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by ken 6y ago
They also played back a part of your own voice into your own earpiece, which helps make it sound like you’re in the same place. Zoom does not (at least AFAIK), so I have no way to judge if I’m speaking at an appropriate volume.
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by ken 6y ago
Not just rural. In downtown Seattle, there's nearby stations I can't get at all. KIRO 7 (CBS affiliate) reception is unwatchably bad maybe half the time. Maybe it's the hills? I don't remember analog being this bad.
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by ken 6y ago
That statement was true of every past search engine, too. AltaVista must have been great and its severe limitations must not have affected revenue, or else they surely would have improved it. Everything is for the best, in this best of all
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by ken 6y ago
In other fields, both unions I've worked under have training programs. Companies don't offer education directly but they do pay a tiny percentage into the training fund, which goes towards classes.
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by ken 6y ago
I'm not a thermodynamics engineer, but one thing that strikes me as odd about all of these is that most of the fans are sitting parallel to the motherboard, and sandwiched between the board and the wall (which only has small holes). Wh
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by ken 6y ago
One of them! Internally, the structure is called "pasteboard", and the clipboard is the "general" one. The OS uses this same data structure for transferring drag-and-drop data, which is the other common GUI mechanism f
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by ken 6y ago
Cruise ship employee salaries definitely do not start at $50,000/year. More like $5,000: https://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-ship-workers-reveal-h... I’m sure they wouldn’t be able to remain profitable if they ha
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by ken 7y ago
My personal time, then, includes such activities as commuting, doing my taxes, going to the doctor/dentist/therapist, updating my licenses/certifications, eating lunch (often at work, by requirement), buying tools/clothe
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by ken 7y ago
Those sound like exactly the same issues as working from home, all-remote teams, flex hours, etc., all of which are becoming fairly popular with employers. If companies are OK with having half my team on a different continent, they should
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by ken 7y ago
The employer requirement for health insurance is only for full-time employees. That scales down great. Two half-time employees should be much cheaper than one full-time.
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by ken 7y ago
That seems to be a packaging issue with MacPorts. It looks like it's including build dependencies, too. It's pulling TeX Live and the Sphinx Python bindings for formatting documentation. I'm not sure what Perl is for, or
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by ken 7y ago
No. In every large system I've ever seen, there's large dynamic components. Avoiding existing dynamic languages entirely simply means building your own ad-hoc one, which is neither more robust nor more efficient (at development
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by ken 7y ago
The Romans didn't have computers, so they didn't worry bout using only 3-digit years back then. And today, looking back, using fewer digits than available doesn't cause any problem. There's only an issue going forward,
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by ken 7y ago
I don't think "ambition" is the correct root cause for "not enough surgical masks", either. Look at someone like Bill Gates. He had the knowledge of how dangerous a pandemic could be, the financial resources to man
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by ken 7y ago
It may be a reliable and useful application, but it definitely does not have anything close to a "native look".
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by ken 7y ago
Lisp programmers lived without Paredit just fine for many decades. Even if we assume that developers aren't clever enough to write a Paredit extension for their editors/IDEs for curly-brace languages, I don't see how that&#x
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by ken 7y ago
"Guri's research doesn't look at ways of compromising and planting malware on these super-secure systems" ... "malicious code planted on an air-gapped system can control the speed at which fans work"
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by ken 7y ago
Modern people suffer “pain and disfigurement” in other ways to display their status, high or low. Piercings, tattoos, branding, smoking, drinking, tight shoes, tanning, etc. We still do terrible things to our bodies for style. That never
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by ken 7y ago
Is this free software? It looks like this doesn’t give the user freedom, either.
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by ken 7y ago
I can’t imagine what “terrorist attack” would depend on knowing the exact number of requests, and fails if only a rounded number is known. Can you suggest any possible scenario?
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by ken 7y ago
Can you? By all accounts, you can’t stop Facebook. They’ll keep using you.
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by ken 7y ago
It does, but that mode has its share of other issues. I accidentally lose the draft I’m working on, every time I use it.
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by ken 7y ago
Are we talking about the same animation? It sounds like you're describing the embedded YouTube video at the top. I'm asking about the dodecahedron-to-cube folding below (dodecahedron-fold.gif), next to "Can you believe that
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by ken 7y ago
When you fold a dodecahedron into a cube as in the animation, are there gaps inside, or is it perfectly solid? My geometric intuition is failing me here.
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by ken 7y ago
Concurrency is one of those core features which is hard to add after-the-fact, and so the initial design strongly determines the course of the language's life. It requires re-opening such fundamentals as what does it mean to call a fu
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by ken 7y ago
My initial guess was MagSafe, since that’s where I first saw it. With a breakaway cable, it’s less likely you’ll be able to keep a solid power connection. I’m a little bummed to learn that this apparently isn’t the (only) reason.
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by ken 7y ago
> It's entirely possible to have an RDBMS that does not use SQL It’s not just theoretical. That’s what Postgres was.
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by ken 7y ago
SQL isn't "a language". It's a family of incompatible dialects. The ISO standard costs hundreds of dollars, and nobody follows it anyway. Or if there's a specific proprietary dialect we're supposed to compare
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by ken 7y ago
REST is a great delivery system but it's not a query language.
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by ken 7y ago
This is just one logging service, not any actual IRC servers. So today's news is not necessarily a huge deal. IRC as a system, though, is massively important. I'd say it's like the Twitter of the first half (so far) of the

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