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by 43920 4y ago
I don't see myself doing a PhD, it's too much time to commit to something I'm only marginally interested in. (I haven't read the link yet, but just based on the ToC, it doesn't look like it's going to convince
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by 43920 4y ago
That sounds really neat! Unfortunately it doesn't look like I'm eligible for the scholarship since I'm not an EU citizen [1]. I also don't know if I would be able to work at all under whatever visa I would get. But tuiti
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by 43920 4y ago
I have a preference towards Germany (I did a short-term project working on research at a university there recently), but would be open to somewhere else as well. My grades from my undergraduate program are good (4.0/4.0 GPA); it's
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Ask HN: Should I get a Master's degree in CS?
12 points by 43920 4y ago|25 comments
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by 43920 4y ago
I have the opposite problem: after signing up for Lyft, it made me "verify my payment method" by adding a second payment method with the same address. My second payment method had the same problem, and the only option left was to
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by 43920 4y ago
This just happened to me too - 3 year old Frigidaire, failed compressor. Would be interesting if this really is a trend rather than just anecdotal, but I suppose we'll never know. What's ridiculous is the lack of reasonably-priced
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by 43920 5y ago
The NTSB (almost?) never determines a cause in the preliminary report, even when the cause is obvious. Example: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Pages/HWY22FH001.aspx
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by 43920 5y ago
> Li-ion battery arrangements inside those devices seem to hold about 80% of their usable capacity and voltage for about six months, with average usage patterns. A year after that this drops to 50% of original capacity, or below. This is
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by 43920 5y ago
Steve Jobs in 2010: "We do believe we have a moral responsibility to keep porn off the iPhone. Folks who want porn can buy an Android phone." ( https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/19/steve-jobs-android-por
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by 43920 5y ago
I just read this recently also, and I agree it’s a great book. “dystopian steampunk alternative-Victorian vibe” describes it well - it’s a society with advanced chemistry and materials (“elderglass”), but no gasoline, electricity, computers
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by 43920 5y ago
Source?
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by 43920 5y ago
> The latest release comes from NAEP’s 2020 assessment of long-term trends, which was administered by the National Center for Education Statistics to nine- and 13-year-olds before COVID-19 first shuttered schools last spring. > The lo
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by 43920 5y ago
They were forced to start offering that plan in order for the government to approve their merger with Sprint: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/t-mobile-says-sprint-merger-m...
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by 43920 5y ago
Well, yes, that is true :)
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by 43920 5y ago
For the old Kindles, this’ll be close to 15 years of usability, which is really good. However the list also includes a bunch of newer models: > Kindle Keyboard (3rd generation), Kindle Touch (4th generation), Kindle Paperwhite (4th, 5th,
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by 43920 5y ago
The logo standards only apply to new hardware; what they’re doing now applies to existing hardware as well.
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by 43920 5y ago
Martha’s Vineyard alone has a summer population of ~100k; from the Steamship Authority’s website (now unavailable): > In 2018, the Steamship Authority's vessels made a total of 23,997 trips carrying 3,055,347 passengers, 483,047 aut
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by 43920 6y ago
There's probably a decent number of sites that get most/all of their traffic from impulse purchases off of Facebook ads, and who have no actual branding. Obviously they should go ahead and just get a domain name, but they likely h
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Volkswagen will not change name of U.S. operations: sources(reuters.com)
158 points by 43920 6y ago|133 comments
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by 43920 6y ago
Zoom doesn’t use Electron, and AFAIK it’s all native code.
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by 43920 6y ago
This is something I might be interested in... please do make a list!
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by 43920 6y ago
Youtube is basically optimizing for their own costs over that of end users by using VP9, which uses less bandwidth but often is software-decoded. So the real answer is basically that they can, but it would cost them more. (Of course, the Yo
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by 43920 6y ago
I would imagine the extra power use probably isn't enough to outweigh the environmental costs of manufacturing new hardware, at least for your average consumer device. For servers, maybe the higher power usage is sufficiently high for
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by 43920 6y ago
From the FAQ: "Over the long term CloudReady will become an official Chrome OS offering, and existing customers will be upgraded seamlessly as that happens." So it sounds like there is some kind of actual migration plan, even if N
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Skoda begins using driving data to display in-car ads(skoda-storyboard.com)
3 points by 43920 6y ago|0 comments
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by 43920 6y ago
What kind of programs do non-US countries have to take care of people with mental illness? The actual medical care would be easier to get for sure, but the type of care described in the article ("She bought a 5,000-square-foot house on
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by 43920 6y ago
Maps.me at least still is collecting data; if you look at their privacy policy ( https://legal.my.com/us/maps/privacy/ ), they use your location data to “tailor and improve the adverts that are presented in the
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by 43920 6y ago
I had one of those too, and it worked great for about 6 months, until one of the print nozzles became clogged. It turns out that on most printers, the print heads are part of the cartridges (=replaceable), but on the ecotank printers they&#
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by 43920 6y ago
The AC controls are moved to the touchscreen in the new Outback.
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by 43920 6y ago
Github Pages uses Fastly ( https://www.fastly.com/customers/github ) as a CDN, which is pretty comparable to Cloudflare AFAIK.

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