KeytarHero

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by KeytarHero 10y ago
Buying short isn't the opposite of buying long - it's the reciprocal. Which is an important distinction: if you buy a diversified portfolio of 10 stocks and one goes bust, if you bought long you've lost 10%. If you bought sho
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by KeytarHero 10y ago
> Why not just do the exact opposite of whatever their initial hunch is. If your initial hunch is to buy a stock you don't own yet, you can't sell it instead.
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Yeah, the only "proof" that people tend to cite is that the WHO has classified EM radiation in a class that basically means "we have no idea if it causes cancer or not, but it might", along with just about everything [1]
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
I guess the residents of the San Juan Islands must be quite a different demographic from the Canadian islands just across the border. This would never happen on one of the Canadian Gulf Islands, because too many residents are worried about
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
I see this attitude of "I don't like this product that was never meant for my use case, therefore nobody else will want it either" a lot among tech people, and HN is no exception. Just look at yesterday's comments on the
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Also this video from their first time playing it (1 year earlier), which I found a bit easier to follow (it's also only half as long) http://www.shutupandsitdown.com/videos/v/susd-play-megagame/
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
"ll" may not be the best choice of default alias - it's pretty common for people to already have it aliased to "ls -l" (or -la, or -lah, or whatever their preferred default flavor), especially for the type of power
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
> Firefox doesn't revert you to defaults You mean besides that time Firefox reverted everyone's search engine to Yahoo?
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
> I've never understood how people can truly believe that by checking (or unchecking) a checkbox their privacy is fully protected. You mean besides the fact that collecting personal data without your consent is illegal?
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
> it did not wave the arms
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
It fundamentally changes things because it's so easy to do anonymously. If someone drops rocks off an overpass, it's pretty easy for police to track them down and arrest them. If someone attaches a bomb to the bottom of a car, sur
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
> But the way most people are talking about this you'd think that as soon as the method for doing this hits the internet, script-kiddies are going to start randomly crashing Jeeps into bridge pylons. You mean the same script kiddies
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Uhh, the same way almost every non-luxury car made between 1960 and 2010 did it? A dial each for temperature, fan speed, and where the air is blowing. Plus a button for air conditioning and/or recirculate. No touch screens, no menus. P
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
It amazes me that while more and more jurisdictions are banning cell phone use while driving, vehicle makers are increasingly resorting to touch screens for things like stereo and climate control. When using a smartphone while driving is il
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Well, they did mention that elsewhere: > Shrinking gate lengths have meant 30 per cent more transistors per year for the same-sized fleck of silicon (transistors are laid out in a two-dimensional array, so gate-length scaling improves de
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
At 44K (-380 F), I'd say it's more like next century's coldest snowboarding destination
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Early 2000s? The company was founded in 2003, and I can't seem to find any articles mentioning them prior to 2009.
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
I love the snark in that PEP: > APL apparently used +.× , which by combining a multi-character token, confusing attribute-access-like . syntax, and a unicode character, ranks somewhere below U+2603 SNOWMAN on our candidate list. and then
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
They are, but as far as I know C has no plans to remove them.
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Same with trigraphs - as much fun as it is to joke about the ??!??! operator[0] [0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825055/what-does-the-c-o...
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
name alue pairs? ;)
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Wait, people actually use cL in Germany? I thought most metric countries would say "400 mL" instead (that's what we do in Canada anyway). It seems so arbitrary to me - if not sticking to powers of 3, then why not just say 4 d
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Same goes for if you have a bigger screen but don't maximize your browser. Windows has terrible virtual desktop support; as a result, I don't usually scale windows to full screen so I can actually keep multiple windows straight. O
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
I doubt it. Planning to piss off the musicians you depend on and then backtrack is a risky move; it has the potential to erode public trust somewhat.
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
> As a rule of thumb, you should only use [personal audio] devices at levels up to 60% of maximum volume for a total of 60 minutes a day. The louder the volume, the shorter your duration should be. At maximum volume, you should listen fo
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
"We're going to deliberately do something that could piss off most of our musicians, and then backtrack on it. What could go wrong?"
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
Yeah, but the way individual languages do numbers doesn't necessarily make sense. In French, 99 is read as "four-twenties and ten-plus-nine"
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
That's what 3rd party cases are for.
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
On Madeon's latest album, he hid his logo in the transition between two tracks: http://i.imgur.com/yPJTTs0.jpg It sounds pretty cool too - you can hear the tones going up & down: http://www.youtube.com&#
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by KeytarHero 11y ago
If it's just through a cheap speaker and mic, you'll probably lose a lot of the image. This uses a linear frequency scale (which is just the nature of Fourier transforms), whereas our ears are sensitive on a log frequency scale. I

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