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I live near the Prince of Wales Tower (the first image in the article), but only today learned that it’s the oldest Martello tower in North America! It’s the first location on Bloomsday gatherings in Halifax.
If only it was possible to have a blog outside those two platforms.
Anki is a great software, but unfortunately it is quite difficult to install on Linux systems. Almost all packages on major distros are by now years out of date or kicked out, because Anki changed its build systems so many times, that the existing package maintainers simply dropped it: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/1378

Nowadays, the Anki version in Ubuntu is from 2019! The snaps are also hopelessly outdated.
I agree with the criticism that one should not mimick C++ in C.

A good C library would use intrusive data structures, user-controlled memory allocations, not try to replace built-in types (arrays) with inferior alternatives, and not to try to be a kitchen-sink library.

And then it would be obvious such C++ sucks in comparison... ;-)
Nuclear fuel can be reprocessed. Real waste should be stored for merely 300yrs
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> I always saw butter as a fat as being a more American thing

French cuisine famously uses tons of butter. Depends _which_ French cuisine of course, the Mediterranean south tends to favour olive oil, but holds true for the stereotypical idea of French food
This wikipedia article must surely be inaccurate:

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

The initial research into the row hammer effect, published in June 2014, described the nature of disturbance errors and indicated the potential for constructing an attack, but did not provide any examples of a working security exploit. [1]

[1] (June 24, 2014). "Flipping Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them: An Experimental Study of DRAM Disturbance Errors"

By my recollection there was a discussion of rowhammer and making it work on a (original) Freenode channel circa 2010 (or earlier) in response to a related thread on a reddit security hacking subreddit.

ie: it was being discussed in public channels some four years prior to a paper cited as "initial research".

Addendum: Mind you, lots of things get kicked about and implemented before actual papers appear on them for the first time in public.
Even then, I remember the sales pitches all mentioning performance improvements in the order of about 10-20%
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If you have the time and feel like it, you can use this opportunity to learn nix and install everything that way from day zero. No more brew-madness, and everything is in a git repository, so this will be the last setup that takes a long time. (Sure, you can burn much more time learning it, so only do this if you are fine with that.)
... https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/wiki/The... ...

I'm not sure I believe we understand our own learning/memory anything like enough for this not to be total pseudoscience? Reminds me of A Beautiful Mind.
It has also been incredibly stable for incredibly long periods of time.
The country was Belgium. This was in the 1980's. A different era.
Exactly. Apple's influence with regards to design and aesthetics is unparalleled, to downplay it is either straight ignorance or naivety.

Everything from naming schemes (iPhone -> Core i3/5/7/9, Macbook -> ASUS Zenbook, et al.), to desktop interfaces (MacOS -> Windows 11 Explorer, GNOME), to phone interfaces (iOS -> Android), to connectivity (rather the lack thereof), to form factor (Macbook Air -> Intel ultrabooks and EVO), to entire markets (smartphones, tablets, portable music players) and more have all been defined or redefined and led by Apple.

To suggest anything Apple does concerning design would be an isolated incident is ridiculous. If Apple says "jump", the IT industry asks "how high?".
> That's not a solution, or a possibility for a lot of folks.

Then we need to work to make it a solution and a possibility, because I don't know what the alternative is. I'm from Appalachia, though my former oil-town retains a meager amount of relevance via the nearby industrial dairy farm. The owner of the only grocery store retired and nobody was interested in taking over, so the storefront laid empty until the government gave tax breaks to a hardware chain to set up shop and stock a little corner in the back with groceries so that it wouldn't become a food desert. But the situation isn't sustainable; there's not enough jobs. The population is declining. Most everybody drives to neighboring towns to work. I got out and moved to a big city, and wild horses couldn't drag me back.

I love the idea of small towns; not everyone needs to live in a big city (and almost nobody should be living in a remote cabin in the woods either; what an isolating experience). But if they're not economically viable, I'm not going to pay people to live there just so that small towns can continue to exist as a concept. What I will pay people to do is move to a city where they can find opportunity, and fight for more housing so that it's more affordable to do so.
I've never understood how people can eat before running in the morning. How long do you wait after eating to go out running?
I tried it, thought it was good, but not revolutionary.

Do you think every other shape of pasta beyond the first was a "marketing gimmick rather than a genuine iteration"? Can't it just be another option among many?
If we were looking at data we wouldn’t be

- banning plastic bags and straws
- buying expensive electrical vehicles
- ignoring other risks in our circle of influence
- listening to public figures and scientists who gave us “point of no return” dates several times in the last 30 years
nginx is notoriously bad at not-HTTP 1.1. I wouldn't even bother trying.

Envoy is significantly better in this department.
Shame. Many years ago I got a fossil (hybrid) watch(I believe the model was called Nate or something). Unfortunately it broke and it couldn't be fixed. At the time fossil had already given up on the model and the app that came with it. And it was the best watch I ever owned by a long shot. And overall fossil were doing it exactly right for me: inexpensive, great quality and unlike all other smart/semi-smart watches, they were good looking and comfortable. All other watches in this category are absolutely hideous.
I suspect this is a third-party supplier who is trying to keep old Siemens driver interface systems limping along. Bold, as when we tried that it was nearly impossible to do so - the OEM had too much of a stranglehold over the design.
Nice but I just use a Chrome extension (Stylish) that has tons of styles for many websites.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylish-custom-them...
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If you think the energy density of gasoline is miraculous, and it is, you should try uranium. Its energy density is a million times higher.

https://xkcd.com/1162/
Same small fraction of the world where thermoregulating the battery during charging is a concern for EVs.
Ethnic states are a things, albeit quite debatable since ethnicity is an entirely contingent and subjective construct. Monoethnic states are the dream of genocides, not ever a reality on the ground (doesn't matter how you define ethnicity).
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Thank you for taking the time to reply! Comments like yours are why I enjoy reading (and learning from!) HN.
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There are so many HN front ends. It feels like a new one gets created every 6 months. Yet for all of its subjective “ugliness”, I still find the original HN site to be largely excellent enough already.
why would a cell carrier be involved in setting up a wifi apple watch
The package on Flathub[1] seems to incorporate the most recent version.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/net.ankiweb.Anki
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The burning ship is still my favourite object in mathematics despite about twenty years of study since I first came across it. In an echo of the famous story about Tamm and the Taylor series error, I once had to explain the burning ship to border control in an impromptu test of my credentials (though I'm not sure if I'd have been shot if I got it wrong).
McKinsey are also part of this story, doesn't appear to be mentioned anywhere else in the comments as yet

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/mckinsey-opioids...
Just to add another perspective, I use the anki package on apt/ubuntu and yum/fedora, and both repos work for me. I ran into one small issue on fedora that was really annoying, but it was fixable. The sync from the cloud worked on both
In some you'd get doused. In others you'd get crushed[0]

0: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64430454
Well, that quote from Wikipedia says the published paper didn't include a working exploit. That might be true even if a working exploit was available after the paper was written and submitted but before it was published. (I don't know if this is the case here, but this sort of thing is common in scientific publishing.)
WebKit (Safari) diverged from Blink (Chromium) over a decade ago. The two codebase are very different now.
Unfortunately, while super useful, that plugin is quite out-of-date. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't depending on what Obsidian/Anki version combination you use. If one of them updates, it breaks. I think I had to pin Obsidian to some older version to keep it working.
I’d love to have a chat with their LLM. Must be absolutely astonishing what it knows.
It is always telling when they can't even come up with good example uses from the entire space of possible uses

"leave a well-written review for a restaurant, craft a friendly RSVP for a party, or make a formal inquiry about an apartment rental.”

That is what the world needs. More restaurant reviews.
The paleontologist Peter Ward has made a fairly compelling argument (in both academic research and the popular science book Under a Green Sky), that virtually all major extinction events are related to sudden rises in atmospheric CO2. A lot more happens when CO2 rises quickly other than it getting warmer. A major issue is it's impact on the oceans, which can become anoxic [0], causing them to emit hydrogen sulfide instead of oxygen. Such an event would be devastating to our current ecosystem.

> There won't be an extinction event.

This also ignores the fact that we are currently in the 6th largest extinction event in the history of life on this planet [1]. Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction is a great book on this (and the history of our understanding of species extinction as well).

So aside for being naive about the science, your comment reads a bit like claiming you don't think it will rain today while in the midst of being soaked in a massive rain storm.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
This actually makes sense from maintenance/reliability perspective.
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Why are you writing a comment on Hacker News, replying to another comment, if you think that comments are what's wrong with social media?
current state - this easily generalizes to settings with multiple options.
In the same vein, how do you prevent people from installing your app?

Let’s say you take your app down, but someone uploads it to other app stores.

How are users given an easy way to avoid getting charged for future installs if they decide they want to stop shipping their product?
You don't need the Web for that. Windows puts the positive button on the left, macOS has it on the right, and Windows CE (for embedded stuff and palmtops with small screens) had OK buttons in the title bar.
That's a nice excuse at first sight, but there is no reason not to just use a normal, physical lock, instead of making the lock worse for absolutely everyone and excusing it with "but accessibility!", all because a few people with lots of good intentions but absolutely no clue at all want to pat each other's backs for being oh so considerate.
How fast is it with a setup like this?
China has had a weird mix of free market and political totalitarianism since they liberalized in 1990.

Before that their economy was a complete non-event. All of their rapid growth really started in the mid-90’s, and the West started paying attention even later.
Recent tests reveal Volkswagen's new solid state EV battery technology
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This is like the 20th time the Anki-promoting mafia have posted it on HN

yes, kids: we know Anki exists
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It would be a real tragedy if they discovered you could write a webapp such that all such "pushing around the plate" activity could be done via CSS. But of course that is insufficient "drag" to dissipate managements excess energy, so this activity requires backend work as well.

Note that this only applies to management at cash cow businesses - startups have plenty of real work to do. This sets up an interesting dimension in the tension between the needs of Enterprise ("make small changes labor intensive") and startups ("make large changes quickly"): too much developer productivity would eliminate 80% of a huge set of bullshit jobs.
Anki is unbeatable for acing any test with a bounded number of questions [1]. It's been successfully used by some top TV show contestants to remember thousands of words [2].

I've been using it recently to remember recipes and cooking facts, such as the time it takes to boil X vegetable, or the ingredients for some dish.

Apart from language learning and medicine, there's a lack of pre-built decks that you can use to learn topics. I'm building Python.cards [3] to apply spaced repetition to learn Python with pre-built decks, daily reminders, etc. to make it the most convenient.

[1] https://www.thediligentdeveloper.com/spaced-repetition-reall...

[2] https://www.esquire.com/es/tecnologia/a36913467/pasapalabra-...

[3] https://python.cards
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Tbh I’m still skeptical about the difference in sauce holding, but bronze die pasta are usual higher quality and worth it if only for that
Just a point - the same people who thought they were “saving” people with a drug war were destroying lives themselves over drugs that not so many years later are legal and accepted to possess. Somehow they’re not harmful anymore. It’s all BS.
Thanks! Yaya... selecting what emojis to show has been challenging, trying to balance clarity with word usefullness. Also cuz sometimes I miss how different some specific emojis look on different OS; it can muddy the intended meaning for some platforms.
Is there any reason for the void cast here? Theres no return value in use.

(void)strlcpy(des_pass, pass,sizeof(des_pass));
>Habr is a Russian collaborative blog about IT, computer science and anything related to the Internet, owned by TechMedia.

In this context, demanding the staff makes public where they stand in the conflict in Ukraine is toxic.
I'm not really sure what you mean? It's been empirically validated to predict how you remember better than alternatives (or equal to SM-17) (essentially when it predicts that your % recall is below a certain threshold, it just shows you the card)
Yes it's possible, but it's not desirable. It wouldn't be backwards compatible, and not safe for shared libraries. It's better suited for a linter-type error/warning.
People have interests/things they like and want to show appreciation for. Hence fan fiction, fan videos, games, mods and hacks, reanimated videos, animations, etc.

Also it's worth noting that despite the memes online, the vast, vast majority of fan works are left alone and survive online for decades. The chance of a fan project actually going to waste is incredibly low, since a decent percentage of creators either like, support or don't care about fan projects based on their works, and even those that dislike them or try to shut them down only do so a minority of the time.

It just sometimes doesn't appear to be the case because 'fan project in development for 10 years shut down by [large company]' is an easy to write/attention grabbing news story, in the same way 'plane explodes in mid air, no survivors found' is for the mainstream media (with similar effects on people's perception of plane safety vs car/train/whatever safety).
Anki is great.

Used it when learning/practicing music theory - generated flash cards with notes and chords (python script that generates LilyPond, iirc), been a huge help, much better than 'specialized' apps that basically do the same.
Have you actually used the Amazon $50 devices? It would not be the first time that the claims made in the description were sharply undercut by the actual product. I’d easily believe that a tight BOM lets you put something roughly watch-sized together but that it involves enough compromises that few people would consider it a true competitor.
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Perhaps that was the dosing or your siblings biology. Hydrocodone is also a narcotic that is potentially habit forming. The addictive potential of oxycodone is supposed to be very similar or only slightly higher than that of hydrocodone.
It’s great that FreeCAD is FOSS and it is good for simple enough use cases but I had to ditch it for fusion 360 for my use case, it just can’t do things I needed for injection molding well like negatives and chamfers and other subtle angular operations of parts. So take into consideration what you’re doing. IMO for something precise like this use case it may not be good enough
Perhaps this is fundamental attribution error:

You don’t worry because it’s inevitable. You perceive them not worrying, but they aren’t scared enough?

What if they also have the (intuitive, but not necessarily correct) sense that it’s inevitable?
Maybe, but if you're not willing to link your blog in "social spaces", then you shouldn't be frustrated that nobody is reading your blog, as no one will ever learn of its existence
It's fun watching fintech startups grow
Opioids are almost certainly worse than antidepressants, and I don't see why you appear to believe that they are alternatives to each other.

Any entity participating in an endeavour which as part of its activities distributes, markets or which through propaganda or political action defends the use of opioids must be destroyed, because opioids are a chemical weapon.

They aren't 'illegal drugs'. They're a means to destroy somebody, and that is all they are.
Nowadays most valuable comodity is your attention. No matter what topic and if that is true or not.
It’s obvious that Google intentionally withholds their software from platforms that could compete with their Android and ChromeOS devices (which are of course ARM-based).

They did the same to Windows Phone back in the day. Not having apps like YouTube left the platform at a clear disadvantage because they can’t be credibly replaced by third party clients (YouTube doesn’t tolerate them and will try to break them).
That’s where competitive motorsports development helps:

Mercedes has devised an engine that achieves more than 50 percent efficiency.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a15049580/mercedes-...
There were also 8-bit home computers (like the Amstrad CPC and C64) where a different memory bank would be accessed depending on whether the CPU would do a read or write access, e.g. a read would access a ROM bank, but a write would access a RAM bank at the same address (usually called 'shadow ROM').
Chaotic systems? As in, fully deterministic systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions?

EDIT: browsed the code a bit and there is some randomness in the bounce dynamics, so it's only "fully deterministic" if you count the PNRG seed as part of the initial conditions.
Thanks, that gives me a much better idea about the experience from somebody else's perspective. A blog post or something would be interesting, if you have one on the subject. However, I may be a rather limited audience. Apparently up above somebody's saying 500 Hz tends to be the cutoff, yet I suspect there are large portions of the population with significant variations.

Like with colorblindness/synesthesia, I'm constantly surprised by all these different people I talk to who experience everything differently. Would not have guessed it would cause reverse motion scrolling. The eye exams and charts always made it sound like 20/20 at "normal speed" was correct, and the only change from correct was bad. Sounds like y'all just look at something different.
They did the hiring part that you mention most probably because it was cheaper (in the context of the then Roman economy, that is).

I also think that the much higher level of taxation inflicted on the (local) Roman population certainly didn’t help, as I feel that by the 3rd-4th century many parts of the Roman hinterland were much less populated than they should have been (had not the higher taxation hindered the Roman demographics, that is). In a way the outside-the-limes “barbarians” had the comparative advantage of not having had to pay those very high taxes, and most probably that was good for their (the “barbarians’”) demographics. And on a large enough time scale demographics is destiny.
It seems like battery technology hasn't improved much since the model s was introduced.

A 2012 Toyota Camry was rated around 28 mpg combined. A 2025 is rated at 46 mpg combined. That's a 60 percent improvement.

I don't think the model s has seen anywhere near a 60 percent improvement in range or efficiency during the same time span.
Actually Logseq comes with built-in flash cards. That's why I love it.

https://unofficial-logseq-docs.gitbook.io/unofficial-logseq-...
> I detest this line of thinking because it assigns more worth to things that yield immediate results, or places a low importance on the impact of history.

I don't think it does; not all things are equally valuable, and the odds are low that some of the dying languages have anything of value, compared to reading or listening to global affairs.

Personally, I detest this line of thinking: some old/primitive/superstition/traditional thing is valuable just by being.

No, not all existing things are valuable.

> Were Fermat's theorems valuable only to students of Mathematics, or did they inspire some of the greatest minds to later push the envelope in many unrelated fields?

We aren't talking about Fermat, we're talking about primitive languages, for which there are hundreds of multiple better replacements.
I genuinely think the only thing I would change about HN would be the difficulty of voting on a touchscreen; the targets are too small.

But, since it's easy to rectify after the fact, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
tfw hardware becoming so unreliable people start using 32-bit maximum distance codes for enumerations with like four values.
It sounded like your proposal would ban the business model of broadcast TV and radio, which I think would be difficult policy for Americans to accept.
I’d really love a regular watch that just looks like a Rolex or whatever and has the nice measurements sent to my phone but no digital screen.