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by blunte 5y ago
I had this one as well, I think around age 7. It was my first "expert" set. Legos were my life until computers! It was also great when the electric motors and battery box came out. With a bit of gear work, you could actually ta
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by blunte 5y ago
I thought this was pretty technically advanced in 1980. http://www.technicopedia.com/8860.html
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by blunte 5y ago
Much nicer reading than a twitter thread. Perhaps if tweets included illustrations I would bother reading them.
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FIIO https://www.fiio.com/m17 and many others make high quality players for people who have a collection. But honestly, streaming services allow discovery and exploration. I listen to hundreds of artists now that I didn&#x
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by blunte 5y ago
I miss the assortment of mesmerizing visualizations from the early days of Winamp. The succesor apps never seemed to offer the same quality of visualizations, and then that whole concept seems to have faded away.
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by blunte 5y ago
I don’t know. If only because of the erectile dysfunction reports, I think most men would prefer not to get COVID. Probably their partners would appreciate them not getting it as well. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/a
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by blunte 5y ago
Vertical indoor closed system farming will probably become our future within the next 100 years. My thought is that more money and effort spent exploring the myriad ways of doing this will pay off much more in the long run. Also, there’s va
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by blunte 5y ago
Nicely done, and very fascinating! Good thing the sea is not infinitely deep, or I’m not sure I could stop scrolling. “Just a couple more scrolls, what’s below this?”
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by blunte 5y ago
You guys really went off on the luxury thing. I don’t see where replacing fertilizer use with smarter practices results in life without luxury.
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by blunte 5y ago
There are advanced means of growing food which require much less fertilizer (and water). Why solve a transportation problem to continue an inefficient practice when we could spend that R&D on solving the underlying need?
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by blunte 5y ago
It's because the layperson isn't constantly observing systems and thinking about how effective or efficient they are. Their minds just don't seem to work like that. (Perhaps there's some area of expertise they have whi
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by blunte 5y ago
This looks pretty good. As long as there were a child nearby to do the screen typing for me and read what my eyes cannot see, it would be perfect for me! Seriously, this could be a great backup phone for traveling. I didn't know it e
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by blunte 5y ago
Tesla does seem to attract drivers with more money than sense. First there are the reports of various crashes where the human driver was not paying attention and was fully trusting software to drive their car, and now you have people who a
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by blunte 5y ago
Putting a junkie in prison will indeed stop them, for the time they are in jail. But once they get out, they will return to the life they know. And then you're back with the original problem, but you've now also spent a ton of m
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by blunte 5y ago
I'm not convinced that a fine is going to change someone's behavior. It may put them in a regretful financial bind, but it's really a short-term pain. Spending a week cleaning trash is definitely something they will remembe
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by blunte 5y ago
You're not going to stop a junkie from shooting up (without a comprehensive, life-changing program). So barring that, you might as well teach them how to be more safe so they don't end up in a hospital spending your tax money for
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by blunte 5y ago
I just don't understand why throwing trash on the ground is tolerated. There is virtually no argument for why someone should need or be allowed to throw or leave their trash on the ground. Most of us manage to get clothes on before we
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by blunte 5y ago
Ahh feature flags, the new #ifdef.
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by blunte 5y ago
The challenge of programming is not really about writing in a programming language - it's about thinking, problem solving, and organization. What low/no-code does is remove the setup and tooling barrier. I believe it's this
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by blunte 5y ago
I will definitely give this a look. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Large Photo Library Sharing?
7 points by blunte 5y ago|3 comments
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by blunte 5y ago
The one place I see 3D printing being particularly useful is when access to a site is very difficult, and moving in large items is nearly impossible. A 3D printer that could be brought in in smaller pieces and assembled would then allow go
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by blunte 5y ago
"You’ve reached your limit of free articles." Bullshit. I never follow NYT links because I don't like their paywall. This time I was just too curious, so I did. I figured I would have to create an account. Long ago, on ano
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by blunte 5y ago
I was wondering how this compared to Bacula, which I setup for a company with significant amounts of data to backup (and which worked great, especially after I wrote a retention management + pruning tool). Here's an old discussion: ht
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by blunte 5y ago
So then we create systems which send 10 nonsense emails with occasional flagged words along with every one real message, inundating them with so much data they cannot begin the handle it. They already cannot handle the reams of financial re
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by blunte 5y ago
This bike has the added benefit of being theft resistant - on the basis that it's too heavy for one person to lift. Seriously though, what does it weigh? With a typical sized Dutch man, stopping from full speed is going to be a real t
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by blunte 5y ago
In cases where it's a one time use, anything that gets you an answer easily is great. Could be Groovy, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc. or of course these bin tools. But if it's going to be used a lot, and start-up time matters, then som
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by blunte 5y ago
Nice. Now step 2: individually articulated mirrors :)
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by blunte 5y ago
Mastering one tool is probably wise, but it's also good to know which tools may be better suited for some purposes. For "keep the first word of every line", I prefer awk: awk '{ print $1 }' < file.txt
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by blunte 5y ago
Indeed it does instill resentment, but as with many other big companies there's really no alternative. Someday youtube will fall second to a service that better meets the users' needs, but I suspect that will be many years from n

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