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by ams6110 8y ago
Also, perhaps crucially depending what you own and whether you're willing to change it, OpenBSD does not support Nvidia cards. So if you want a desktop with GPU acceleration, you'll need to be using Intel or AMD graphics.
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by ams6110 8y ago
2008 was more a consequence of lowering lending qualification standards (or just ignoring them altogether) than it was low rates. Doesn't matter so much what the interest rate is, if you are lending money to people who can't pay i
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by ams6110 8y ago
In the 1980s, for FORTRAN, coding your program on punch cards was still not that uncommon.
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by ams6110 8y ago
There was a lot of 2-digit year coded in the early 1990s. I wrote some of it myself. The reason was compatibility with older code/data formats, and also as mentioned the notion that "this will all be gone before 2000" or that
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by ams6110 8y ago
I think GP is saying, if you are at a point in development where you can choose A or B, and A has foreseeable better performance or scalability, all else being equal choose A. A lot of assumptions there and real world is almost never that c
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by ams6110 8y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Did they have investors? The code is an asset. Can they sell the code/IP for any significant amount of money? If so, they should do that and pay back the investors/reduce their losses. Maybe there are no buyers,
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by ams6110 8y ago
HN is about as far from representative of the "typical user" as you can get. No reason you should think that the opinion of people here means much with regards to any specific project or idea.
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by ams6110 8y ago
A few (but not many) people would be against aborting a nonviable fetus. Fortunately these cases are rare, and IMO medically necessary abortion should not be conflated with "abortion on demand" in policy/laws. I'm sorry
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by ams6110 8y ago
US automakers have pretty much switched over to metric fasteners for years. My 15-year-old Ford is all metric. They sell their cars all over the world.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I've seen this here at least once before, but agree that an appearance on HN should not be used to imply a YC endorsement.
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by ams6110 8y ago
My solution is simple. No "smart devices" on my WiFi network. I haven't seen one that does anything useful.
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by ams6110 8y ago
First generations of browser-based UI did refresh/reload the page a lot. But there was nothing else they could do, really. AJAX wasn't a thing, DOM manipulation wasn't possible. Older UIs written in Visual Basic, Delphi, Powe
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by ams6110 8y ago
I haven't done any formal experiments but it sure feels like autocorrect hurts newly as much as it helps. I'm constantly having to stop and retire words that it gets wiring.
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by ams6110 8y ago
No, I can definitely hit Alt-Q to close a window, or Ctrl-k to delete a line of text in emacs, before I even finish reaching for the mouse. I'll buy that some tasks maybe faster with a mouse, but not everything.
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by ams6110 8y ago
As a writer, one writes for one's audience. It's a US publication, targeting mainly US readers. Using metric units would be less understandable. It's not like the reason high speed rail doesn't work in the US is because
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by ams6110 8y ago
I would have guessed that any large wind turbine would have to have variable pitch blades. You need to be able to feather the blades in case of high wind/overspeed, maintenance, or other need to stop/slow the rotational speed.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I agree in theory. In practice I would see this working like any other class action. Most of the money will go into the pockets of lawyers, with very little left to remedy the actual damages.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yes it totally avoids the problem, because the hypothetical authority is made up of people, thus granted (some of) the legal rights of persons.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Corporations, and the government for that matter, are made up of people. Lakes, rivers, and forests are not. So there is that difference. The article itself is an editorial piece with scant details. Who is sued? One example is given of a la
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by ams6110 8y ago
I think it's always from time of diagnosis. Determining the "actual onset" of cancer would be little more than a guessing game.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I don't know about the rest of the world, but bankruptcy in the USA is not really the catastrophe you might think it is. You can keep a lot of your assets, generally including your retirement accounts, at least some equity in your home
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by ams6110 8y ago
OK but a sprained thumb is not something that can't wait until morning. Take a couple of Advil and put some ice on it.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I'm on the downward side of 50. My best years (physically) are in the past. My kids are nearly adults. I'd rather pass on my assets to them and set them up for a better life than piss it away on medical treatments that don't
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by ams6110 8y ago
Do we know why Google grew dissatisfied with sites serving their own content and developed AMP?
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by ams6110 8y ago
Microsoft is in the ad business now.
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by ams6110 8y ago
These devices have vulnerabilities, sure, but how exploitable? Any device on my network has a non-routable IP address it gets via DHCP, and the only port I have open on my public network is SSH which is forwarded to one specific internal IP
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by ams6110 8y ago
A lot of these types of installations are bespoke, at least in large part. I used to have a friend that worked at a particle accelerator lab, they had a complete machine shop on site so that they could make repair parts, or new parts as nee
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by ams6110 8y ago
Or TI will license this to others.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Yes, my thought was to use the windmill to run the heat pump, then buffer the heat as hot water in an insulated tank to heat the house. Not really practical unless you live in a place with fairly regular wind in the winter. Where I live, wi
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by ams6110 8y ago
Pretty much not. Plastic may be collected as recyclable, but there's really no market for it. It mostly goes to landfills.

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