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mischa_u··on Openrouter Fusion API
Haven't managed to get past "Fusion failed. You can retry from the results view." with no clue why it failed...
mischa_u··on The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
How did you establish a score of 20 points as cut-off point? Did you try other values before?
mischa_u··on SQLite FTS5 Extension
Use an UNINDEXED column, see https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#the_unindexed_column_option
mischa_u··on ARC Prize – a $1M+ competition towards open AGI progress
"On the Measure of Intelligence" https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
mischa_u··on A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D
Made using open-source software. Blender, Gimp and Darktable.
mischa_u··on Nord Stream 2 declares bankruptcy
https://archive.is/Fp97N
mischa_u··on Google Search Is Dying
Kagi's currency conversion widget works fine for me, I use it almost daily: "10 eur to usd" https://kagi.com/search?q=10+eur+to+usd

Which widget queries are you having trouble with?

mischa_u··on We're Launching This Weekend (With a Lower Price) - SimulaVR
What's the difference between Simula One, Simula One Tethered Edition and Founder Edition?

Simula One: headset + compute pack, works standalone

Simula One Tethered Edition: just the headset, needs a host PC

Simula One Founders Edition: headset + compute pack, works standalone, has extra bling (and potentially slightly better specs as they can make more lead time vs cost tradeoffs)

mischa_u··on FuzzCon Europe 2020 – Live Stream
Part two: https://youtu.be/z85myMjRvrI
mischa_u··on FuzzCon Europe 2020 – Live Stream
This is the backup stream; the main event stream seems to have ~500 viewers and pretty active discussion in the sidebar.
mischa_u··on Hospital workers make masks from office supplies
As for doing fit testing at home, using cigarette smoke might be helpful:

"... it was found that tobacco smoke as it comes from a cigarette is an extremely concentrated aerosol with a relatively stable distribution of sizes ranging from 0.1 to 1.0 micron, peaked between 0.2 and 0.25 micron."

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0095852260...

mischa_u··on Eris: A Decentralized Autonomous Organization Framework
This is a response to the USD$100,000 bounty to create a software-based platform to replace the Bitcoin Foundation as initially announced on http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/25sf4f/100000_bount...
mischa_u··on HTTP Security headers you should be using
Should the HTTP response also include the Strict-Transport-Security header?
mischa_u··on Code to Cloud in 5 minutes and 55 Seconds
Is this good or bad?
mischa_u··on ASCII Google Streetview
Upon startup it picks one of the following locations at random:

  lat: 40.759011, lng: -73.98447220000003
  lat: 37.785747104443196, lng: -122.40620172951662
  lat: 39.36382677360614, lng: 8.431220278759724
  lat: 50.09072314148827, lng: 14.393133454556278
  lat: 35.69143938066447, lng: 139.695139627539
  lat: 35.67120372775569, lng: 139.77167914398797
  lat: 39.907974000227846, lng: -118.82814144140627
  lat: 38.897556289243894, lng: -77.0365502699753
  lat: 51.509651382445206, lng: -0.1184348782348934
mischa_u··on How I created and launched a website from the Internet café in Zimbabwe
Also link to your blog from your site.
mischa_u··on Notch's next game is an MMO
What Notch means with "Hard Science Fiction": http://0x10c.com/doc/hardscifi.txt
mischa_u··on Ask HN: How do you "learn" a new programming language?
I subscribe to podcasts and watch a couple video presentations.

The idea is to quickly get an understanding for the concepts behind the language, when you dive into the topics you already have a mind map to file them under. This also gives you a feeling for the community.

Next I read the top questions on stack overflow and join the IRC channel on freenode.

By learning from the common pitfalls made by others this saves me from a lot of startup frustrations which would otherwise prevent me from actually using the language.

mischa_u··on Bitcoin, a service and the micro-micro-economy
Your two cents worth literally; although at the current Bitcoin exchange rate [1] a typical post/comment/vote on witcoin.com costs USD 0.079.

[1] http://www.bitcoincharts.com/markets/

mischa_u··on Flattr does not work on smallish blogs
As I don't see any flattr gadget on the dispatched.ch blog, maybe the author forgot to enable it explains the lack of results?
mischa_u··on Wikileaks website to be abandoned
There it is: "WikiLeaks will NOT be abandoned. Don't listen to disinfo being spread! We'll issue clarifications soon. Should've done earlier." http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/18289990888
mischa_u··on Spotify now available in The Netherlands
If you have a problem when signing up, it is likely due to the postcode format. Use the format "1234AA" (without space).