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Therac 25 (2015)(hackaday.com)
2 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 5y ago
You should change the title to "Show HN:", and also explain what's going on.
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by firebaze 5y ago
If the junior doesn't understand the reason behind the code, and if you're an inexperienced manager, you totally could do that. Sad, but from my own experience this happens. And sometimes it's the least bad way to teach.
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by firebaze 5y ago
Looks quite a bit like spam to me. Zero-Info generic landing page, and just praise in the first few comments. Accounts from 2014 with 4 karma praising it ...?
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by firebaze 5y ago
Yes. Just link to https://news.ycombinator.com/submit
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by firebaze 5y ago
Just no. Before woke, it was normal that for example a black person was a person, same as anyone. Even questioning if a black person was different at all would've been heretic, bad, simply wrong, by itself. Also, we didn't have
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by firebaze 5y ago
The problem is less the neurons, more the connections between them: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2778101/ If you will, the wiring between cells, not so much the cells themselves.
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by firebaze 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Report_on_Global_Warmi... 2018, OK, but this was in the press until at least 2020 here in germany. Could provide links, if desired.
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Ran a PowerShell script, Was I hacked?(superuser.com)
34 points by firebaze 5y ago|4 comments
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by firebaze 5y ago
Romans used lead obviously not as fuel, but they did use it, for example for the lining of aqueducts: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wi...
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by firebaze 5y ago
Not implying this is the case for your situation, but occasionally there's another potential perspective: suppose you're a junior dev, not much experience yet, and you don't really understand the business case at hand. Less e
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by firebaze 5y ago
About 2 years ago the most probable scenario was 1.5° Kelvin until 2100. Now we're at 2.5° Kelvin. If this is right, there's nothing we can do at all, as long as CO² is the sole factor. If it's not right, we should do what we
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by firebaze 5y ago
Not so nice. If it was in the kilobyte range, or accessible, or fast, but neither it is.
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by firebaze 5y ago
In other news: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/11405
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Ask HN: AngularJS LTS Past 2021
1 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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Android dialer: IT Crowd's easter egg(androidauthority.com)
4 points by firebaze 5y ago|1 comments
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Talking about Future in the Past(russian.stackexchange.com)
1 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 5y ago
Credibility 2.0. https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/ecu/mayday-the-canister-on-the...
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by firebaze 5y ago
It does work out, in fact you could go arbitrarily far in space (and, mandatory, in external time) if you had infinite energy to spend. The acceleration and deceleration phase is almost negligible. Edit: the faster you go, the slower your o
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Gonzo Journalism(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by firebaze 5y ago|0 comments
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by firebaze 5y ago
I'm german, and almost all of the mentioned words only exist in the imagination of the author. The only exception is "Covidiot", which is rarely used as a replacement for "Querdenker" (literally translated as cross-
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How to Survive the End of the Universe (2014)(discovermagazine.com)
26 points by firebaze 5y ago|18 comments
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by firebaze 5y ago
Just sell your google stock in the next few months. I wonder why Microsoft doesn't sue Google, they're repeating the Internet Explorer story almost step-by-step.
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by firebaze 5y ago
Isn't this the core of nihilism, just framed differently?
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by firebaze 5y ago
"Private Relay".
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by firebaze 5y ago
It's hard to reply to your post in the spirit of HN in assuming best intentions. But please suppose most of the readers here do understand how the system works, and most of them don't approve how it works.
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by firebaze 5y ago
This page directly links to the EFF: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-apple-don-t-scan-our-phones Please spend a few bucks on supporting them. A bit of a background on why apple did this (this was flagged, but I don&#
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How Cold Is It in the Depths of Space?(forbes.com)
1 points by firebaze 5y ago|1 comments
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by firebaze 5y ago
Previous discussion from 10 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28157657
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by firebaze 5y ago
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.05749.pdf

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