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by alasarmas 4y ago
I know it’s usually inappropriate to get all internet-memey on Hacker News, but this is giving me some serious “Birds Aren’t Real” [0] vibes! 0. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/birds-arent-real
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by alasarmas 4y ago
I am sympathetic with your point of view, but I find myself in a position of what Scott Alexander calls “epistemic learned helplessness”[0]. My powers of understanding the correct method of scientific research are limited. I understand that
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Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt(en.wikipedia.org)
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by alasarmas 4y ago
You’re right, it is an opinion. There is probably no easy way to substantiate the statement “any claims that unions make this process harder is a lie designed by a union busting consulting firm”. On the other hand, the entire job of a union
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by alasarmas 4y ago
If I recall correctly, Cyprus “doesn’t count” because those depositors were making something like 9% interest, and therefore they were morally closer to investors. I don’t have a citation at hand...
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by alasarmas 4y ago
Ableist because you assume that either the effort of getting the chair / desk / monitor adjusted correctly is trivial, or the consequences of not adjusting are minimal. You are being ableist right now.
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by alasarmas 4y ago
It seems to me that plane could not make a survivable water landing, though I doubt that’s a criterion that airliner designs are judged by.
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by alasarmas 4y ago
What did you do at Solyndra? I didn’t notice it listed on the resumé in your profile.
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by alasarmas 5y ago
I, and perhaps other people, believe that there isn’t such a thing as a spoiler for a work of nonfiction. Is the aforementioned podcast presenting a factual account?
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by alasarmas 5y ago
I tried to do a startup based on an idea like this, but it’s difficult because you essentially have to have keyboard input into the device, which means you now have to trust the keyboard. And once you have a passphrase it is confusing as to
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by alasarmas 6y ago
Thomas Young (1773-1829) [1] has also been described as "The Last Man Who Knew Everything". 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)
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National Popular Vote Interstate Compact(nationalpopularvote.com)
1 points by alasarmas 6y ago|0 comments
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by alasarmas 6y ago
LD_PRELOAD strikes again! I learned about LD_PRELOAD last year from another HN post, and I'm not saying it's a silver bullet for instrumenting binaries on Linux, but it does seem to come in handy. Edit: a SO question about "
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Secessio plebis(en.wikipedia.org)
258 points by alasarmas 6y ago|97 comments
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by alasarmas 7y ago
In my opinion, the reason why small-wheel (wheel diameter ~6 in / 15 cm) e-scooters are dangerous, is their small wheels. The front wheel can suddenly stop on a a pothole, crack, storm drain, curb, etc, and the rider's momentum wi
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by alasarmas 7y ago
The "grade" that GP is referring to is this grade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_separation
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by alasarmas 7y ago
What's the right way to use UBO to zap divs that have some sort of random identifier appended to prevent zapping? Is there a regex match mode?
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by alasarmas 7y ago
According to this link, the F1C100s has 32 Mbytes (!) of DRAM, which is pretty amazing for $1.42 USD in small quantities: https://www.cnx-software.com/2018/08/17/licheepi-nano-cheap-...
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by alasarmas 7y ago
Here is the bookmarklet I use for dickbar removal, it works a lot of the time. Use at your own risk; urldecode and read thoroughly before use: https://pastebin.com/raw/41WxsFY3
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by alasarmas 7y ago
My understanding is that, in general, it's not possible to send a fax via cell phone audio because the digital compression applied does not pass enough information to sustain a fax modem connection. It may be possible with a higher-ban
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by alasarmas 7y ago
This recent crisis regarding adulterants/diluents for oil pens reminds me of nothing so much as "jake leg", but in that case the adulterating agent was used to mislead the authorities as to the composition of the product, not
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by alasarmas 7y ago
Fastmail used to have a mechanism where you could hold down <alt> (I believe) on that screen and phone number would no longer be a required field to continue creating your account. Maybe that's still possible.
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by alasarmas 7y ago
The writer of this piece did not note that the pen-name of the editor of the "high school edition" of "Down and Out in Paris and London", Moira Propreat, is an obvious pun on the phrase "more appropriate". So o
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by alasarmas 7y ago
If you live in the United States, one thing to consider is that the GRE (Graduate Record Examination, standardized entrance examination for graduate school) requires the test-taker to type an essay on a QWERTY keyboard, with no possibility
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by alasarmas 8y ago
Charlie Demerjian has been doing investigative journalism focusing on the semiconductor industry since at least 2008: https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1050052/nvidia-chi...
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by alasarmas 9y ago
Have you tried auto-revert-tail-mode?
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by alasarmas 10y ago
You might consider Conkeror. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkeror
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by alasarmas 11y ago
I would certainly believe it, considering (naively) that one expects the cost of implementing a standard to be directly related to the length of that standard: checking the ISO Publicly Available Standards page[0], I found 6760 pages of Off
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by alasarmas 11y ago
Looks like it doesn't do ballpoint, so it probably can't duplicate the varied indentations into the paper that a ballpoint pen will make. I've been checking mail from my Congresscritters to see which ones are using autopens [
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by alasarmas 11y ago
I think the Jack London story you're thinking of is "To Build a Fire": http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html

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