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bitdivision··on Migrating from Supabase
Can you elaborate on why it becomes difficult to read? Was there something obvious they missed?
bitdivision··on Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians
[0] seems to suggest they have over 100 Million tracks.

Perhaps OP meant to include a time period, like 100,000 tracks per month or something?

0: https://newsroom.spotify.com/company-info/

bitdivision··on Fakespot Is Acquired by Mozilla
> Software developer Graydon Hoare created Rust as a personal project while working at Mozilla Research in 2006. Mozilla officially sponsored the project in 2009

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)

bitdivision··on Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children
The part in question: https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ?t=827
bitdivision··on How the last-ditch effort to save Silicon Valley Bank failed
I doubt those limits would apply to business accounts, which I'd guess were the majority of the withdrawals here.

Are you sure the limits on your account would apply to e.g. a wire transaction? Of course there are limits on ATM withdrawals and some other transfer methods, but I'm not sure they'd apply if you wanted to send a wire.

bitdivision··on Anki-fy your life
I started out using anki to improve my Spanish vocabulary. Eventually discovered Mochi [0] here on HN. Far better designed and executed, well worth a look if you're interested in Anki.

[0] https://mochi.cards/

bitdivision··on The $20 an hour Cessna 172 experiment (2020)
Agreed.. Though it's an often used metric: fatalities per billion kilometers (f/bnkm).

Someone told me that risk per unit distance was higher when walking than riding a motorcycle, which I thought sounded like it could be possible. Sadly it seems its not true [1].

Interesting how f/bnkm is so low for driving vs walking though.

[1]: https://www.normalizecycling.com/risk-in-cycling/units-of-ri...

bitdivision··on ‘Perpetual broths’ that simmer for decades
Best before not bad after
bitdivision··on The extraordinary shelf life of the deep sea sandwiches
This seems like it would be a great way to make long lasting milk which doesn't taste like UHT milk. Apparently it does work, but perhaps regulation hasn't caught up with it yet [0].

Edit: Seems that it may not be as effective in milk because of a pressure resistant enzyme [1]

0: https://www.hiperbaric.com/en/hpp-milk-high-pressure-process...

1: https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2022/03/11/hpp-milk-co...

bitdivision··on EVs are the least reliable vehicle type: Consumer Reports
Not sure how reliable the source is but this [0] shows 60% of US EV sales were Teslas in Q3.

0: https://joinyaa.com/guides/electric-vehicle-market-share-and...

bitdivision··on Kill Bill – Open-Source Subscription Billing and Payments Platform
For versions < 1.0.0 this does not apply:

> Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

bitdivision··on Soldering Wires – Here's a different way
felder 62/36/2 [0] is a flux-cored solder. So you were using flux every time.

It's also a leaded solder, which is much easier to get nice joints from than lead-free.

Flux is great, adding some before you solder is a good tip, and will likely help you make better joints if as you said, you haven't perfectly cleaned everything. The only downside is perhaps some more cleanup afterwards. There's no reason to disparage it's use.

0: https://www.felder.de/products/electronic-applications/manua...

bitdivision··on Wails v2 Released
Interesting. Any more details?

I thought about implementing something like this with a SBC to replace a broken motorcycle dashboard but never got around to it.

bitdivision··on Grocery bag comparisons of environmental impact
Huh? The graph shows that you need to use an organic cotton reusable bag 20,000 times in order for it to have the same environmental impact as a single use LDPE bag.
bitdivision··on Common tech jobs described as cabals of Mesoamerican wizards
I think it's likely region based. I get the same without a VPN
bitdivision··on OpenAI API pricing update FAQ
Yes, an order of magnitude literally means 10x. But in my experience, in common speech it's often used to convey an approximation. i.e. 'Changing this will decrease performance of that endpoint by an order of magnitude', when it's really somewhere around 10x. If someone said 'decrease performance by 10x' that seems much more concrete to me.
bitdivision··on OpenAI API pricing update FAQ
I'm not sure about using 10x in place of 'an order of magnitude'. An order of magnitude conveys an approximation, whereas 10x is precise.
bitdivision··on My take on how DuckDuckGo can outperform Google
DDG works great if you search for `happy synonyms`. It even has an equivalent list of synonyms embedded in the results page.

Actually even with "what is another word for happy", the first result is a wordhippo synonyms page.

Though I agree that question based queries are probably more popular these days, and DDG isn't handling them as well. I imagine this doesn't bother the tech / privacy crowd too much.

bitdivision··on Why rails buckle in Britain
> The CWR is subject to compression loads due to temperature changes, which can cause buckling, or sharp lateral displacement. These phenomena are prevented using reinforced fastenings, sleepers and ballast.

https://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/jrtr15/f38_tec.html

I found the above, but it doesn't say that much about buckling. I don't think they use slab tracks however.

If buckling is the lateral movement of the track due to thermal expansion, I would imagine the old wooden sleepers would be much easier to pull sideways. Looking at the above link about slab tracks, they look far more secure and less likely to move sideways.

bitdivision··on Billion-record stolen Chinese database for sale on breach forum
For anyone wondering what that is, English uses short-scale, i.e. 1 billion = 1000 million, some other languages / countries use long-scale i.e. 1 billion = 1 million million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales

bitdivision··on Pirate Site Blocking Is Making Its Way into Free Trade Agreements
This FTA is between the UK and Australia. I'm under the impression that both the UK and Australia currently have laws allowing them to comply with this agreement, so adding a requirement like this wouldn't change anything here.
bitdivision··on Oxide on My Wrist: Hubris on PineTime was the best worst idea
The article is about running Hubris on the PineTime. Quite literally the Pinephone of watches.

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/

bitdivision··on How I learned French in 12 months (2020)
A lot of discussion on this last time it came up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22341983

bitdivision··on Rust on Espressif chips
In what space? If you're talking about embedded, it's going to be pretty slow for industry to start using rust en masse. There's a huge amount of inertia in embedded, and the developers are somewhat beholden to manufacturers to release tooling around rust.

In the software space, rust is being used by quite a few companies [0].

0: https://www.rust-lang.org/production/users

bitdivision··on Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
I just managed to get through all the errors and successfully ordered
bitdivision··on Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
It's not. This is a preorder.
bitdivision··on Google Pixel 6 Launch [video]
They're emphasizing how inclusive the camera is, was one of the segments on the video. Historically some smartphone cameras have done poorly with brightness / saturation of darker skin tones I believe.
bitdivision··on Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules
I agree uber drivers =/= black cab drivers, but I'd also argue that most people don't want or need a black cab driver today.

What extra services does a black cab driver provide over an Uber driver in London?

  - Better knowledge of traffic patterns?
  - Ability to recommend places, give you local knowledge
That's all I can really think of. I agree that local knowledge is sometimes useful, but the vast majority of the time I know exactly where I want to go, and if I'm looking for recommendations I'm likely to trust the internet more than a taxi driver.
bitdivision··on More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
That's interesting thanks! There's not much on wikipedia [0] about that character, but it does appear to be for whistled speech!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%CD%8E

bitdivision··on More than eighty cultures still speak in whistles
Does anyone know if there are any examples of people whistling English? I'd find it fascinating to see if I could understand anything intuitively.
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