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by krallja 2y ago
Call Mark Cuban, make the investments now!
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by krallja 2y ago
If you have ACE, what’s the difference between fixing the kill screen bug and `score = SCORE_MAX`?
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by krallja 2y ago
I’ve only heard that called “the DMV,” but I’m not from there.
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by krallja 2y ago
> When you return, your steps are light, aura clear, makeup freshly set. These things matter, in a technical interview. Well, that’s fairly damning.
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by krallja 2y ago
We had a disc in our classroom once that had quizzes and photos (which would automatically pause somehow) after each short instructional clip.
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by krallja 2y ago
Half As Interesting just put out a video about CED today! https://youtu.be/TScO0fsGdds?si=4jGSaUM7E4Gydagb
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by krallja 2y ago
The unfortunate history of SWEET16 is that it was never used for its intended purpose - https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/14513/11579
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by krallja 2y ago
What’s the front page of HN?
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by krallja 2y ago
You just didn’t wait long enough.
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by krallja 2y ago
In addition to that, spreading the costs evenly across the 40 million residents of California, it’s a whopping $500 per person. Not exactly cheap, but also not a political nightmare to find the funding.
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by krallja 2y ago
Silicon Valley is so named because of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Intel. Shockley moved from NJ to Palo Alto in 1956 to care for his ailing mother.
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by krallja 2y ago
First written account of x is becoming a little rarefied, not to say boring and predictable for some values of x. So I expect this to be the peak of consumers buying little bics to write about their trips to Mont Blanc or the Amalfi Coast.
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by krallja 2y ago
It’s a Dish of Theseus, though. The electronics have been replaced, and the dish has been widened. I wonder how much of it is actually 50 years old besides the superstructure.
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by krallja 2y ago
Turing machines are literally “a set of distinguishable states,” along with the tape, and the rules of the machine. There’s nothing about binary in the definition. Or electrons. 2-symbol machines happen to have the smallest possible useful
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by krallja 3y ago
I’ve noticed that my car’s touchscreen operates at a very high temperature at all times - almost hot enough to burn skin, which seems like a weird choice for something designed to be touched by skin.
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by krallja 3y ago
> higher ups don't want to spend money on a band-aid without really fixing the problem I have literally never had this problem in my career. Higher-ups LOVE to push the problem off to after the next budget cycle.
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by krallja 3y ago
I am on an old Premium plan for the Day One journaling app. It was recently acquired by Automattic. Happy to keep paying, but concerned that Apple recently Sherlocked it.
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by krallja 3y ago
> NYC can't even settle on a car width This is because the oldest tunnels (the numbered lines) are physically narrower than the other two systems (lettered lines), so you can’t run the bigger trains through them. It would be (relati
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by krallja 3y ago
It’s been a long time since I’ve used either, but ext3 _is_ ext2, with journaling added on top, right?
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by krallja 3y ago
If you scroll past all the interstitial garbage, there is one final paragraph of the article: > It isn't clear how North Korea got hold of the TV show but the country has a history of illegally pirating neutral content like football
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by krallja 3y ago
These shares weren’t ever worth $7.4m at FMV.
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by krallja 3y ago
Regardless of what price they quote in their emails, I’ve heard that Quid will only loan you a quarter of the FMV of your shares, at 15% APR (deferred) — plus 5.5% of your shares outright, which increases annually. It sounds like a horrible
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by krallja 3y ago
That sounds like PXE booting with one more step
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by krallja 3y ago
Off-topic, web performance: compress your images, use caching headers, and/or serve them via a CDN (ideally one that supports HTTP/2). The current server is not powerful enough to handle the current set of images on this post in a
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by krallja 3y ago
The mystery name for Pioneer could be "one" or "Pion" or "neer".
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by krallja 3y ago
Dog breeds like Boston (terrier) and English (setter|bulldog|…) are included in the animals list.
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by krallja 3y ago
60 vs 25 shows the ridiculous inefficiency in ICEs: a huge amount of the power in gasoline is wasted as heat- and then some of the rest is wasted again because you can’t reclaim it via regenerative braking. Hybrid fuel-cell vehicles are a g
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by krallja 3y ago
Data goes in both directions. Is “upstream” where the requests come from, or where the responses come from?
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by krallja 3y ago
This article has a photo of the pallet after its “deorbit toss” by Canadarm: https://gizmodo.com/massive-iss-cargo-pallet-reentry-earth-m...
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by krallja 3y ago
The Moon landing was powered and had lots of telemetry. This is an uninstrumented, unpowered box that was released over three years ago.

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