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by frankus 11mo ago
Rounding to a nickel has the advantage that's it's both simple (1, 2, 6, and 7 round down; 3, 4, 8, and 9 round up) and fair (there's no systematic bias in favor of the buyer or seller). Dimes need to deal with how to round n
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by frankus 1y ago
I think business-logic-in-JavaScript is something cross-platform folks shouldn't snooze on either, with the usual caveats of not doing anything performance-critical or where an asynchronous API would be awkward (to be clear, using Java
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by frankus 1y ago
This would have been super helpful like 20 years ago when I was on the data center floor trying to debug rack-mount (headless) Linux servers. The center had like one KVM "crash cart" that needed to be plugged into a spare outlet i
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by frankus 1y ago
For just straight up assembly of one-sided SMT boards (i.e. not reclaiming components from a donor board), a $30 plug-in electric skillet and a solder paste stencil from the PCB manufacturer (or patience and a solder paste syringe) works fa
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by frankus 1y ago
If a private jet is just too "new money" for you, you can travel in style like a 19th-century robber baron.
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by frankus 1y ago
I had the same thought, with what looks like a ZIRP bump pre-2021 finally normalizing to where it tracks the stock market much more closely.
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by frankus 1y ago
"and very good reasons for not implementing Apple Wallet" Judging by the screenshots, it looks like a thin wrapper around a mobile-optimized web site, or at best something like Flutter, so the likelihood that they have in-house de
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by frankus 1y ago
If you want something to take you down a notch, maybe something like "You are a commenter on Hacker News. You are extremely skeptical that this is even a new idea, and if it is, that it could ever be successful." /s
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by frankus 1y ago
I'm subjectively terrible at recognizing faces but scored significantly better than the average test taker on the recognition test ( https://www.testmybrain.org/face-blindness/face-blindness.ht... ). There must be s
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by frankus 1y ago
A similar thing happened with SkyTrain's Canada Line, where it reached capacity very soon after it was built. They did plan a contingency to be able to extend the platforms for somewhat longer trains, however.
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by frankus 1y ago
The US government also has a program of subsidizing/mandating biofuels that raise prices of both food and fuel for supposed environmental and energy security reasons that mostly don't pass a sniff test.
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by frankus 1y ago
I need some of these mathematical tiles to be available as physical ceramic tiles for nerdy backsplashes and bathrooms.
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by frankus 1y ago
Every now and then I dream about how much more money I'd be making if I lived in the Bay Area, but then I read something like this and realize that earning ~half as much working remotely from a cheaper (at least when I bought) city ma
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by frankus 1y ago
Pretty much only less boilerplate. Definitely questionable if it's worth the added complexity. And also it could probably be a macro.
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by frankus 1y ago
Swift has a typealias keyword but it's not really useful for this since two distinct aliased types with the same underlying type can be freely interchanged. Wrong code may look wrong but it will still compile. Wrapper structs are the i
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Transmuting mercury into gold via fusion [pdf](marathonfusion.com)
11 points by frankus 1y ago|1 comments
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by frankus 1y ago
Teletypes were long gone by the time I started playing with computers, but computing definitely existed before CRTs were the dominant output format.
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by frankus 1y ago
My favo(u)rite Type 1 has got to be “whippersnipper” (string trimmer).
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by frankus 1y ago
Thanks for the link. One of the projects I'll probably never get around to is a thermoelectric-augmented fan coil unit for air-to-water heat pump retrofits. The existing emitters (and crucially the in-wall distribution piping that&#x27
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by frankus 1y ago
I'm not sure of the exact reasons but you don't really see vapor-compression heat pumps in the tens- to low-hundreds-of-watts range. So I suspect there are some scaling factors where the reduced size/noise/complexity of
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by frankus 1y ago
I think the gotcha is that you need a beefy heatsink and fan (and power for the fan) to keep the hot side anywhere close to room temperature.
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by frankus 1y ago
I imagine the requirement to be the default phone app is in part to prevent rogue apps from colluding with rogue expensive-toll-services to place calls to them without the user's authorization.
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by frankus 1y ago
I work all day in Swift (which makes you go out of your way to omit argument labels) and I'm surprised they aren't more common.
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by frankus 1y ago
Loosely related talk from Hank Green a number of years ago whose thesis is basically that you don't owe your past self's dreams anything. It's kind of hard to summarize further, but I really like it: https://www.yo
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by frankus 1y ago
I attended a talk given by a local author who wrote a book about his father being the first black software engineer at IBM, who joined with several women around 1950, and the gist was that it was mostly to take some heat off of them for thi
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by frankus 1y ago
Any idea why they used a dog (or werewolf?) mouth model in the video?
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by frankus 2y ago
Appropriately enough, that "everywhere on earth gets the same number of hours of daylight" fact came from a solar system salesperson, who didn't go out of his way to emphasize the atmospheric effects here at ~49°N. The silver
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by frankus 2y ago
The whole "6am sunrise and 6pm sunset every day of the year" thing at the equator is kind of mind blowing. Another maybe counterintuitive fact is that (to a reasonable approximation) everywhere on earth gets the same number of hou
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by frankus 2y ago
Stepping back, would granting a time-limited exclusive license to the output of generative AI "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"? In other words is there important AI art that society would be missing out on because
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by frankus 2y ago
In that case there's going to be a pre-existing work-for-hire agreement where the camera operator assigns copyright to the studio.

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