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Re:Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers on Friday December 27, 2024 @08:09AM (#42521784)
This is just a capture of a captcha
Not sure if this would solve your problem, but have you tried companion mode?
Re:Show HN: Twine – Gorgeous open source multiplatform RSS app on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @01:06PM (#39207162)
The UI has Tidal vibes, neat.
Could all this push and attention on UFO/UAP be an attempt to raise the US defense budget in the current economic reality?
This reminds me of Varga's organization in season 3 of Fargo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(season_3)
Re:The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:18AM (#27994759)
I had similar experiences with: https://www.xspdf.com/resolution/51859292.html

The content seems taken from other websites and mixed in a nonsensical way. It comes up frequently in my search results. www.xspdf.com has completely unrelated content and seems a separate business.

Re:Show HN: WASM-powered tool to cut silence from audio files on Sunday December 27, 2020 @06:27PM (#25555139)
Simple website that uses the ffmpeg's removesilence filter to remove silent windows (>= 1s) from audio files. Everything is done locally in the browser using ffmpeg.wasm.

Command: `ffmpeg -i INPUT -af silenceremove=stop_periods=-1:stop_duration=1:stop_threshold=THRESHOLD OUTPUT`

I made it in a few hours, so it's probably full of bugs.

Re:Remote Chaos Communication Congress – Streams on Sunday December 27, 2020 @08:02AM (#25550724)
Thought RC3 stood for "Ron's Code 3", and I immediately clicked, but then realized it wasn't about cryptography.
Re:Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra on Sunday December 06, 2020 @08:52AM (#25323444)
It was my first thought! Maybe.
Re:Invert, always, invert on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:56AM (#23914889)
This is also how some problems are solved more efficiently in Operations Research: solving the dual of the problem instead of the actual problem.
Re:The Zen of Erlang (2016) on Sunday July 19, 2020 @02:18PM (#23891227)
I watched the presentation some months ago on YouTube. Really really well done. Thanks to that video I was able to get some tricky concepts of Erlang that I was previously struggling with.
That sounds nice! I have a Kobo e-reader, and I use their beta browser or pocket to read this kind of things, but especially the browser is not very convenient.
It is very easy to convert HTML to ePub, you could create simple script that converts every newsletter into ePub and adds it to your library. I don't know if it would work for Kindle devices, but you could always install custom firmware that has support for Dropbox synchronisation.
Wikipedia has a page about it[0], but it doesn't explain in detail how it works in the U.S., it does say that it involves a process similar to corporate bankruptcy.

0:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_bankruptcy

I think this is done specifically for Emacs users, since we're used to get incremental search once we type C + s.
Another example is VS Code, when I found out I was very surprised.
Re:Show HN: Hacker News Dark Mode on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:04PM (#23206217)
I use Firefox Night mode on iOS, and it works great!
Would you mind sharing it? I am really curious.

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