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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Honestly this is one of the most ridiculous things I've read on HN, and yes I mean that perfectly literally. Its almost as if this comment is itself a piece of performance art, because the Mona Lisa is (sometimes literally) the standa
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Protectli. They are fanless and use 7th or 8th gen Intel laptop processors. Uses regular laptop memory and mSATA/NVMe for storage. If you run OpenWRT on them they are blazing fast, but its a regular x86 box with an HDMI port so you
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Everyone is talking about gaming, but do you guys think this could be a laptop replacement? I've been intrigued by docking tablets for years now, but haven't found one I like yet (that can run linux well, so no Surface). I like
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Yikes, this article could be used for red-pill bingo. I think there has been a pretty big cultural shift in dating here in the U.S. Because of that younger people need to be more open to talking about sex and dating with peers because the
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Use the old interface available at old.reddit.com. Its mostly fine. There are some really good corners of reddit, though the popular subs have been infected with the well washed masses.
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
In case anyone wanted an approachable introduction to machining your own gears, there's a This Old Tony video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-XOM4E4RZQ
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
I would tend to agree. When I was in college about 6 years ago, web/backend work was not seen as "real CS work". Everyone wanted to do something more than work on a CRUD app, but here we are.
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Yeah, I would only be mildly surprised if this happened a time or two while I was in school. There are some guys that just don't want to go to school, but college football is their only pathway to make it to the NFL. The academic cou
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Yes, I think that players should be offered what they are worth. At this point the cat is out of the bag. College head coaches are getting paid millions per year (look it up, its all public), the assistants are getting paid 200k-800k. Th
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
I think its unfair to assume that about him. There were a decent number of athletes in engineering degrees when I was in school and they absolutely worked their asses off, myself included. Although there were special athletic academic tuto
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
I think that argument is dubious and the money would only affect a very small subset of athletes. It would even be a small subset of football/basketball players. You would want to set up professional feeder leagues and give kids the
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
I think the point of all this is that my opinion of how much college athletes should be compensated isn't relevant. My opinion on how much a software developer should be paid isn't relevant either, because the market sets the rat
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Yes, I got my degree in 5 years and was on the team for all 5 of those years. It was tough. Lots of scheduling conflicts, because practice/meeting/lifting times are set in stone and you have to schedule your academics around the
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
I think sports is a big blind spot for most HN users, so I would like to offer an informal Q&A with me here in this thread. I am a former top-level division 1 football player that got a technical degree and now work in the IT/soft
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
The first time I saw this (using female pronouns for an unidentified person instead of "him/her" or "they") was in RMS's writings. So instead of using the indefinite/singular they, RMS would just say she&
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Its an ugly word for an ugly thing. I think the person who came up with it knew full well they were creating an ugly word and that was their intention from the beginning. Also, we need a word to describe this thing to effectively communic
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
I've watched many of the videos on this channel, and the stroad video was the one that really hit home. It perfectly put into words why I felt uneasy when visiting Dallas, Phoenix, or Las Vegas (other than the strip), and why walking&
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Wow, this is a great visualization tool because it corrects for the distortions of flat maps. Greenland is always so huge on maps, but really its only a bit bigger than Mexico. For people trying the website out, you can type in the country
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by jalgos_eminator 6y ago
I don't play trumpet, but I think that is basically what is going on. You can do pinch harmonics on guitar, which silence certain harmonics or even the fundamental while retaining others. It sounds like changing mouth shape does a si
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by jalgos_eminator 6y ago
Not for me. I regularly have vi sessions running over 3-4 cascaded ssh sessions (and a couple VPN connections in there too). Its usable, but the delay messes with your brain if you are an experienced vi user.
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by jalgos_eminator 6y ago
I would posit that the only good use for carousels is with images. Craigslist is a good example of this with the thumbnails below the carousel. Its very natural with images, like flipping through a picture book. This way you can keep the
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by jalgos_eminator 6y ago
I love these snarky novelty sites making fun of bad UI trends. As soon as the carousel started going too fast I almost rage quit the tab. Well done.
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by jalgos_eminator 6y ago
I guess the followup question is: is this inevitable? The cynic in my says yes, but I don't want to believe it. Many people want to make the world a better place (including myself), but then just become a marketing manager or some oth
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by jalgos_eminator 6y ago
I think an interesting business question is: when does a startup shift from being highly customer/usability focused to focused on making money? We've seen many companies start off by creating innovative products, and now they all
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by jalgos_eminator 6y ago
> A Harvard Business Review study of common traits among CEOs found that the leaders who rose to that position fastest were those who had a “catapult experience”—a bold and potentially risky career move. Perhaps the same traits that lead
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by jalgos_eminator 6y ago
That's not what fungibility is. Fungibility is the ability to replace the object (in this case the money itself) with an equivalent object (in this case another bill of the same value) and they can be used interchangeably. Using the b
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by jalgos_eminator 7y ago
Very nice writeup. I ran into a few sites last year that used this and attempted to reverse engineer it myself. I failed miserably because I know nothing about code in the browser, but for some reason it really piqued my interest. The que
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by jalgos_eminator 7y ago
I have also had really good luck finding music on youtube, especially independent house/electronic music. The youtube recommendation algorithm was really good for music until a few months ago. Not sure what they changed, but I'm
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by jalgos_eminator 7y ago
Thank you for those links. My underlying assumption was that wages grow close to inflation, but obviously that may not be the case, so getting direct wage numbers is much better. Its interesting that the home price to income ratio is clim
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by jalgos_eminator 7y ago
Ok, so something has been bothering me ever since I started thinking about housing in an economic sense. Housing prices seem to consistently rise faster than inflation over long periods (at least in large/medium metros). This means t

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