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Black101··on Is your computer too slow to keep up with your typing?
I didn't read the whole thing, but of course this can happen and for a multitude of reasons.
Black101··on Ask HN: Best way to read HN on MacBook Air?
Too bad Apple doesn't support old devices anymore
Black101··on Ask HN: Best way to read HN on MacBook Air?
> I found an app called "Octal for Hacker News" on App store but it only works with M1 chipset.

Has Apple products always been fragmented like this?

Black101··on Only Windows 11 Pro will let you install Windows 11 with a local account
Since Windows 10, MS is getting its inspiration from Android and iOS... I'd be scared to touch Windows 11.
Black101··on Electric vehicles are the future for everyone – except disabled people
I think hydrogen fuel cells are the future if we can't make nuclear work.
Black101··on Miami orders evacuation of 156-unit as structurally and electrically unsafe
I remember a car sinking (sink hole) at a gas station near my home in Florida... but in this case, sink holes were not the problem... and the owner knew about structural and draining problems (they just did nothing about it)
Black101··on Back to the Future with RSS
Firefox dropping RSS is one of their many stupid decisions (it's not like RSS changes a lot and takes a lot of maintenance)... I'm seriously thinking about switching to Otter (installed it today)
Black101··on US companies hit by 'colossal' cyber-attack
Thanks IT
Black101··on Price transparency remains elusive despite hospitals starting to post fees
did you try to click the reader-view icon?
Black101··on Price transparency remains elusive despite hospitals starting to post fees
thanks Trump.
Black101··on Facebook test asks users if they're worried a friend is 'becoming an extremist'
Did the Government ask them to do that?
Black101··on Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)
Shim is on top of grub? not good ... They are trying to turn PCs into phones where you can't do what you want.
Black101··on Acer disables BIOS for laptops sold through Amazon? (2020)
> Why do people keep repeating this FUD? Linux plus UEFI Secure Boot works fine as long as you use the signed version of GRUB. It’s not hard.

Very ridiculous. You have to get someone else to sign it for you, don't you?

Black101··on MIT and Harvard Engineers Create New Face Mask That Can Detect Covid-19
Need food packaging that detects pathogens... so that we can get rid of meaningless expiration dates
Black101··on Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’
I think that they have ultimate power and they even trump the constitution...
Black101··on NASA Space Tourism Posters
Fake news is the new propaganda...
Black101··on Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'
Probably not.
Black101··on Robinhood to pay $70M for 'systemic supervisory failures'
Charles Schwab is nice except for their reliability... TD Ameritrade and Fidelity's sites have much better uptimes.
Black101··on Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’
It's time for another Snowden-style leak to learn about all their new toys.
Black101··on Ask HN: Do you agree with Paul Graham?
> PG and all investors are incentivized to create environments that produce extreme results. So it makes sense that they want 100 sharp knives knowing that the 10 that succeed will far outweigh the loss on the 90 that don’t.

yeah, because they barely give any money for their equity...

Black101··on What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t
"The New York Times warns that a particle of carfentanil as small as a grain of salt or piece of dust can be deadly and that the drug is lethal in a dose as minuscule as 0.02 milligrams. "

so about 1/50th of a milligram is deadly... not sure what's the maximum dose before it kills you

Black101··on What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t
> LSD "the only drug measured in micrograms"

Carfentanil is probably more potent then LSD, here is a lethal dose:

https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wosu2/files/styles/x...

"For pain relief, a unit of carfentanil is one hundred times as potent as the fentanyl, five thousand times as potent as heroin, and ten thousand times as potent as morphine, despite having only 14 to 135 times the affinity for the mu receptor."

Black101··on YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch
Anything that is legal should be allowed (what's wrong with porn?)... They already track you a lot and know your age even if you don't tell them so it would not be a problem to prevent kids from seeing it (nothing is foolproof but it is not a reason to restrict free speech)
Black101··on Ask HN: Do you self-host your database?
Not only it is on average slower in the US, but also usually more expensive: https://fairinternetreport.com/research/internet-speed-by-co... (first link I found doing a web search)
Black101··on Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible
It also automatically files your income tax... (what a stupid law the US Gov. made when they decided to not consider crypto as currencies)
Black101··on It's time to treat social media like the climate crisis, researchers argue
The climate crisis is a solution to over-population... not sure what social media does.
Black101··on Atomic image sets new record for highest resolution
> Image shows an electron ptychographic reconstruction

so it's a bit like pictures from space... they are not really what you would see... Imagine if they would show radio waves in all pictures that we take daily ...

Black101··on YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch
> I am not that familiar with embedded software, but does that value really difficult to achieve?

What is the percentage?

Black101··on China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover
> I am not that familiar with embedded software, but does that value really difficult to achieve?

HFTs are in the nanosecond range... so probably not that hard.

Also, my ping to remote servers is often 5ms...

Black101··on YouTube reinstates Right Wing Watch
They need to become a dumb pipe...
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