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New comment by ascii_only in "What I know about cleaning and seasoning cast-iron skillets"

ascii_only — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 21:52:32 +0000

Did you try it? I didn't know better and tried it long time ago. Cast iron skillet that was used for years. After few times in dishwasher significant chunk of seasoning was gone.

DIY Analog Hooting Owl – Practical Electronics 1972 [video]

ascii_only — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 16:20:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA_GK85a_qM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26214604

Points: 3

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New comment by ascii_only in "Maps.me is gone, and we must bring it back"

ascii_only — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:49:09 +0000

Paper maps are pretty heavy downgrade in a lot of places compared to something that have satellite + osm + topographic map. They are often outdated or not nearly as detailed.

New comment by ascii_only in "Firefox 76"

ascii_only — Tue, 05 May 2020 19:04:14 +0000

You don't have too. There is Firefox ESR.

New comment by ascii_only in "Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says"

ascii_only — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 19:08:08 +0000

With season flu hospitals are not overwhelmed but with covid-19 they probably will be so even more people will die.

New comment by ascii_only in "Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says"

ascii_only — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 18:35:49 +0000

I misread parent comment but this was exactly my point. A lot of people die from flu although there is vaccine and mortality rate is at least one magnitude lower than Covid-19 and hospitals are not overwhelmed.

New comment by ascii_only in "Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says"

ascii_only — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:40:11 +0000

How many people die each year from flu worldwide? How many times mortality of Covid-19 is bigger?

New comment by ascii_only in "The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback"

ascii_only — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 18:09:42 +0000

Lets do the math. We will assume that 100% individuals switched to electric cars and heat.

Commercial and Residential Sector Emissions for US - 12% All Transportation for US - 29% (It includes rail and aircraft. Only 60% of it is light duty vehicle and I couldnt find what percentage of it is commercial transport)

So we have 12%+ 29%0,6 = 32%. It is big number but now we have to produce same amount of energy in electricity. 79% of all electricity generation was fossil fuels.

32% (0.21) = 7%

So even if all individuals will stop using fossil fuels for heat and will use electric cars for transportation. We will have less than 10% of reduction.

New comment by ascii_only in "WoW streamer hires YouTubers who leeched off his stream to run official channel"

ascii_only — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 16:01:27 +0000

How is your magic algorithm will distinguish "bad" channels from game reviewers,movie critics and other reviwers? Or should they all be banned too? Also how it will detect that something is fair use?

New comment by ascii_only in "The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback"

ascii_only — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:25:00 +0000

>The increased trend over the past decade is also part of a larger trend.

New comment by ascii_only in "The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback"

ascii_only — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:21:56 +0000

100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions. Projects that you have listed are important but more likely only help individuals to feel that something is being fixed instead of any real impact.

New comment by ascii_only in "The Arctic may have crossed key threshold in a long-dreaded climate feedback"

ascii_only — Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:10:39 +0000

He doesn't argue with increase and only argues what is source of this spike.

New comment by ascii_only in "IBM casts doubt on Google's claims of quantum supremacy"

ascii_only — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:31:45 +0000

It is difference between with this quantum chip we can brake encryption that would take 100000 years in 30 minutes or it would take us 50 years.

New comment by ascii_only in "My transition to an Ubuntu workstation"

ascii_only — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 06:28:34 +0000

For steam games enable proton for all games. For all others try Lutris.

Proton is very good default option because valve worked to make a lot of game playable with it.

Lutris have specific profiles for specific game/software release so it can install required wine version and winetricks and sometimes even patches.

New comment by ascii_only in "Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud"

ascii_only — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 18:29:43 +0000

Doesn't this mean one compromised account = all data compromised?

New comment by ascii_only in "Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak"

ascii_only — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:27:28 +0000

In mozilla/voice-web/server/data/ but if at your profile tab in sentence-collector there are 0 sentences added than that means that your sentences hadn't been added even to sentence-collector for approval.

New comment by ascii_only in "Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak"

ascii_only — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 22:16:26 +0000

They just not very clear. If you language "in progress" then you need collect 5k sentences. They have special web app called "sentence collector". In which you can approve sentences or add new ones. Each sentence should be approved by 3 people. After sentences are approved they get released to GitHub. After 5k sentences are approved you will be able to record audio and listen to recordings as in any other "big" language. As practice shows you need very small amount of people to do it. 4-5 is enough.

New comment by ascii_only in "Common Voice – Mozilla's initiative to help teach machines how real people speak"

ascii_only — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 22:00:59 +0000

There is feedback in sentence collector. If your sentence too long it will tell you straight away. If your sentence is rejected by people it will appear in "rejected sentences" tab. If your sentences are approved you can see it in GitHub repo.

New comment by ascii_only in "Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices"

ascii_only — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:01:59 +0000

I don't argue that iPhone was revolutionary although I think it was way less revolutionary than average consumer thinks. I argue with very specific claim. OP have claimed that "being able to use a browser anywhere was the killer feature" and it is just not true because most of the market could do it. All symbian, blackberry and Windows Mobile phones could do it.

>Did you forget large touchscreen, no physical buttons and no need for stylus?

iPhones did have physical home button and O2 XDA II from 2003 has the same touchscreens size as original iPhone. Also you are forgetting that first capacitive touchscreens were awful. Qwerty keyboard or resistive touchscreen were just nicer to use. And you didn't have to use stylus. Most people who I know used stylus in few very specific applications and they just use finger for most tasks but to be fair you had to be very precise.

New comment by ascii_only in "My startup is not attracting paying customers. Should I shut it down?"

ascii_only — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:04:05 +0000

His site on second page of HN. Of course he will get Hug of Death.