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721.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I know it's totally unrealistic, but I really wish it was economically viable to run an airline that was 100% first class and had great customer service and a strict "no babies or assholes" rule. I can't afford to charte
722.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Is my landlord charging me rent "a non-refundable fee for a human each month, simply for existing"? Why shouldn't a landlord offer the option if that's what they're comfortable with? Why is strictly less choice be
723.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
The statement as originally written implies that all people who are vaccinated can still transmit the disease. That may be true, but it's unlikely and we don't have enough data to say one way or the other yet.
724.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
The odds that I die after getting hit by a bus are presumably infinitesimal, yet I still don't make a habit of hanging out in traffic.
725.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
>Also vaccinated people can still catch and transmit covid, though they are not going to experience severe symptoms. This is stated with far too much confidence. It may be true that vaccinated individuals can still transmit COVID. It m
726.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I use Teams on my Linux workstation every day, entirely through the web site running in Chrome (organization-specific IT peculiarities prevent the "native" app from working on our Linux). It works just as well as Slack ever has fo
727.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I think this is a unique problem for a subset of front-end developers. In the rest of the software engineering world, "old" software seems to work just fine if you're not easily distracted by shiny baubles, and in some sector
728.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Wikipedia claims that they were on their way to the Middle East.
729.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Curiously, this vessel appears to have been registered in the Marshal Islands, which is an independent nation with a rather unusual relationship [0] to the US that I hadn't heard of before. Presumably the law that requires US registrat
730.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
NASA uses "planetary defense" to refer to activities related to detection of dangerous asteroids. The DSN is used for communication with our various satellites and probes outside of Earth orbit. AFAIK, it doesn't play a role
731.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Sure, so what? Anyone smart and dedicated enough to complete a Phd is smart enough to realize this going in. Surely the vast majority of people getting Phds don't expect to ever become academics and have some other plan.
732.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Re-use of a battery is fine, but it's a stop-gap. The battery will eventually reach a state of health where it isn't useful in any application anymore, so recycling is still necessary. The "re-use" step just delays that
733.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Why would she take a job as a glorified typist after completing a Phd? Why is the company hiring a Phd to be a glorified typist? Academia was never meant to be a jobs training program. The fact that many students treat it as such is not r
734.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Why would you exclude things necessary for the household? As a random datapoint, my most recent Amazon orders include cutting board oil, new bedsheets, winter tires, a couple of long sleeved shirts, a new cookbook, an ice scraper, a sewing
735.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I think for the purposes of this question, "IPO whose S-1 gets posted to HN" is a good definition. No need to overthink it.
736.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I don't think pain serious enough to warrant medication is common at all. I used to administer flu vaccines in a former life, and I've never heard of anyone having such a strong reaction. Most people have some very mild soreness i
737.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I've never seen this before. Do you have a link to what you're talking about? I can't imagine what a reddit-wide policy on "wrong" would look like.
738.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Reddit used to set that expectation too. I think HN's restriction of the downvote button to relatively high-karma users has a much bigger impact than (or at least in combination with) the cultural expectation.
739.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Steam lacking competition doesn't imply that it was omnipresent. I remember a long period where Steam existed but the overwhelmingly most common method of distribution was a box with CD(s) in it (or, since I was a poor student at the t
740.
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1 points by 0xffff2 6y ago|0 comments
741.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I would argue that Java and C# completely succeeded. Who is out there writing Desktop applications or web services in pure C anymore? C++ too to a lesser extent. I work on spacecraft flight software, and there's a significant push to m
742.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
TFM is often extremely vague in my experience. I always start my journey into the git haunted forest with RTFM, but I almost always end up on Stack Overflow looking for confirmation that commands actually do what I think they do.
743.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I think I've used `reflog` maybe... twice in a decade of daily git use. It's crazy to me that anyone would think that it's a daily use command. I don't even know what bisect is off the top of my head.
744.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Of course we have reason to do so (to test whether we can do it) and projects like Biosphere 2 suggest that while it's not impossible, it is for the time being unsolved.
745.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
>But the Phase 2 trials already proved the vaccine to be safe This sentence implies that it is not possible for any unsafe condition to remain undetected until some time after the phase 2 trial is completed. Is that actually a claim you&
746.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
>But to be perfectly crystal clear, absolutely nothing has been "shortened". That's obviously not true. The approval process has been shortened (or more accurately, is very likely to be shortened), even though the trials w
747.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
You appear to be quoting from a different article. Here's the relevant bit from the BBC article: >The trial involved 30,000 people in the US with half being given two doses of the vaccine, four weeks apart. The rest had dummy inject
748.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
I've never heard of "LaTeX-2030", and even adding terms like "typesetting" and "language" to filter out the gloves (and other less SFW results...), I still don't find anything relevant. Whatever it is
749.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
Or stated another way, the US isn't scared of Russia and/or China because it has those carriers.
750.
by 0xffff2 6y ago
And what's the alternative? We rewrite the whole stack in Java/C++/C# this year, and in 20 years we rewrite the whole thing again in Rust? That really doesn't seem like an improvement to me.

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