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by frankus 6y ago
The whole reason we have time zones is so that midday (12:00) happens somewhat close to the middle of the day, and that midnight happens somewhat close to the middle of the night. I'm not sure what shifting everyone's timezone eas
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by frankus 6y ago
There is the glyphosate hypothesis that seems to fit your situation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3945755/
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by frankus 6y ago
It depends a bit on what type of eye strain you’re experiencing. Dry eye typically comes from not blinking enough. It can also be worsened by blepharaitis (inflammation of the eyelids). If you feel like you’re straining to focus (and you ha
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by frankus 6y ago
A few takeaways for me here: I'm kind of weird in that having the latest shiny technology makes me unreasonably happy. Which means there might be an arbitrage opportunity for companies to pay slightly less and cater to weirdos like me.
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by frankus 6y ago
This is a valid concern for web and desktop development, but it's not uncommon to be cross-compiling for a mobile or embedded system where that isn't a concern.
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Ask HN: Why are software companies stingy with developer hardware upgrades?
17 points by frankus 6y ago|24 comments
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by frankus 6y ago
It seems like the successor to high-end gas stoves is pretty clearly induction. At the same time induction on some level is just an overpriced way of transmitting electrical power from the cooktop into the cookware (not unlike the old induc
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by frankus 6y ago
With an average car tire weighing in at 12 kg or so, I find it surprising that they can lose something like half a kilo per year and still be useable after a half dozen years. I suspect what’s going on is that heavy truck and bus tires are
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by frankus 6y ago
OP is doing a bit, but it’s because a volume (liters) divided by a distance (km) reduces to an area. You can think of it as the cross-sectional area of a hypothetical straw sucking up fuel from a continuous trough set into the roadway.
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by frankus 6y ago
There definitely are some subtleties of building science involved. Insulation doesn’t so much keep your house warm (that’s what the furnace does) as keep the outside of your walls cold (at which point they radiate/convect less heat int
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by frankus 6y ago
One of the pitfalls is split incentives. Builders and landlords pay for the insulation/appliances but buyers/renters pay for the utilities.
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by frankus 6y ago
Generally enjoyed this, but I thought it was kind of odd to finger wag at businesses for being “over-leveraged” because a lot of them were in distress after a global pandemic shut down the economy. A huge exogenous shock with no potential f
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by frankus 6y ago
I overlooked the glaring exception of India which according to a few seconds of googling is also at least partially a common-law country.
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by frankus 6y ago
I've heard people mention fire egress requirements as more or less dictating mezzanines in the US: https://www.nfpa.org/codes-and-standards/all-codes-and-stand...
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by frankus 6y ago
Interesting that the more expensive ones are all in Common Law countries. I wonder if that plays any role. I understand that was also a commonality in the countries that spent the most preparing for y2k.
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by frankus 6y ago
Here’s an article discussing an exploit for pre-2008 MacBooks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18... . It involves overwriting the firmware of a microcontroller on the camer
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by frankus 6y ago
Rivian (of all companies) is building a very cool looking delivery van for Amazon. Not sure if they're going to be available for civilian use, or if there's going to be an all wheel drive option, though. IMO there are very few sit
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by frankus 6y ago
Pedestrian deaths have been rising in the US for a few years after falling steadily, and the number of private vehicles that are light trucks and SUVs has been rising steadily. So there's a clear correlation, as well as a mechanism in
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by frankus 6y ago
The shape of this thing reminds me of one of those desktop calculator apps that have on-screen number keys. Physical calculators need number keys, or else there’s no way to enter numbers, but a device with a keyboard doesn’t need a bunch of
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Amazon SNS will no longer send Apple Push Notifications next month
2 points by frankus 6y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 6y ago
I’ve had good luck with a concrete product called Xypex for waterproofing cracks (in my case between a foundation and bedrock). It’s is much more within the scope of a DIY project so maybe something to try first.
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The Eight Secrets to a Fairly Fulfilled Life(theguardian.com)
2 points by frankus 6y ago|0 comments
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Can Thieves Crack 6-Digit iPhone Passcodes?(daringfireball.net)
3 points by frankus 6y ago|0 comments
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by frankus 6y ago
I’d imagine the biggest downside is scrubbing while cornering on a high-traction surface. The difference in distance covered by the inside and outside edges would be significant.
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by frankus 6y ago
I've started keeping an Anxieties Journal. When something is worrying me, I add it to a checklist that I review every so often (checking off things that retrospect are NBD). Adding it tends to get it off my mind, and then periodically
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by frankus 7y ago
You have to keep in mind that a business in a competitive market would have to trade off investing in surviving a disruption against investing in growth, lowering prices, or increasing returns to shareholders. Absent some kind of coordinati
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by frankus 7y ago
This is one of the few ways SDKs can enable e.g. diagnostic modes without extra integration work by the app developer, but as is often the case there's a fine line between "convenient hack" and "gaping security hole&quot
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by frankus 7y ago
If by "EV" you mean "electric car", then they almost always do (and it's almost always a single fixed reduction, around 10:1). But a lot of non-car electric vehicles (maybe the majority) use hub motors, where the wh
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by frankus 7y ago
It's arbitrary to a degree, but the whole point of having time zones is so that it's somewhat close to noon when the sun reaches its zenith.
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by frankus 7y ago
On some level it’s sort of weird that priority is a field at all, when you also presumably have an overlapping concept of “order we will do these things in”. Priority literally means the degree to which something needs to happen prior to

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