforward, but maybe doable to some degree based on…

It's true that a single private jet is causing tons of CO2 emissions. But in the end, all consumers control the market. You can jump one link further in the chain to regions with m…

Maybe you find this interesting: https://optimizeyourbiology.com/light-bulb-database It's a database of light bulbs tested using a 1-meter barium sulfate integration sphere and cal…

This looks very cool. I really hope the results are not overly cherry-picked like Adobe's first version of the text-to-vector generation that only worked particularly well for the …

Hey HN, I've created a web-based game that challenges you to match Pantone descriptions to its RGB color. For those who don't know, Pantone provides "a universal language of color …

Because properly securing your systems is hard, especially if the attack surface is large. The attacker only needs to find a single weakness. Furthermore, you don't hear from all t…

Aside from color and translucency, an original artwork shows also the relief. It can tell much about the creation process of a painting and adds additional texture. Furthermore, so…

Further down the article, the lawsuit is cited: "As a result of Google’s material misrepresentations and other deceptive conduct, Ms. Vaca has been significantly damaged, including…

If you've ever wondered about the unusual arXiv.org website favicon: The original logo was a skull with bones as reference to the piratey nature of distributing preprints without t…

[1] https://blog.verisign.com/domain-names/verisign-q3-2020-doma...

A very valid comparison, they indeed share lots of characteristics. I also feel that adaption in real estate would have societal benefits. The difference to real estate business li…

I'm shocked by how many commenters here sympathasize with the domain squatting/parking business. Sure it may be a fun side-project or profitable long-term investment. But trying to…

I always assumed that PBRT is an acronym for "Physically Based Rendering Textbook".

As much as I love the swiss mobile network - saying that it works everywhere is wrong. In the mountains you still have smaller regions without service from all major providers. Esp…

Very well written article! For further reading, I would also recommend diving into the conceptual overview of the gradient boosting framework LightGBM. It features some interesting…

> Now I can't open FB in the public The problem here is that the ads would still show on other devices that have no ad block.

Very interesting to read about the history and etymology of the term "Foobar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar

statcounter reports it to be 3.11% in the period Aug 2019 - Aug 2020 https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

Concerning the second question: I assume it is displaying the placeholder value before replacing it with the actual value.

Agreed, especially what I often see from search engines related to health and fitness. Many blogs with short, descriptive domain names, that are completely over-optimizing in SEO, …

From the article: > As they have raged for months in Australia, the fires have pumped 400 megatonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere That's crazy. For comparison, 400 megaton…

Well, in this case, your decisions define "healthier". In fact, it's up to you whether you study the daily snow bulletin and decide to ski in moderate avalanche danger. It's up to …

I think you overestimate the size of Mozilla Corp. As somebody mentioned above, the average CEO salary for a similar sized company is 800k.[1] [1] https://chiefexecutive.net/ceo-an…

> I'm just about to hit 50% on the life meter. It's very motivating. I feel like the exact opposite of this. Thinking about hitting x% on the life meter makes me feel kind of depre…

I wonder where this is heading. The original light phone (version 1 if I remember correctly) was simply for calling and very minimalistic. To that I am a bit disappointed that they…