joshjob42

9 ms·

61.
by joshjob42 2y ago
Supernote has links, as does Boox. There is a specific Star based system for Supernote but I never quite got the hang of that, but I use the linking features extensively to link to pages of PDFs for more extended notes about them, and to se
62.
by joshjob42 2y ago
This isn't fully accurate. You can backup your Signal messages on Android with an encrypted file and a key you control. So yes, just installing on a new device isn't going to give you history. I'd prefer they offer a universa
63.
by joshjob42 2y ago
Activate Compact Mode in the settings.
64.
by joshjob42 2y ago
Sky has been in the app for many months, the release last week didn't add the voice, it merely is for a mode which allows a much more natural back and forth and interaction via voice, which is, indeed, fairly reminiscent of the voice i
65.
by joshjob42 2y ago
There isn't any good reason why regular people who fly even once every couple of years shouldn't get PreCheck. It's $85/5-years (a mere 17/yr) and is an almost semi-civilized travel experience.
66.
by joshjob42 2y ago
If you have PreCheck, they do take you to the PreCheck line. In some larger airports, there are separate Clear check-in locations for PreCheck and regular passengers with Clear, and at some (Atlanta, for instance), Clear PreCheck has it&#x2
67.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Hm, well typically in Lagrangian formulations, you're right that you define a functional called an "action", and this involves some integral from an initial to a final position in configuration space. Then the idea is that th
68.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Methane is pretty directly usable. Generally it costs some additional processing to produce higher hydrocarbons, which may be worth doing. But a system that makes pure methane can be used as the first part of some other, optional, system to
69.
by joshjob42 3y ago
I got so frustrated with Android Wear being stuck, with no new chips for years, that I switched to an Apple Watch and iPhone in 2019 after having lived the Pixel/Pixelbook/Android Wear train for years. I bought the $1000 Pixelbook
70.
by joshjob42 3y ago
I'm moving my domain name and personal site off Netlify (already deleted the sites, DNS transfer requested), probably moving to Cloudflare pages. It may only move a few MB a month, but I just can't risk if I put anything more subs
71.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Just deleted my tiny personal site, and will reinstate it at Cloudflare Pages. Thanks for the tip!
72.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Before anyone goes evangelizing Signal, make sure to tell your iOS friends that if they ever lose their phone they lose every message they ever sent on Signal with no way to restore them, and the same applies if they ever get an Android pho
73.
by joshjob42 3y ago
You can get it at Trader Joe's for a pretty reasonable price. It's my favorite!
74.
by joshjob42 3y ago
The author discusses fixed layout epubs. Effectively, the epub can give a default pagination, line-breaks, font, font size, page size, and positioning for images etc., making it render identically on everything (one might optionally omit pa
75.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Not to mention you can put the same amonut of RAM and storage in a DIY with the same processor as this ThinkPad for ~$1400 sticker price for everything, about $700-800 less than this non-upgradeable machine. And if you can sacrifice a bit f
76.
by joshjob42 3y ago
One could imagine though having universal accounts with the central bank, and no middleman for most transactions. Cashless but banks for checking and basic savings really aren't necessary.
77.
by joshjob42 3y ago
I occasionally use a 2mg piece of nicotine gum as a pick me up if I've already had too much caffeine or if it's late at night (or if I'm at a conference where I'm getting little sleep), and I certainly feel the stimulant
78.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Where do you get 30 drivers per 100 vehicles from? Let's model it as every takeover is 1 min, and vehicles need help 5% of minutes. Then you'd model the # of vehicles needing help in any given minute as a binomial distribution wit
79.
by joshjob42 3y ago
They could spend $75/hr on employees and the cost per car-hour would be just $1.50. That's nothing. 3.5M people work as truck drivers in the US, enough, in principle, to drive ~175M cars at the same time assuming 2% of cars need h
80.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Your benefit from building a thing on your land is far larger than the effect of that on your LVT, as much of the value spills onto neighboring land (your mall makes places nearby more valuable). Similarly if your neighbor builds something
81.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Ads are annoying, and virtually nothing is valuable enough to bother paying to read a single article for. I subscribe to a number of substacks by writers I know produce reliably good content all the time, but random articles on HN ain'
82.
by joshjob42 3y ago
I think the vision was just that it was baller
83.
by joshjob42 3y ago
You can also throw in the Bohmians, since you can express at least non-relativistic QM in purely deterministic terms akin to stat mech (it's purely classical uncertainty about your position in configuration space, and there are stat-me
84.
by joshjob42 3y ago
I only clicked on the comments to find out if anyone had posted this. It is also a favorite of mine and I don't even really write in Lisp! Though it has actually inspired me to start using emacs and fiddle with elisp and CL a bit.
85.
by joshjob42 3y ago
If people wanted to use Usenet for text then a service that didn’t offer binary groups should not have been a problem for people, right? It seems rather that the value of the text groups was not high enough to get people to pay ~ anything a
86.
by joshjob42 3y ago
I'm sorry but the 10M people of Los Angeles County with 3.5% of the GDP of the United States which if a country would put it between Poland and Switzerland would, on an open market for water, absolutely crush the ~100x fewer people who
87.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Moreover the actual circuits only use 5 qubits! You can simulate such systems in well under a millisecond on a modern laptop even with 100s of gates. They did a nice demonstration, but the hardware was irrelevant to the actual modeling of H
88.
by joshjob42 3y ago
They went from a few dozen people in 2015 to 400 in 2019 to 2000 today, and also started hosting images and videos in 2016-17. The result of all this is that they spend way more money than they did a decade ago and despite now making an est
89.
by joshjob42 3y ago
Yeah, if they just dropped image/video hosting on the site, it's just a bunch of text and javascript (aka text), etc. Serving that is extremely cheap. They went from 400 employees in 2019 to 2000 now. I subscribed to Premium for y
90.
by joshjob42 3y ago
It is insane how absolutely shit the Reddit app is and how great Apollo is. It's bizarre as hell that reddit doesn't just offer to acquihire him for like $10M cash and $1M/yr salary and be done with it.

More ›