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Sebb767
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> There is no way to keep the other variables like, sport, social interaction, stress and such out of the study. Sure, but with sufficiently many people, these effects will usually average out. I'm not saying the situation is great,
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2y ago
> Some of this is natural (though I don't believe healthy) but I think some of this is due to social media where people expect others to be aware of all their major events. I sometimes do this despite not posting any personal stuff
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2y ago
> Please, CCC, don't send these people on a stage that they don't enjoy when you could also work with them to get their stuff across. The speakers are not selected by the CCC; they have to apply with a synopsis of their talk.
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2y ago
This is a faceted issue where both sides have valid points. Also, HN is not a single entity.
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> Take a look who is they registrar and then look their prices up. So, in case anyone is interested, their registrar is MarkMonitor Inc., with a pricing of "contact us". The only pricing info I could find [0] said that it'
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2y ago
False positive would, in this case, mean wrongly identifying an unrelated person a the search target.
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> Also I note that half of your argument basically boils down to "it has vulnerabilities". But as bad as that is, it's still not as bad as being exploited. The point is that it increases your risk of being exploited. With
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2y ago
> (2 hours at 2x speed) This is such a strange note. It's far too obvious to be meant as a genuine hint, but a snide remark would not fit your otherwise positive comment. Genuine question, why did you put this in?
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2y ago
A more favorable interpretation would be that the church consists of more than just its worldly parts; its place and use are also part of its identity. Even if you'd completely rebuild the church building, the other parts of its identi
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2y ago
And the parent comment does not disagree with this. It's just that harsh punishment for executives might not improve the selection - in fact, it might be adverse selection, since increasing the risk will lead actually good people to av
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2y ago
Well, it's not great, but it's still a step up from an opaque firmware blob and (maybe?) still allowed under FCC rules.
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> regulatory compliance requires that devices which make unlicensed use of radio spectrum (such as Wi-Fi) must contain non-user modifiable software for their radios in order to comply with regulations Couldn't one restrict the chip
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2y ago
On the other hand, cars are much less limited in terms of sensor size (allowing you to determine location and acceleration more precisely, for example), power and permissions. In theory, root permission on your phone would be better, but a
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2y ago
That's fair, but my point is: Irrespective of whether you put 100% or 20% into your work, you should do some planning of your career so that whatever percentage you put into it is reasonably spent. Even when you just plan on spending 1
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> they haven't released anything new in two years, after exhausting the backlog of already developed things. I'm not a Twitter user, so I might miss the lack of some essential features, but it seems to me that the platform is m
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> This approach to careers fails to take into account that we inherently change as people. OP very much talks about this in the last few paragraphs, both in that you can't plan exactly and that you need to course correct as things c
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2y ago
I return, you can actually fit most desktop cases in 5U or even 4U, if you have something to stack them onto. Just be careful with possibly covered side vents.
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2y ago
If you have a sufficiently stable network and/or known failure cases, you can already tune TCP quite a bit with nodelay, large congestion windows etc.. There's also QUIC, which basically is a modern implementation of TCP on top of
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2y ago
One thing I missed at first is that a phased array uses multiple spherical waves, but the result is actually a plane wave. Knowing this, how it works actually becomes a lot clearer.
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> I wonder why Fibre Channel isn't used as a replacement for TCP in the datacenter But it is often used for block storage in datacenters. Using it for anything else is going to be hard, as it is incompatible with TCP. The problem wi
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> The over abundance of resources has made the majority of software engineers lazy. I don't think "lazy" is the right word, it's just that cheap hardware makes most optimizations not worthwhile. Why spend weeks optimi
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> Also, I'm skeptical how much better modern hardware will fare in deep space conditions, considering the use of finer and more fragile electronics. Since then, we had massive advantages in manufacturing. Maybe COTS parts aren'
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2y ago
It's explained in the article: > Fortunately for Spivack and the Arch Mission Foundation, spewing DNA and water bears across the moon is totally legal. NASA’s Office of Planetary Protection classifies missions based on the likelihoo
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> and it's a great place for investments & startups, so even if Polymarket isn't licensed to operate in the US it still makes sense for them to be there. Well, maybe for startups in general, but it apparently didn't wo
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> Similarly, movies named after a protagonist have a title drop rate of 88.5% while only 34.2% of other movies drop their titles. What is much more interesting is that 11.5% of movies named after their protagonist never mention them by n
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Not really, since the geography is quite important as to how the conflict evolved and where the conflict zones are.
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If you already know the area, why would you need your nav to direct you to the alternative route instead of just driving it?
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> 3. Defend your trademarks vigorously from day one. Being lenient in the hope of free brand awareness will bite you. As far as I see, he did defend his trademark - he just had some very reasonable rules under which you could use it (lik
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> Another HN commenter on this post mentioned IEnumerable<T>, which is very similar: you know nothing about T, but you need to call it _something_, and there's a common understanding in the community that you call such type v
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2y ago
On the other hand, what is the reasonable way of action here? A whole set of acquaintances grieving for days about a person only one of them knew? Next to this being quite detrimental to productivity (and you can argue all day about how bad
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