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by hinoki 5y ago
Is it still beer when made from rice? Barley is germinated to convert the starches to sugar before brewing. I don’t think that’s an option with rice, you need two funguses, one to cover the starch to sugar (koji), and the other to convert t
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by hinoki 5y ago
This has limits. During coronavirus, people have absolutely no problem buying the last package of masks.
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by hinoki 5y ago
Even large orgs can be like this, as long as they (the whole company, or more likely just the small part you work for) are growing. It’s usually much harder to hire managers. Just go anywhere that’s growing, prove you’re a competent tech le
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by hinoki 5y ago
Hanlon’s first corollary: sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
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by hinoki 5y ago
Not GP, but I assume autistic people see the goal of a universal cure for autism (or even an accurate screening method for pregnancies) is the same as wiping out the existence of people like them.
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by hinoki 5y ago
This is what Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are supposed to do. If convicting all the horrible monster people would leave very few people free, sometimes it’s just better to make sure the future better. Restitution can be more importa
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by hinoki 5y ago
I thought Dan Holohan sounded familiar, and a quick search showed the excellent talk of his that was posted back in 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18430512 About steam heating instead of water heating.
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by hinoki 5y ago
It was a day hike with plenty of taps to refill your water along the way.
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by hinoki 5y ago
I don’t have much experience with living in the desert, but when I hiked down the Grand Canyon I drank 8L and didn’t go to the bathroom. I also ate trail mix and protein bars, had lunch, etc. I was drinking as much as was comfortable to me,
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by hinoki 5y ago
If you’re ok with a tiny apartment, yes. If you want some space or have a family it’s not as cheap, but it is definitely less than 65% of Bay Area rent.
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by hinoki 5y ago
Salaries in Japan are 65-70% of SF Bay Area (for FAANG, local is much worse) London, U.K. is about the same as Japan. I don’t have experience with India, and my knowledge of Canada is too far out of date to be useful. All those salaries are
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by hinoki 5y ago
This barely scratches the surface of what a complicated topic memory usage is. No mention of shared memory (which is very important for Android because everything is forked from zygote), no mention that Windows separates address space alloc
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by hinoki 5y ago
I think in this instance the owner of the printer, the NSA, is very happy with this feature.
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by hinoki 5y ago
I wonder if it’s an [0] eutectic alloy? This property is used to make solders that melt more easily, and cast iron is easier to melt than wrought iron, which explains the name. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutect
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by hinoki 5y ago
Does anyone know how/when this has changed in tech? Every new father I know takes the leave, and if they aren’t taking the maximum, people ask when they will take the rest. I met someone who took leave for their first three months at A
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by hinoki 5y ago
Maybe they were talking about an experience cap for hiring at a given (low) level? Which is also stupid, but since many companies (I have no experience with Amazon, but I do know Microsoft and Facebook will) “manage you out” if you don’t ge
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by hinoki 5y ago
The GP’s first submission to HN was a link to a diffing tool, so I assume it’s this: https://prettydiff.com/
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by hinoki 5y ago
It sounds like they figured out how to make the distillation version of a compound steam engine [0]. Like others, I’m confused by the efficiency number. Are they producing 385% more water for the same energy compared to the best single stat
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by hinoki 5y ago
This random table I found [0] says 23 gauge, or just over 0.5mm as the minimum size for transmitting 5 amps over short distances. But that’s probably for a solid conductor, so braided would be a bit thicker I guess. Still, it’s not that th
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by hinoki 5y ago
Humans can survive only on salt water too: https://greatestadventurers.com/the-bombard-story/ It doesn’t sound very pleasant though… As discussed a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by hinoki 5y ago
It’s even better now than it was, since now you can get those basic bricks from IKEA for cheap: https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bygglek-201-piece-lego-r-brick-...
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by hinoki 5y ago
But an object constructed from a class still has all the optimisation problems you just mentioned. It’s just syntactic sugar. The optimiser generates invariants which, if invalidated, makes you fall back to a slow path.
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by hinoki 5y ago
GameCube used a mini DVD, but broke with the standard by using constant angular velocity instead of constant linear velocity. So the drive always spun at the same rpm, where regular DVDs spin slower the closer they read head is to the centr
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by hinoki 5y ago
Even Microsoft couldn’t do it, gave up, and just used Blink. I assume management just saw how much of each release was spent being bug compatible with Chrome and decided it wasn’t worth it.
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by hinoki 5y ago
The “orifice” was not for making fuel flow at negative gs, but for limiting the fuel after (once normal forces returned? The article is not clear) so there wasn’t too much fuel causing a rich-cut. So possibly motorcycles could have the rich
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by hinoki 5y ago
In case else is interested why, here’s an article about how aphids transmit viruses between potatoes, so it’s important to plant uninfected potatoes to keep the viral load down. https://ahdb.org.uk/news/the-importance-o
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by hinoki 5y ago
You should have used Loughborough instead of Scarborough :) Low-barrow? Luf-baruff? I certainly had to look it up.
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by hinoki 5y ago
I think it just means you are an Agreeable person and GP is more Conscientious ;)
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by hinoki 5y ago
> Developed by the nation’s leading seismologists, the ShakeAlert system uses signals from more than 700 seismometers installed across the state by USGS, Cal OES, University of California Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technol
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by hinoki 5y ago
Very nice! For debugging missed notes, do you replay the video to the bot? You could capture clips by detecting when the score multiplier drops.

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