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Re:Babylon 5 Is Now Free to Watch on YouTube on Saturday February 14, 2026 @10:50AM (#47015415)
Blu-ray version is definitely not perfect but I wouldn't call it mangled. It is presented in 4:3 which might be an issue for some viewers but it is absolutely the best this show has ever looked: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Babylon-5-The-Complete-Series...
Re:Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @02:27AM (#43902314)
The link points to a Full HD Blu-ray review. Here is the review for the highest quality 4K Blu-ray review: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Sneakers-4K-Blu-ray/343185/
Re:GIMP 3.0 Released on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:15AM (#43396007)
But UX is bigger than UI. Good UX might simplify some use case so that user might not need to see any UI at all.
Re:Nikon F-Mount on Thursday December 30, 2021 @12:31PM (#29738811)
Autocorrect is very likely the culprit here.
Re:FFmpeg 4.4 on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:49PM (#26753661)
Neither have I. You are right that they are quite similar but not identical.

Ps. Never thought I'd discuss Yle subtitles at Hacker News. Thank you for your comment! :)

Re:FFmpeg 4.4 on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:56PM (#26752939)
According to Yle they only started using Tiresias in 2012. The article doesn't mention which font they were using before. I would be interested in their 90s font as well.

Source: https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2012/01/27/televisiokanavien-t...

Re:GoPro shows its vulnerability after horrific Q3 earnings on Friday November 04, 2016 @04:29AM (#12871093)
The concept of GoPro Karma is intriguing but based on some early reviews it is a horrible drone. For example see this review by iPhonedo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmqthgCvxk

Based on this video the price, stability, amount of features and just about everything is worse than my old DJI Phantom 3 Standard.

I wished GoPro Karma would be good but based on reviews I'm not impressed and probably end up going with Mavic Pro even though I just bought GoPro Hero 5.

Re:The Woman Who Ate Chernobyl's Apples on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @03:21AM (#9418982)
Don't know about radiation detectors in Russia but Chernobyl is located in Ukraine, not Russia.
Re:Diary of an atomic bomb technician on Sunday July 27, 2014 @02:17AM (#8092128)
If you're interested in reading a more extensive account of history of nuclear weapons in USA, I highly recommend Eric Schlosser's Command and Control: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/sep/29/command-control...
Can anyone point me to real world AngularJS project with a healthy amount of unit and end-to-end tests? I've read the tutorials from official site and elsewhere on the web but they seem to stop after showing how create a controller with mock $http. As a relatively novice JavaScript developer, I'd like to see more comprehensive examples with mock services etc.
Re:Everything You Know About Fitness is a Lie (2011) on Thursday December 27, 2012 @01:56AM (#4972648)
I agree 100%. I would actually be interested in reading an article about fitness but I've decided to steer away from any articles with such bombastic headlines.
Is it just me or is The Grid example page broken? This is how it looks on Safari on iOS 6.0.1 on iPad mini: http://imgur.com/3lIns It looks similar albeit smaller on latest Chrome on Samsung Galaxy S3.
These edgy attention-grabbing titles are getting a bit too strong in my opinion.
Re:Git Is Simpler Than You Think on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @03:21PM (#2970981)
I read through the article waiting for the explanation of the "Falling back to patching base and 3-way merge?" line but unfortunately it wasn't explained. Git didn't become any simpler after all. :(
Re:MongoDB is the New MySQL on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @04:48PM (#2735820)
Apparently I managed to overlook your statement about it not being a replacement. It's just that the title of the post seems to be in contradiction with that.

MongoDB is indeed an interesting software and it's on a promising start. I'll be interested to see where it's going. Maybe one day the title of your post will be true.

Re:MongoDB is the New MySQL on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @04:35PM (#2735766)
Most of these Point seem to ring a bit hollow. MongoDB gets criticism: therefore it's the new MySQL? Or because they both use open source licenses?

I'm not saying that MongoDB isn't growing. I just think that it's way early to pronounce it as a replacement for MySQL.

These kinds of provocative but false titles belong in the cheap tabloids, not on the front page of Hacker News.

Re:Divine By Zero on Tuesday June 07, 2011 @12:52PM (#2629888)
I love the flowchart. "Ah, now it all makes sense!" I even printed it on the wall at my work right next to Ballmer Peak strip.
Re:Clean Coders Screencasts on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @12:44PM (#2411618)
I paid a dollar for the first video and didn't even finish it. I own Clean Code and think it's one of the best programming books ever. This video series however (based on the first video) looks like it's been made back in 1994 and the presentation is too jumpy and jarring with a lot of short edits to be taken seriously.