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abcd_f··on Sustainable energy without the hot air (2008)
And a straight angle is just 10 degrees away from the water's boiling point. Might be something in it too :)
abcd_f··on Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
Must've been that. Will check if there are any markings on slides. I do remember the process being rather involved.
abcd_f··on Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents
Don't know if they were Kodachrome, but I still have some color Kodak slides that my dad developed at home in the late 80s.
abcd_f··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
Back in the early 00s the UK seemed to go all in on mass surveillance, with massive amount of cameras in public places and all that. I still remember how shocking it all looked even from Canada. So these 1984 parallels are certainly not a new development.
abcd_f··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
First Lunar flyby, first Lunar probe landing, first photos from surface, first Lunar rover - all Soviets.

Crewed landing is a massive achievement, but it being the finish line of the race is the US framing, primarily due to getting beaten in all other firsts.

abcd_f··on A rough guide for going back to the Moon
> won the space race

Some of it.

Not first to the space, not first to the Moon, not first in human spaceflight, not first in spacewalk, etc.

abcd_f··on I Connected My Withings Body+ to Home Assistant with an ESP32
Does this API go through cloud?

Because OP's hookup works offline, via the Bluetooth.

abcd_f··on Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond
The GP dramatically exaggerated the state of affairs or perhaps it's how things are in their specific village/canton.

In French cantons you can bring your kids to school, you can drive them there and there are spots for stopping and all respective signage. But there is indeed a lot of very young kids walking to school.

abcd_f··on Intrusive linked lists (2019)
The main benefit is that adding/removing items to/from a list requires no heap operations. All control elements are basically preallocated.
abcd_f··on Restroom Archive
... et voilà, we now know where the GP is from :)
abcd_f··on “I just chose words carefully”
Forgot the ever succinct

  get
  put
abcd_f··on Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux
Have a look at https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice and iOS backup projects that are based on it.
abcd_f··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
... expressing some interest to try and see if joining the EU might be feasible or not. That's literally what the referendum is about.
abcd_f··on Show HN: Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game
Yeah, this monetization approach is a complete no-go.

If everything runs in the device, as advertised, an one-time fee is the only reasonable $ option.

abcd_f··on Tim Curry has died
Oh, no. Not doctor Pool!
abcd_f··on Nebula Sans
F12
abcd_f··on HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
Yeah, but the first one does nothing at all and the second does nothing for a bit :)
abcd_f··on HelloAssembly: The smallest possible complete Windows application (2021)
The smallest meaningful program for MS-DOS was exactly 2 bytes:

  FA F4
That's CLI HLT, which effectively deadlocked the machine. Had to be saved as a .com fule obviously, not as an .exe.
abcd_f··on Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel
He should've given bvckup2 a try.

Asynchronous IO, multithreaded for smaller files, serialized when they are big, block-level delta copying on subsequent runs. Pretty much as fast as it gets on Windows.

abcd_f··on Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
The question wasn't mine.
abcd_f··on Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
Probably looks good on the resume?
abcd_f··on Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum
Make it possible to reject all cookies in one click.

What you have now is ridiculous.

abcd_f··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
Never underestimate how much damage a single high-ranked idiot can inflict on its own ranks.
abcd_f··on More German than many Germans
The GP was trolling.
abcd_f··on More German than many Germans
One will be long dead when a desired fundamental change finally completes. So any suggestion to stay and wait it out is plain disingenuous.
abcd_f··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
Good time to mention TwinMotion - a real-time archviz software from Epic, built on top of Unreal Engine. Free for personal and small-scale commercial use.

https://www.twinmotion.com/

Basically, you do the geometry modelling in Sketchup, Blender or what have you, import that into TM, texture it, place lights and then walk around Doom style. VR headsets are supported natively. There is also a decent (and very easy to use) support for "scenarios", so you can open/close doors, turn on/off lights, etc.

Highly recommended.

PS. There is a free desktop version of Sketchup Make 2017. Got everything one needs for a single-person setup. There is a copy on the Internet Archive.

abcd_f··on LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
It is vastly superior to Khan. Had my kids go through both, so can compare.

That said, on higher levels there's some cruft that trains mechanical skills, and that's on subjects that are needed only in the scope of the US system. For Europeans these should be optional, alas they are not and this adds a lot of tedium and hassle to an otherwise rather frictionless process.

abcd_f··on LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences
If said experience is subpar, e.g. when it happens with 30+ student classes when 80% dgaf, there's no harm in offering an alternative to those who wants it.

And the rest can continue enjoying everyday human life experience.

abcd_f··on How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes
If it weren't for Bool as a name, that's just 0 for OK, non-zero for errors with 1 being general failure.
abcd_f··on Show HN: Beautiful Type Erasure with C++26 Reflection
> I would consider it beautiful.

If there's something that C++ actually lacks, that's the elegance, grace and beauty. The rest, it's all already there or will be there shortly :)

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