jacob019

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by jacob019 7y ago
We have a tendency to measure intelligence as the ability to communicate well with humans. Our pets are "smart" because they have been practicing for millennia. Our children are smart when they show empathy and strong verbal ski
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by jacob019 7y ago
So they just have a bunch of green coffee beans sitting around and getting old? Are they constantly discarding old stock to make room for new beans?
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by jacob019 7y ago
I work in an Industrious co-working space in Indianapolis. As I walk around the office and see people's monitors, it appears that about 30% of people are running Ubuntu. Edit: Query re downvote, too subjective?
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by jacob019 7y ago
White LED light is produced by a narrowband blue LED chip (450-460nm) coated with a wideband yellow phosphor (green-red). It's additive, the spectrum is built up. Some of the blue light is converted by the phospor. You are most certa
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by jacob019 7y ago
Came here to post my favorite part: "At this time, I am busy. I am happy to entertain proposals for later work but immediate availability is scarce."
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by jacob019 7y ago
Non-machinable letters with the automation discount cost $0.65. Protective mailers add $0.30. No tracking though. I import by FedEx and ocean freight. This change won't affect me directly but the tariffs are killing me.
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by jacob019 7y ago
Buy an ESP8266 board from me for $1.85 shipped domestically via First Class mail: https://www.ebay.com/itm/113772095761
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by jacob019 7y ago
Not very well. Have used iodine tunnels for similar purposes, painfully slow.
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by jacob019 7y ago
TIL ^w
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by jacob019 7y ago
They exist as distinct words for a reason. The difference is important. Search "complexity vs complicated", I even found a few articles about it right here on hacker news.
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by jacob019 7y ago
complexity != complicated
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by jacob019 7y ago
ipv4 - 576 bytes ipv6 - 1280 bytes
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by jacob019 7y ago
Works on android too.
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by jacob019 7y ago
Those photos all look amazing. Now I want to replicate those shots and put them on Instagram.
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by jacob019 7y ago
"Sometimes called an 'artificial sun' for the sheer heat and power it produces" No, it's because the sun is also a fusion reactor.
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by jacob019 8y ago
You used to be able to scan memory consistency and pass a kernel parameter to skip bad regions of memory. I ran a system for years with known bad memory that way.
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by jacob019 8y ago
Mortgage is high, and we could put that money to better use but that's not it. We have yard service, laundry service, weekly cleaning service. But still the maintenance is stressful and overwhelming. 6500 sq. ft of space we mostly don
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by jacob019 8y ago
Can relate. After moving around a lot we bought our "forever home" 10 years ago. Forever doesn't last that long. A big house owns you. We're trying to sell.
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by jacob019 8y ago
how did she react?
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by jacob019 8y ago
sounds the same, works with any bank account
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by jacob019 8y ago
privacy.com works well for this sort of thing
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by jacob019 8y ago
Syncthing is amazing, been using ut for years. So flexible, nothing beats it for filesync.
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by jacob019 8y ago
Anyone else have trouble scrolling that page? It's scrolling very slowly, and page-up/down don't work. Firefox 64/Linux
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by jacob019 8y ago
A hefty list if improvements to asyncio. When I tried working with asyncio in Python 3.4 it seemed half-baked and unpythonic. I look forward to trying out the more mature implementation.
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by jacob019 8y ago
Most hoosiers are good people. Indianapolis is blue. We don't have these draconian rules.
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by jacob019 8y ago
In Linux you can generally check the number of ECC errors that have occurred since boot. /sys/devices/system/edac/mc/mc0/ce_count
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by jacob019 8y ago
Unfortunately (consumer) markets rarely agree with this sentiment. A race to the bottom is normal.
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by jacob019 8y ago
"10 gigabits of nudes" Since when do we measure stored data in gigabits?
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by jacob019 8y ago
crocodile clips instead of alligator clips, hehe
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by jacob019 8y ago
well obviously we won't win the performance battle, and it may be impossible to protect the database and user data, but sandboxed execution with a virtual filesystem could protect the overall system, keep it from joining botnets and se

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