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by ascar 4y ago
You might enjoy this story: USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness https://overengineer.dev/blog/2021/04/25/usb-c-hub-madness.h... It was recently discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator
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by ascar 4y ago
And even if there is a way to complain, unless they take action to reverse the decision it's probably not considered a false positive. And most complaints probably achieve nothing.
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by ascar 4y ago
They always eliminate the pairs of products/sums with only one possible pair (think a sum to possible pairs and a product to possible pairs list). When the person knowing the product says he doesn't know the answer, the sum person
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by ascar 4y ago
Safety razors are much better at making a neckline, if you only shave clean partially and trim the remaining beard. Personally I also get less skin irritation from the safety razor compared to the Mach3 I used before. Given I use it correct
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by ascar 4y ago
The issue with that is when wearing a 3-14 day beard you should still shave the neckline clean every few days. It just looks so much better.
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by ascar 4y ago
I would expect 95%+ of TCP traffic to run on 22 (ssh), 25(smtp), 53(dns), 80(http), 443(https) plus another handful of lower than 1000 ports. Even common dev ports (3000,5000,8080) are below 9000. I don't think that's much differe
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by ascar 4y ago
I dunno. This article is like a 2 minute read. Starting with a solution nobody asked for sounds like an unreasonable request, while I did like hearing about these options after realizing how big the problem is.
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by ascar 4y ago
I think you should read the HN guidelines before informing other people about how to post. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Here are a few relevant excerpts: - Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious con
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by ascar 4y ago
Personally I don't like seeing it as a regular illness. Yes it's a complication to how society wants people to function. Work 8 hours a day 5 days a week. Go to school 6 hours a day 5 days a week. Be productive in that time frame.
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by ascar 4y ago
The [...] in your quote reads: > so that if another person is shown your sequence of digits from 1 to 6, he/she should not be able to tell whether these numbers were produced by a real die or just “made up” by somebody. I have a rea
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by ascar 4y ago
> otherwise how is it possible that a niche product of a YC company right now has the first spot with 400 upvotes? It's not a secret that YC startups get promoted and placed on the hackernews frontpage. If I remember correctly it lo
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by ascar 4y ago
> why isn't HN respecting user's opinions and manipulating the positions as they wish? Because certain comments can be quite agreeable, but don't encourage interesting discussions. Your particular thread had more discussio
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by ascar 4y ago
That's not what happened. Certain users have additional moderation power to downweighted generic/offtopic comments. I encourage you to read the answer dang posted in his linked thread. The linked post is also not the one that got
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by ascar 4y ago
Fig is yc backed and linear.app also has a yc connection. Maybe that's an yc sponsored landing page design?
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by ascar 4y ago
I get it, if you continuously have to keep the servers running. For download and install types I also dislike it. For Android apps I'm torn. It's actually a continuous effort to keep your app workable on new versions, but Android
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by ascar 4y ago
I could have put this comment nearly anywhere in this thread. As a German I'm really surprised by this. Calculus was part of regular math school education and just expected knowledge for the mandatory math classes during my CS undergra
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by ascar 4y ago
Given that so many (all?) other English speaking nations including the UK usually speak it the other way around and write it day-month-year, I wonder if writing (especially thinking about newspapers here) influenced the way you speak it and
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by ascar 4y ago
> Think about it like speaking a different language The correct analogy is I don't know which language is spoken and the same words get used in multiple languages with different meaning. Now I can apply heuristics to figure it out o
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by ascar 4y ago
> Europeans only got it a little better. There is a reasonable argument for little endian dates (as in the least significant information is usually the most relevant as it changes most often), but apart from the "it has been like th
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by ascar 4y ago
> nearly 100% total tax burden. What kind of number is this? The debt to GDP is actually more than 200% and you will find the US also above 100%. So yes Japan has a big debt problem, but what metric are you using? > Yet it's wors
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by ascar 4y ago
Not just health insurance, effectively every insurance. Insurance is a safety against an unlikely but highly negative outcome afterall.
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by ascar 4y ago
> This is the kind of entitled attitude that destroys any hope of productive socialism. Since his attitude is based on how the systems successfully work in other (more "socialist") countries, I don't think that's a fa
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by ascar 4y ago
The part about accents sounds interesting to me. I always believed I can't do accents because I absolutely can't fake/hear them in my head. I can even only speak my own accent with close family and switch to regular German wi
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by ascar 4y ago
I got diagnosed with 20+. I had the suspicion and went to a specialist. He diagnosed based on my history (e.g. teacher reports from elementary school describing hyperactivity), my explanations and an EEG. When that lined up we started with
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by ascar 4y ago
> Bad look to be silencing negative opinions about YC backed companies. That narrative. I wasn't replying to you, but to the "am assuming my comment noting this will be gone soon too" statement as his comment was bound for
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by ascar 4y ago
Just to be clear: I downvoted this because I sincerely believe it is not true. I have seen enough negative things about YC backed companies here, especially about Stripe, that I don't buy support spreading this kind of narrative withou
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by ascar 4y ago
Linkedin in forwards a recruiter messages to your email. Are you really getting emails without a message in your linkedin inbox? I get quite some recruiter spam, but always via a LinkedIn message.
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by ascar 4y ago
Sounds like pattern based blocking would have been a nice feature in that case.
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by ascar 4y ago
I think that oversimplifies the dynamics drastically. First off, even if buying the shares at the reduced rate is highly profitable, you do need the cash to buy them. With the 50% that are floating around here that's a significant amou
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by ascar 4y ago
That explanation sounds like they are just giving away shares, which they aren't. Other parties get the _right_ to buy additional new shares at a reduced rate.

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