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by cbhl 6y ago
In mathematics, an unsubstantiated armchair opinion is called a "conjecture", and can be subsequently proven or disproven by the same person or another person. If scientists of yore had "remain silent until you find a reason
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by cbhl 6y ago
One of the things I really like about the iOS subscription billing ecosystem is that there is one centralized place to see all my subscriptions. I hate that it's hidden behind four clicks in "Settings", but, once you find it,
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by cbhl 6y ago
Isn't the first rule of access to developer toolkits "thou shall not benchmark, and thou shall not publish benchmarks"? Although, granted, I'd imagine the new Macbooks having newer, faster chips than the developer toolki
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by cbhl 6y ago
> I've got to say, I really wish there were a way to know whether I already used Facebook, Google, or Apple to log into a site or app before. Bookwalker (from Japan) draws a big red box around the login you used last on a given devi
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by cbhl 6y ago
I wonder whether that's intentional? China uses a different coordinate system inside the country (GCJ-02 vs WGS-84) and it results in discontinuities whenever you try to display a map of a border region (for example, the Hong Kong–Zhuh
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by cbhl 6y ago
Yeah, I was confused by this pull quote given the pie charts later on the page showing majority-caucasian (over 72% in the four cities)
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by cbhl 6y ago
My high school chemistry teacher lamented that he had fond memories of taking a lump of a metal (sodium, potassium) and watching the fireworks with his students when they threw it in a pond out back. These days, he has to settle for taking
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by cbhl 6y ago
Previous discussion from when Microsoft sent patches to Linux upstream to enable this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23241040 And related discussion on lkml with more context: https://lkml.org/lkml&#x
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by cbhl 6y ago
Xming on Windows isn't exactly a walk in the park either -- I'd still rather use the native, proprietary build of VSCode on a proprietary OS with the SSH extension if I'm on a high-DPI screen.
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by cbhl 6y ago
Based on my experience, the confounding factor here is driver preferences. Drivers still have preferences about staying in certain areas of town. In the old taxi-based model, you'd have a fixed price, but unreliable service -- the driv
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by cbhl 6y ago
Can you expand the acronym HENRYs? Urban dictionary didn't come up with anything for me.
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by cbhl 6y ago
The last three parts are probably a date in yy.m.d format. Package names only get longer as you add more layers of maintainers. (For example, package-XubuntuY or package+YYYYmmdd-n was common on Ubuntu, who needed their versions to fit &quo
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by cbhl 6y ago
Some ideas: - Facebook sends SMS 2FA. Users on T-mo would be unable to receive codes. What behavior does the 2FA-sending code have in this condition? Does the process just sit there and time out (possibly exhausting some finite server resou
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by cbhl 6y ago
That's politically tricky -- if the rank and file are paid less than government workers, then it's easy to make ad hominem attacks on the government employees for living a cushy life / excessive spending.
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by cbhl 6y ago
Mostly cost. There are printers that have computers in them that know how to read PDF, the "networked" or "cloud" or "business" ones. But they all cost more -- anywhere from $300 to $1000+. The cheap ones just
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by cbhl 6y ago
I thought that the car-share model is pretty well established in Europe? I think it has basically died in the US though: - Zipcar got bought out by Avis (big traditional car rental company), and many properties terminated their contracts wi
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Zoom cites Chinese law to defend censorship of human rights activists(arstechnica.com)
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by cbhl 6y ago
To me, it's funny how the newer legacy software that's 64-bit only is going to be the problem in an ARM64 world -- the 32-bit x86 binaries will still be fine.
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by cbhl 6y ago
The article claims that "93% of Beyond Meat's customers are meat-eaters", but also acknowledges that "no ethically aligned solutions immediately spring to mind".
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by cbhl 6y ago
The current rules for immigrants require " any account names ... over the previous five years " so an immigrant could be denied entry for failing to provide the account name for a deleted account.
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by cbhl 6y ago
Presumably "requires further study", but one thing that comes to mind is that the linked study looks at early childhood (ages 3-6) whereas the study you linked considers a wider range of ages (1-18).
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by cbhl 6y ago
First three times I tried doing it by eye and ended up hopelessly lost. Needed to pull out my trigonometry to figure out how to line up the capsule to get the Y/Z aligned...
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by cbhl 6y ago
And ndiswrapper ran binary drivers. Literally ran the machine code and provided hooks to make the driver work. Of course, that meant you couldn't plug a Windows-only USB Wifi stick into an ARM machine (say, a Raspberry Pi 1) and use
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by cbhl 6y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if streaming to two different channels gives them some redundancy...
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Northern Ontario would probably be akin to Tahoe; folks with permanent setups in the backyard of a second house. An RV with a retractable shade might be large and portable-ish, but RV ownership/maintenance is complicated by the current
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Many of my packages (not just Amazon) have been coming out of Vancouver despite being in the GTA, so my assumption is that the items themselves are fresh off the boat (or plane) from factories in Asia, and the demand has outstripped their a
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For a while, I saw an option to tip the restaurant as a line item in UberEats. Not sure if it's everywhere yet. It was also a bit confusing that there were two different tips, with different UX (since there's still the existing op
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We optimized for cost by making things packet-switched. The latency for phone calls on copper wires back in the late 90s was great, but I am definitely glad that a modern video call doesn't require paying, say $3.00/min/perso
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There are various schemes for mapping IPv4 addresses in the IPv6 address space, for example [::ffff:127.0.0.1] [64:ff9b::127.0.0.1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Special_addresses
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by cbhl 6y ago
Ah, I remember when the in-house IDE first came out, and it was considered a toy compared to vim/emacs. It has come a long way since then. That said, I'm also looking forward to "VSCode front-end in the browser" becoming

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