Thrymr

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by Thrymr 12y ago
Hardly "every bit". The federal government owns more than half of the land west of the Rockies [0], and most of that (e.g. US Forest Service and BLM land) is free to roam over. Much of it you can camp anywhere you want, too. [0]
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A Leader Struggles to Sell Software Meant to Aid Sales(nytimes.com)
66 points by Thrymr 12y ago|26 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> On that evidence there's not much reason to invest directly in MS. That's a sign of a mature company. There are reasons to invest in companies like that (safety and dividends, for example), but they don't include high gr
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by Thrymr 12y ago
My reading of "a Tesla powered by fusion power" was that the electricity charging the batteries would come from a fusion generator source. And indeed, a clean electrical source makes electric transportation much more environmenta
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> I suppose male human and female human are the least ambiguous. And make you sound like an alien anthropologist, rather than, well, a human.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> in the South/Southwest, where water resources are more scarce? As opposed to the SF Bay area, which has convenient fresh water resources... dependent on dwindling snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Even if it's not the primary cause, accidents are much more dangerous at higher speeds. It also makes reaction times shorter for avoiding other things.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
It turns out that about half of all people are luckier than the median. And ~2.5% are two sigma luckier than that. It's a weighted random number generator. Some people make their own luck, and some have luck thrust upon them. Some peop
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> Lots of songs have the words "cunt" and "motherfucker", but quoting those lyrics does not mean you are intending to insult a woman or accuse someone of having an Oedipus complex. And yet many people (women and men)
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by Thrymr 12y ago
They don't update as often, but I've always liked the Ars Technica system guides, e.g.: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/04/ars-technica-system-g...
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> We seem to have this perception that Earth's current state is optimal and that any change is bad. Who says that? Responsible scientists are more likely to point out that we are doing the largest uncontrolled experiment in history
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> A foreiginer is not a person as defined in the constitution That is not correct, foreigners are indeed persons under and are subject to the equal protection clause [1] under the 14th amendment of the Constitution, which explicitly refe
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Armin is Austrian. Whatever else you think of his critique, it's probably not English-centric and he's had to deal with accents in his native language.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
It looks like you can input flights manually. I went through with a flight cancelled a few months back, I had to give an email address but not give them any access. It says I am entitled to €600. They take a 25% cut; I'm not sure I&#x
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> autonomous vehicles are going to be standard, sooner or later. It's hard to disagree, but I think it will be closer to later than sooner. At least decades, I'd guess.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Unfortunately IE is still required for a great many corporate intranets, and users will tend to keep using it for external sites as well. edit: If they even can install other browsers. If they're lucky they will have a LTS release of F
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> There will never be one stop shopping for all copyrighted IP (absent some scheme like compulsory licensing). That is a really sad state of affairs. When bookstores and record shops were where we got content, we didn't have to go t
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> posting feedback in the threads about what's good and bad for HN comments. Am I the only one who thinks that posting more meta-discussion directly in comments reduces the overall quality rather than increases it? Maybe a downvote
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by Thrymr 13y ago
There are a number of lunar calendars that have had long use. The Jewish, Islamic, and Chinese calendars, for example. They are a bit complicated for that reason. The Jewish calendar has the equivalent of "leap months", for exampl
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How Rare Are Anti-Gay-Marriage Donations in Silicon Valley?(fivethirtyeight.com)
84 points by Thrymr 13y ago|128 comments
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by Thrymr 13y ago
You are working as a full-time software engineer and you think 6 months of answering StackOverflow questions and working on your GitHub profile are going to be better for your resume than continuing in your job? Get a new job. If not your d
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by Thrymr 13y ago
While it's good to know something about how all the component works, most of us spend most of our time at a particular level of abstraction, and don't worry about the details of the framework->language implementation->compil
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by Thrymr 13y ago
I read the icon to mean 29% of data loss is caused by human error, as opposed to hardware failure, etc. How that's measured, I have no idea (the citation is "Safeware, 2001" for what it's worth).
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by Thrymr 13y ago
No, % formatting was never deprecated. The Python 3.0 release notes [1] said "The plan is to eventually make this [the .format() method] the only API for string formatting, and to start deprecating the % operator in Python 3.1" bu
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Higher risk for consumers, your credit card company can't back you up if you never receive what you paid for.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
The compiler is just avr-gcc, you can use that and upload code with avrdude directly, bypassing (or even overwriting) the bootloader. You don't even need an Arduino, with the right breakout board and serial connection you can write dir
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Redboard also has a USB mini connector, not the full sized square one that standard Uno has. Personally I'd prefer the mini connector, I've always thought that the USB connector was the most oversized thing on an Arduino board.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> VR was supposed to be a new frontier, I have been so excited to see finally the Next Thing was coming and it feels so much like the early days of the web and computing. VR has been the Next Thing since before there was a World Wide Web
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RIP ET: The Legend Of The Long-Buried Video Game(npr.org)
1 points by Thrymr 13y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 13y ago
It has happened before. A 60s trope was "Don't trust anyone over 30" [1]. The Who sang "Hope I die before I get old" in 1965 (Pete Townsend is now 70, Roger Daltry 68). [1] http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.

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