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by dannypgh 8y ago
I agree completely: I had meant to imply that the "professional" bit was necessary, but not sufficient. In therapy a wide range of topics can be explored, and more safely: when I first started therapy my motivations all had to dea
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by dannypgh 8y ago
The reason there's a modern flat Earth movement is that technology has enabled people who are grossly underqualified to answer questions about the shape of the Earth fit each other. I'm curious to see what HN readers think of this
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Maybe, but I'd rather a test suite that's designed to test hardware, rather than overloading some code's unit tests. I think most unit tests are best served by testing key values- e.g. values before and after any intended beh
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by dannypgh 8y ago
At some point, your test switches from testing the code, to testing the machine the code runs on. That likely happens before 120 days.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
See https://fairuse.stanford.edu/case/klinger-v-conan-doyle-esta... I would expect drawings based solely on thr Steamboat Willy work to be okay. The sequels start new timers on new characters or qualities, they don&#x2
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by dannypgh 8y ago
The enforcement of copyright laws is something that is paid for with public funds and resources (indeed, the courts themselves) even though a small fraction of the population recieves any direct benefit. The burden of proof should be on cop
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by dannypgh 8y ago
But I believe you could make "Mouseman Joins The Pirate Party" and use drawings based on (or directly lifted from) Steamboat Willy itself, no?
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Where/how did you check that? I am in my mid-30s and know several people who are my age and a bit older who like Stranger Things. I don't think real data on Netflix viewership is public, is it? My presumption is Netflix guards tha
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Re: #1 the original statistics presented show that in the US, there's a stronger correlation between individual income and parental income than in most OECD countries. You've claimed this is "measuring the wrong thing" b
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I think you might be greatly underestimating the fraction of the company that works on search or ads if you think you can make a meaningful comment about the company that starts with "Except for the 'search+ads' division.&quo
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by dannypgh 8y ago
1. This reply seems like "forget hard data, here are two anecdotes" which seems like a poor approach if you're trying to convince [good] engineers. 2. 62.9% of the world has cell phones. The global median income is likely le
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by dannypgh 8y ago
"The pressed duck is right in front of me—and no one's gonna stop me from getting as many pieces as I want" Can't literally anyone at the table do that, by rotating the table away? Technology like this requires certain s
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Hashish - extracts - have been with humans for several centuries. I'm told my grandfather (born circa 1895, died circa 1975) expressed confusion that people would smoke "leaves" of the plant (knowing that hash was a thing, ha
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Better yet, the error handler could not print anything back. A generic 500 is the way to go. Log your errors. If you think you'd get worthwhile bug reports / don't want to implement log analysis or whatever, take whatever err
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Perhaps I was unclear: screen is what I use now (and have used for quite a long time) and I haven't moved away from it because I actually use and value the support of serial consoles.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Every time I encounter a tmux recommendation it has me pondering whether it's worth learning minicom. When I first read the author's rationale for tmux it rubbed me the wrong way, because the main feature they dismiss as cruft- th
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by dannypgh 8y ago
And the motherboard? RAM? The pi is a whole computer built around a SoC. The 6502 is a CPU only. This $25 claim seems questionable.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
A raspberry pi is $25 and far exceeds the home computer of the 80s and most of the home computers sold in the 90s. People pay more because they want more. If your goal is just learning how computers work, you have far cheaper options today.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
It's $50,000 worth of cameras from one supplier - a supplier with a name that presumably made it easy to identify what they're selling. There could be other suppliers. And presumably large orders get bulk discounts.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Judging from a quick search, it looks like this SoC was developed for DVB-S receivers. I'm guessing nobody had "run Linux" as a requirement for their satellite receiver, hence the reason this work to be supported by Linux did
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Letting people travel between cars changes the shape of the problem quite a bit.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
There was an era when IBM's "core products" were hardware. I think today their "core product" is consulting. Open source hardware exists but is rare. I don't know what it means to open source consulting?
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by dannypgh 8y ago
HTML and XHTML are different things, and you can have proper documents in either. HTML is a subset of SGML. XML is designed for machines to read and write. SGML, humans. It's like the difference between JSON and Markdown. (Addendum: TI
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by dannypgh 8y ago
That would require either the state finding a legal source of fentanyl that is willing to sell them the drug for that purpose (challenging, given most pharma companies refuse due to some mix of principles and not wanting their product to be
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Claiming that "high availability" started with the internet seems to ignore the role that Telcos (Bell Labs?) have played in our field and modern technological world. The engineering work to deliver five nines of availability for
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I disagree that it's a good fit. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy "Psychopathy, sometimes considered synonymous with sociopathy, is traditionally defined as a personality disorder characterized by
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I certainly have had PC speakers that picked up interference from a GSM cellphone. Cell phones are wireless transmitters that can transmit in the 3 watt range. A typical CB radio is 4 watts. The radio in the airplane is in the 2-25 watt ran
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I made it past the first paragraph playing fast and loose with vim's heritage (it's a clone, not a porr or a fork) but when it directly referred to Bill Joy as the creator of vim in the second paragraph, it became too hard to keep
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I'd think most people who are worried about age discrimination would drop their matriculation year from their resume.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Is having the ability to live independently really a prerequisite? You wouldn't know it based on the standard bigcorp benefits package.

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