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by drdrey 10y ago
The GPUs in Apple computers may not be to Palmer Luckey's liking, but you can't deny that Macs have a high quality construction. For most people, this is what matters over the graphics performance: form factor, weight, battery lif
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by drdrey 10y ago
One-word summary: grit
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by drdrey 10y ago
what are you doing now?
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by drdrey 10y ago
"A number of executives at Bloomberg realized technology was being developed in the startup world they were only seeing once it was mature enough to be ready for Bloomberg, but that was often too late to be able to fully understand it
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by drdrey 10y ago
One more data point about steady but intense exercise versus very dynamic exercises: I find 20 minutes of serious HIIT scarier than running for an hour at 160 bpm.
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by drdrey 10y ago
computed goto, aka indirectbr in the LLVM IR: http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#indirectbr-instruction
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by drdrey 10y ago
UB as in undefined behavior?
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by drdrey 10y ago
There are no mentions of motors or automated tracking in this article. I've heard from multiple sources that they wished they had a motorized rig, is there a reason this is not recommended for beginners?
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by drdrey 11y ago
Doesn't HN qualify as some sort of social media too?
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by drdrey 11y ago
Adding a (2010) notice in the title of this submission would be useful, as this is not exactly news.
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by drdrey 11y ago
No, the laser would point in the general direction of the sun and as long as Earth is within the cone it has the potential to detect the signal. The laser just happens to focus all of its energy in one narrow cone as opposed to all directio
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by drdrey 11y ago
The original story has changed its title to "Apple Is Said to Be Trying to Make It Harder to Hack iPhones". I was a bit surprised by the clickbait-y nature of the HN title, but we can see in the nytimes URL that this "Apple I
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by drdrey 11y ago
More than practicing responses, Chaos Monkey and Failure Injection Testing allow us to verify that we don't have unexpected hard dependencies. Sometimes you find out that your service can't start if another one becomes latent, in
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by drdrey 11y ago
For people reading this, AZ in this context would be Availability Zone
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by drdrey 11y ago
It's probably more correct to say that all the money used to develop The Witness comes from the money earned from Braid.
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by drdrey 11y ago
This is almost exactly the plot of this short story by Philip K. Dick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Defenders_(short_story)
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by drdrey 11y ago
So this happened: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/686782891716521984
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by drdrey 11y ago
I don't think it qualifies as a "simple solution" if it's not feasible with today's standards.
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League of Legends studio is now completely owned by China’s Tencent(venturebeat.com)
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Inside Netflix’s Plan to Boost Streaming Quality(variety.com)
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by drdrey 12y ago
"It didn’t really occur to me that most employed twenty-somethings weren’t scavenging free food from lecture halls." I used to do the same thing as a postdoc at UC Berkeley, while trying to provide for a wife and kid. Actually fin