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Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again

Just buy "digital signage"

Which works, but is priced very high - and not just for the fact that the seller can't monetize ads. Digital signage displays are designed for much higher duty cycles than a home TV, for display in areas where ambient brightness is much higher on average. You're paying for the tech that you want, but you're also paying for a lot of tech that you don't want or need.

Right, but what everyone is whingeing about is for it to be available even at a higher price point.

Digital signage shows the market is already solving this problem so if all this complaining is to mean anything people are talking about yet another new market that fits in between the smart TV price and the digital signage price


Oh! I thought it's going to be about some interesting topology of nut shell...

Likewise, I'd assumed sphere eversion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_eversion

That's ... concerning.

nit: 35%

I did something similar and ended up opening only /r/AskHistorian posts...


Unironically, how are history-related questions not negative? I’d imagine people would ask questions about some dark events.

I was blocking subreddits recently and was contemplating if /r/historyporn because of the amount of photos of dead bodies and politically-charged discussions that sometimes unfold


If you block /r/history, you would prove the aphorism, "One thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history"

I wonder how much smaller it could get with some compression. You could probably encode "This website hijacks the scrollbar and I don't like it" comments into just a few bits.

The hard-coded dictionary wouldn't be much stranger than Brotli's:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160590


You can use a BPE variant like SentencePiece to identify these patterns rather than hard coding them.

That's at least 45%, then you can leave out all of my comments and you're left with only 5!

It might be a neat experiment to use ai to produce canonicalized paraphrasings of HN arguments so they could be compared directly and compress well.

Dear it is already compressed using G zip – nine for every SQLlight shard and manifest

22 GB is uncompressed and compressed the entire things about 9 GB


Guilty.

I would be worried that they break, the magnets fall out and the kids stick it in some orifice


I think this is worth worrying about, especially with knockoff magnatiles. The magnets are small enough to swallow. If a child swallows two they could die, for the same reason that "buckyball" magnet toys were banned: the magnets can snap together with intestinal tissue in between and perforate the intestinal wall.


The brand-name ones are surprisingly durable. Can’t speak to the cheaper knockoffs.


The EU's safety rules for children's toys are impressive -- I read them out of curiosity when I was 3D printing a toy.

e.g. dropping a 1kg steel block onto the toy, and checking it doesn't break in an unsafe way (section 8.7 in the link).

https://law.resource.org/pub/eu/toys/en.71.1.2014.html#s8.7

Section A.51 is about magnetic construction toys.


Had to look up the rules on bows and arrows in the European Union when I got to [4.17.4] Bows and arrows. "bows offered for sale with arrows are to be considered as toys" Wait. What? Like, all bows and arrows?

[4.17.4] https://law.resource.org/pub/eu/toys/en.71.1.2014.html#s4.17...

Took a bit to find, yet eventually [Directive 2009/48/EC, Annex 1] "List of products that, in particular, are not considered as toys"

9. "bows for archery over 120 cm long"

[Directive 2009/48/EC, Annex 1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32...

Pfew. Not, quite that crazy.


I use MM for about a year. Forking it would be a major undertaking as the number of vulnerabilities for which you would need to backport is quite high like 5 a month?). Last time they removed features from free (group calls in v10) there was a lot of grumbling but thats it.


> UX benefits of tokenless CSRF

What are those?


Oh am I doing it wrong by having an 8yr old w10 install that ive moved over 3 computers?


That's actually amazing. First I shudder to think of all the cruft in that install. Leftover registry settings from 2015 on. But second kudos for being able to do that. I've tried and failed about 5 times in my life at moving a windows install to another computer since Windows 95 days. I didn't think it was at all possible.


When I was in Japan all the street signs and train stations had a little transliteration in hiragana of the kanji name. Super useful to be able to read it


Metastasis is not just random tumor cell going for a hike, they are seeded with extracellular vesicles carrying particular mix of microRNAs, growth factors, vimentin and other stuff.


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