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by Smoosh 5y ago
So, maybe next they will experimentally employ someone over 40?
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by Smoosh 5y ago
We did it HN!
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by Smoosh 5y ago
There's also OSMC, which is minimal Debian + Kodi.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
This seems like an appropriate time to recommend the book West of Eden [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Eden ]. It posits an earth where humans and dinosaurs co-exist, but the dinosaurs, having been around longer,
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by Smoosh 5y ago
The popularity of the Raspberry Pi and Arduino makes me wonder why there wasn't more exploitation of the I/O capabilities of the simple PCs of the early days. I suppose there must have been some I/O breakout devices, but they
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Not my area of expertise either, but I gather that hydrogen is difficult to store in quantity, requiring large heavy pressure vessels, and it has relatively low energy density. Both of which count against using it for commercial flight.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Not just "the modern stack". I work mainframes and always felt the IBM-supplied environment (compilers, transaction processing systems, databases) was rock solid. Then one day I discovered APARs were a thing. https://ww
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Agreed. Such a contrast to all the shouty, gossipy, attention-seeking channels. Just lays out the facts or opinions with high production values and (apart from sometimes repeating himself a little) no filler.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Oh man, I don't want to be in the queue behind that guy while he spells out his name to the clerk.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
You are correct. I have a mainframe right here in front of me, with a "test card" of all 256 byte values. There certainly are accented characters in most code pages. The problem is that they are difficult to deal with. They cause
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Gotta keep those crime stats high to increase the police budget!
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by Smoosh 5y ago
You're not allowing for growth. If they double their sales that will come down to just 67 years!
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by Smoosh 5y ago
I was going to make this suggestion too. While we are making suggestions, here's two more: * pop-up with location name when hovering over a fingerprint. * adjust colours in temperature scale to personal taste. And/or adjust temper
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by Smoosh 5y ago
> "If i'm not doing anything wrong I have nothing to worry about" The irony being that the current government seems particularly opposed to any form of accountability or public scrutiny.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
I believe that the term of art is "backgrounding". As in the company provides "background" information such as seems to be the case here. Of course, this is really the company framing the conversation and deflecting the
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by Smoosh 5y ago
If you are interested in the geology of the region, can I recommend to you the videos by Nick Zentner: https://www.nickzentner.com/pbs-nick-on-the-rocks-1/ Also with videos on Youtube in his own channel and in the Cent
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by Smoosh 5y ago
> As Scandinavia rolls back all restrictions I wonder why SWE is behaving different to AUS? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-people-fully-vaccin... https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/c
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by Smoosh 5y ago
The distrust I had was also in part because it was rushed out the door and based upon Singapores's app, which used deprecated APIs. This, while Google and Apple were promising new fit-for-purpose and interworking APIs within a few week
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by Smoosh 5y ago
> entire flatten the curve narrative is about I thought it was about reducing total deaths by not overloading health care services.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
I think of this when people say we can't afford to mitigate climate change.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Forget the backups - the pen test team can just produce fake emails requesting they get the $$$.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
I suspect that in the early days of internet advertising casino/poker/porn was much more common because they were the ones willing to take a risk on advertising in the new media. Over time other more mainstream industries joined i
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by Smoosh 5y ago
> Tesla made some people want an electric car really badly The emphasis here is on some people . Observe the morons who think they are clever/funny "rolling coal". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK6Amk4Hf
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by Smoosh 5y ago
You could also make it clear that you are leaving your current position because you expect to be paid market rate or better.
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Even if a meltdown doesn't happen, if such a generator is struck by, for example, an artillery shell, who is going to clean up the mess?
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by Smoosh 5y ago
I've been working on a similar project of my own. I've assembled the hardware and enough guides that I'm just about ready to put it together. My solution uses an ESP32 for control/wifi and MPU-6050 tilt sensors to measur
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by Smoosh 5y ago
I've sometimes wondered if it would be viable to build a "range extender" for electric cars which is basically a generator which is designed to integrate with the vehicle, but can be easily removed. Then people could fit them
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Engineering Explained - If you're into cars and the technology behind them Technology Connections - History and operating principles of consumer electrical devices PBS Space Time - Astrophysics etc This Old Tony - Hobbyist machinist
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by Smoosh 5y ago
Let me repeat myself from a post a fortnight ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27127269 I have remarked before that Zuckerberg wants to be the Murdoch of the 21st century. To wield his media influence as a "ki
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by Smoosh 5y ago
I have remarked before that Zuckerberg wants to be the Murdoch of the 21st century. To wield his media influence as a "kingmaker" (mostly quietly and behind the scenes, but with those seeking to gain or hold power knowing they wil

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