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by castis 9y ago
This probably says more about me than anything else but I dont think I've ever built a prototype of anything thats outperformed a production model product.
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by castis 9y ago
In the past year or two, it seems like this has become a favored way to easily dismiss someones moral opinion and is being appended to my list of things to help me disregard the opinion of the person calling out 'virtue signaling'
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by castis 9y ago
I would imagine that the publics knowledge about their advancements is significantly far behind what it actually is.
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by castis 9y ago
The only winner in that scenario is the company manufacturing the NFC devices. That system is too complex.
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by castis 9y ago
> Who cares if the editor is a few milliseconds faster when you're many minutes slower Me. I care. That little hang Atom does after saving a file gets annoying after a while.
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by castis 9y ago
That post was downvoted and flagged, no need to further indulge that sort of thing either way.
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by castis 9y ago
Introducing a single point of failure (1 database, across the internet), organized by a largely complex system (the DoT, possibly) to cope with an edge case doesn't feel like a very elegant solution.
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by castis 9y ago
This is how you can tell this was built solely for marketing purposes.
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by castis 9y ago
Of the hundreds of places this article was put online today, this website is probably the worst presented form I've seen.
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by castis 9y ago
The incentive is creating well behaved applications. Electron apps have this awesome tendency to treat RAM as though it's an infinite resource.
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by castis 9y ago
Well aware, thanks. I only ever stated that the Luhn algorithm would validate just the numbers.
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by castis 9y ago
To just validate the numbers themselves, you can use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luhn_algorithm Beyond that, I'm not sure what that person is talking about.
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by castis 9y ago
I don't see many Windows users hanging out in the CLI for extended periods of time, either. Even though OP wasn't serious about fedora nixing grep, surely you see the lack of equivalence in that argument.
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by castis 9y ago
It is not yet possible to know when the next one is going to show up. We are only currently aware of a bunch of rocks that most likely wont hit us.
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by castis 9y ago
That's 100% of the point. If other planets/moons/whatever haven't been colonized by the time humanity gets empirical data for that hypothesis, a lot of people are going to wish they'd put that a little higher on the
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by castis 9y ago
From what we can tell, they've caused mass extinctions before, no reason to believe they won't again.
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by castis 9y ago
They don't, no one does, but any one of the three things I listed would have most likely caused someone to contribute something useful to the conversation.
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by castis 9y ago
They don't mention anything about the central topic of the article; the man who was stuck in the cave. If they had any sort of emotional reaction to the article, I imagine they would have said something about it.
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by castis 9y ago
"I'm not a cave diver, have no emotional attachment to this article, and I don't have even a rudimentary understanding of the culture surrounding cave diving but I made an account just to say I think those people should have
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by castis 9y ago
If the only thing that mattered in this world was income then you might have had a point. Thinking others should change their opinion because you don't understand subjectivity is absurd.
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by castis 9y ago
The philosophical pillar you're standing on doesn't stop me from saying that this website is subjectively awful.
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by castis 9y ago
I bet OP understands that personal feelings are subjective. That website makes someone a whole bunch of money. That doesn't mean that website isn't awful.
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by castis 9y ago
> but one-liners like the original post are a much bigger threat If your ideals can be so easily threatened then perhaps one-liners are not the problem.
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by castis 9y ago
As right as you may perceive yourself to be, complaints are less substantive than the original comment is.
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by castis 9y ago
I can understand your frustration but a downvote would have sufficed. If you hadn't seen the HN guidelines, take a gander when you get a spare moment. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Most notably this:
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by castis 9y ago
There will always be a market for a high quality version of whatever you can think of.
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by castis 9y ago
You're becoming suspiciously more terse.
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by castis 9y ago
The people that would make that decision would pat themselves on the back for making the world a better place despite it being trivial to make your own multirotor device.
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by castis 9y ago
They're only even close to each other because of the initial hit the solar panel produces while its being created. If we were to continue forward with solar power, would the energy needed to melt silicon not eventually come from a whol
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by castis 9y ago
Cool, I wasn't talking about cost though. I asked if coal could be made clean enough to compete with other forms of energy generation in that context.

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