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    Comment #36707350

    If I had a dollar every time someone miscapitalized GB/Gb, I would be a lot less angry about people miscapitalizing GB/Gb. In this case; wow it's actually gigabytes? It does seem s…

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    Comment #36706668

    Add "computing" to your query to disambiguate.

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    Comment #36651380

    Huh, that decimal representation is a pretty attractive idea, I wonder why I haven't heard of it before or seen it in use at all. 100/256 seems very tolerable efficiency-wise.

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    Comment #36651261

    Funimation has some more, only Lain and GiTS 2 from your list though. Tangentially, some cool anime got aired on this local PBS station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUfoDH_1w0…

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    Comment #36639241

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277 Archive (slightly NSFW text) https://archive.tinychan.net/read/prog/1295544154

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    Comment #36627613

    What were they reading off of? In the App Store they set the privacy policy to Instagram's; https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id644... https://privacycenter.in…

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    Comment #36626884

    Long time namecheap user without any autorenew problems, even with insufficient funds forcing them to retry. You can also add funds to your account in advance, just got an email su…

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    Comment #36595584

    You just (poorly) measured the same thing the article did. I'm still curious to know what % of Show HNs make the front page.

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    Comment #36582670

    They're real, fwiw https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/04/15/eight-bit-floating...

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    Comment #36582071

    600 post views per day qualifies pretty close to "irrecoverably down" for me.

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    Comment #36566737

    A video you can interact with and has its own thoughts, feelings, motivations and such; sure.

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    Comment #36510190

    On the other side, they brought a fingerprint reader that actually stored biometric data safely, innaccessible to the OS with the first secure enclave.

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    Comment #36510129

    >software obsolescence by way of unpatched vulnerabilities. The 5s from 2013 had a patch in January.

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    Comment #36478631

    I'll sometimes go through the trouble of using `data:text/html, `, but that is impressively replete.

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    Comment #36468309

    It's not plain to me that ligatures might conflict with smallcaps. Certainly feels there's no good reason for that to be the case.

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    Comment #36396372

    AES, particularly AES-256, is considered quantum resistant/safe. AES-128 could have its keysize effectively reduced to 64 bits with Grover's Algorithm (AES-256 to 128 bits), but sc…

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    Comment #36389291

    Being able to crack present-day communications in the future is still a concern.

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    Comment #36384078

    RAM requirements

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    Comment #36377494

    How do they get the CO2 out of the sub?

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    Comment #36349993

    I think it's simply a matter of the media not being there yet. You could envision movies made specifically for experiencing through these devices that would be utterly enthralling …

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    Comment #36304876

    Altruism really has been getting its name dragged through the mud recently huh

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    Comment #36286765

    It's gratis, perhaps.