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by lighttower 6y ago
The book you quoted, The World of Yesterday, is fantastic. Thank you! What a fantastic read. I am astounded how much the world of the past, as it is described in storybooks, was made-up, and the truth was grim and desperate.
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Ask HN: AI trained to restore audio cassettes?
3 points by lighttower 6y ago|2 comments
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by lighttower 6y ago
Have you tried FZF? [1] Fuzzy matching. It's loaded as a vimplug but binds to bash. It even fuzzy matches your bash history (CTRL-R). [1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
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by lighttower 6y ago
Not affiliated in anyway. Just a very happy customer, but want to plug PDF Studio [1]. I've used Atril, Evince, Adobe, PDFXChange (through WINE) and this PDF Studio (not FOSS) is worth every penny. It even interfaces with docusign (bu
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by lighttower 6y ago
I've seen so many of these posts saying, Google removes this or that from the store. But until now I did not realize how criminal this is. I know the Dev. Super guy, addresses help questions from thousands of users personally all witho
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by lighttower 6y ago
I read the book cover to cover after finding references to it by Derek Lowe on his pipeline blog [1]. Learned a lot about chemistry and the enormous investment that went into the space age (mostly because of overlapping technology for ICBMs
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by lighttower 7y ago
The narrative in China right now is finding ways of externalizing the problem. One narrative either pushed intentionally or by fake news sources are blaming American soldiers that were in Wuhan for a military fitness competition. While it s
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The Leader’s Calendar(hbr.org)
2 points by lighttower 7y ago|0 comments
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Air Launch to Orbit(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by lighttower 7y ago|0 comments
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by lighttower 7y ago
I've always wondered what the point is of shaving a couple of seconds from ones time. What you suggest is a worthwhile pursuit. It's a little like war, a new technology can completely turn the tables until everyone uses it.
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by lighttower 7y ago
Does anyone know if it breaks VoWifi?
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by lighttower 7y ago
The paper you mention in [3] is brilliant. Worth a read -- very good work they did.
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by lighttower 7y ago
The simulation website they used [1] is terrible. The filters they put on the images changes the "brightness" of the colors, which is how I distinguish among colors that are similar to me, like green and brown, or purple and blue
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by lighttower 7y ago
So grateful that colorblind is a first class citizen in their development. I drive a VW and their proximity sensor uses red on green background, I think.
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by lighttower 7y ago
I've been trying use this -- but the sync from linux is tough. Been using rClone from the laptop to push changes to gDrive but doesn't seem reliable. I need to manually remember to push the file. If the file changes on the phone a
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The Creation of Biotech Startups: Evolution Not Revolution – LifeSciVCLifeSciVC(lifescivc.com)
4 points by lighttower 7y ago|0 comments
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Music Recommendation Engine(gnoosic.com)
1 points by lighttower 7y ago|0 comments
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Top VPNs Secretly Owned by Chinese Corps(computerweekly.com)
20 points by lighttower 7y ago|5 comments
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by lighttower 7y ago
I still call the voicemail of my deceased family member from time to time to hear their voice. Can't delete them from my contact list
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by lighttower 7y ago
What's the primary Cancer type? I'm assuming multiple myeloma?
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by lighttower 8y ago
Thank you for this. I also read your previous post that you linked to.
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by lighttower 8y ago
This was one of the motivators described in the original Bitcoin white paper
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by lighttower 8y ago
OP here. The thinking that on very long time scales Earth doesn't matter doesn't bring me solace. In fact it's depressing. finding meaning in my travails is important to me... As you say, what else is there?
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by lighttower 8y ago
I'm the OP. I'm CEO of a small biotech company. I'm terrified, constantly, of falling of the ladder, and never again be trusted to do anything of value again. I worry that I won't be young much longer and if this one doe
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by lighttower 8y ago
University of Alberta in Edmonton. I live in Vancouver and the delivery was here. Edmonton has had lots of oil related jobs.
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Ask HN: Delivery guy is a chemist with 2 teenage kids. Can this happen to me?
61 points by lighttower 8y ago|61 comments
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by lighttower 8y ago
What features and improvements currently lacking in keep are key deliverables for you?
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by lighttower 8y ago
This was very funny. Thanks
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Passenger Aircraft Operating Expenses(opshots.net)
4 points by lighttower 8y ago|0 comments
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by lighttower 8y ago
How do these guys find deals to invest into? How do the deals find them?

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