chrisma0 | 3 years ago | on: What is our hidden consumption of microplastics doing to our health?
"Total number identified" is one of the pie slices, the other slices are subsets of this slice.
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chrisma0 | 3 years ago | on: See's Candies is Warren Buffett’s ‘dream’ investment
I guess being Warren Buffett's "dream" investment isn't a bad marketing pitch either :)
chrisma0 | 3 years ago | on: Everythingishacked/Pants: A video filter to add pants or blur out your lower ha
Hah, nice! Can I get an option to upgrade my joggers to more formal pants?
chrisma0 | 3 years ago | on: Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like – not
German universities tried banding together to negotiate better contracts in a project called DEAL: https://www.projekt-deal.de/about-deal/
It has made some headway, but the work is ongoing
chrisma0 | 3 years ago | on: Ex-Amazon engineers put heads together to create ‘Tandem Shower’
I clicked just for the punny headline. Let that price of $249 for an extra shower head wash over you!
chrisma0 | 3 years ago | on: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Released
Nice! A setting to make the dock look like a dock! I've been waiting for that one
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Man hacked airline Web site to locate his lost luggage
"CoMPleteLY RoBUST"!
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Building a DIP Switch USB Stick
This is one of those "no idea what I would use this for, but I kinda want one things"...
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Would you like to own a luxury mansion for $2,400? Head to the Metaverse
I want to own a luxury mansion in the metaverse for $2,400 about as much as I want to own an expensive link to auto-generated image of an ape.
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Testing the Covid Tests
The German Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices and the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (the authorities that provide information on SARS-CoV-2 test systems) provided data on the sensitivities of SARSCoV-2 antigen rapid tests in Germany:
https://www.pei.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/newsroom/dossiers...
There is also website where the data can be queried interactively: https://schnelltesttest.de/search
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: An empirical investigation of command-line customization
Hah, the paper includes `starwars → telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl` as an example of `Bookmarking Locations` in command-line customization files. Had completely forgotten about that!
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: DERO Stargate: Private Decentralized Application Platform
Only took me the first few sentences to already be confused. Is the project called "Stargate" or DERO?
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Head First Git
Interesting to see that a book on the topic of learning git "from the inside out" includes a section on remote work (chapter 6).
I see that a VCS is almost a necessity for working remotely with others on code, but I wonder how specifically git practices used in co-location and remotely are different (git practices, not GitHub practices).
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: HTMLMediaElement.canPlayType()
Returns either `probably`, `maybe` or '' (definitely not) for whether a browser is able to play a MIME type.
As the method returns strings anyways and `maybe` is pretty unhelpful, I request the return be changed to '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' (which is equally unhelpful, but at least a bit more fun).
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks
Thanks! Running `brew install --cask skim --no-quarantine` right now!
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: An elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
That first instagram photo of Ali has almost a surreal nature to it. Is it just me or did they somehow photoshop his features to be smaller and his face bigger?!
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks
What I like most about this is the the idea of clicking a reference to display a floating preview of the concerning paper information, figure or table. That seems like a really nice solution!
Any idea which other PDF viewers implement this behavior?
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Pokemon GAN
This makes me want to build a Twitter Bot "Cursed Pocket Monsters"...
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: More than half of Bitcoin investors are in the red, study says
The data these statements are based on seem dubious? Or is that just me?
> if you bought in 2014, we would know that [someone] bought at 5pm CDT
But if I bought BTC on an exchange, e.g. Coinbase, then that purchase would not necessarily be recorded on the blockchain, right? Just CB internally updating a value in their DB. All BTC buying and trading would be a larger superset of the collected data.
Also if I transfer 1 BTC from one of my wallets to another, then that counts as a buy/sell transaction for this dataset!
chrisma0 | 4 years ago | on: Show HN: Angularis – like Tetris, but based on triangles
Uff.. I'm struggling over here. This feels like knots in my brain. Fun!