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by apelapan 4y ago
Slow screens, they annoy me so much too! Somewhat on this topic, I wish one could compare motherboards by the time-to-boot delay. If reviewers start benchmarking something, manufacturers will optimize for it eventually.
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by apelapan 4y ago
This seems to be the most common situation, but it is not the only one. Plenty of people have lost significant weight by taking up exercise and not doing any active, concious changes to their diet. I myself have lost 15kg over the past coup
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by apelapan 4y ago
Boeing buys a lot of smaller technology companies/products and folds them into various subsidiaries (like Jeppesen). This brings a constant source of innovation to the enterprise, and means there are lots of interesting things going on
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by apelapan 4y ago
There are still a lot of more-or-less-shit automatics being manufactured. Even if they collectively has gotten quite a bit better over the years. The six-speed automatic in my KIA for example, is from the past three years and it is not enti
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by apelapan 4y ago
A race track building/management simulator. Start with a small gravel loop, organize race events and bring in money. Bit by bit expand until you have an epic Nurburg Ring-sized complex. Of course, there must be a tie-in with some racin
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by apelapan 5y ago
Are you collecting pre-recorded tapes or recording your own stuff to them? After not having actively listened to a tape for twenty years, I was recently exposed and really surprised by how good the sound was. With some half-decent tapes and
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by apelapan 5y ago
A bit late to reply... But, the magic of it for me has been that several of these repeated superficial contacts have turned into friendships. Three new friends in two years, six if one counts spouses. That is the same amount that I made in
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by apelapan 5y ago
For me it's been the opposite. Being stuck in a suburb with small children, I've connected properly with more people than ever before in adult life. I wasn't actively searching or joining any groups, I just headed out with th
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by apelapan 6y ago
I do the same with my Lack! But with two tower PC:s (wfh/private) and a USB switch on top and a switch and surge protector mounted underneath. One tidy braid of network/power from the wall and one thick but tidy braid of usb/
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by apelapan 6y ago
As recently as 2012 I was involved in a commercial aviation project where one of the external system interfaces was a telex system for meal orders. We had to format the outgoing requests accordingly and accept responses, but actual transmis
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by apelapan 6y ago
The Swedish version is intelligible (especially given some context) , but not correct/representative. "Tunga" only means the physical tongue that sits in your mouth. The old norse meaning lives on, fuzzily, in some compound w
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by apelapan 6y ago
Worry beyond it not exceeding available memory?
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Ask HN: Would you pay for a secure PyPI?
2 points by apelapan 6y ago|0 comments
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by apelapan 7y ago
The articles are more statement of ambition than indication of actually "solving problems". I will follow whatever information gets out about this project with great interest. The big challenge in making something like this actua