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e_carra

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Software Engineer. @enricocarraro on Github. Personal website: enricocarraro.com
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e_carra··on Missiles Are Now the Biggest Killer of Airline Passengers
This is just a capture of a captcha
e_carra··on Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging
Not sure if this would solve your problem, but have you tried companion mode?
e_carra··on Show HN: Twine – Open source multiplatform RSS app
The UI has Tidal vibes, neat.
e_carra··on A Harvard professor became the world’s leading alien hunter
Could all this push and attention on UFO/UAP be an attempt to raise the US defense budget in the current economic reality?
e_carra··on Ten members of international stock manipulation ring charged in Manhattan
This reminds me of Varga's organization in season 3 of Fargo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(season_3)
e_carra··on The mermaid is taking over Google search in Norway
I had similar experiences with: https://www.xspdf.com/resolution/51859292.html

The content seems taken from other websites and mixed in a nonsensical way. It comes up frequently in my search results. www.xspdf.com has completely unrelated content and seems a separate business.

e_carra··on Show HN: WASM-powered tool to cut silence from audio files
Simple website that uses the ffmpeg's removesilence filter to remove silent windows (>= 1s) from audio files. Everything is done locally in the browser using ffmpeg.wasm.

Command: `ffmpeg -i INPUT -af silenceremove=stop_periods=-1:stop_duration=1:stop_threshold=THRESHOLD OUTPUT`

I made it in a few hours, so it's probably full of bugs.

e_carra··on Remote Chaos Communication Congress – Streams
Thought RC3 stood for "Ron's Code 3", and I immediately clicked, but then realized it wasn't about cryptography.
e_carra··on Diem – A rebrand of Facebook’s Libra
It was my first thought! Maybe.
e_carra··on Invert, always, invert
This is also how some problems are solved more efficiently in Operations Research: solving the dual of the problem instead of the actual problem.
e_carra··on The Zen of Erlang (2016)
I watched the presentation some months ago on YouTube. Really really well done. Thanks to that video I was able to get some tricky concepts of Erlang that I was previously struggling with.
e_carra··on Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs
That sounds nice! I have a Kobo e-reader, and I use their beta browser or pocket to read this kind of things, but especially the browser is not very convenient.
e_carra··on Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs
It is very easy to convert HTML to ePub, you could create simple script that converts every newsletter into ePub and adds it to your library. I don't know if it would work for Kindle devices, but you could always install custom firmware that has support for Dropbox synchronisation.
e_carra··on 20-Year-Old Robinhood Customer Dies by Suicide After a $730k Negative Balance
Wikipedia has a page about it[0], but it doesn't explain in detail how it works in the U.S., it does say that it involves a process similar to corporate bankruptcy.

0:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_bankruptcy

e_carra··on Trilium Notes: Markdown autoformat personal knowledge base
I think this is done specifically for Emacs users, since we're used to get incremental search once we type C + s.
e_carra··on Show HN: Create a custom macOS app from a group of websites
Another example is VS Code, when I found out I was very surprised.
e_carra··on Show HN: Hacker News Dark Mode
I use Firefox Night mode on iOS, and it works great!
e_carra··on Ask HN: Do you ever go back and admire a piece of code you wrote?
Would you mind sharing it? I am really curious.
e_carra··on Background Matting: The World is Your Green Screen
I thought the same thing. I remember vividly playing with PhotoBoot on my aunt's MacBook, I really enjoyed the rollercoaster!
e_carra··on Learn to code by creating working applications
I don't work for jetbrains, I just thought other people on HN might be interested in this sort of thing.
e_carra··on Ask HN: What are your favorite low-coding apps / tools as a developer?
I have to say that it is really impressive. The design is simple and beautiful. The overall product is a huge time-saver.
e_carra··on Carlo Urbani (2003)
This is very inspiring and touching. Makes me think of the many people out there risking their lives to do something good.

I think I feel particularly close to this story because I've relatives in Ancona.

I'm very grateful to whoever shared this article, it changed my day.

e_carra··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
It really sounds like Son of Anthon from the last season of Silicon Valley.
e_carra··on The Google Squeeze
Thank you for this very informative piece. This is one of those articles that when you finish them you feel you have much more context than before.
e_carra··on The post-exponential era of AI and Moore’s Law
Modern hardware has lot to improve, memories and transmission lines have been the main bottlenecks for more than a decade now, bigger caches helped but are not enough. Solutions are being developed, like on-circuit optical fiber transmission lines, but it takes time.
e_carra··on Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy
That sounds terrifying.
e_carra··on Scaling in Lower Cost Locations
When my father goes to Detroit for business trips is always astonished by the amount of money his collegues get paid. He works on engineering processes and tooling in a robotics company and makes about 30K €/year here in Italy, while his american collegues make 120K $/year. I think there is a great chance for businesses to save a lot of money by hiring personnel outside of the U.S.
e_carra··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)
There is a field of study called fault tolerance. Many applications are in aerospace. Check [1] to get a better idea.

[1]: https://books.google.it/books?id=gBEpCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA238&lpg=P...

e_carra··on Start Binge-Reading
I agree. I noticed the same thing with reading articles online (or threads from HN), there's no friction and you end up getting a good amount of dopamine after much less time than you would by reading a book.
e_carra··on Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
I have the same problem. Every now and then I find some interesting OSS project I want to contribute or understand at a deeper level, but it's really hard to start doing something on it if there isn't an updated guide for contributors.
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