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by bartvk 5y ago
Indeed. I've got the Samsung QM43R which has a standard 60 Hz refresh rate at 4K, and also has a pretty good brightness, 500cd/m². It's not too expensive (€ 700 in Europe with VAT) because it doesn't come with a foot. Bu
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by bartvk 5y ago
For the last year, I’ve been using a 43” monitor. You would say that it’s gigantic and ridiculous. But actually lots of people have a dual monitor setup and nobody says that’s weird. One 43” is like two 24” monitors and it’s magnificent, es
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by bartvk 5y ago
Very interesting, but no speculations in the article on the price or durability of such a setup.
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by bartvk 5y ago
That is low-key terrifying. And amazing, too.
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by bartvk 5y ago
Amazing story, thanks for sharing!
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by bartvk 5y ago
This is a great mission for mankind as well. A previous HN discussion talked about the possibility of a Mercury colony because it has water ice. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27741738 https://www.universet
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by bartvk 5y ago
Not a native speaker so I didn't know what an air table was. But since I've worked in labs, I recognized it from the picture accompanying the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_table
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by bartvk 5y ago
Heh, that's the first thing I tried, "show tables"
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by bartvk 5y ago
I hadn’t thought about it like that, but that does actually have a bit of truth to it. Realistically though, I realized that I was doing dumb, badly paying projects and then decided I needed to get good, well paying clients :D So no success
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by bartvk 5y ago
Yeah this is partly something I recognize. Until the age of 7 or so, my dad usually had left for work when we got up, and would get back home only after we'd gone to bed. When I was around 12, he no longer worked Saturdays, but he&#x27
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by bartvk 5y ago
That doesn't sound great actually. Are you being sarcastic? It kinda reads like a cry of help.
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by bartvk 5y ago
You can pick a great spouse but some people change after kids arrive. My partner had a great work ethic too. But after our daughter was born, that supposedly great work ethic caused them to keep working at the same pace, destroying our rela
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by bartvk 5y ago
The amount of electricity spent on creating and maintaining cash must be pretty big, right? Am I misunderstanding you?
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by bartvk 5y ago
Indeed. Some five years ago, I was explaining the basics of OOP (in Java) to an aerospace engineer, who needed to get into IT. It took him several weeks, and a whole bunch of exercises, to master. He already had experience with FORTRAN.
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by bartvk 5y ago
Actually I know a therapist who told me that he considered this one of the twenty aspects of emotional maturity. He pointed me to a YouTube video made by Alain de Botton et al, quote: "You cease to believe in perfection in pretty much
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by bartvk 5y ago
Your comment is fascinating and well worth the wait due to the insider info. I'm going to re-read it in a bit to understand it fully, but suffice to say: thank you very much. This is why I come here :)
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by bartvk 5y ago
I’m kind of curious how these modems work. Looking at the filesystem dump, these modems run a full OS. But why? It’s purely a device that routes IP traffic, right? Couldn’t an FPGA or ASIC handle that better? I assume, from skimming your li
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by bartvk 5y ago
I've always felt that a popup with an error code should have a "search the web for this code" button.
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by bartvk 5y ago
For macOS, I use Amethyst, recommended here on HN and works fine without disabling security features. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
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by bartvk 5y ago
Talking about Dutch reminds me of the old commercial saying "uw gulden is hier een daalder waard", translated "your guilder is worth a daler/thaler/dollar here".
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by bartvk 5y ago
I actually have this setup on my desk. Meaning, I have a Kinesis Freestyle 2 (split keyboard) and in between, there’s an Apple trackpad.
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by bartvk 5y ago
How about mobile development? You can reuse some of your experience there. Does Swift or Kotlin/Java have any attraction to you?
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by bartvk 5y ago
That'd be neat. With Touch ID, it would be very intuitive to configure the middle finger as the trigger to run a duress script.
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by bartvk 5y ago
On what criteria do you base this?
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by bartvk 5y ago
If you can't draw, do pixel art. I can't draw, but my kid likes to draw while I sit with her at the dinner table. I didn't know what to do, so I grabbed some graph paper and drew a 5x5 pixelated kitty which she found very fun
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by bartvk 5y ago
I don't think there is a "happy urge to multiply until critical shortage", as far as I know. World population growth is slowing down currently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow
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by bartvk 5y ago
I preferred simple smileys and have used them privately in the IRC days. But emoji actually have more variety, color-wise. I recently started dating and it's incredibly wholesome to get a heart emoji, which comes in a dozen or so color
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by bartvk 5y ago
How many session do you do per day? Is it for powering through particularly hard work? Do you enjoy the company, or is it more of a discipline thing?
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by bartvk 5y ago
Fantastic article that dives into the deep end. Quote: "At 20 pixels it’s nearly 10 ms, so I didn’t test going above that. At one point I accidentally set the radius to 80 and my GPU locked up." Never having done any work like thi
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by bartvk 5y ago
Is this a genuine spelling error, or did you make a magnificent joke?

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