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by jmole 7y ago
Look at the difference between the emails you get from amazon today when you make a purchase, and several years ago. Today, this is what shows up: https://imgur.com/UF2YBVa 5-6 years ago, here's what it looked like: h
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by jmole 7y ago
Question - How does one write microcontroller code (or other memory-mapped I/O code) using a memory-safe language?
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by jmole 8y ago
This has got to be a subsidy to China's construction industry. I can't imagine any circumstances where a modern war would require this kind of infrastructure.
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by jmole 8y ago
Those laws were written to make sure the government gets their tax money from people who are way wealthier than you. that's why the law is nearly incomprehensible: it's a compromise between lobbyists of moneyed anti-tax interests
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by jmole 8y ago
you don't have to file a NY return if you didn't live in NY during the tax year.
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by jmole 8y ago
It'd be a slimier move to release a $200 charging pad that doesn't work well.
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by jmole 8y ago
The privacy policy is also pretty shit for a lot of the plugins on Shopify. Many will ask for indiscriminate access to customer information, product information, etc.
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by jmole 8y ago
You could use capacitive power transfer with a nonmagnetic electrode.
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by jmole 8y ago
In all of these cases it could also be argued that the mean is not a useful metric for the data.
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by jmole 8y ago
0402s are much easier. the key is to keep your tweezers clean so that parts don't stick to them, which will happen if you have flux residue buildup. also, make sure you have a good set of tweezers. you can use cheap reading glasses fro
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by jmole 8y ago
Airpods are much worse than Earpods for conference calling, no matter what the situation.
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by jmole 8y ago
Awesome images, thanks for sharing. I wish they'd have put these in science books growing up. Are these to scale? It's interesting to see how much more particular (as in, composed of large particles) these cells look compared to t
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by jmole 8y ago
the index of refraction of a material is essentially a ratio to the speed of light in the material, where free space is 1. Glass, being around 1.5, has a lower speed of light.
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by jmole 8y ago
...so your 30 second idea to ruin the keyboard by making it impossible to play a melody that crosses middle C with one hand is better than simply making each key a little more narrow? This reeks of the silicon valley stereotype of "I d
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by jmole 8y ago
Guitar is definitely similar. Look at most world famous guitarists & you'll see big hands. John Mayer, Jimmy hendrix, Steve Ray Vaughn, etc
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by jmole 8y ago
From the website I linked: "Christopher Donison (1998) has commented on the relatively small proportion of female piano competition winners at a senior level, given that they generally greatly outnumber male students in universities.
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by jmole 8y ago
pianos have had different sized keys throughout history, the recent standardization came about in the early/mid 20th century, and the size that we see today was actually driven mostly by piano companies competing to see who could produ
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by jmole 8y ago
I've been reading recently about a structural/sociocultural/technological phenomenon that's actually holding women back in a field where women tend to dominate in representation at the academic level, but are regularly o
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by jmole 8y ago
How much data are you extracting or planning to extract from profitable trading strategies? This seems like a great way to crowdsource market intelligence. To quote another analogy below - It's the modern version of selling shovels, ex
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by jmole 8y ago
and if you think it's bad now, just wait until the company goes under and sells the extension to someone else. next week on: "When good extensions go bad"
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by jmole 8y ago
Yes, then you're just doing bad OOP with sockets instead of a language that was designed for it.
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by jmole 8y ago
Rhonda Patrick is one of my favorite people to listen to. She did a great interview with Joe Rogan talking all about health, digestion, nutrients, diets, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M8X_bs_fzI
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by jmole 8y ago
I was thinking the same thing. There isn't enough power generation capacity in the US to support something like that.
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by jmole 8y ago
This is 100% not true. Enterprise adoption of GSuite is infinitly more valuable to Google than chromebook sales, and that means having well-supported apps on iOS, which is the BYOD platform of choice for most office workers. Like another co
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by jmole 8y ago
Genuinely curious here -- what alternatives are there to this service that are guaranteed beyond 18-24 months?
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by jmole 8y ago
It's one reason that "lifetime employment" worked so well for them.
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by jmole 8y ago
Why doesn't anyone every mention actually paying google and using GSuite, instead of using their free service?
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by jmole 8y ago
Key, as in key-value pair, perhaps
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by jmole 8y ago
It's also the reason California can pass a net neutrality law. Two sides to every coin.
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by jmole 8y ago
i don't know a lot about the physics of it, but won't this run into power loss issues because of the constant changes in angular momentum of the main spinning gears?

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