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121.
by 4rt 9y ago
i guess it makes it more visible. apple products are very expensive and everybody knows that now, not just computery people.
122.
by 4rt 9y ago
it reminded me of theranos, but maybe only because it's on HN.
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by 4rt 9y ago
thanks. uMatrix wouldn't even let me visit with my current rule set.
124.
by 4rt 9y ago
i'd not heard that. but the way it was marketed always seemed to me to be another small experiment in nintendo's non-stop attempts to artificially limit supply. they seemed to use it to test word of mouth and their viral marketing
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by 4rt 10y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/n3ct0c2k i really enjoyed this - "bbc hardtalk brian eno" if it doesn't work in your jurisdiction
126.
by 4rt 10y ago
they should do the same moratorium for hackers as is suggested for weed smokers maybe
127.
by 4rt 10y ago
i had my only ever car crash the morning after getting my dk2. no excuses, but i'm interested if it might have been related.
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by 4rt 10y ago
LINQ is far from wonky, it's essentially just a bunch of lambdas built to create execution trees which can be optimised then converted to e.g. SQL. it's powerful and using typed-compile-time-checked LINQ for building DB queries is
129.
by 4rt 10y ago
I'd heed the advice in here. It sounds like a big project to take on as a lone student. On the other hand, you can go in guns blazing and be professional and fair and say "this is unrealistic I need to hire someone" and you c
130.
by 4rt 11y ago
i like to go up escalators doing two steps at once because it makes me feel like john cleese taking giant strides up like 10 feet.
131.
by 4rt 11y ago
i'm using the emscriptenised version of bullet physics library for a web pool simulation - it does work surprisingly well.
132.
by 4rt 11y ago
the bits about the importance of the "hinge being able to connect two devices going forwards" in the middle of the article really made me remember the MS "courier" prototype. i really suspect they'll launch a "
133.
by 4rt 11y ago
no link, but there was a good article or documentary about 10 years ago about how you can improve throughput of an automatic-opening double door by putting a bollard in the centre. iirc it was over 2x increase. basically people aim for the
134.
by 4rt 12y ago
did they really censor the numbers 89 and 6.4? how do they teach counting?
135.
by 4rt 12y ago
the whole point of this list is paragraph 1
136.
by 4rt 12y ago
well, i enjoyed it. he makes valid points throughout.
137.
by 4rt 12y ago
they announced this a few years ago. it'd just a PDF with the no-print flag set. unfortunately it means registering a whole new file type for the promise of a lack of functionality combined with increasing all your document file sizes
138.
by 4rt 12y ago
sure, who cares. the answer is in the article.
139.
by 4rt 12y ago
on a tangent - when the hell did "zoom" and "search" icons become identical. i find it confusing.
140.
by 4rt 13y ago
let me guess: bag, padlock, bath
141.
by 4rt 13y ago
... ignoring the fact that you can have multiple metro apps on screen just like with any other tiling window manager. i think there's a good argument that manually micro-managing the sizes and positions of overlapping windows (some of
142.
by 4rt 13y ago
higher resolutions screens certainly do though
143.
by 4rt 13y ago
just pay the guy, it's $4k. the language barriers are enough to justify any mistakes made in conforming precisely with the t&cs. he didn't abuse the hack. he reported it to you. pay him tbh.
144.
by 4rt 14y ago
if that guy can't spot the difference, what is he doing with a $4k camera?
145.
by 4rt 14y ago
i got one of these when there was £100 cashback, meaning the total cost was about £130. I paid another £40 for 4gb of ECC ram so I could use it like a real server. It's an excellent case design - there's a huge fan at the back pulling air o