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Comment · 10 days ago
The Verge, Wired and New York Magazine being on the 'unbiased' side is all I had to see to discard this chart.
Comment · 3 months ago
I've often read that 2FA should be through an authenticator app or a physical key, not via texting a code to a phone number. Malicious sim swapping is a thing, so purposely deleting any phone number from an account should be good practice, right?

So will they also delete inactive accounts that have no phone number, but one or more phone-less 2FA methods associated?

Comment · 4 months ago
Something seems to be lacking from the text, like a link to a video.

>> This is the most important quote from the video.

>> Final Verdict: A Must-Watch, But Not a Bible. This video is a masterclass in execution but not a guarantee of success.

What video?

Comment · 5 months ago
> Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years.

Well, during those 30 years you'd have to learn a few additions that were added to the SQL standard, like "OVER / PARTITION BY", and maybe a few non-standard extensions like "QUALIFY".

There have been 11 modifications to the SQL standard since the initial SQL-86 ANSI standard of 1986.

Comment · 5 months ago
The first theory sounds plausible to me, but it is not explained clearly in the text.

"Large trucks had limited rear visibility" => The main problem when overtaking is that the truck who wants to overtake, has limited front visibility of oncoming traffic.

So who has to honk? The front truck, who sees that a truck behind him wants to overtake, honks to signal that there is no oncoming traffic? Or the rear truck, to signal to the front truck that he wants to overtake? And then what?

Or is there some implied sequence of honking: first the truck that wants to overtake, to signal its request, and then the truck in front, to signal that there is no oncoming traffic?

Comment · 5 months ago
502 error, bad gateway.
Comment · 6 months ago
I had good experiences with the Orange Pi 5 (only problem was soft reboot hanging), but only because Joshua Riek had created and maintained an Ubuntu distribution for the Rockchip. That project seems to be in limbo now, no kernel updates since at least a year.
Comment · 6 months ago
Can you explain the concept of AutoDJ in your system?

I'm asking, because in some popular radio automation systems like RadioDJ, an "AutoDJ" is a way to avoid having to create playlists manually. You create rotation rules about the way different music categories are to be used, and the system will rotate music according to these rules. A playlist on the other hand is a predefined order in which specific audio tracks have to be played.

So, in many systems, AutoDJ is "automatic on-the-fly playlist generation from predefined rotation rules" while in your system it is described as "automatic playback with playlist rotation", which sounds more like the automatic playout of user-defined playlists.

Comment · 7 months ago
"free access to this article has expired"
Comment · 8 months ago
Don't get hung up on "patent". You can't patent an idea, you patent a specific implementation of an idea.

The boy experimented to find the optimal parameters (height, width, angles) for load bearing of that earlier invention.

So, the result of his work would warrant a new patent, of course with reference to all earlier patents of which his work is an improvement.

Comment · 8 months ago
This may help: https://github.com/yan7109/yan7109.github.io/tree/main/ma-bo...

Though I'd rather download a PDF or ePub.

I would say that the current format is a 'book' in content, but not a 'book' nor an 'e-book' in form, as you can't manipulate it as a single object. But I've seen a few other examples here on HN where people showed off a 'book' purely as a website.

Comment · 9 months ago
What are we seeing here? The hijacking of a subdomain?
Comment · 9 months ago
Feedback about a technical aspect of your blog, not about the contents of the article: unfortunately the HTML title of the page is not the title of the article, but the title of your website. As a consequence, when I print your blogpost to a PDF file to read it offline at a later time, the filename of the saved PDF has no clues whatsoever about what the article is about.
Comment · 10 months ago
It's probably a pirate station, deliberately broadcasting on the same frequency. Contrary to FM modulation, with AM modulation two superimposed signals one the same frequency are demodulated as if they came from one transmission.

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