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by eric_h 10y ago
Ha, and apple just removed the 3.5mm jack from their phones. Perhaps the entire reason for it was to get CarPlay into more cars :P
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by eric_h 10y ago
Certainly, but cars are also mandated to have a weight sensor in the passenger seat to disable the passenger side airbag when there isn't an adult sitting there (so they don't kill children in car seats). Can't we at least co
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by eric_h 10y ago
Thank you, I skimmed the first two pages of that, will read the whole thing soon. Looks quite well thought out.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Fascinating. I work at a large WeWork (hundreds of people, ~9 floors of a 12 story building in manhattan). I wonder if I'm silently benefitting from WSJ subscribers who work out of there causing our ips to be whitelisted for uncookied,
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'm more and more convinced that a UBI is the only way to deal with this problem, so the unemployed have a buffer to retrain to a new skillset. Of course, replacing the current social safety net (food stamps, et. al.) with a UBI would
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by eric_h 10y ago
I think they cookie you on the direct link hit, so going back and doing the web link doesn't work without incognito (IME).
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by eric_h 10y ago
Yeah, I've had to do incognito on the WSJ web links for a while now.
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by eric_h 10y ago
A very good point. Personally, I don't particularly enjoy watching football, though I can follow the game. I also don't particularly enjoy watching MMA, though I can appreciate good technique (having trained in martial arts for ma
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'm curious what you found - once they get it fixed, would you mind sharing in some form?
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by eric_h 10y ago
Haha, certainly nothing so scientific. The picture just looks good to me, and compared with other TVs that I saw on display it was better than a number of the other options that were both cheaper and more expensive.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Yeah, I was pretty miffed that my brand new $2k TV was showing me ads. Fortunately I didn't actually want a "Smart" TV, so I was content just turning that feature off.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Holy shit! Thank you very much, I had no idea.
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by eric_h 10y ago
Been using opsworks for about a year now and while it has very significantly streamlined our provisioning/deployment tasks, "nothing but love" is not quite how I'd describe it. It does have some warts.
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by eric_h 10y ago
I bought a Samsung 4k TV ~1 year ago, and turning off the Smart TV features (smart hub, or whatever they called it) most definitely turned off the ads. I'm not actually getting 4k video out of my TV, (since neither the apple tv or play
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by eric_h 10y ago
I'm quite happy with my Samsung TV - picture quality is great. The remote is a terrible piece of shit, and I disabled the "Smart" TV features the moment that thing showed be a goddamn ad, but as a front end for my Apple TV&#x
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by eric_h 10y ago
> We were at a party, and people kept checking in, like they were worried we were in a fight or something, which was kind of funny. An ex-GF and I were once declined admission to a bar in Manhattan because the bouncer heard us having a v
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by eric_h 10y ago
Will they support generic 2factor auth apps or will I have to use a separate Facebook workplace app to generate auth codes for logging in? I'm already annoyed that I get my two factor codes from two different apps (one for Facebook, on
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by eric_h 10y ago
just wanted to add that I highly recommend following @elakdawalla on twitter - she tweets lots of great things about the various space missions that are in progress.
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by eric_h 10y ago
What's amusing about that whole neighborhood is that it really is a tourist destination and as such is the only part of New York that many tourists see. It is very much unlike the rest of the city and yet, that is the impression that t
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by eric_h 10y ago
I most definitely saw a Trump ad in my twitter feed. I marked it as offensive ;)
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by eric_h 10y ago
Personally I love the euphemism they use when they blow up: "rapid unscheduled disassembly"
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by eric_h 10y ago
Bummer. I did not actually finish my degree and as a result ended up working at a shitty, tiny company that paid at the start < 1/4 of what recent CS grads are getting these days (I was just happy to get a job that involved programm
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by eric_h 10y ago
see my (late) follow up comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12559900
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by eric_h 10y ago
From what I can tell from comment history, the GP is quite young and still in school. While I learned a long time ago that a degree (and even a master's degree, can't speak to fresh PhDs as I've not had the opportunity to wor
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by eric_h 10y ago
Obviously this is a very late response to this thread, but I thought I'd add what I actually ended up building for this assignment. The requirements were specifically to build a game, any game, and as long as it was playable (and your
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by eric_h 10y ago
Very interesting point. This suggests to me that Yahoo has been sitting on this for quite some time and only revealed it when their hand was forced...
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by eric_h 10y ago
> For that case, all I think we can do is treat the swatters as people committing aggravated kidnapping or even attempted murder. Absolutely. In fact - if swatting results in the death of a person, then the swatter should be charged with
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by eric_h 10y ago
> That thing, visualizing something given to you in mathematical form, feels very good indeed I agree completely. I still remember the feeling I got when I was able to visualize differential equations in relation to "normal" ca
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by eric_h 10y ago
I disagree - psychoactive substances applied to the gum are absorbed into the blood steam much more rapidly than those ingested.
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by eric_h 10y ago
> conflate academic computer science with software engineering Which is mind boggling. I took an introductory "software engineering" class in (a reasonably prestigious) university ~15 yrs ago which was ostensibly about learning

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