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by ebg13 6y ago
I thought it got renamed! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498134
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by ebg13 6y ago
I hope that discussion thread continues, because so far there's some really juicy sass happening in there. > > 1. I already have working code for the first stage. > I don't mean to be negative, or hostile, but this sounds
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by ebg13 6y ago
I think Mark Shannon is a Python core dev now. But I agree with your other reasons.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I love them if they're sequestered behind a support link so that they don't get in my fucking face and if the person on the other end is empowered. I'd much rather load up a quick chat than spend 20 minutes on a phone call th
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by ebg13 6y ago
> We are performing those comparisons from the EU, over fiber Internet and a good WiFi access point. That seems like a really stupid marketing move. According to their charts, Zendesk is over 6x the size, but only takes 0.36s longer to
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by ebg13 6y ago
It would be a good idea to present stronger evidence before saying HN is _not_ astroturfable. Yada yada. Just pretend I flipped the rest of what you said around too.
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by ebg13 6y ago
The woman in the demo video (not the narrator) uses upspeak in every single utterance, and I found it pretty offputting.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> No matter how much they tout the video and picture quality, it's still behind DSLR and pro's can't use it until it beats DSLR at it's own game. Steven Soderbergh would like a word with you. https://peta
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by ebg13 6y ago
Chargers and cords are distinct products. And Apple's chargers do basically last forever.
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by ebg13 6y ago
I currently have half a dozen unused phone chargers in a box that I didn't actually want because I already have more functional multiport chargers in my house. The moment you move from your first phone with an included charger to your
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by ebg13 6y ago
HN has done some variant of this for a long time now with subdomains, but often you had to send an email to request sites with personal subdomains to be added to the list if they weren't already. It's because your rando personal b
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by ebg13 6y ago
> When do your fingers ever get on the bottom left corner of the screen, for example? I just checked. Apparently all the time. Finger oil smears on my laptop screen are completely evenly distributed across the entire area. The screen i
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by ebg13 6y ago
What makes you think it's not just filthy?
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by ebg13 6y ago
And if someone else uses CSV? The people processing data are almost never the people who generated the data.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> a family may have 4 vehicle types and two “skateboards.” This seems fairly unlikely. Where would they keep the other two bodies? How would they switch over?
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by ebg13 6y ago
I addressed that possibility in an edit. Flow sensing is a bad way to determine how much detergent is left in a bottle compared to actually sensing how much detergent is left. For one thing it forecloses refilling the container. Of course o
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by ebg13 6y ago
There appear to be two unrelated (and I can't tell if useless?) components to this. 1. Mechanical actuation generates transmission power. Ok, how is this better than RF induction given that you need to build an antenna into your object
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Is the house committee arguing Facebook is a monopoly I believe the phrase right there in the quote you made is "Market power". Being a monopoly is not a requirement for antitrust violations.
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by ebg13 6y ago
Heh. For some definitions of "real". > they were only able to subtract 0.2 billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a percent.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> however the GPU ones ... I think it's going to be pretty bad compare to the RTX 30xx. Their teaser numbers seemed to show par performance at 4k against the 3080.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> The steel can Like many makers, they use many different steels across their collection, so you'll need to be more specific. See: https://kershaw.kaiusa.com/blade-steels
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by ebg13 6y ago
Being aware of specific marketplace corruption isn't the same as being smart, and vice versa. And there's no reason to believe that the set of people buying these devices is the same as the set of people not buying memory cards.
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by ebg13 6y ago
The colorization is laughable, but the upscaling is beautiful.
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by ebg13 6y ago
It depends on the browser. In Safari they aren't.
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by ebg13 6y ago
My Bose headphones are miles more comfortable and more effective at active noice cancellation than the best Apple Beats. Will that change? Maybe. I mean...I hope so. It's hard having only Bose and Sony credibly competing in the wireles
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Just use mypy Mypy doesn't work for code that isn't statically available before runtime. Though there are ways to do runtime type checking as well.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> I get a lot of comments saying they look like "gunner" glasses. "Gunnar" is a semi-popular brand of blue light blocking glasses.
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Setting aside how you didn't show "potholes for miles" I'm not entirely sure what you think causing each motorist $888 in additional vehicle operating costs annually means, because that's exactly what it mean
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by ebg13 6y ago
> Show me potholes for miles in Lafayette, LA. All you have to do is look. https://tripnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/LA_Transporta... 53% of Lafayette roads are in "poor condition". 1
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by ebg13 6y ago
> And we continue to have roads and sewers and so forth. Crumbling ones that don't receive all of the needed maintenance, yes. Potholes for miles, yes. Rail that breaks down daily, yes. Water systems that are one bad rain away fro

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