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by T-hawk 13y ago
That's correct. The zodiac has precessed relative to the seasons. This is the definition of the "Age of Aquarius": that the sun is currently in Aquarius at the time of each vernal equinox, even though by historical definiti
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Popular misconception here: That disclaimer meant possession of the card is not identification, since it doesn't have any verification like a photo. The number does represent identification, as far back as 1943. Source, the Straig
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by T-hawk 13y ago
It's basically using search as an additional name resolution layer on top of DNS. Because search is more human-convenient, with a layer of semantic processing free from the rigid technical constraints of DNS names. Which is all great
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by T-hawk 13y ago
What do you folks using password managers/archives do for access from other machines that don't have the password tool and database? Cloud-based password storage (either in a Dropbox-like service or built in with the password man
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by T-hawk 13y ago
In a word, leverage. The janitor can clean one floor at a time, and that's all. No matter how hard he works at it, there's a pretty low cap on the value that can be created by this labor. Even if it's a really important flo
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Maybe replace the cable? I had a monitor that did the same thing over DVI, blanking out every few minutes. Replaced the cheap pack-in DVI cable with a better one and then it was fine.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Therefore, if main() calls foo(), then foo() returns, the contents of the variables of foo() is still one frame higher on the frame stack and given the right memory address you can still access it. Unless an interrupt occurs between retur
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Wow, thinking about Benford's Law in binary is really interesting, thanks for this comment. It's the most extreme expression of the concept. Every number in binary starts with 1. The only other possible leading digit would be
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by T-hawk 13y ago
For these sorts of folks, side project programming doesn't require or consume energy, it creates it. Some people relax by watching tv or reading the internet. Some people relax by coding features for an open source software project.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
You're asking the question the wrong way around. Text doesn't get converted to 1's and 0's or turned into voltages. The 1's and 0's and voltages are the first principles. Code is emergent behavior. When you
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Well, this analysis simplistically does length times views, deliberately ignoring the fact that hardly all Youtube "views" go for the full duration. Youtube has analytics that will show an average watching duration of 1-2 minutes
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Same here, I live on the Jersey City waterfront and love the ferry commute. Hoboken and Jersey City are excellent places to live for a Manhattan job. We get to take advantage of the market inefficiency created by the "eww Jersey&quot
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The best place to live in New York is actually New Jersey. The PATH subway in Jersey City or Hoboken gives a quick (15 minute) commute to the downtown and midtown business areas, or there's also bus and ferry options. Rent goes very r
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Good point, yes there are reasons other than URL illiteracy (convenience) to use search as a DNS replacement. So this new behavior of Google helps even you. And without any deceptive downside since if you are URL-literate you're prob
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by T-hawk 13y ago
In some cases, it just isn't clear what the right page is. Absolutely. Which is why Google isn't doing this across the board but for carefully selected cases. They'd do it for advertiser clients for whom Google's dat
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by T-hawk 13y ago
It's arguable that queries like [southwest airlines] are even a search. The vast majority of instances are probably URL-illiterate users merely trying to get to Southwest Airlines' web site. (And Google must know rather precisel
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by T-hawk 13y ago
They really do. Last year, I was in England during Hurricane Sandy and the British kept apologizing for the mild drizzly rain going on there.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
There's also the question of, what actually counts as the title of a web page? There's at least three options: the HTML <title>, the URL, and some line of large text within the page. And of course there could be many headin
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Because airplanes are so highly leverageable from a single act into overreactionary freedom-stifling societal damage. One shoe bomber and now billions of traveler-hours are wasted shoeless at the checkpoints. Airplanes have so many eyes o
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by T-hawk 13y ago
It's not clear to me that conservatives want strong state power in general. Conservatives don't in general, only for some minor social issues like abortion. But Republicans generally do. There is no classically conservative pa
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by T-hawk 13y ago
f.lux is great, but I really really really wish it would allow custom control of the timing instead of pegging to sunset. I don't want my screen going red at 4:30 pm in the winter eight or more hours before bed. 10 pm would be about
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by T-hawk 13y ago
I have flagging, in the ~1000 karma range, so it still exists. I've hardly ever used it. I'm not sure that flagging is meant for shooting down topic matter you'd rather not see on HN. And that's why the ability is remo
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by T-hawk 13y ago
That's actually pretty normal. For most car rental companies, the weekly rate is equal to 5 days. So the two extra days likely weren't supposed to cost any more. (It's a form of price discrimination: business travelers inse
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Car rental companies buy many cars from surplus dealer inventories, often towards the end of a model year. That's where they can get new reliable cars in bulk, and they don't care about color or particular models. So when you ge
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by T-hawk 13y ago
But you get a collision right on the first element. Alpha leads off both the phonetic alphabet and Greek alphabet. Delta also collides.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
My house is Alpha Sigma Phi and we're pretty strongly against hazing. But each chapter of every fraternity at any school has its own personality. Do you know anyone in any of the fraternities on your campus? Talk to them and see wha
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by T-hawk 13y ago
XSLT is a purely functional language so inherits much of the general set of likes/dislikes that go with them. <xsl:if test="x">template</xsl:test> is basically this in Lisp: (if eval(x) (apply-
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Do join a fraternity. I never thought of myself as the fraternity type, but joined one in my third year of college too after a few friends did. Best decision I ever made. 14 years later it's still a major part of my social life, bot
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by T-hawk 13y ago
function getCurrentEnrollmentYear() { //TODO: add logic //hardcoded 2014 now return "2014"; } I cannot figure out whether that is horribly lazy or a great iterative design of not supporting
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by T-hawk 13y ago
They wouldn't be that interesting. Planetary sized bodies are really spherical (oblate of course.) Even Olympus Mons at 22 km height is only 0.3% of Mars's diameter of 6700 km. If your Mars model was a meter wide, the biggest m

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