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Re:Frieve Vinyl Explained – Microscopic stylus/groove physics simulation
on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:06AM (#48890857)
mandatory Applied Science video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuCdsyCWmt8
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @10:17AM (#37236309)
There is a Financial Tyranny Index by Vexl Foundation published here:
https://github.com/vexl-it/fti/blob/main/fti.pdf
Among other things, it shows Cash Limits in various countries:
Greece 500 EUR, Spain, Italy, France 1000 EUR, Israel 1500 EUR, ...
Re:Open Source Outdoor Air Quality Monitor
on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:04PM (#36923985)
Open-source is mentioned 10x on the website, but there is no link to the actual source.
Re:Vast Majority of People Who Invest in Bitcoin Inevitably Lose Money...
on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @11:44AM (#33611531)
The study finds that "majority of people who invest in crypto inevitably lose money", but the article puts "Bitcoin" in title to mislead the readers.
So:
Do people lose money when they invest into crypto? Yes.
Do people lose money when they invest into Bitcoin? No (if their timespan is 5+ years).
Re:Running GUI apps within Docker containers
on Saturday March 26, 2022 @07:34AM (#30810967)
Exactly that https://subuser.org does
Re:Reproducible Builds in January 2022
on Sunday February 06, 2022 @05:56AM (#30231340)
NixOS reproducibility effort is tracked here: https://r13y.com
Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?
on Friday December 10, 2021 @01:04PM (#29513242)
This might provide some hints (or not): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg#At_Microsoft
"In 1996, Hejlsberg left Borland and joined Microsoft. One of his first achievements was the J++ programming language and the Windows Foundation Classes; he also became a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer and Technical Fellow. Since 2000, he has been the lead architect of the team developing the C# language. In 2012 Hejlsberg announced a new Microsoft project, TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript."
I can only speculate that lots of skilled Borland developers followed Hejlsberg and participated in creation of C# and later TypeScript.
Re:On anyone-can-spend Pay-to-Taproot outputs before activation
on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:22PM (#27933997)
The real artistry is to deploy updates without doing a hard fork. Taproot is one of these and it is very, very important.
Mixxx 2.3.0 Released
Re:Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge
on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:41PM (#27198283)
It will also make it 99.95% less resistant to censorship.
Re:Chia surpasses 1 exabyte of hard drive space
on Thursday April 29, 2021 @06:03AM (#26979255)
Bitcoin did not have a premine
Re:Apple Introduces AirTag
on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:21PM (#26881880)
It seems you can add the AirTag technology to a 3rd party product via MFi program.
Would it be possible to send a custom payload? E.g. with a status report (battery percentage, etc.)
Re:Mining Bitcoin on the Game Boy [video]
on Saturday April 10, 2021 @01:28PM (#26763230)
Gameboy is really slow when compared to modern hardware. One ECDSA signature that takes around 100ms on Trezor (32-bit CPU @ 120 MHz) would take around a minute on GameBoy (8-bit CPU @ ~4 MHz.
If we're talking about GameBoy Advance (32-bit CPU @ 25 MHz) - this more plausible but still 5 times slower than Trezor.
Re:ESP32-C6, a Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (LE) SoC
on Saturday April 10, 2021 @06:22AM (#26760410)
They were not using ARM, but Tensilica chips with Xtensa instruction set - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensilica#Xtensa_instruction_s...
Re:One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferen...
on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:53AM (#26523243)
you don't really need very sophisticated model for this.
just use dlib to detect face landmarks and apply some very basic hue/contrast/brightness localized filter to imitate lipstick, make-up, mascara, etc.
that's what some software can already do out of the box (e.g. zoom) and the results are very good
Re:U.S. says John McAfee indicted over fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes
on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:41PM (#26360284)
Do you know he did not?
Re:FOSDEM 2021
on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:34AM (#26035224)
Rust talks always happened in the Mozilla dev room historically.
Re:GNU Guix 1.2.0
on Monday November 23, 2020 @02:16PM (#25190503)
Have a look at Nix/NixOS - it's full of wonderful people
Re:Ask HN: I have $450K cash, what should I do to maximize my return?
on Saturday August 01, 2020 @07:10PM (#24024715)
20% Stocks
20% Bonds
20% Real Estate
20% Cash
20% Bitcoin
Re:Text-Only Social Network
on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:38PM (#23814975)
Emojis are used as avatars, they are not part of the posts
Re:A Man Who Found Stuxnet (2011)
on Sunday July 12, 2020 @06:42AM (#23810397)
Personalized Synthetic Advertising – the future for applied synthetic media
Re:Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law ...
on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @06:28AM (#23401886)
Keybase is dead. In the PR they were explicit they were hired to work on Zoom and not continue working on Keybase. Luckily there is keys.pub
Re:Ask HN: Keybase Alternatives?
on Thursday May 07, 2020 @04:12PM (#23107694)
Re:Ask HN: Any good FOSS alternative to Google's reCAPTCHA?
on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:48PM (#23106664)
hashcash is proof of work
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
on Thursday May 07, 2020 @02:26PM (#23106344)
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:58PM (#23105960)
I am glad we have https://keys.pub/ :-)
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
on Thursday May 07, 2020 @01:57PM (#23105955)
I am glad we have https://keys.pub/ :-)
Re:Horizon – a free and open source electronic PCB design package
on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:44AM (#23066117)
How is this different from LibrePCB and why you have not joined forces together?