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by bnj 4y ago
If the reason it doesn’t make sense to include the (faster, more power efficient) MacBooks in reviews is that windows users would have to see way higher value before they’d even consider switching… then shouldn’t that just be stated in the
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by bnj 4y ago
Also by asking the FEC to weigh in and approve this before moving forward, google is in a much stronger position: if they’re not approved to move forward, the FEC can now be the bad guy; if they do approve to move forward, then they don’t g
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by bnj 4y ago
Thanks for responding, this is definitely easier from a computer. I reviewed summaries from NAEP for reading and math [0] and found that across the board, public schools appear to outperform "public charter" schools. I understand
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by bnj 4y ago
If platform licensing arrangements don’t protect customers from losing access to purchases, they should be forced to advertise them as rentals or leases and not something the consumer is buying.
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by bnj 4y ago
Doesn’t this position rest on the premise that the public education system is “broken”? Here’s a premise for public education: Continuous investment and incremental improvement will yield better outcomes than starting from scratch, particul
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by bnj 4y ago
Can a new law explicitly permitting behavior that wasn’t previously prohibited really be said to be alleviating restrictions? Laws are inherently restrictive in the sense that things which aren’t prohibited by law, are permissible. So a law
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by bnj 4y ago
I’m honestly surprised to see so many responses in this thread that diverge so wildly from my own. It was inappropriate for this instructor to join the chat and silently surveil their students. When they saw the students exchanging informat
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New pill bottles for shaky hands will help people with Parkinson’s (2021)(nerdbot.com)
33 points by bnj 5y ago|43 comments
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by bnj 5y ago
This is what I ended up doing, and even though the majority of the notes I take aren't things I'll need to return to -- they're more about processing in the moment -- just consistently using an iPad to capture into apple note
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by bnj 5y ago
Honestly it doesn’t seem pernickety to evaluate the article on its claims. The system is presented as “universal”, and the opening sentence asks us to enumerate the qualities of a perfect system that would work for everyone.
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by bnj 5y ago
curiously I was able to find it (broken into sections) via Western Electric directly: https://www.westernelectric.com/library#technical
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by bnj 5y ago
I really enjoyed this read, disappointed that I haven’t been able to find a digital copy of the western electric handbook.
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by bnj 5y ago
> What they should use is the number of cases tax workers can deal with. I'm curious about this and not completely sure I understand what it would look like in an example. Would you be willing to expand on the point?
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by bnj 5y ago
Why should cost of living be a factor in pay determination?
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by bnj 5y ago
This reminds me of the same phenomenon that occurs in traffic planning[0] [0]: https://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm64.htm Briefly, as impediments to congestion are introduced (bike lanes, tolls), individual cars either join or
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by bnj 5y ago
Almost like a hardware extension of the Single Responsibility Principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-responsibility_principl...
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Ask HN: What are the best automation tools on Windows?
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by bnj 5y ago
This would go a long way to addressing one of the key needs that we’ve been planning around: a central library to manage all the different documents and datasets that are accumulated by different teams. We’ve sketched out an initial solutio
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by bnj 5y ago
My understanding is that Apple is going to publish a hash of the database, so a user would be able to compare the hash of the database on their device with the published hash to be “assured” that the same dataset is being used everywhere.
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by bnj 5y ago
Not the parent you're replying to but it sounded from the post like it's because they develop apps on apple platforms and need them for work.
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by bnj 5y ago
Do you feel similarly about prosecuting corrupt police officers for abuses of their powers, or is the insistence that criminal behavior be prosecuted limited to protestors?
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by bnj 5y ago
Having read the coverage and the documents that Apple has been putting out to manage the … what, crisis? Backlash? … I’ve been thinking about the design of the system and how I would want CSAM to be detected, if different than this. Honestl
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by bnj 5y ago
A curious outcome of the scrutiny that the system design is receiving is that it will make it less effective at the task of catching actual collections of CSAM. Page eleven promises something I haven’t seen before: that Apple will publish t
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by bnj 5y ago
Well when Apple releases the next OS it will automatically OCR all images, so one possibility is just downloading them all on an Apple device.
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by bnj 5y ago
There are virtually unlimited quantities of free to consume media - TV, Books, Movies. People don't pay more money for new creations because the older works aren't published or available. Relaxing copyright restrictions after a mo
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by bnj 5y ago
Maybe add a [2010] to title
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by bnj 5y ago
This is a great point, thanks for adding that detail.
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by bnj 5y ago
Yes but my understanding is that the hashes are perceptual, as opposed to cryptographic. If the system was matching against known cryptographic hashes the collision / false positive rate would be small, but the fuzzy matching involved
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by bnj 5y ago
I think an important part of the battle for attention is that excel is visible as a GUI that inexperienced users can open from an icon and see and manipulate. A simple GUI utility with Python input in one pane and data input in the other mi
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by bnj 5y ago
I wish this piece had moved beyond finding out about a new word and what it means. It felt like it could have been the introduction to a longer piece about actually learning to stop worrying about unread books, but instead the author seems

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