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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Isn't it much more efficient to use pwm than resistors to adjust energy in that fashion?
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
The glass rose is definitely for smoking crack. Else why is it ofen sold as a combo with a peice of (also-required) chore-boy. 5 bucks for both. Usually on the same shelf with the round-ended meth pipes which dont seem to require any cover
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Why is it obvious fictional music crime inspires more real crime than fictional game crime? Just like games, one could come up with random examples of fans doing real world violence, but the vast majority of the suburban kids that prop up t
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
This matches my experience. Ive recently been more open about science-based (to the extent i can as a layperson) perspectives that dont fit neatly into the binary news representation(s), and discovered many more nuanced perspectives than th
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
Do you choose your block size when you use dd? For me, on multiple OSes and oldish hardware, $ dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/disk bs=1M seems noticably faster than etcher. I suspect thats not even the optimal
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
I play guitar in a traditional jazz band. Found HN while self-teaching computer science as a quarantine hobby. I love the random interesting links and substanitive conversation. A lot of the conversation in the comments gives me direction i
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by howLongHowLong 5y ago
It might help to know that the "instrumental magic" is that he literally adds a beat. Each bar has 4 beats and he switches where they're clapping by giving one bar 5 beats. You kind of have to stop/restart counting to in
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
In the US, there is typically a vertical stud every 16 inches, and no lateral braces at all, except for windows and doors, and where dimensional lumber terminates. There's lots of lateral support from ceiling, siding, etc, but the ques
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
This is a totally correct usage, it just makes you sound like a romantic poet or a 19th century orator.
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“Adafruit Making Machine Learning USB Stick for Raspberry Pi”(tomshardware.com)
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
I use Lyft instead of Uber because Uber forced me to do so many traffic-related captchas to install(presumably with the aim of eliminating employees eventually), I felt like they were squeezing free labor from me. It's getting there.
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-security-captchas-crowdsour... (Not the best source perhaps, but I just picked one among dozens) It's not a conspiracy theory, it's actually true that captchas are used as data for
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
I have a feeling that, for the poster, the creative process itself has enough value. I appreciate their generosity in taking the time to share their creativity, and inspire others to think of creative ways to test limits and subvert standar
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
Oxford language has intelligence as: 'the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.' Wikipedia says: 'Biological material may refer to: Organic matter, matter that has come from a once-living organism, or is composed
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
I think this is the attitude is what the author is trying to parody. It is OUR assumption that intelligence must emanate from something biological, whereas these entities are having sentimental chats with a hydrogen core cluster.
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
I'm new to HN, and find myself coming here more and more often to luxuriate in open-ended discussions between people with divergent, qualified opinions. I'm realizing the lighter-gray text is donwnvted posts. Is it a large number
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by howLongHowLong 6y ago
Most intercontinental freight moves on boats. They can move orders of magnitude more than a plane.