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901.
by VLM 6y ago
I pad my order by adding expendables, stuff I know I'll use a lot of. There's a certain kind of end-fed SMA pcb connector I use a lot of. Solder. Flux. Certain JST-type connectors. I also keep a "gift list" for mysel
902.
by VLM 6y ago
True, if there's a H1B audit, its much easier a drone to prove to its auditor-drone that there were no local applicants for a job, than to explain the technical details of how there chronologically could not have been any applicants.
903.
by VLM 6y ago
A lot of very young people on HN. From my jaded older perspective this is VERY common when they want no external applicants. So we can't call it a corporate reorganization for Dilbertian process reasons and we're only transferrin
904.
by VLM 6y ago
Ironically WRT tiny shovels, kids plastic toys are made to fall apart for about $10, real plastic adult spades that last forever run about $5, and adult metal spades designed to rapidly fall apart cost $15. If you're willing to pay $3
905.
by VLM 6y ago
"can only be seen by your recipient" Both endpoints are DRM'd and controlled and recorded by big brother, you don't have root on either although uncountable exploits and viruses do, and often at least one of the endpoint
906.
by VLM 6y ago
The linked article suggestions would work on a holiness-neutral topic like emacs vs vi, but I don't think the suggested tactics would work against holy virtue signalling.
907.
by VLM 6y ago
"javidx9" is probably exactly what you're looking for. His "Forbidden C++" is a pretty good video. A vague awhile ago he had a pretty cool video explaining how you optimize Mandelbrot rendering that was the most s
908.
by VLM 6y ago
This is pretty basic military law that a lawful order has a valid military purpose and is a clear and specific (and its generally documented in writing although verbal lawful orders do exist). Reasonable is in the sense of proportionate suc
909.
by VLM 6y ago
Not since the 60s. On paper its possible in theory during an era of low application numbers to become an officer in an obscure location with various waivers if you're lucky, but in practice the requirements to actually get hired as a
910.
by VLM 6y ago
I probably failed to be clear enough, sorry. Imagine walking up to a group of people at work as your job. If you're a cop, 99% certain someone in that group, if not the entire group, is VERY unhappy to meet you. Doesn't matter if
911.
by VLM 6y ago
It doesn't seem to actually explain anything. I was in the military and have some cop friends so maybe I can explain the divergent sociology: Post police academy, AFAIK police never experience collective punishment. In the army its n
912.
by VLM 6y ago
The reputation for enforced obsolescence and extremely high prices will be an issue for all but the richest hospitals. The biggest area of improvement in health care is at the cheaper end. Many people die annually from being unable to affo
913.
by VLM 6y ago
Its not much of a rant. Its taken centuries of hard work for the average person's body to mostly not be the owned property of other people or governments. The battle's barely been started for self determination and self ownership
914.
by VLM 6y ago
Not yet.
915.
by VLM 6y ago
Lets say they want to raise premium revenue by 25%. The solution will be to increase premiums on smokers, because everyone hates smokers, by 25%. How does that math work, you're asking? Right now you and I can check "non-smokers
916.
by VLM 6y ago
To me with my $1700/month health "care" plan its a drop in the bucket. You have to compare apples to apples. This is the kind of industry where a visit to the ER for a broken arm can and should cost $50K, supposedly.
917.
by VLM 6y ago
The truth doesn't matter all that matters is defeating Trump, even if it has to be done by outright lies.
918.
by VLM 6y ago
Trump is merely the momentary target of the process. The process is dying organizations always go hard left on the way out. Something to do with ease of entryism when no one else wants in, or if there's no monetary or social reward l
919.
by VLM 6y ago
Not necessarily hurt you, but doesn't help as much as it could. From talking to people further along the plagiarism spectrum than myself, they see it as developing good taste or almost coaching. Yeah yeah in a writing class its hard to
920.
by VLM 6y ago
Colloquially Americans like to call "murder" any time someone kills someone else. In Germany the translation of murder has VERY specific legal requirements, like detailed planning beforhand, and evil action (cannibalism, sexual in
921.
by VLM 6y ago
Plea bargaining, for better or worse, is a uniquely American invention the rest of the world does not share. Committing naughtiness level 5 on a scale of 1 to 10 crime in "EU" and in "USA" and you'll get a punishmen
922.
by VLM 6y ago
What you're convicted for in a plea deal is usually a step or two down from what you actually did. So the prosecutor office can claim a large number of successful cases in exchange for lighter punishment. There's different stories
923.
by VLM 6y ago
Internet Explorer. A much maligned legacy browser for legacy windows desktop platforms. Aside from being intensely maligned and full of security holes, it doesn't (or didn't?) support WebRTC. So being called IE is sarcastic like
924.
by VLM 6y ago
Its cheap light and easy to haul a half dozen humans home in a capsule, but its complicated and heavy to haul down immensely heavy satellites with a decent cross range such that you could land next orbit on friendly territory at all times.
925.
by VLM 6y ago
sensors and wiring always weighed more. Of course now the wiring COULD be CANbus or similar in concept instead of individual (heavy) wires. Or move the analog processing and microcontroller to the sensor itself instead of running wires al
926.
by VLM 6y ago
"If one wants to make it more sensitive to certain frequencies than to others, one needs to add a resonant circuit, usually a combination of an inductor and a capacitor" Coincidentally for OP, the ideal antenna element length for
927.
by VLM 6y ago
People write unreadable code. Its not a function of language. The kind of people who write unreadable code have long since moved on to write unreadable code in trendier languages and legacy critical code has long since been cleaned up if i
928.
by VLM 6y ago
I have a question about control flow of the overall system. Note that I haven't actually run this or debugged it. Or frankly, thought about it for more than a minute or two. Its more of an architectural question. So in dragon.clj th
929.
by VLM 6y ago
Interesting scaling problem: A kid should probably start out making a 6 inch mirror which only weighs maybe a pound. But mass goes up by a factor of a cube with diameter... the linked article 15 inch mirror blank is likely 75 to 100 pound
930.
by VLM 6y ago
From one direction 99% of the world's VCR clocks blinked "12:00" for the entire lifespan of that media format. The proposal is a lot of interactivity and cognitive load to demand from most of humanity. Only a very small seg

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