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by flashman 9y ago
As an example, less than a day after my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16612536 "I'm doing ____. Recently I encountered an issue: ____. I've solved it by ____ and as a result ____."
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Format 3. "Problem I had while running my business, and my solution." Engineering blog posts are very popular on HN or /r/programming. Marketing, growth or product development might do better shared on Twitter or LinkedI
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What's the major difference between Airtable and FileMaker?
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Here's a video of Japan's warning system giving someone 30+ seconds of notice before the 2011 earthquake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-FMpNBfna8 (and notice how significant the shaking was, even at that dista
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> Any business or organization that relies on a centralized database as a core competitive advantage can potentially be disrupted by blockchain technology. That's a pretty big "potentially" since many of those organization
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Well, part of the appeal for Tom is that you can just blunder your way through the campaign: "And that’s reason 6: you don’t have to optimise. If I had to do this to progress, I probably would have quit in frustration." I'm r
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Obligatory Slaughterbots link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA
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Here's the authentication report: http://museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/sites/defaul...
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> The biggest misconception engineers have when thinking about moving into management is they think it’s a promotion. > Management is not a promotion. It is a career change. http://fractio.nl/2014/09/19/
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> There are two main components to Harvey’s job, this person told me: to formulate a clear set of rules for what constitutes abusive speech, and to be consistent in enforcing them. The odds are against Harvey being the first person in h
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If you put $20 into your hobby weekly on average, you'll have invested $10k in a decade. Sounds obvious but I know people who put that much into coffee .
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The notice[1] says it was operating in the 700 MHz band. The wavelength for this band is 42.9cm. A few sources I found (StackExchange, Anandtech) say a Faraday cage is effective with a mesh 1/20th the wavelength. Surrounding the device
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Your font is hard to read because of the similarity between uppercase I and lowercase i & l. "Il" is identical and "il" only has one pixel difference. You haven't used any j characters but they'd be similar
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It looks fake, if not because of the sci-fi tech then because slide decks don't go into this much detail. But it has that ring of Black Mirror plausibility that means people will pay attention to it. A "hashlib of engine noises&
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I built a few generative Twitter bots with character level language models[1] (@steam_gaems for instance) and one problem is that they spit out phrases from the source text relatively frequently. So I included a function to re-generate the
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It's a different red (#cc1010) to the story rank numbers (#be2828); maybe the latter colour gave too little contrast compared to the menu bar text, so they opted for a lighter one.
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> Most Android devices seem to do the opposite (lose screen-on time, but keep performance relatively unchanged). I'm guessing this is why my previous Samsung phone used to unexpectedly restart, and semi-predictably do so when I acti
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> Probably not worth supporting. I was going to disagree because the same countries that really like web games are often the ones using older handsets, but Apple themselves say only 8% of handsets are on iOS < v10: https://
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Currently trying to capture robot-controlled ships to replace my human-crewed ships, to bring down my expenditure on crew salaries. If I might digress for a minute, Endless Sky inherits Escape Velocity's very 20th-century American appr
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Is there any data on the average transaction size when converting between BTC and USD? The price might be $17k per coin, but if people are transacting in $100 amounts for fractions of coins, that's kind of sustainable whether the BTC p
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> Most approaches to parenting start with some beliefs about how to treat children first Like believing they respond to reason? Hell, even adults aren't rational beings. We're totally ruled by our emotions and beliefs, and it
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> that has no artistic value Which has no bearing on copyright status. > You go to your boss and say, "Mr Boss, there is no price here but I would like to negotiate with the owner of the blog and pay them." Stock photo websi
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> Facebook thinks they have the ability and the right to diagnose their users with mental illnesses Maybe it's more that Facebook thinks it's horrible when people kill themselves, and that if Facebook's tech could help pre
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We have a similar plasma model, which we got for free because the owners were upgrading to a new one. I love how it doesn't do anything except display signals; we pair it with a Chromecast for most things. Of course, the electricity
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JR passes are phenomenal value, and give you a lot of flexibility. We once caught the wrong train from Nara and ended up in Osaka instead of Kyoto. No big deal: the next Shinkansen was a fifteen-minute wait, made the 50km trip in about the
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> only some fraction of buildings can be saved this way In Australia, ember attack is responsible for 90% of the houses lost to bushfires. If you can prevent flying embers from igniting a house, you eliminate most of the risk to the buil
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> Why aren't there sprinkler/fire retardant systems for the perimeter/external part of a house? There are. Google "external bushfire sprinkler systems" and look at anything from a .com.au domain. These systems ar
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Here in Australia, external bushfire sprinkler systems are becoming more common. Their main purpose is to defend a house against flying embers, which are the most common way that homes ignite during a bushfire. They are pressurised using a
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> this sort of regulation will simply select for large companies who are experts at paperwork and soft bribes. Which are exactly the kind of companies who can do good engineering, so why wouldn't they do that instead?
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> And all for what? So you can turn the lights on after you go through multiple steps to unlock your phone? The fact that they're IoT devices is kind of irrelevant, as is their function. The underlying question is: to what extent sh

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