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by JadeNB 3y ago
> This is a beta release—it seems very plausible that it's just a mistake, rather than some sort of elaborate-but-subtle act of defiance. I was wrong. I still think that this was plausible , but, as a TechCrunch article https:&#
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I would posit that road-rage would decrease if you knew that you would be driving behind/next to the same people every day - in fact, you would probably end up with some form of cooperative driving! Interesting idea! It's pr
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> If your job is to educate and 3/4ths of the students fail, that sounds like a dysfunctional system. Maybe the course prerequisites were poorly designed. How do you determine with such certainty that it was the student's fault
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> More specifically, the total revenue of ads + the people willing to pay $3/month is greater than the revenue lost when people cancel their service due to ads The bundling makes cancellation particularly unlikely: you can't (o
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Love to visit Hong Kong some day just to wander the pedestrian network, a fraction of which (apparently) is shown here: If you get tired of wandering the pedestrian network within the city, make sure to visit the extensive network of h
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> If, instead of scrolling HN, you talked to me, both our lives would improve. I'm wholly in sympathy with the idea that public life would be better if we spent less of it on our phone, but counting every good deed left undone as a
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> > There are indications that iOS 17.4 is using SIM carrier information to geo-lock the changes to web app functionality singularly to users in the EU. Web apps in other regions around the world remain unaffected. Right, we know that
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by JadeNB 3y ago
This is a beta release—it seems very plausible that it's just a mistake, rather than some sort of elaborate-but-subtle act of defiance.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> The best mental model for a heat pump is that they can maintain a certain temperature differential, say 80F. If it gets to be 0F outside and you want it to be 70? You don’t need to switch to a fully separate heating system, you just ne
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Doctor's offices and schools are notorious for using the caller ID "blocked." I let them hit voicemail. My doctor's office won't leave messages, and appears to have about 20 minutes a day where they pick up the
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Mozilla (before Firefox) was too new, also unstable until roughly 2005. That doesn't match my memory at all, unless you include Phoenix under the Firefox umbrella. I switched … I don't remember exactly when, probably in late
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The University of Nevada is not a "not-really academic institution." It is a flagship state university.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> If I see a bold claim that I have a hard time believing, then I'll ask follow-up questions. But when someone makes a bold claim that is just factually incorrect, while admitting they don't know much , and then get upset when
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by JadeNB 3y ago
I knew the word, but I hadn't realized that it was officially «'pataphysics» and not just «pataphysics». I don't know whether paying attention to this is, or is not, in the spirit of the whole enterprise.
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by JadeNB 3y ago
There's also a character viewer that you can display under the Input menu in the menu bar; and there's a keyboard viewer that lets you discover unexpected, say, SHIFT-OPTION-blah key combinations that will produce those characters
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Yep. This is one of the big problems with online communities. When someone makes a bold statement, I have no idea if they’re a grizzled engineer with grizzled, hard earned engineering opinions, or some kid fresh out of a coding bootcam
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The title mangler somehow got from "The end of 0% interest rates: what the new normal means for software engineers" to the incomprehensible "What the The end of 0% interest rates means for software engineers". EDIT: No
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> To be fair I have no idea how large an American penny is - it's not a very precise indication of size for anyone who's not American. It is reasonably precise , at least "good enough for government work"—the size is
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by JadeNB 3y ago
The OpenCulture link points to an article http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/art-books/camus-sartre-fbi... on Prospect Magazine, but the link doesn't work. It appears to be meant to point to https://www
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> I use the SinglePage add-on for Firefox (think it is available for Chrome as well?) to save the current page DOM to HTML as a self-contained file (inlined CSS and data:-URLs for all images) with no dependencies and all the scripts remo
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> This feature can also be be enabled in macOS by adding the following line to ~/.zshrc: > setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE Except that I think it's called `histignorespace` (I haven't caught up with when and how much zsh c
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by JadeNB 3y ago
I think the reference was to the language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto , which is interesting and strange. (I am not sure to what extent it is unique, but it is probably the best known among the conlangs.)
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> ... and what was your answer? The correct one, that 30% is less than 1/3.
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At least it's under the irs.gov domain now. As recently as last year, I had to, or at least thought I had to, go to the even scammier-sounding https://www.freefilefillableforms.com .
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> This story has to be apocryphal, as fractions aren't _that_ rare, especially in the U.S. with its imperial system and third of a cup measurements or quarter inches or half miles and so on. I literally had an argument with a room f
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> To not make this mistake, you have to be able to call to mind that the map x -> 1/x reverses the inequality sign. That's a fairly abstract thing to remember especially if you haven't taken math for years. Yes you coul
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by JadeNB 3y ago
Yeah, no shade to you from me. I think my mention of a US law triggered some HNers' (justified) fears of US-centrism, and I was just explaining why I thought it was not unduly US-centric to respond to a comment about a company headqua
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Even if you think something is ugly, why not acknowledge the fact that some might consider it beautiful? I do. I was checking to see whether my parent really meant to include Cybertrucks among things of beauty. I didn't say that
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Have you seen it in person? I have not. I can't imagine it improving that much in person, but who knows? Anyway, whether I think it's ugly, in person or from afar, is not the issue; I was surprised that someone found it bea
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by JadeNB 3y ago
> Tesla vehicles look beautiful to me. As you say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder—but, seriously, the Cybertruck as a thing of beauty? (This is from someone who actually liked the boxy car designs of old.)

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