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iand··on Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death
This contradicts the article.
iand··on IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
Except no-one knows what shipyard is and it could more easily be mistaken for the end of IPFS.

Maintainers of IPFS are winding down is much more informative for those not in the space.

iand··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
But this was the neoliberal globalist agenda for the past thirty years. Lower trade barriers, export manufacturing to low wage workers with poorer conditions. The result is lower automobile costs for American consumers at the expense of blue collar jobs evaporating.
iand··on Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You
How is the fediverse different. Can't the owner of an instance post as you? Can they read all your data stored on their instance and pass it to anyone they want to?
iand··on Iroh 1.0
The site is referring to Iroh's preference for using IETF standards rather than rolling their own.
iand··on Why I gave the world wide web away for free
And yet at that time we already had a stranglehold of Compuserve and AOL. The talk was of walled gardens, safe spaces compared to the horrific wilds of the open Internet. The web broke down those walls.
iand··on Introducing Our New Name
Lu-anti seems like two syllables to me
iand··on Go automatically downloads a newer toolchain if needed
Imagine if Python had as strong a compatibility promise as Go
iand··on Aphantasia: I can not picture things in my mind
It's real and I have it. I was astonished when I discovered other people see pictures in their head. It doesn't restrict my creative thinking but I am a spatial thinker.

When I solve an imaginary logic problem such as advancing the hands on a clock I can't see the before and after states but I can infer their positions by the directions they must point and then read the new time from that.

iand··on [dead]
I tried it but the two images it generated looked nothing like me and were of the wrong gender and ethnicity
iand··on Passkeys are now enabled by default for Google users
"To use passkeys, you just use a fingerprint, face scan or pin to unlock your device, and they are 40% faster than passwords — and rely on a type of cryptography that makes them more secure. "

Who wrote this sentence? It's just a mess.

iand··on ASUS Chromebox 5
It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebox which is a class of small computer that run ChromeOS
iand··on Midjourney AI Guide
I have done this too. How did you get the bot to use your MJ credits? I found that the bot still uses the credits of each person who invokes the command.
iand··on Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls
Automatically grant every patent application but equally allow every granted patent to be challenged at no cost causing the patent rights to be suspended. The patent owner then has 5 years to prove the claims in court at their own cost.
iand··on Redesigned Notepad for Windows 11
As if Hacker News is a single homogeneous unit
iand··on Alphafold
It means that the conversation isn't producing much of value despite lots of activity, like an inefficient lightbulb that wastes energy by emitting heat instead of light.
iand··on On the evilness of feature branching
A question for people practising trunk based development: how do you perform code reviews?
iand··on The Idempotency-Key HTTP header field
Yes, see here https://www.rfc-editor.org/pubprocess/tools/
iand··on Why Can’t I Sleep?
I just put on a twitch stream and listen along until I fall asleep. As you say it just allows my brain to switch off and allow me to sleep.
iand··on Y Combinator backed MMO metaverse game is a blatant scam
Elder Scrolls Online is primarily content led
iand··on The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin
It doesn't defeat the point of cryptocurrencies which is to create a currency free from a single point of control.
iand··on Bitcoin rival Chia 'destroyed' hard disc supply chains, says its boss
No, Bram Cohen has said that will never happen.
iand··on Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer's downfall
The implication is that police are routinely scanning all Encrochat photographs to extract fingerprints and other biometric details to match with existing databases.
iand··on Brian Armstrong sold $291.8M in Coinbase shares on opening day
> What is the rationale for taking a profitable company that does not need additional funding public?

Liquidity for investors

iand··on Is Spacetime Real?
Those aren't explanations, they are analogies to help the human mind picture the effect.
iand··on Is Spacetime Real?
The parent was referring to the perceived physicality of atoms which you cannot touch or understand except in terms of the forces between your instrument and the bundle of quanta we call an atom.
iand··on Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
What expectations of privacy should you have if you are directly contacting peers to retrieve data?
iand··on Can an extreme low carb diet be used as medicine?
Can someone explain why ketosis is the secondary energy system in the body and not the primary?
iand··on Go generics draft design: building a hashtable
The author asks about using the same hash function as the builtin Go map. This was recently exposed in the standard lib at https://golang.org/pkg/hash/maphash/

Specifically https://golang.org/src/hash/maphash/maphash.go?s=1316:1346#L... links to the internal hash function.

iand··on In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades
This is very far from accepted and is thoroughly refuted here

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288698728_Evidence_...

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