lnanek2

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by lnanek2 6y ago
Google says it's just a 2 hour drive from there to LAX, or 4 hours on a bus. Maybe their airline just bussed them over to LAX?
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by lnanek2 6y ago
I think you are right they would have ridiculous amounts of energy like you say, to be able to cross space between stars. I don't think that's as much a penalty to detection as you, however. If you have an infinite energy budget,
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by lnanek2 6y ago
I bet if you take a look at the motherboard for the year and model this happens on the CPU is closer to the left side than the right. That would explain the kernel task being configured to force idleness when left side is hot, but not the r
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by lnanek2 6y ago
There's a project that pulls it off, but as you would expect, device drivers are missing for almost everything like WiFi, etc..
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Seems like a silly article. Even if they had feature parity today, very few people would use the replacement because their friends aren't using it, their family aren't using it, the shops they want to buy from aren't using it
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Is that true of modern e-readers? My original Kindle was a gray background on gray text dark mess, but Kindle White uses LEDs at the screen edge directed through a light guide to come from behind the text. Not that most people don't j
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by lnanek2 7y ago
I like his fiction, but this rant is really unsupported. I don't like Trump either, but I don't go around saying he'll be impeached a second time. On what counts? The guy seems to just be having fun doom saying with little fa
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by lnanek2 7y ago
I've been at companies without ads that still screw the users. At one they had us remove the unsubscribe option, for example, to force users to call and argue their way into a cancellation. The call center was graded on how many users
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Strangely enough, there's multiple sci-books with civilized elephants. Footfall, Poseidon's Children, etc..
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by lnanek2 7y ago
> I implemented something similar for the Kindle Reader Hey, that's awesome, do you have a github repo for the Kindle Reader change/companion app? I learn Chinese using Kindle and the native app experience for that is really te
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Based on the blog, it sounds like he wants to downloaded RSS feeds to the user's device, and not store them on his server to speed up development (all those complaints about FAANG being able to develop at web scale and him not wanting
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Why do you think the glossary implies that? The glossary has "to copulate" plenty of places, so if the author thought cohabitation only meant copulation, they'd just put "to copulate" wouldn't they? It doesn&#x
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by lnanek2 7y ago
I realize it's the tagline, but it's kind of misleading to call Urbit an OS when it's a program that needs to run on Mac or Linux. WeChat is more fully featured, but we don't call WeChat an OS...
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by lnanek2 7y ago
I suppose, but in this case the author fought for and got a free upgrade - he got to live in a single for the price of a double using his roommate's death as the reasoning. If the roommate had dropped out it's unlikely the author
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by lnanek2 7y ago
It's certainly advertising, but he did seem to offer some extra role of: > wanting to point to things that work well Which is more inline with normal HN content. Pointing to some technical thing which works well we can integrate int
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by lnanek2 7y ago
It sounds like you are still looking for a tech job? What about day labor, retail, fast food restaurants, etc.. Yeah it sucks, but you just need enough to afford a cheap studio with 6 other guys crammed into it like grad students often do t
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by lnanek2 7y ago
There's plenty of cases where inflammation is not helpful at all, such as arthritis and psoriasis. When the body is attacking itself in an immune disorder, there's really no down side to preventing the body from attacking itself.
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Usually it's competence at climbing the ladder rather than doing the work. I've seen people shoot up here who do super dishonest things like throw out all the engineers' estimates, make their top estimate down based on when t
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by lnanek2 7y ago
He complains it is all parking, but there's solutions to that. Here in Santa Monica there's a whole row of public parking buildings a few blocks from all the popular downtown areas (beach, pier, 3rd street promenade, mall, etc.).
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by lnanek2 7y ago
I spent a summer there. Even playing solo free for all it was so much fun being the top scorer in a zone, having that little trophy next to your ship, and having people hunt you or get blasted. The ships vary, but there's a fast fighte
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by lnanek2 7y ago
We have a job running on the back end servers here that is expected to take two weeks in order to finish :) Hearing 55 months for your backend makes me more optimistic, haha.
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by lnanek2 7y ago
> from a revenue perspective a wealth tax seems fantastic Amusingly, the current manifesto re wealth inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, pointed out that confiscatory taxes on the rich would be pointless re a revenue perspec
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by lnanek2 7y ago
It's kind of strange that he takes pride in avoiding free company meals calling them lotus eating. If you were really a practical person wouldn't you just eat the free meal and go back to work? Instead he avoids the free meal and
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by lnanek2 7y ago
> If you get fired, unless it qualifies under some due cause, the options should immediately vest. That definitely didn't happen at my company. We had a round of layoffs and the package offered to people who signed an agreement not
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Aren't RSUs the opposite of job security? If you get fired or leave before they vest, you lose them. In the bay area they are often called golden handcuffs because developers halfway through their 4 year term often have another million
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Oakland's a bit of a special place. I have friends living there who have been robbed at gun point, for example, and if you go into a Subway the workers are often behind bulletproof glass because they've been held up so often. Chas
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by lnanek2 7y ago
> As long as vaping without nicotine exists, there's no reason to go after the other version. That's not true. I find nicotine quite useful for hackathons and the like where I don't want to sleep, but also don't want
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by lnanek2 7y ago
>> Lamps to be steady-burning >...which effectively rules out dynamic-matrix light systems like Porsche uses. Good! I'm constantly getting flashed by smart headlights and auto-leveling systems that simply don't work well.
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by lnanek2 7y ago
I've been in hiring loops where the candidate aced all the technical stuff, but wasn't hired because he wasn't enthusiastic about the new company, just sounded like he wanted to leave his old company. With a no feedback syste
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by lnanek2 7y ago
Matrix advertises themselves as an eventually consistent global JSON DB. So it makes sense anyone can build a client and stuff something in there and maybe only their client really handles it. Seems like a better idea given the failure of X

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