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DigiDigiornoon Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks

Spoofing amiibos on TOTK

DigiDigiornoon Which word begins with "y" and looks like an axe in this picture? (2017)

Yeet

DigiDigiornoon The Seamless Communication models

Even the native original version needs the proper context. Sometimes you need the entire sentence to figure out what the sentence was really about.

I'm reminded of Mark Twain complaining about verbs arriving at the very end of sentencess in German (among a myriad of other complaints)

"The Awful German Language* -Mark Twain https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

DigiDigiornoon How are zlib, gzip and zip related?

It is specially useful, it is not especially/generally useful lol

It could be a typo, though I think when we say something "isn't specially/specifically/particularly useful" we mean "compared to the set of all features, specifically this subset feature is not that useful" not that the feature isn't useful for specific things

DigiDigiornoon Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall

I'm surprised the seeds would survive the heat and pressure of a shotgun cartridge blast that contained enough gun powder to embed them in a wall

DigiDigiornoon Finding that lead emissions from aircraft engines contribute to air pollution

The uphill battle of unleaded avgas leaves both the main players in the industry and the regulators themselves looking bad—but in a banal kinda way.

I enjoy AVWeb on YT for AV news (really, I just enjoy the humor/personality of Paul Bertorelli lol), here are a few insightful videos that summarize the story:

The Long, Twisted And Slightly Ridiculous Story of Avgas Part 1 (14:22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F-WngVMJBQ

Part 2 (15:15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvse4Xhzwuk

and

G100UL Approved Now What? (When the FAA approved the first unleaded 100-octane avgas a year ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibIkuyBL9i8

DigiDigiornoon Show HN: Pypipe – A Python command-line tool for pipeline processing

90% of the time I remember running into it, it was just used to reverse a copy of the list. (i.e. 'a = l[::-1]')

DigiDigiornoon Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017)

Small story about the time I read the collection Feynman's letters (I think it's a book called Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track)

The beginning of the book contained a lot of cute letters between him and his wife Arline. I was curious how much of the book would be this, considering I know she died of TB, so I flipped ahead and saw a letter to her quite a few more pages in, so I figured she must survive until at least that point. I continued reading and was emotionally caught off guard when she died only a couple of pages later. I'm not sure why I was so distraught at the death of someone I did not know who died 80 years ago, but I was looking forward to, and had the expectation of, a few more cute letters between them.

When I got to the letter that I had originally flipped to, it was the one he was writing after her death as a form of therapy to himself.

FWIW, they had a very cute relationship and the letters are worth reading for that alone.

DigiDigiornoon Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show

Those crypto gals over there? total bros

DigiDigiornoon Worldcoin ignored initial order to stop iris scans in Kenya, records show

The average crypto bro might be more against iris scanning than the general population.

DigiDigiornoon Anonfiles is shutting down

I also haven't heard of it, but I'm curious of the "when acquiring it" part of the quote.

Did the current owner not create the site? Did they acquire an anonymous file sharing site and are now shutting it down for the predictable anonymous file sharing issues?

Perhaps it's an English translation issue or something, but, in common parlance, the word "acquire" means to buy or obtain from elsewhere. (I don't think they are referring to the domain name itself, because that has nothing to do with the complaints listed.)

DigiDigiornoon A simple guide to fine-tuning Llama 2

Three links is not a large number of links, AND you don't "have" to dive into every link in lists of "useful links".

That said, I don't think op is useless.

DigiDigiornoon Pokémon Go creator Niantic accused of ‘systemic sexual bias’ in lawsuit

I'm amazed I never heard of the games outside of Pokemon and Ingress

Did you know they have NBA, Pikmin, and Peridot (whatever that is) games?

(Also they apparently developed a now shutdown Harry Potter game)

They also have Marvel and Monster Hunter games coming out this year.

I don't find their game loops fun, but damn do they have amazing IP partners

DigiDigiornoon Pokémon Go creator Niantic accused of ‘systemic sexual bias’ in lawsuit

According to basic Google searches, their revenue is literally higher now than 2016.

Now they have less than 1/3 of the active users compared to then, but their revenue is closer to 1bn then it was then.

It does seem like a failure because they were so popular and culturally relevant at their peak, whereas now I don't hear about them at all. But, I still think they are printing money and have one of the best "outstanding data collection to the public" apps ever

DigiDigiornoon Construction Time Again: The quality crisis in American building

"From hurricane resistance in Florida (tying the roof to the building) to lightning rods up a little north."

Why are lightning rods needed up north, or at least moreso, compared to Florida?

The area between Orlando and Tampa in FL is the lightning capital of the US. As in, it gets the most strikes per square mile in the US.

DigiDigiornoon Finding the best sine function for Nintendo 64 [video]

I like Kaze's content. There is something fun about how hacky and ridiculous it is to put that much effort into Super Mario 64 optimizations and brand new levels.

This video is more technical than the others, but I suggest checking out his other videos if the idea of Super Mario 64 development piques your interest.

DigiDigiornoon Playing sounds of healthy coral on reefs makes fish return (2019)

I tried to do that once. I almost could make out what they were saying, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.*

*ᴵ ᵃᵖᵒˡᵒᵍᶦᶻᵉ ᶦⁿ ᵃᵈᵛᵃⁿᶜᵉᵈ ᶠᵒʳ ᵗʰᶦˢ ˢᵗᵘᵖᶦᵈ ʲᵒᵏᵉ

DigiDigiornoon Playing sounds of healthy coral on reefs makes fish return (2019)

"[Coral larvae] don't have ears but somehow they're attracted to healthy reef sounds," he said.

"Maybe they can sense the vibrations with their cilia [tiny hair-like appendages], but we don't know.".

This sounds like more of a philosophical question, but is there a difference between hearing and sensing vibrations? Is there a certain level of signal processing required for hearing? Like, I can sense vibrations with my fingers, but I wouldn't call that hearing.

DigiDigiornoon US vendor accused of violating GDPR by reputation-scoring EU citizens

Volvo Group? Not Chinese

Volvo Cars? Maybe Chinese, Chinese company owns a majority, but it is still publicly traded company with other shareholders

DigiDigiornoon John Carmack on shorter work weeks (2016)

Errrr...

1. He doesn't invalidate any of his points in the way you think he does

2. In the most generous interpretation of your reading of him, he frames that amounts over the average 40 hours as sometimes being "underwork", which is absolutely something the some of the "overwork" camp denies

He might have good points, or he might have bad points, but either way it's not because of your additions to the discussion just now. (i.e. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.)

DigiDigiornoon Eastern philosophy says there is no “self” – science agrees

I am amused by the idea of presenting philosophical "terms of art" with obscure television skits dedicated to them. (i.e. Ship of Theseus is now Trigger's broom). Got any more in the bag?

DigiDigiornoon The computer graphics industry got started at the university of Utah

The duo in 1969 developed the line-drawing system displays LDS-1 and LDS-2, the first graphics devices with a processing unit. They then built the E&S Picture System—the next generation of LDS displays.

I'm working with my limited and stereotyped knowledge of Utah, but is "line-drawing system" a easter egg reference to latter day saints?

DigiDigiornoon Chat Notebooks

While I think his notebooks and features look pretty useful, he frames the article around having invented "notebooks" 36 years ago before anyone else, and talks about other notebooks not having features that they've had since 1987. This is a pretty odd context to basically describe a new chat feature.

Is this a record that should be set straight?

I've used Jupyter since it was IPython notebook, but I don't think that community claims to be the first coming of notebooks. The accessibility of python along with the breadth and depth of the scipy community makes it a quite a tour de force. So perhaps these articles are aimed at people who only use open source tools.

DigiDigiornoon SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators

If only I could downvote you

(I'm just kidding btw, and my last message is missing the /s too)

DigiDigiornoon SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators

A little bit closer to my lifelong dream of being able to downvote people on HN.

(You need >500 karma--I only have 200 as of writing this)

DigiDigiornoon SEC Accuses Binance of Mishandling Funds and Lying to Regulators

Every time a crypto article is posted there are a large amount of people who are only capable of thinking in absolutes like you.*

I don't think it's a very good currency (in the tx time/volume sense), but I think viewing crypto's viability as an all-or-nothing game is unreasonable--that includes both those for it and those against it. As for your assertions about failures:

- CEXs have failed (in the worst way possible too, see MtGox, BTC-e, FTX), but that doesn't mean they have all failed--or that there isn't a future for them.

- Hardware wallets haven't failed at all really. Like, Trezor and Ledger are the largest I think, and those are fine AFAIK. Are you referring to Ledger's recent news with the optional update including a backdoor for those that want to sync keys with Ledger's new service? (Seems like a dumb business decision imho, seems oxymoronic--hardware wallet as a service? lol)

- Soft wallets have been hacked and are risky, but I think the success rate here is pretty high. A large percent of crypto users use soft wallets like Brave's Wallet and MetaMask, the vast majority of these are fine AFAIK. Not exactly safe IMO, but considering the amount of people who use them and haven't been hacked, this is certainly not an obvious "failure"

Also, unrelated to crypto, but reducing people who disagree with you to "kool-aid drinkers" and "accidentally correct people" is a negative life choice IMO

* I think you are capable of not thinking in absolutes, I just wanted to be mean on the internet

DigiDigiornoon Supreme Court sides with Slack, putting direct listings in jeopardy

Lawyer here.

"[A]nyone that actually reads Supreme Court decisions" is the pertinent part of your comment. That is a very small group of people,* and usually a very quiet one that doesn't jump to the conclusion that the court is "illegitimate". The vast majority of the 50+ decisions each year do not make the news and the plurality of them are decided unanimously.**

* Basically nobody, unless it's their job, reads every case. However it is normal to follow a site like SCOTUSblog.com and get summaries to stay in the know.

** I guess check out any of the years here: https://www.scotusblog.com/reference/stat-pack/

DigiDigiornoon Tesla rethinks the assembly line

On the day of the leak I read that the whistleblower leak was about safety, but all of these newer articles (e.g. the one you linked) focus way more about privacy/GDPR. Like, the opening sentence begins with how Tesla didn't adequately protect personal data and the conclusion is about the size of GDPR fines.

The wording in the article "[t]he breach would violate the GDPR" implies that the act of the whistleblower leaking the information IS directly the violation...

I'm a fan of whistleblower protections, but if there isn't anything reasonably interpreted as illegal on the safety front, and he shared everyone's private information creating a violation of the law, then he should obviously face legal consequences without any extra protection whatsoever.

I am struggling to even see what the whistleblower intention is really. He leaked a seven year period of drive assistance complaints and it was just 4,000 (this sounds like a surprisingly small amount of complaints for a layman like me). Was Tesla hiding this in court cases? Were they not following regulatory reporting requirements?

DigiDigiornoon Group accused in $225K 'dice sliding' cheating scheme at Las Vegas casino

If this is just vanilla sliding/fraud (distract the dealer and then slide the dice without any air time), then this is just a normal case of cheating/fraud...

However, this isn't a normal felt craps table, instead of felt it's an electronic screen.* I wonder if the they were able to get the dice to slide after landing due to the physics (coefficient of friction/restitution?) of the screen being very different from felt. If so, this may** be a little more interesting.

*I think the type of table looks like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w9gZAjwqZs

**I imagine it is still quite a small chance this gets more interesting. But FWIW a possible interesting scenario would be the Nevada Gaming Commission finding that they made a legal throw or something

DigiDigiornoon Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain

Perhaps he's playing 5d chess.

bmitc's inability to understand the argument in a meaningful way is itself evidence that human intelligence is closer to the orcas