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I believe they meant that the receivers/transmitters on Earth are likely newer than 50 years old. And you're also probably right that the hardware installed on the voyager could be several years older than the launch date of the craft
Re:EVE Online moves to Python 3 on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:09PM (#49495056)
Yeah, what happened with ladybird? Did they pull a bun?
Re:LLMs reward expertise on Monday August 03, 2026 @08:45PM (#49163156)
Not sure what your point is here since wrong code doesn't mean non-deterministic. How many of these yield different results with the same input and architecture?
Re:4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025) on Monday February 02, 2026 @12:47PM (#46858849)
What kind of data analysis do you run with Go and do you use an open source library for it? My experience with stats libraries in Go has been lukewarm so far.
Yeah, her estimates seem a bit too high based on my experience
Reolink also seems to work pretty well with local storage, notifications and no subscription or cloud uploads.
Reolink has some good options in this area. Both wired and wireless security and doorbell cameras with microSD storage by default, but FTP and SFTP can also be used. I've been happy with my (wired) doorbell camera with just a microSD card.
Re:No reachable chess position with more than 218 moves on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:53AM (#45387927)
You hit the nail on the head. They aren't both true which is why the second sentence is sarcasm.
Re:FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @10:42AM (#44889096)
I think this trend is partially driven by the silent auto play that happens on YouTube. Baked in subtitles help draw people into the video.
...as part of the Iran nuclear deal that Trump reversed for no reason.
Re: on Saturday October 19, 2024 @09:34PM (#41892206)
I'll add that it randomly brakes hard on the interstate because it thinks the speed limit drops to 45. There aren't speed limit signs anywhere nearby on different roads that it could be mistakenly reading either.
Whooshed right over your head.
Re:Differential Transformer on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @12:26PM (#41779079)
why say lot word when few word do
Re:Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail on Monday August 12, 2024 @05:12PM (#41229364)
Go has maps, json parsing and http built in. I'm not exactly sure what this person is referring to. Perhaps they are mostly interviewing beginners?
Re:Lichess: Block Ads and Trackers on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @05:57PM (#37577438)
I report these people in the hope that other players don't have to experience their hateful comments.
Re:Underwater Ears Everywhere on Sunday July 16, 2023 @11:26PM (#36753707)
Sadly the unpaywalled version is also paywalled
Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage on Monday June 12, 2023 @01:15PM (#36297133)
Slashdot
It's not overreach lmao
Re:JSON vs. XML with Douglas Crockford on Sunday April 23, 2023 @01:01AM (#35673418)
Yes, anything that prevents multiple rapid changes would work
Re:GitHub's Down on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:28AM (#35326446)
I think you meant "I dunno what's down..."
Re:Signal Introduces Stories on Monday November 07, 2022 @04:38PM (#33512902)
Okay, well a lot of people actually live in the US.
Re:Minimalist Guide to Lossless Compression (2019) on Monday December 13, 2021 @02:47PM (#29543618)
>Entropy, an Information Theory term coined by Claude Shannon in 1948, describes the minimum number of bits, on average, needed to encode a dataset.

Shannon didn't coin the term entropy. He borrowed it from the analogous definition in thermodynamics.

Re:AskHN: How much is Chrome and how much is Chromium? on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:58PM (#26572159)
Since we can't escape these companies collecting our data maybe it makes sense to silo which data they're able to collect. Basically don't put all your data in the same basket.
Re:Firefox 87 introduces SmartBlock for Private Browsing on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @03:55PM (#26572136)
No one is suggesting advertisers tracking you is bad because people "can't control themselves." People don't like being tracked because, over time, private information can be inferred from your viewing history. Things like your age, gender, relationship status, income, ethnicity, education, hobbies, health concerns, diet, voting preferences, family names, etc. can all be known about you with high certainty simply by having trackers on the sites you visit. Ironically, this is exactly the kind of data you understand being concerned about before making several bad faith assumptions about why people don't want to be tracked.
Re:Ask HN: Who's looking for a co-founder? on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:04PM (#25647641)
First request gave me a 500. Second one was fine. Smells like some minor configuration error somewhere.