Tronno

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by Tronno 5y ago
> We say it's a four hour assignment, but in truth people who do well take around 6-8. Speaking of insults. You are wasting people's time and treating them without respect. I say this as an applicant who has also wasted an enti
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by Tronno 5y ago
Why would you use a liner bag vs wrapping the exterior of the pack in plastic (as in a rain cover)? Wouldn't that keep the whole pack dry?
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by Tronno 5y ago
It's also possible to team up with friends who do have a car, or use social media to find a stranger who is making the same trip (and pay them).
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by Tronno 5y ago
> There need to be more jobs where the interest alignment in work is 100%. Disney animators, Nintendo programmers, audio programming, SpaceX engineers, ML/AI, bioinformatics, ... Some of these jobs can involve crunch time, low pay,
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by Tronno 5y ago
Obviously we don't know the details of this bust, but it probably happened just before Alaska legalized posession of plants for personal use. The article was written in mid-2015, and legalization passed in February of that year. Whatev
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by Tronno 5y ago
I think GP is trying to make the opposite point, that Calvus (not Curio) introduced too much nuance in his speech, making himself a less effective orator.
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by Tronno 5y ago
The problem with this design is that anything that rubs or bounces against the cable transmits sound into your ear (like a children's cup telephone). This makes them annoying to use while exercising. I find that the style connected by
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by Tronno 5y ago
$300-400 could be the electric bill for a large house (in winter). If this is what you're spending to heat a small apartment, something may be wrong with your building.
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by Tronno 5y ago
Wool is more effective insulation than cotton, and also insulates when damp/wet, unlike cotton (thus the saying "cotton kills"). I suspect the reputation of this type of jacket is more cultural than anything.
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by Tronno 5y ago
> Note that the soldier is naked except for his helmet, a sensible adaptation to a hot climate. This may also reflect an awareness that garment fibers driven into a wound by a spearpoint promoted infection. Pretty sure this is erroneous
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by Tronno 5y ago
Israel is ostensibly a Western ally, yet they sell weapons that are used to attack Western nations and their citizens. Can you see why some people might consider that a problem? Your accusations of anti-semitism are unwelcome and without me
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by Tronno 5y ago
What's the use case for these products? Even if the radio is blocked, how does that stop a device from collecting data anyway, and exfiltrating it the moment it finds a network? Won't it look for a network the moment you take it o
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by Tronno 5y ago
I've been in a true, physical life-or-death situation. The dominant thought was not an urge to pray, but a perfect clarity of purpose pushing me to take action towards survival. To surrender to chance was to accept and embrace death.
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by Tronno 5y ago
HN has its own share of extremism, uninformed opinions, and misinformation, just like any other social media. The participants here are just more civil and articulate.
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by Tronno 5y ago
People can also understand each other through combinations of obscure slang, garbled audio, thick accents, and drunken slurring. It's still an unpleasant way to communicate. Shall we be satisfied with the same low standards in a techn
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by Tronno 5y ago
> I don't think they will stop if I ask them. So I guess I have to shoot You are not saying "I would confront the thieves and bring a weapon in case I am attacked". You are not even saying "I would use a weapon to thr
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by Tronno 5y ago
OP was trying to justify killing thieves and trespassers on sight. Self-defense is a completely different issue.
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by Tronno 5y ago
> Yeah, if it's not clear cut - don't shoot anyone. I'm talking about people who are in the process of the crime when you caught them as it happened Can we trust you to accurately determine which situations are "clear
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by Tronno 5y ago
Netflix has special agreements with Apple. Other apps have been rejected for doing the same thing: https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21302931/hey-email-servic...
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by Tronno 5y ago
There's a reason human nature is to criticize and focus on flaws - that's how progress is made. Great achievements speak for themselves. In most cases, people readily adopt proven new practices or inventions, flock to groundbreaki
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by Tronno 5y ago
Project-based creative shops are known for having lots of crunch time (long hours), and judging by Glassdoor reviews, Weta is no different.
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by Tronno 5y ago
Plug-in gardening equiment also exists, along with extension cords that should work with a yard of that size.
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by Tronno 5y ago
> Roman plasterwork was applied in layers, and in first layer (which is quite rough) a diamond pattern is scratched. I don't think that's correct. I'm pretty sure the pictures actually depict opus reticulatum , which is a
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by Tronno 5y ago
It's on the Apple App Store, but not on the Google Play Store (since November 2020). The officially stated reason is something about a change in file formats, but that seems like a flimsy excuse for being unavailable in the most popula
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by Tronno 5y ago
> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. From the HN guidelines. I'd rather read about the drone.
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by Tronno 5y ago
This reminds me of a fun internet rabbithole. Feeling a little too comfortable? Need a little spice in your life? Why not watch some... surgery videos? In the wake of having multiple surgeries myself, I became interested in watching procedu
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by Tronno 5y ago
"Unfilmable" just means impossible to translate into a sequence of scenes, with characters and a coherent story. For example, long internal monologues about the design of space ships, etc. You could try, but it wouldn't be en
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by Tronno 5y ago
> On 1 September 1950, in the middle of a holiday in Italy, Pontecorvo abruptly flew from Rome to Stockholm with his wife and three sons without informing friends or relatives. On 2 September he was helped by Soviet agents to enter the S
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by Tronno 5y ago
I had to look this up: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-two_pull_down What tool should have been used to do that conversion (in reverse)? To their credit, it sounds like they solved the problem and moved on.
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by Tronno 5y ago
The OP accuses Bezos of being a horrible person, not a criminal.

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