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by dublin 7y ago
If you like dogs at all, then "Cold Noses, Warm Hearts" is one of the best short story anthologies ever. Eddie Rickenbacker's autobiography is a pretty good story, too - it's hard to believe one man could be so impactful
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by dublin 7y ago
Sounds like we need someone who wants to Make America Great Again...
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While transportation in Houston's sprawl is a factor (and yes, duh, requires a car for almost everybody commuting), the quality of life in Houston, even considering the heat, humidity, and potential for flooding if you buy too close to
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Usually classical, jazz, or Celtic/ambient. Words are only allowed when I'm doing something mindless and rote - anything that requires real thinking, especially writing, will have the lyrics take the quality down a couple of notc
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Southwest is AMAZINGLY efficient, and driven to streamline everything . This is the reason they transformed the whole industry by turning planes around in 15 minutes when their competitors were taking hours. If Southwest is doing it, it
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That the "Herbies" should be in front comes as no surprise to anyone who's read Eli Goldratt's book, "The Race" - A book that transformed modern manufacturing methods toward the end of the 20th century. Of cou
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Yeah, I can buy a couple year-old Hellcat (or Porsche, if you're the Euroweenie type) for less, it will hold its value far better than the Tesla, and it naturally increases testosterone, too... (See https://news.ycombinator.
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Because you disagree with their politics, you want to silence them. Typical PC (Politically Correct or Progressive Communist, your choice) imposition of "cancel culture". I saw nothing seriously wrong with their analysis - so yo
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And this doesn't even begin to address to subsidies that Tesla-owners' neighbor are forced to pay to upgrade the infrastructure for their home chargers. (Solar makes this even worse, actually...)
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Never work with the government, unless you absolutely have to. Life is too short.
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Actually, neither this one nor cidr.xyz is fully compliant with the RFCs. Although I don't recommend it for pretty obvious reasons (and most routers probably won't handle it correctly, either), at least in the pre-CIDR RFCs, ther
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by dublin 7y ago
TiddlyWiki ( https://tiddlywiki.com/ ) is a great place to start - It's a hypertext notebook contained in a single html/js file. It's really one of the best and most underappreciated/underutilized open so
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Good luck making that distinction in the real world - the VietNam of data standards comes right along with the power capabilities. FWIW, I'm hugely in favor of a version of PoE that ditches the outrageously expensive 1500V isolation r
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FWIW, batteries period may be the wrong technology for most users of these devices. Personally, I'd happily trade the need to have multiple battery packs with long charging times for ultracapacitor powered tools that might not run as l
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by dublin 7y ago
I really don't get the love for USB-C here. It's really a horrible design - it's a huge step backwards from the "mag-safe" power connector Apple used to use (at least Microsoft uses a similar connector on its Surfa
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The advantage for the retailer is that pricing is now "soft" and can be changed as often as desired for any of a number of reasons, including sales, promotions, A/B pricing tests, etc.
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I don't know of anything like this for Windows, Mac, or Linux, but there should be. For years, I used a truly excellent Palm app called MathPad. One great thing about it was that it had a magic integrated solver: you just entered the
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And of course, this granddaddy of all gripes on English punctuation, which was written 100 years ago now: https://www.learnenglish.de/pronunciation/pronunciationpoem.... (This link was chosen because it has audio link
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Describing lab-created genetically-modified "Frankenmeat" as "clean" might be one of those things not looked on favorably in the future... Bill Joy is quite likely right that genetic engineering is probably the most dan
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Check out TiddlyWiki http://tiddlywiki.com - it's an open source program that's been around for 15 years. TiddlyWiki wraps up a bunch of web-type resources (text, images, pages, etc.) into a single JavaScript file tha
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Disparate impact of results is NOT proof of racism. People are complicated - and some racial correlations are perfectly valid - at least until enough members of a racial group decide to change them...
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Yeah, they're a bit like vegans that way - as the old joke goes, "Q: How do you tell if someone is a vegan? A: You don't have to tell, they'll tell you."
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By 2025, it's quite possible that vapor-deposited boron-based icosahedral superconductor and semiconductor materials will begin to revolutionize many areas, including quantum computing, slashing power requirements of existing chips by
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By 2025, the "OS" of choice for at least the remainder of the first half of the century will become a set of cloud services APIs, but advances in hardware will allow these services to be pushed back to the edge much as mainframes
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If Apple cared about what its users thought about cables, they never would have replaced MagSafe with the wretched USB-C. Interestingly, if you want a MagSafe-like charger now, you have to buy a Surface...
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Who cares about Watt-hours? What matters is how long it runs - I'd be perfectly happy with a laptop that runs a month on a 1.5 Watt-hour AAA battery. Kinda like Amps for vacuum cleaners, this can actually be a measure of IN efficien
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FWIW, early PC keyboard layouts had the Control key next to the "A", where God intended it to be, too. (Don't have the link handy, but there was a story posted here on HN in the past week or so about the history of the PC ke
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I've found the touchbar to be useful for only two things: 1) It's decent for things like volume control that need an analog slider, and 2) To give Pock a placed to live, so that there's actually some slightly above caveman t
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You know, if you buy a Surface Pro or Surface Book (or most any other Windows portable), THE WHOLE SCREEN IS TOUCHABLE! The touchbar is the biggest UI/UX screwup since the one button mouse and Jobs' insistence that there be only
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Just because you don't like what they say does NOT make them wrong. WattsUpWithThat has been one of the few sites on the net to publicize the increasing amount of science that shows that the AGW effect is either exaggerated or not hap

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