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by jychang 11y ago
As a home user of Office on Mac (and therefore didn't bother with these things), I have to ask: What has been fixed, and what hasn't?
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by jychang 11y ago
It's a mix of both. A 220 story building would be an engineering marvel, and at the same time not a threat to civil engineers. The bread and butter for engineers are much smaller buildings, which are less technically challenging and ac
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by jychang 11y ago
Just have Anne toss you DVDs of Game of Thrones from outside the event horizon.
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by jychang 11y ago
> However I'm not sure if the drawbacks can be addressed in the current JS model, notably: very slow warmup, huge download size Only for the first time loading it. It would be great if some big organization (looks at Google) hosts t
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by jychang 12y ago
I am currently just another college student, but I have some experience in this field, as I had interned at Xilinx (which is the largest FPGA maker right now, iirc, although Altera may have taken the crown). I don't think your typical
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by jychang 12y ago
> Compare your acuity in outdoor, shaded light, to a solely fluorescent lit environment The amount of light in the shade outdoors, or on an overcast day, is around 12 EV [1]. A bright indoors office with fluorescent lights is around 8EV.
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by jychang 12y ago
Yeah, a lot of people are hung up on the "takes 4 days to brute force" part. I'd be willing to guess that most phones have a passcode that's like "1234", or between the numbers 1900 and 2100. 300 tries can easi
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by jychang 12y ago
Does Lenovo enforce whitelists on its Thinkpad laptop line too? Or just non-Thinkpad laptops. If they have Thinkpad whitelists, do you remember if IBM did so when they owned the Thinkpad line?
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by jychang 12y ago
Wow, you're right. I've never noticed as such, but in retrospect very little info on history that is designed to be mass consumed actually contains historical notes that include the technological advance itself. Does anyone know o
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by jychang 12y ago
It took me a few mins to realize that this page is interactive. Press the "Earth" button to set time/date, move to current location, height of wind currents, overlay, etc.
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by jychang 12y ago
It doesn't matter though, a photograph of a low contrast scene with a few blocky subjects would produce the same result.
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by jychang 12y ago
I've never heard of this case, can you explain what it implies?
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by jychang 12y ago
Challenger never got to RTLS, so yeah, it cleanly avoided settling the bet.
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by jychang 12y ago
To be fair the number of HP-UX and AIX machines that need to be connected to printers can probably be counted on one hand.
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by jychang 12y ago
Website's user design is bad- opening "more details" in a new tab, for example, just redirects to the homepage. It's also not very filled out- major services like DuckDuckGo and Instagram just have stub pages. The proble
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by jychang 12y ago
Sound doesn't travel at the same speed given different air pressures and temps. I think the waves wouldn't meet up at certain point.
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by jychang 12y ago
Well, they could still improve. My Macbook's SSD died in a blaze of reallocated sectors and write failures just last week, and that thing was just around 2 years old. For comparison, I've only had 2 spinning hard drives fail on me
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by jychang 12y ago
> hackers (in the MIT/HN sense of the word). As someone at Berkeley who's been to many events at MIT, I feel like the definition of Silicon Valley/West Coast "hacker" is very different from the MIT hacker.
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by jychang 12y ago
For Microsoft stock? I think it doesn't matter that much. Microsoft stock is notoriously stable for tech stocks, so the difference between an all cash deal and an all stock deal wouldn't be too big after, say, a year or something.
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by jychang 12y ago
Magic Lantern is pretty fun, but I bought it because it fits in my to-go bag unlike my dSLR and it's ridiculously cheap for an APS-C camera. It's by far the best mirrorless camera in its price category. You need to go up to to alm
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by jychang 12y ago
It might be picked up as a budget device for customers who are willing to buy dirt cheap devices that didn't sell well during its production run. I can imagine the Fire phone joining products like the Canon EOS M in that category. (The
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by jychang 12y ago
The demo probably isn't ready yet. I would love to see a video of this thing, it looks awesome.
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by jychang 12y ago
A lot of 4K screens aren't at 60fps, they're at 48fps. I wouldn't be surprised if this screen is lower than 60fps.
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by jychang 12y ago
Yep, everyone who's bought something "Made in China" should know about how job-producing factories can and will move to the cheapest location. Nevada giving incentives to have a factory built is no more corruption than tariff
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by jychang 12y ago
Arguably, Twitpic isn't dependent on Twitter per se, just a large microblogging website. Twitpic can possibly open up a Chinese branch that runs on Weibo instead of Twitter, for example.
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by jychang 12y ago
It's hell in winter to get to Reno via 80 though. The highway can close a lot. I'm not sure about the rail lines, but I can imagine a lot of delays in infrastructure in winter either way. At least for a Fremont-LA line, you won&#x
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by jychang 12y ago
But then we go full GATTACA.
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by jychang 12y ago
I disagree. The UI is extremely messy, and far from streamlined. I couldn't figure out how to do basic management tasks at first.
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by jychang 12y ago
That might not be that far off. The D800 is 36 megapixels, if we ever hit 50 megapixels then it might be very possible for a Lytro camera to be 15MP or so. That's perfectly acceptable, resolution-wise. The current DoF of the lens is li
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by jychang 12y ago
I would argue that Google and Motorola never "merged". Google just bought out the patents of Motorola and dumped the company away to Lenovo afterwards. There was no merging, no redundant employee elimination process, like in other

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