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by etatoby 7y ago
You might want to look for smartphones targeted to gamers, which usually have loud speakers, or buy a Bluetooth ringer amplifier and carry it with you.
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by etatoby 7y ago
Today it's on sale again for $25. Just grabbed a copy!
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by etatoby 7y ago
Not (yet) a Nim user, but another post mentioned that GC is thread-specific, so you can remove all traces of GC-types from your real-time thread(s) in order to avoid deallocations at the wrong times. A related question is whether you can di
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by etatoby 7y ago
In fact, init=/bin/bash is the traditional way to gain root into a system for which you have forgotten the password. Assuming the filesystem is not encrypted.
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by etatoby 7y ago
I see your irony, but that's actually a specific case of a more general rule. Not speaking the predominant language of the place you live in will make your life more difficult and cut you off from the people and culture around you. It
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by etatoby 7y ago
I recommend "gron" https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron > gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the
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by etatoby 7y ago
What would be cool is putting a RPI-like mainboard and modern screen in an old PSION 5 case. Those things were built like bricks and had a great keyboard.
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by etatoby 7y ago
I've been using UDF formatted flash drives for a long time (10 years?) and they've been working on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X all this time.
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by etatoby 7y ago
> The detector elements of a camera could be made pretty sensitive, but they can't detect fewer than one photon. Or can they? If the detector elements were part of a quantum computer (or a quantum computing "chip", whate
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by etatoby 7y ago
1. Deep Learning. No immediate use for it, but I feel it's an important skill to know. 2. Powershell (on Linux.) I'm already proficient with the traditional shells, but I want to see if this is overall a better CLI and/or scr
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by etatoby 7y ago
Nowadays, wouldn't you just use org.apache.poi for such a task? It can load an Excel file, fill in the input data, and retrieve whatever output data you need, evaluatong and caching formulas as needed.
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by etatoby 7y ago
wasn't Docs an acquisition too? dunno about Sheets but it wouldn't surprise me at this point
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by etatoby 7y ago
I highly recommend Eliezer Yudkowsky's Quantum Physics Sequence (of articles): https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/The_Quantum_Physics_Sequence According to Everett / Decoherence interpretation, as explained by E
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by etatoby 7y ago
I personally prefer the Williams X-Jet or "flying pulpit" from the 80s: https://youtu.be/guc56Kbz5yI Pity it never went into mass production. We should crowdfund a modern version!
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by etatoby 7y ago
> requiring explicit consent for otherwise innocuous things […] numbs people for explicit consent on actually important things. I know HN is not the right place for tinfoil hat conspiracy theories, but that sentence gave me shivers, th
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by etatoby 7y ago
If that's what I think it is, the rest of the world (including Italy) calls it a Sorbet or Sherbet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbet It's basically ice, fruit pulp and sugar, blended together.
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by etatoby 7y ago
In fact, can't you achieve the author's point by writing a Lisp or Scheme reader?
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by etatoby 7y ago
It's on the homepage: https://mixedreality.mozilla.org/static/kid-03fadfdcdaaabce0...
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by etatoby 7y ago
"They" don't want you to know how and why they are brainwashing your kid. When you take it off him/her to check, it will revert to some "safe" default show. </Tinfoil> </Sarcasm>
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by etatoby 7y ago
I'm not aware of any iOS-based VR headsets. They are probably not targeting the el-cheapo cardboard variety.
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by etatoby 7y ago
That's by design. People don't want to be "guided to better design," they want to get their math done and over with, leaving some trace (the Excel sheet) for the next time they or somebody else needs to revise that math.
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by etatoby 7y ago
State-changing GET handlers are against the HTTP concept and specs and are trouble waiting to happen. Each and every one of them were designed and implemented by incompetent and/or inexperienced developers.
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by etatoby 7y ago
Yes. In fact, if we ever manage to build a quantum computer with a non-trivial amount of qubits, we can expect exponential improvement in the performance of any prime number-related numerical research.
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by etatoby 7y ago
In fact, the expensive "gaming chairs" that popular kids buy nowadays to flaunt online always looked like car seats to me.
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by etatoby 7y ago
Not futuristic enough. The future of rooms is they will be more like cars than rooms.
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by etatoby 7y ago
They probably aren't talking about the ones used as love hotels on wheels. They could even be inflating those other niche uses in front of the media, in order to distance themselves from that other use.
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by etatoby 7y ago
Also, the delicious boxed lunches sold everywhere, combined with the social stigma about eating them anywhere that is not a private space or a space already devoted to eating.
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by etatoby 7y ago
There can be many reasons (house not being yours, etc.) but one of them could easily be cultural inertia. During the first half of my life, very few people in my country (Italy) had AC in their homes. It wasn't until the recent high te
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by etatoby 7y ago
No, the rolled R is just a vibration of the tongue against the roof of the mouth.
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China has a silver bullet in its trade-war arsenal: yuan devaluation(marketwatch.com)
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