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s0rce commented on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits ipinfo.io/blog/vpn-locati... · Posted by u/mmaia

rileymat2 · 3 days ago

The speed of light sets a minimum bound even if you don't account for that, and these are coming up less than the minimum bound.

It also reminds me of this old story: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

s0rce · 3 days ago

Would be even slower as the light will travel slower in the optical fiber and there will be time associated with each repeater as well.

s0rce commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags

no_wizard · 10 days ago

It has always been an embarrassment.

Vizio made a good laptop once and then they just existed the computer industry. They had a vision of high quality approachable laptops, desktops and pro platforms and their first gen was a good attempt, but they just didn’t follow on.

s0rce · 10 days ago

I think it was fine 20 odd years ago. I had a Thinkpad T41p in 2004 and it was a great laptop. Even my Sony Vaio Z was nice in 2008 compared to the competition (although it had serious issues with the screen flexibility causing it to fail multiple times).

Since 2012 I've had 3 Macs, a 2012 Air, a 2020 M1 (this was a massive upgrade and the nicest laptop I ever used, even compared to my relatively new work thinkpad). I just cracked the screen on my M1 so bought a discounted M4 air on black friday. I can't tell the difference other than I like having magsafe back and only miss the touch bar slightly.

s0rce commented on HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) info.arxiv.org/about/acce... · Posted by u/el3ctron

nateroling · 11 days ago

Seeing the Gemini 3 capabilities, I can imagine a near future where file formats are effectively irrelevant.

s0rce · 11 days ago

Can you elaborate? Are you never reading papers directly but only using Gemini to reformat or combine/summarize?

s0rce commented on HTML as an Accessible Format for Papers (2023) info.arxiv.org/about/acce... · Posted by u/el3ctron

bob1029 · 11 days ago

> HTML is better than PDF

I disagree. PDF is the most desirable format for printed media and its analogues. Any time I plan to seriously entertain a paper from Arxiv, I print it out first. I prefer to have the author's original intent in hand. Arbitrary page breaks and layout shifts that are a result of my specific hardware/software configuration are not desirable to me in this context of use.

s0rce · 11 days ago

I used to print papers, probably stopped about 10 years ago. I now read everything in Zotero where I can highlight and save my annotations and sync my library between devices. You can also seamlessly archive html and pdfs. I don't see people printing papers in my workplace that often unless you need to read them in a wet lab where the computer is not convenient.

s0rce commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

tills13 · 11 days ago

isn't Plex literally an XBMC fork? And Jellyfin a Kodi fork? Something like that.

s0rce · 11 days ago

Yes, I think Plex was an XBMC fork and Kodi is the new name of XBMC. Jellyfin forked from Emby, I think when it became closed source. I never used Emby. Plex always seemed to cost money in confusing ways and that turned me off. My initial TV just used NFS shares on a unix machine and a Netgear NeoTV box (~2009) but eventually the codec support was too poor so I moved to XBMC on the Shield and then a number of years later to Jellyfin server on Linux with Jellyfin client on the Shield.

s0rce commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Forgeties79 · 12 days ago

I think what trips people up with jellyfin is making sure they aren’t exposing their network. Getting it to work at home is one thing, getting it to work outside your home is a different beast

s0rce · 11 days ago

Ah, I have no use/interest in remote access to my library. I just have one tv in the house with an NVidia shield that accesses the Jellfin library on a miniPC on the network.

s0rce commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Forgeties79 · 12 days ago

One only has to look at the word of mouth reputation of Plex these days to know what's going on. I'd say more of my circle knows about it than doesn't, and a solid 15% run one or use someone else's, including my non-techie friends.

Shoutout to Jellyfin it's great, but it is not nearly as turnkey, so Plex is clearly the dominant player for folks hosting their own media.

s0rce · 12 days ago

I found Jellyfin was super easy but I came from XBMC/Kodi which was a big struggle.

s0rce commented on What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones? lumafield.com/first-artic... · Posted by u/rozenmd

metalman · 17 days ago

not sure what is more interesting, the detailed information on lithium battery construction, or how they got a CT(cat) scanner, or the idea of having an industrial cat scanner around. those batteries were bizarely cheap and there was prior suggestion that these(others) were actualy fake with empty space or filler, which isn't the case, and all in all they just need to up the precision of there automated processes. nice piece of journalism.

s0rce · 16 days ago

CT scanning is widely used for analysis of batteries to determine safety and failure analysis.

s0rce commented on What's Hiding Inside Haribo's Power Bank and Headphones? lumafield.com/first-artic... · Posted by u/rozenmd

frumiousirc · 17 days ago

I'm curious how the cost of performing these CT scans compared to the profit reaped by Haribo while the batteries were selling.

s0rce · 16 days ago

This is basically good marketing content for Lumafield that sell the CT scanners. Cost to them is almost nothing, just opportunity cost of doing something else on the tool.

s0rce commented on Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018) cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldm... · Posted by u/randycupertino

robocat · a month ago

Did you see this article which claims "New gel restores dental enamel"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45826995

s0rce · a month ago

Yes, I knew a few of the authors from my time in grad school. Certainly much closer to mimicking the enamel structure but not a commercial therapy yet.

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