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by copperx 4y ago
Those sounds irritated me to no end when the disk was thrashing because it meant that the computer was about to or had just became unresponsive. It also indicated insufficient caching. "Why is the disk spinning endlessly? I just clicke
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by copperx 4y ago
Huh, spam bots are getting better every day. That's a good book suggestion.
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by copperx 4y ago
Thank you. I'm not a writer, but there's an undeniable urge to communicate when I feel excited about something, especially when I have synthesized new knowledge. I suspect this urge is universal. That being said, achieving clarity
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by copperx 4y ago
I have a friend who was a flight attendant for the oldest Mexican airline, and she indeed told me how sometimes, when there's a critical system malfunction before a flight, often managers call the pilots privately and offer a bribe to
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by copperx 4y ago
I'm with you on the last one, and I sometimes wonder whether religious people still have that sense of fascination with the unknown, or with what is possible. I would like to have that again, if only for a few moments.
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by copperx 4y ago
I loved that so much. And it was enabled well after 9/11.
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by copperx 4y ago
Your post is an example of forced rationality. You're ignoring the fact that it's not just one production. I would consider your position if there was one continuous production with small to no variations. Why are you ignoring the
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by copperx 4y ago
I haven't encountered a professional software product without a manual yet. What you describe applies to software for mass consumption only. It might change in the future, but it would be a bit ridiculous for a company to sell a produc
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by copperx 4y ago
While it is plausible that the hack compromises the entire comm system, it's unlikely. My bet is that the steward made an incorrect association between the sounds and normal system behavior. These inaccurate retellings are extremely co
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by copperx 4y ago
Having an hypothesis isn't unscientific. You just need to make it testable.
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by copperx 4y ago
I love Bitwarden, but I don't understand why it takes 10 seconds to search a database with 100 entries (Android app, when searching for a saved password). It's aggravating.
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by copperx 4y ago
> I quit using Opera after he did not keep his promise to swim across the Atlantic in 2005: https://www.zdnet.com/article/opera-boss-starts-atlantic-swi ... Congratulations. This is the most persnickety HN comment I&
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by copperx 4y ago
Web browsers are strange. They are sophisticated pieces of engineering, but they refuse to implement the lowest hanging fruit features UX wise.
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by copperx 4y ago
Let's hope a moderator steps in.
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by copperx 4y ago
What do you mean? Buying a used car from a dealership is about 5x worse than buying a new car. Of course they're buying from an individual.
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by copperx 4y ago
> Yeah; playing 5.1 mixes on stereo equipment make the side and back channels too loud and the center channel too quiet. I thought the equipment selected the stereo mix (or did a perfectly compatible mixdown) when playing back a 5.1 mix
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by copperx 4y ago
I would like to believe that, except that the dialog is almost always too quiet in a movie theater.
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by copperx 4y ago
> Sound engineers need to stop needlessly flexing all that dynamic range that modern tools give them, and just produce a watchable movie. Actors need to go do some stage acting and learn how to e n u n c i a t e and project their voices.
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by copperx 4y ago
Help me understand something. I understand that the company should pay for Copilot in principle. However, is paying $120 per year that much when it helps you in your at least mid-five-figures job? I would ask for the reimbursement if it was
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by copperx 4y ago
Many people do this when driving a truck when turning 90 degrees to offset the small turn radius, but I have also seen people in cars do it, which is dangerous for the people in the next lane. I had always wondered where that behavior came
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by copperx 4y ago
If you skip all the math and programs, you'll get to this part: >> These results of 1-bit PRVHASH say the following: if abstract mathematics contains not just a system of rules for manipulating numbers, but also a freely-defined
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by copperx 4y ago
> People who accept an obviously fake printed copy of a banknote basically deserve it Have you ever heard of decreased vision and impaired sensation? Should people with these disabilities be prohibited from working as cashiers?
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by copperx 4y ago
> Film critics will quickly be forgotten because they created nothing. Critizising something is an art, and requires vasts amounts of background knowledge. It is trivial to make a useless and unfair critique. > But film critics never
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by copperx 4y ago
Colon cancer guidelines have changed screenings to 45.
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by copperx 4y ago
What was your PhD in? Math?
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by copperx 4y ago
Well ... I switch between Qwerty and Dvorak. 2x the pain! That's one thing that I didn't foresee when learning Dvorak. To use a shortcut, I need to know : 1) What keyboard layout am I using? 2) Am I using a Kinesis or standard key
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by copperx 4y ago
Well, that's right, but at least it's widely used instead of being restricted to just one manufacturer.
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by copperx 4y ago
I can't answer all of your questions, but I today we have AirPlay, which streams uncompressed audio to the receiver. Before that, the only option was Bluetooth or proprietary network codecs.
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by copperx 4y ago
So everybody must keep 7 years of archives? Is that why houses in the US are so big? And does everybody have an archival room? Or does the IRS accept scans? So many questions.
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by copperx 4y ago
How does she remember to do that every year? That's amazing.

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