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Re:EssentialYouTube.com is gone on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:29PM (#14679992)
It was a light, cleanly designed front end to YT's content.
Re:EssentialYouTube.com is gone on Saturday July 01, 2017 @08:25PM (#14679968)
Thanks a lot for the link, I didn't know it was open source.

EssentialYouTube.com is gone

A year or so ago I learned about essentialyoutube.com here on HN. Since then it's been my default go-to for music in the office, period.Whoever you are, dear EYT developer, please bring it back. I guess it costs you money. Maybe add a donate button? Or was it just a side project for which you no longer have time?

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Re:Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E on Friday April 14, 2017 @08:03AM (#14113947)
I'd go for "apply'd", "craft'd" and so on -- it has a vibrant applicant-of-sharp-tools-ian ring to it. Admirations for your honour's worthy labour.
I'm stuck in a strange loop: videos change, but the music doesn't. I think it's Debussy, the effect is very strange (and nice too). Bug or not? :)

Oh, and the small button below has disappeared.

Re:Micro web-framework for COBOL on Tuesday November 08, 2016 @12:53PM (#12902376)
Good Lord… https://youtu.be/VKcAYMb5uk4

How about Brainfuck on Rails, then? https://github.com/cookjj/Brainfuck-on-Rails

Re:Museu de la Tècnica on Sunday October 30, 2016 @10:43AM (#12830051)
This is so wrong… Did they use old-style figures, too? That's the only way I can imagine it might have looked OK.
Re:Museu de la Tècnica on Sunday October 30, 2016 @09:45AM (#12829754)
Where are the '1' and '0' on the Bar-Lock? Or did hackers of that time do direct I/O?
Sections 2 and 3 contain the most readable man pages out there. The pages in sections 1 and 8 are often terrible, being the result of some texinfo->man filter.
Re:WikiWikiWeb is back online on Saturday October 29, 2016 @03:12PM (#12825741)
Thanks, c2 has become intolerably slow.
Re:ZMODEM on Sunday October 23, 2016 @06:48PM (#12775804)
Zmodem's code is uglier than Kermit's IMO. Gods help you if you have to read either, but Kermit is written better and EK is almost understandable once you fold all unneeded #define's.

I'm surprised no-one mentioned the venerable UUCP. It has more variants than X/Y/Zmodem combined: at least 12.

Re:Minimal Raspberry Pi VPU firmware on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @05:47PM (#12747985)
The only upside of this is unbrickability. Having the boot ROM inside the CPU means you are stuck forever with whatever bugs there are in it. Been there.
Re:Two years spent spamming spammers back on Sunday September 25, 2016 @11:17AM (#12575682)
Effing hilarious. Some years ago I spent a few days writing to a 'Russian bride'. It became instantly clear all replies were scripted, there was no connection at all with what I said (The full text of 'I, Robot'? Oh, what interesting things you do…). So I'd say many if not most of the spam scenarios are automated and the whole thing becomes too meta.
You can bruteforce unsalted hashes by using rainbow tables.
Re:It Costs $30 to Make a DIY EpiPen on Thursday September 22, 2016 @08:56AM (#12556467)
> When you starve to death, would you say you weren't killed?

Being dead, he likely wouldn't.

Moral and logic (in the narrowest sense of the word) often don't go hand in hand. That having been said, your point is quite close to my own understanding.

Re:Linux on an 8-bit micro? (2012) on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @03:49AM (#12537860)
Multiprocessor AVR running Linux would be the next step, definitely.
Re:Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste on Thursday September 15, 2016 @07:14PM (#12510641)
You may be right, but as I get it, the entire American population gets to drink fluoridated tap water, not only children. A stinking Commie plot, if I ever saw one.
Re:Show HN: I invented a caffeinated toothpaste on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:00PM (#12510194)
As a guy living in Europe, it seems more logical to drink unfluoridated water and use fluoridated toothpaste, but that's America over there… Cool idea, for sure.
Re:IPv6 Wall of Shame on Thursday September 15, 2016 @03:41AM (#12504128)
Strange to see reddit and stackoverflow not supporting IPv6.
Re:Intel acquires Movidius on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @07:08PM (#12439906)
> Specific to this acquisition, Movidius packs 150 Gflops under 4W of power. Skylake packs 100Gflops under 120W of power. The difference here is more than 2 degrees of magnitude. Moving the designs to the new Intel processes should cover another significant improvement. So that's what's going on.

Where did you get the measurements? Link please.

M2 to Skylake is like apples to oranges. The RISC cores are based on Leon, and then you have 12 SHAVEs/VLIW cores, which are very good at number crunching and GPU/DSP-like tasks, but they are not really general purpose CPUs as such. I think you should exclude them from your comparison.

Anyway, good for Movidius, I wish 'em all the best.

Re:Plan9 from? on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @04:09AM (#12434337)
> Otherwise, in general I think Forth has bit similar culture/community than LISP, even if they come from very different backgrounds. Both feel smugly superior compared to common C programmers and feel slightly bitter from being unfairly pushed into niche. Both highlight the minimalism of their idol and celebrate it by creating bazillion tiny implementations.

Seconded. Additionally, implementing Lisp in Forth (on a Forth CPU for bonus points) sounds like something one should try for the sheer coolness of it.

Judging from the comments so far, the best name for a privacy conscious person seems to be Null O'Bash.
Re:Show HN: Txt.wav – Text Animation Library on Sunday September 04, 2016 @11:36AM (#12424863)
Select the text to enjoy fully in reverse video.
Re:SRL – Simple Regex Language on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @03:05AM (#12388072)
Zounds, now that programming languages basically scrapped the idea to sound like English, regular expressions pick it up from the trash. And emulate Applescript of all, if I am any judge.
Re:Movfuscator – A single-instruction C compiler on Sunday August 28, 2016 @04:50AM (#12375842)
Uhm, not really, but you might make 20 smaller ones.

http://x86.renejeschke.de/html/file_module_x86_id_176.html

Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To on Saturday August 27, 2016 @05:36PM (#12374295)
Strange, suspend/hibernate with uswsusp works like a charm for me. For the first time since kernel 2.6, too. The only bug which occasionally bites me is that after several suspend/resume cycles the screen randomly blanks for a while and then restores its previous state. Killing X doesn't help, it's the same in the console. Only a reboot fixes it. I suspect the Intel BT driver.
Re:A FreeBSD 10 Desktop How-To on Saturday August 27, 2016 @05:05PM (#12374173)
> Why does the bootloader (which is now part of the systemd project, of course)…

Please say you're joking. This is frightening.

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