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krilly··on On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe
Wasn't this posted here about 2 days ago?
krilly··on Apple’s Watch Is Smarter, but My Casio Keeps Getting the Job Done
I always wear a cheap Casio watch (and mean always: in the shower, when I sleep...) And it's been great for me. I was fed up of pulling my phone out whether I wanted to check the time because I would always get distracted and sometimes not notice the time anyway. It also felt like a regression to the days of pocket watches.
krilly··on Show HN: Zero-Config Documentation Websites for Python
There is no question that these are Buddhist swastikas; they are clockwise and also rotated 45 degrees compared to the most common nazi version.

It is difficult to appreciate how ubiquitous swastikas are in the Buddhist world until you go there and see them everywhere. I have no doubt that this was an innocent decision.

krilly··on From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love
Manjaro has access to the AUR as well, and it's as polished as any distro I've used. For me it's the clear winner for developers and hobbyists
krilly··on The Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar U.S. Fighter-Jet Program
The author is an expert in defense, specifically warplanes. She's not an expert in software engineering.
krilly··on Germany in Uproar as Negative Rates Threaten Saving Obsession
Could you elaborate on how the behaviour of German savers differs to those in other countries?
krilly··on Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In
I think we can all agree This is due to technological advancement, not economics, which is what we are discussing
krilly··on 30 years ago: Voyager 2's historic Neptune flyby
The voyager program was made possible by a very specific alignment of the planets which only occurs every 175 years
krilly··on A 127-year-old physics riddle regarding the Kelvinangle in boat wakes solved
A simulation gives about as much insight as a series of matrix transformations optimized to approximate a call result result

Wait

krilly··on Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
That is the definition of teleportation in every scifi setting I know of
krilly··on Show HN: SponsorBlock – Skip sponsorship segments of YouTube videos
You know they don't get paid unless you buy the product, right? Would you sit through a minute long advert for a vpn even though you already have one? Because that's pointless.
krilly··on Subsurface – An open source scuba dive logging platform
Moodle is the project you're looking for. It's actually really good, my university uses it
krilly··on The most frequent 777 characters give 90% coverage of Kanji in the wild
Your example is too convenient. How about "son, if you go to the butcher tomorrow morning don't forget to pick up some zlonks."

With a bit of context it's usually easy to figure out the missing parts

krilly··on Wine-dark sea
The reason 'red' is acceptable to describe the horse, despite the fact that it is clearly not red, is because the concept of orange only entered the English languange relatively recently. Before that it was described as red, and some vestiges of this remain (e.g. redhead).

Imagine a continuous colour wheel. Most people from the same culture today will draw the same boundaries between colors. Red, purple, blue, green, etc. What is to say these boundaries are objective? If in our own language red through orange was once referenced with a single word, why shouldn't red through blue have a single name in ancient Greek?

krilly··on Comic Code – Monospaced interpretation of the most over-hated typeface
I agree with your point about the fake personal touch, but I think this effect is because comic sans is so ubiquitous. A great alternative handwritten font is Architect's Daughter, which is free for personal use
krilly··on Spaceman Diff: Diffing Images on the Command Line
Wish he just used tiv, it's a far superior terminal image viewer
krilly··on ShadowFox – Dark Theme for Firefox
Or just write a userChrome.css and dump it in your profile directory. /r/firefoxCSS has the details
krilly··on Nobody talks about the real reason to use Tabs over Spaces
There is a difference between indentation and alignment. Unfortunately, python chose to enforce spaces only both via the language itself and pep8.
krilly··on A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy
Really? These days the guardian is known for its poor fact checking and misleading headlines
krilly··on YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
This approach implies that YouTube actually pays attention to the details of their terms, rather than just using wide sweeping keyword filters.
krilly··on Attempts to Censor AntiPolygraph.org
In the UK we have a long running 'institution' called the Jeremy Kyle show. I believe it is solar to the Jerry Springer show in the US? Basically, low SES people go on and argue about who cheated on who and at the end get either a lie detector or paternity test.

The show was recently cancelled because someone who was on the show committed suicide. This was clearly because of a false lie detector result which said he cheated on his partner.

In all the media frenzy around the incident, I didn't see a single source mention that lie detectors are unproven bullshit. I don't understand how otherwise normal people believe we live in a world where reliable lie detectors exist (the effects of this would of course be world changing).

krilly··on I just had over a thousand Euros stolen and Revolut is siding with the thief
Revolut seems overkill for that, maybe try Splitwise?
krilly··on Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech
How is growing up playing games on an iPad a better indicator of ability than decades of experience in the industry? You wave away the idea that these recruiters may be wrong in their criteria as if that's irrelevant, but that's the whole point of discrimination. If all black people were criminals then racists would be correct in their views. This dissonance is the core of the issue.
krilly··on Gimp 2.10.12
Blender is quite a centralised project, which has lots of usage (and therefore support) in industry. Gimp isn't like that at all, it's miles away from being an industry standard.
krilly··on Pogo stick rental startup swears it’s not a joke
It is a joke? They say it right there in the article, it's just a stunt they're doing to get the brand out there
krilly··on Ask HN: Does anyone still use IRC?
Discord is much better for collaboration simply by virtue of it being simpler, I've found. Web client works great
krilly··on A Tiling Desktop Environment
There's probably a better way but I would put a window in each half using winkey+arrows and then drag the center divider to resize them both at once.
krilly··on New Insights into Hikikomori – People Who Withdraw from Society for Years on End
>If you weren't seeking help why are you here telling us?

I feel that's a very presumptuous and patronising thing to say. People leave suicide notes not because they want help, but because they want people to understand what they're going through. We yearn for this sort of intellectual connection even after the wish to stay alive has disappeared.

krilly··on MDMA as a Probe and Treatment for Social Behaviors (2016)
People who take it every weekend will get a kind of permanent tolerance where they'll never feel the magic again no matter how long they wait. And apparently permanently affect their ability to feel happiness.

This is common knowledge in the drugs community and harm reduction sources frequently quote the 3 month thing, although I'm not sure where it originally came from.

krilly··on Ask HN: Examples of bad open-source code to learn what to avoid?
PHP is regularly found to be the most hated programming language

https://fossbytes.com/most-loved-hated-programming-languages...

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