DerekL

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by DerekL 8y ago
> The game was released for the for Coleco’s ADAM system which programmed on regular cassette tapes (C-Tapes) which you loaded into the ADAM system like you would put an audio cassette into a boom box. Weird. This article was written for
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by DerekL 8y ago
> At the time Google was the unsung hero defending our rights. Now Google won't let you subscribe to podcasts in their app unless you turn on location history storage, like those two things are actually mutually exclusive. Okay, so
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by DerekL 8y ago
Can you find any of these articles published on BuzzFeed? The problem with this criticism is that it claims that all journalists have the same opinion on blue-collar-retraining issue.
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by DerekL 8y ago
This is reprinted from Quanta Magazine. Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19013993
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by DerekL 8y ago
This article was originally published on another site, and was already posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18995360
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by DerekL 8y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19000166
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by DerekL 8y ago
You can get the same effect by using a “dummy” node. The dummy node has a next pointer, but no data, and the dummy node always exists at the front of the list. The list structure contains the dummy, instead of using a pointer to the front o
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by DerekL 8y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18991101
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by DerekL 8y ago
I have a question about this survey. Were the participants told that the symbol is typically located on a dashboard, or was it shown without context?
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by DerekL 8y ago
Title should use “its”, not “it's”.
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by DerekL 8y ago
It didn't exist in 2012, when this article was written.
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by DerekL 8y ago
He gets so much wrong in that paragraph: > Commodore created one of the first home computers (long before the IBM PC or Apple). Commodore, Apple and Radio Shack all released home computers in 1977. Six months is hardly “long before”. &gt
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by DerekL 8y ago
Yes, you're right about precedence.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Interesting. In C, “&array[0]“ is the same thing as “(array + 0)”, but in my copy of the C11 draft standard, I can't find anything about adding zero to a null pointer.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Currency is also often tainted with bacteria.
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by DerekL 8y ago
I saw this once, but it was an episode of the TV show The Detour .
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by DerekL 8y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18489967
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by DerekL 8y ago
Title is misspelled. Right now, the title of the video is “'Oumuamua Is Not Aliens”. That is also a misspelling, because it's name is “ʻOumuamua”, starting with a ʻokina, the Hawaiian letter, not an apostrophe.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Last day of Linotype , not print, at the New York Times in 1978. Also, the actual title is “Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu”.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Probably not. The FAA says you can have any number of lithium ion batteries, if each one is 100 Wh or less. https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...
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by DerekL 8y ago
Previously discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18469556 and eight months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16565616 and three years ago, when the article was published: htt
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by DerekL 8y ago
This is from 2106. Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12965589
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by DerekL 8y ago
A big reason banks are located in North Carolina is that they had laws that were friendly to large banks: > But North Carolina was among the first states to allow banks to operate multiple branches within a state's borders. https:&
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by DerekL 8y ago
Already done: “I-Cut-You-Choose” Cake-Cutting Protocol Inspires Solution to Gerrymandering https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2017/november/i-cu... https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by DerekL 8y ago
I followed that link, and it seemed to give good results. I did it from the US, so maybe your region is different. Can you explain the problem? Maybe you should make a blog post, or a Twitter thread, or a paste at Pastebin, and then post a
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by DerekL 8y ago
There's a word for this type of article: “obituary”.
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by DerekL 8y ago
You mean “silicon”, not “silicone”. (Or maybe you do mean “silicone”?)
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by DerekL 8y ago
Title is incorrect. The current title of the article is “Apple Event News Hub: iPad Pro, Macs, much more”, not “Apple Released Macbook Air and iPad Pro but Not Macbook Pro”.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Title should say “JPEG”, not “JPG”. “JPG” is just a file extension, not the name of the compression method.
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by DerekL 8y ago
Maybe Blasteroids, the 1987 sequel?

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