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by DerekL 2y ago
Title should say “SF”, not “SFO”. SFO is the code for the airport.
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by DerekL 2y ago
That was announced on Monday, with the new iMacs.
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by DerekL 2y ago
A previous news story claimed that the system used 5.25-inch disks, instead of 3.5-inch, which would have been strange for a system that was purchased in 1998. It turns out that it actually was 3.5-inch disks. The correction is in this arti
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by DerekL 2y ago
Also, the logo is all-caps. “Muni” isn't an acronym, it's short for “Municipal Railway”.
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by DerekL 2y ago
The title is misspelled. It should be “Muni”, like the article's title, not in all caps.
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by DerekL 2y ago
When playing draw poker, you only need to select 10 cards from the deck, because the other cards will never be played. So that's 52⋅51⋅…⋅43 = 57,407,703,889,536,000, which needs 56 bits.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Title needs (2022).
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by DerekL 2y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41618685 Also, the actual title uses “discover”, not “define”.
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by DerekL 2y ago
A scientific outpost on Mars is actually feasible, but such an outpost would be funded by grants from the government or private foundations. It's a self-sufficient colony that's not possible right now or anytime soon. You'd h
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by DerekL 2y ago
This is entirely wrong. Instead, you should do routine performance testing on low-end machines, and do your work on reasonably high-end machines.
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by DerekL 2y ago
> In the most recent Program for International Student Assessment tests in math, or PISA, U.S. students scored lower than their counterparts in 36 other education systems worldwide. Students in China scored the highest. On PISA, the US r
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by DerekL 2y ago
Title needs (2023).
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by DerekL 2y ago
* brakes
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by DerekL 2y ago
It looks like page 79 of that doc has a typo. It says mercury in sample 1 is 113 µg/L. Maybe they meant 0.113.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Title is misspelled, should be “black hole” (two words).
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by DerekL 2y ago
Gavin Newsom won't be picked. If both the presidential and vice-presidential candidates are from the same state, then the electors from that state can't vote for them.
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by DerekL 2y ago
It shouldn't be called a “Jet Ski”, because that's a trademark of Kawasaki.
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by DerekL 2y ago
I was wondering the same thing about making macros optionally recursive. Because if they were recursive, then that feature and `__VA_OPT__` would be enough to make them Turing-complete.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Also, Down's syndrome causes all sorts of additional health problems. Maybe they let the kid starve at age 6, or the kid got sick and died anyway.
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by DerekL 2y ago
The original chip set (OCS), which debuted with the Amiga 1000 in 1985, could display 320 by 200 in four colors, or 640 by 400 in 16 colors, and the colors selected from a gamut of 4096. This is non-interlaced in 60 Hz. A PAL display would
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by DerekL 2y ago
*shtup, or schtup
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by DerekL 2y ago
I wonder why uninstalling the hard disk and installing it in a different computer was the best solution. Were the files so big that it would have used too many floppies? Did the two computers use different sizes of floppies? Could he not af
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by DerekL 2y ago
Here's the previous discussion of the original Twitter thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40472226 .
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by DerekL 2y ago
Spelling nit: though the logo is all-caps, the company is called “Visa”.
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by DerekL 2y ago
This part is relevant to Hacker News: > A Northern California sheriff accepted bribes to grant gun permits to political donors. That was Laurie Smith, sheriff of Santa Clara County.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Title needs (2014).
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by DerekL 2y ago
On Atari 8-bits, the filesystem ran on the computer itself. There was an MOS 6507 processor in the drive, but that was for communicating on the SIO bus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_1050
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by DerekL 2y ago
Okay.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Title has a mistake: it should be “POSIX AWK”, in all caps.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Since Lucas added back the Jabba scene that they couldn't complete for the original release, he should have deleted the Greedo scene entirely, since it was only filmed as a replacement. There doesn't need to be two scenes that exp

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