AndrewSwift

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by AndrewSwift 1y ago
You can see why planes stay in the air by sticking your hand out a car window. If you know better contradict me, but: An inclined flat surface will push air down, creating pressure below, and create an empty area above, creating a partial v
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by AndrewSwift 1y ago
The seat is too low.
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by AndrewSwift 1y ago
Share as in "my share of the reward", not as in social media.
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by AndrewSwift 1y ago
Great article, thanks for sharing.
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by AndrewSwift 1y ago
It was deaths/km ridden.
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by AndrewSwift 1y ago
I wondered once if it would be possible to ride a motorcycle safely if I drove carefully (everyone I know who rides has been in at least one serious accident). I thought: I could look at the data, but I see so many motorcyclists driving dan
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by AndrewSwift 1y ago
I love what you have done here — it's very graceful. I was feeling great but now I think "I have a lot to learn — I'd better get going!" If you are interested in SVG animation, I wrote a program to do it from within Adob
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
What does a white-tooth culture look like specifically? People brush their teeth in France, they have modern dentristy etc.
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
People who want to remove fluoride from the water should visit countries where fluoride is not added and look at people's teeth. I live in France and it's just so obvious that people grew up without fluoride — even celebrities try
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
I don't believe this is the case — in the situation that is commonly referenced to make this point, someone sought to have an AI legally declared to be the author of a specific work, and that was ruled not to be possible. But I am not
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
A good observation that explains everything!
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
In France, street-level is the 0th floor, and the one above is the first floor. You see zero in elevators all the time.
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
It's not RCS that was turned off, just "Business Messaging", meant for trusted companies to communicate with their customers.
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
I have a terabypte of MP3's that I've collected. I have no problems listening to them on my iPhone, Mac and Amazon devices using Apple's "iTunes Match", a bargain (to me) at 25€/year. Literally the only limit I
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/161_Maiden_Lane
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
Thanks, this is gold.
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
I just took a one day initiation with the SNCF for driving trains in France. I assumed that everything would be automated but in fact nothing is. They explained that they regularly face situations that require human intervention (several ti
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
Note that you can option double click the corner of a window to make it fill the screen. I realize that this isn't what you're asking, but it might help.
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
[scathing remark deleted]
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
Dual use in this case means use both in personal computers and in data centers or "cloud servers". It would be of interest because normally you'd be optimizing for very different characteristics.
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by AndrewSwift 2y ago
I'd rather think of it as follow the recipe, break the recipe and leave the recipe behind.
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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
As someone who learned a foreign language as an adult, I really enjoyed this. And, I think it represents two important issues with the technology industry: 1. the status of information provided by computers is usually missing 2. there is a
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Ask HN: What about CSS "visited" style for HN comments links?
2 points by AndrewSwift 3y ago|0 comments
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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
The second you've paid for an ad-free version of software, you've proven that you're in the top 0.1% of people worth showing ads to. Very few companies can resist the temptation to exploit their best users. See all streaming
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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
I did too — that's why I started this project. But the question was about Adobe Animate.
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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
You can build a whole website, not just the animations.
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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
If anyone is interested, I am trying to bring back the spirit of Flash with a project to build animated websites with Adobe Illustrator. See svija.com for details.
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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
The article makes it sound like this could be catastrophic, but I seem to recall that breathing gasses other than CO2 that don't contain oxygen can be dangerous because you don't feel it until it's too late.
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First Execution by Nitrogen(apnews.com)
3 points by AndrewSwift 3y ago|1 comments
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by AndrewSwift 3y ago
Or that the offices of the large company are destroyed. It might even be much better for the world economy, long-term.

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