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by ak217 4y ago
Where I live, Costco sells potato chips with salt inspired by ancient Himalayan salt which cracks me up every time.
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by ak217 4y ago
LG makes a 43" 4K IPS monitor. It's the centerpiece to my most productive setup, with a 27" in portrait mode serving as a sidecar. My only complaint is that it's not 8K. There's no such thing as too many pixels.
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by ak217 4y ago
This is incorrect. The common EPS memorandum was signed in mid 2009 as a result of negotiations between the dozen dominant phone manufacturers at the time and EU. The standardization did not begin until the phone makers realized the EU was
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by ak217 4y ago
$40 more, representing roughly a 80% increase. TB4 cables over 1.5ft require inline active signal boosting/filtering chips.
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by ak217 4y ago
That and inventory risk. It's a tale as old as commerce. You start by operating a service (brokerage, mortgage underwriting, web storefront, SaaS/PaaS, etc.) You get really good at it, and decide that you might start to warehouse
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by ak217 4y ago
The key is to design the menus in such a way that it's easy to memorize (long press to pop up to the top menu, scroll all the way to the right, back two clicks left, press to get into the climate control menu, etc.) The power of this a
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by ak217 4y ago
Those same systems are used in jet fighters and ground attack planes where they (along with a HUD - another thing now available in cars) are used to support split second decisions. Having tactile, easily memorized controls with screens is a
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by ak217 4y ago
If you look at those MFDs, many also have rotational controls in the corners (some even have two levels of dials, one sitting on top of the other), which are another key way to keep the UI tactile and promote muscle memory. Things like elim
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by ak217 4y ago
NIST and other government institutes are not known for open source work mainly because most of their work is a combination of science and technology communication. They deal in publications, conferences, and reference datasets. In my indust
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by ak217 4y ago
I can't stand espresso and pourover snobbery, but I admit I've gotten picky about the beans. Most beans I find in the grocery store taste like burnt cardboard to me now. I found a nice online indie roaster ( https://swro
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by ak217 4y ago
That is the point I was making. It's not a proper terminal emulator, instead it's a half-assed one. If it gets between the user's keystrokes and the host shell, it should be a proper emulator. Otherwise it should set up the e
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by ak217 4y ago
https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/blob/master/src/poet... The process spawned by `poetry shell` is a terminal emulator driven by the pexpect and cleo packages. It hijacks and proxies the user&
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by ak217 4y ago
pip-tools has a minimalistic design philosophy, while poetry and pipenv have a maximalistic one. In other words, pip-tools tries to do one thing well, while poetry and pipenv try to do about a dozen different things well and have various op
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by ak217 4y ago
Poetry has a major issue with its lockfiles when working with active projects. It generates a top level dependency listing checksum, which causes any two PRs/branches that independently update the top level requirements to conflict wit
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by ak217 4y ago
Bug. Incompetence. It looks like they put a giant spreadsheet with all the PII into Tableau and then embedded a web view to serve a geo visualization of some of the columns. Except they made the full underlying table accessible by anyone in
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by ak217 4y ago
Employers typically get around this by giving the laid off employees 60 or 90 days worth of severance pay+benefits.
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by ak217 4y ago
> Nuclear is sometimes praised for having lower fuel costs, but all else being equal (ie: assuming total production cost stays constant), it’s better to have a larger fraction of your electricity costs be variable, so that if demand drop
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by ak217 4y ago
It's great that they're focusing on eliminating physical defects and it makes sense that an EE industry publication would focus on that topic, but I think improving the firmware engineering process (better testing, stricter softwa
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by ak217 4y ago
Yes. In our adversarial justice system, we rely on the DA to eagerly prosecute, the defense attorney or public defender to eagerly defend, the judge or jury to render the verdict, and the legislature to pass laws. Trying to compensate for d
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by ak217 4y ago
Is it really that hard to believe that mechanical shifters are less reliable than electronic ones? I've lost count of the number of cables my shifters have eaten over the years. We're talking about a clockwork-like ratchet handlin
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by ak217 4y ago
Lots of very questionable assumptions in this article. Let's start with the part where flat razor blades are more dangerous in multiple ways. Having used both types of razors, I would never go back to the flat ones. Similar major issue
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by ak217 4y ago
Without operator overloading, it is basically impossible to adapt a language for numerical computing/data science applications. Yeah, operator overloading is a powerful tool that's easy to abuse; no, it's not optional if you
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by ak217 4y ago
That case doesn't work because the property taxes mostly fund essential local services that are also necessary to live and have a functioning society - there are many locales in the US where the property taxes are zero but there are no
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by ak217 4y ago
Right, US mortgages are not portable. Going back to the Canadian mortgages, they have terms of 5-10 years but they can be amortized over up to 25 years. So their standard practice is effectively a balloon payment of up to 80% that is expect
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by ak217 4y ago
I don't know. The question is whether subsidizing 30Y mortgages (fannie mae/freddie mac/FHA/QE/standard terms enforced by law to enable refinancing, etc.) is the right policy in an open system where it has many majo
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by ak217 4y ago
Feel free to add an extra percentage point for a 10Y/30Y swap. One interesting hypothesis is that the focus on fixed-rate 30Y mortgages is fundamentally destabilizing for the US and world economy, because the stability and optionality
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by ak217 4y ago
A 200 day lock is a call option on a loan, the price of the option changes all the time. What you're saying is that local banks/CUs would offer such an option for free. Someone has to pay for the option - in the scenario you descr
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by ak217 5y ago
I think you're being deliberately obtuse as to the parent poster's point. In 2003 the military was abused to start an illegal war that many knew from the start was wrong and had ideological objections. The Iraq war had a grievous
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by ak217 5y ago
> it's referring to base pair variations No. > The title is on the sensationalistic side when you consider how most lay people will interpret it. The title refers to a large scientific collaboration that has succeeded in utilizin
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by ak217 5y ago
This is absolutely untrue. Russian chess has always been used by the Russian state as a propaganda vehicle, similarly to Olympic sports. And the chess players are hardly free agents as long as they or their families are based in Russia.

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