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by jzwinck 7y ago
I live in Southeast Asia and have been to Thailand many times. Pad Thai is well known to every Thai person but it is not seen all that often on their plates (or in their plastic bags, where takeaway food is conveyed). And indeed a lot of Th
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Huawei Freebuds and Xiaomi Airdots are clear alternatives in Asia at least. Airpods are very popular too, even in places where the cost seems prohibitive, partly because the Huawei and Xiaomi ones are also premium products.
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In cities such as New York the payphones are not really used for placing calls. Their primary function is as a substrate for advertising. No amount of money can buy ad space in some of the best payphone locations.
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They did not use special drives, usually 1.8" drives identical to what was in the smallest portable hard drives. I remember because I fixed a friend's dropped iPod by buying one of those enclosed hard drives and transplanting it.
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Not only did the Diamond Rio 500 top out at 64 MB of internal storage, it had a rather famous hardware bug where it would lose capacity (permanently) if it lost power during a file transfer. Mine lost about 8 MB. Others lost even more. The
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Same happened with billiards: the plain white cue ball got 6 or 8 red dots put on for TV viewers to be able to see the spin a bit. Of course the players can benefit too but that's not why they did it, and many pool halls still use plai
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Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21228237 There is clearly a real problem when private landowners suddenly face much, much lower property values at the same time residents ensure their own continued en
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by jzwinck 7y ago
> Russia is land adjacent to many countries Not to mention Japan, to which they are directly connected via two distinct 640 Gbps links, Hokkaido-Sakhalin and Nadhodka-Naoetsu: https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/sys
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Weirdly there is no "git stash pop --abort" to roll back when a merge conflict occurs during stash pop.
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The Google Translate app has had this feature for years. Near real time audio, and video translation too! It works very well for many languages but not especially well for Chinese (admittedly a harder problem than Spanish).
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Transport Triggered Architecture seems not only isomorphic but essentially equivalent to a conventional architecture if you notice it is effectively just relocating/packing the opcode bits into the operands. This seems to be an impleme
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By "these people" do you mean the owners of Getty? Photographers aren't getting paid much, the current rate is about 80% to Getty and 20% to the photog. The rate used to be 40% Getty and 60% photog, some people are grandfathe
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Do you have a link for the old Intel bug? Here's one for a new Intel bug after just 1700 power-on hours on some enterprise-class SSDs that are still being sold today: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us&#x2F
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by jzwinck 7y ago
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Just seven years ago Crucial sold tens of thousands of their "M4" SSDs with a firmware bug that made them fail after 5184 hours: https://www.anandtech.com/show&#x2
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I wrote PCCL for a use case like this: mostly config but with dynamic behavior. I've also used Lua in the same way. My favorite memory of this approach was when some vendor switched from a static configuration to a daily XML config on
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For many Instagram users, this is an eerily accurate description of their relationship with the site.
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You don't need to sync your data. Delete your account and just write down your daily stats with a pencil if you like. The device will automatically discard old data when it fills up.
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CPU purchase cost matters too. The electricity cost of one 100W CPU might be around 500 USD per year in a datacenter. Assuming 5 years useful lifetime that's 2500 USD per CPU. But cheaper CPUs can easily cost 1000 USD less, so even if
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by jzwinck 7y ago
SuperMicro's ILO and rack mounting hardware were really poor a few years ago. Has that changed? Keep in mind the big brands have improved those parts since then, so unless SM made amazing progress, they're not a drop in replacemen
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I got surprise roommates once too. An entire family living in one of the bedrooms in what I booked as a 2 bedroom unit. Turned out the place had 3 total bedrooms, and while I would have understood if the host lived in the third, this was a
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by jzwinck 7y ago
One of the reasons Airbnb is cheaper than hotels is that fraud and safety costs are passed on to guests and hosts. This is part of the business model. Once you build all the protections people want, you may find yourself at the same prices
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A family member of mine had something similar happen when using booking.com. She showed up at the hotel and they had sold her booked room to someone else. It was late and a bit of a nightmare to find another place to stay. Overbooking airpl
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The link you provide says that is a famous example of a bad user interface. I can't tell if you're agreeing with me.
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99% of users would click "Ignore and don't ask me again." If that option is not available they would tell their friends how stupid their OS was and that it ruined their weekend. The OS needs to paper over known defects, if co
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Yes, this one was funded by the "Alliance for Potato Research & Education." Here's one article that explicitly mentions that: https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/lifestyle/2019-10-1...
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If your workplace ever has a big pizza lunch, take a few boxes and just walk somewhere else to open them. Turn an O(n) problem into O(1) with just a few people helping.
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Landmarking this building removes the choice from future New Yorkers to redevelop this bookstore-building into housing, offices, or even a park. If you want to have a say in how the community develops, maybe don't limit your options fo
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Isn't the real story here that this family bought the building in 1996 and would stand to profit perhaps a hundred million dollars if they sold it today? The landmark status might cut that value dramatically, maybe by more than half. I
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In Python 3 if you have bytes and write them out using the "csv" module, you get something like this: b'A',b'B' b'1',b'2' That's not seamless, and I wouldn't say it he
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I don't think Reddit grosses a hundred billion USD per year. Do you? That would put it very close to Microsoft.

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