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by astatine 7y ago
Is this a Launch? No, this is a Test. Did it work? It should. Dang! What? The one thing that can ruin the test - it happened. Upvotes. Quite gruseom. Sorry - time hangs heavy some days.
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by astatine 7y ago
We have been using Zoom four 4 years now. And it has simplified conferences enormously. Sometimes a few of our customers insist on using their own corporate mandated systems. Half of these times there is a struggle to get the meeting going
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by astatine 7y ago
Indeed! There is a certain thoughtfulness in a code/build/flash/test cycle in the embedded world, which Pigweed seems to see as a problem and tries to fix. I can (and often do) write code for many hours (sometimes days) witho
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by astatine 7y ago
That doesn't take away from the point that there probably exists a non-zero number of people who could convert $500B into something of the scale of Google.
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Indian Govt says facial recognition software used to identify rioters(medianama.com)
2 points by astatine 7y ago|0 comments
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by astatine 7y ago
125k RPM. For malaria detection using a whirling paper centrifuge, powered entirely by hand. https://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/10/whirligig-toy-bioengine...
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by astatine 7y ago
I have DDG set up as the default search engine and it works quite well. I would think that I don't need to use g! about 75% of the time. When the result is from wikipedia or stack overflow or some similar popular site, DDG works alrigh
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MGM hack exposes personal data of 10.6M guests(bbc.com)
2 points by astatine 7y ago|0 comments
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by astatine 7y ago
RIP Larry Tesler. I rather feel a worm for not being aware of him till today. Nevertheless, hearing the many personal stories here on HN of his work, humility and graciousness, make me thankful for him and his tribe that have made the softw
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by astatine 7y ago
Thanks for that! Will check out those - will help in getting new domains!
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Ask HN: Reusing a Domain
2 points by astatine 7y ago|2 comments
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by astatine 7y ago
Another false positive. Really simple one. Browser timezone Asia/Calcutta and IP timezone Asia/Kolkata ... The city changed its name a very long time ago and both the names refer to the same city. Looked like an interesting idea,
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by astatine 7y ago
My father passed away suddenly when I and my younger brother were still studying, 29 years ago this week. It took us a decade to pick up the pieces and I don't think we ever became whole again. I think the question of suddenness vs a s
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by astatine 7y ago
This is a well studied problem from the days of Turing. Named slightly differently as the Halting Problem, the question of whether Vim will stop for a given arbitrary input has been proven by Turing [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by astatine 7y ago
Unlike the space race, where Russia and the US were significantly ahead of everyone else, the field is far more level in AI. Arguably there will be areas where the US could even be behind in some areas. Wonder what the real world impact of
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by astatine 7y ago
It's a sad story that I remember from years ago. I wonder how much the rigid rules that France has on employee firing contribute to this. I am aware of an employer's view in a different case where (in a small company) an employee
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by astatine 7y ago
I don't think students are the blameless victim of this "system". I know of a continuous evaluation system adopted in a college, where the final tests had a less than 50% weightage for the grade. Thr students rebelled. It was
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by astatine 7y ago
It is amazing what publicly available info can achieve. Some random interested person had the means, through this data, to apply his skills and come up with this remarkable find.
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by astatine 7y ago
> > Sprinkling printf is an efficient way to debug. > I mostly work on threaded code, and print statements are my go to for tracking down weird timing issues. I have found printf to subtly alter timing in threaded programs. Either
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by astatine 7y ago
The mention of NASA in such a wild headline did cause consternation. Thankfully the article did clear it up. Very satisfactorily. And the comments so far has restored faith in HN readers.
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by astatine 7y ago
Very mature thoughts. Sounds like some good life experiences behind them. Kudos on your clarity.
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by astatine 7y ago
This. Not just the sun, but more annoyingly, opposing headlights in the night. Technologies to avoid blinding opposing drivers are not adequate. We could do with technology to assist those who are on the affected side.
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by astatine 7y ago
We use Lua 5.1 in an embedded system and it works great. We use only a few standard libraries and have several dozen of our custom libraries exposed as Lua APIs. Predictable memory usage is really good. It's several years since we pick
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by astatine 7y ago
After using PuTTY for many years, and then Bitvise SSH client for some more, I shifted to Termius. The thing that finally made me switch from both the earlier really good products was its ability to work across Windows/Mac and Androi
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by astatine 7y ago
A good, friendly site for this info is much needed. But, as many have pointed out, this is a particularly tough problem to solve as the source of info is itself unreliable. I checked India to eSwatini and was not surprised to find that the
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by astatine 7y ago
> Be honest now... the unbroken spine on your Godel Escher Bach suggests otherwise. Ouch. That hurt. I literally turned around and saw this book in pristine condition.
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Cape to Cairo homemade plane project creators die in Tanzania crash(bbc.com)
2 points by astatine 7y ago|0 comments
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by astatine 7y ago
Sure. I wonder if this will lead to the interesting question - is the use of trademarked words as keywords by the competition fair use? Or will trademarks be disallowed from such use in the future with only the trademark holder being permit
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Court in India asks Google to not send traffic to site with hijacked keywords(livelaw.in)
2 points by astatine 7y ago|2 comments
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by astatine 7y ago
I kind of understand the sentiment, having seen many enjoyable tasks become chores. However, I think the magic is now in seeing the excitement, seeing that spark getting lit in others. Whether it is people just getting into the profession

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