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Interesting, I guess I've never seen anyone upset about xkcd before. I'm not sure if "author" here refers to the HN comment author or Munroe, but the latter is hard for me to view as "knowing better than to ever cre
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I'm really curious to know how he selects the topic of each article; the archive has quite a range! This is the type of blog I aspire to make, one day
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As an RF engineer, this is a very creative application of mmW and I hope can be successful, but is not without very significant challenges which the company has made no claims to have solved. The issue is, mm-waves (and all high frequency R
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Is concrete actually a good building material for homes? It doesn't seem like it'd be insulating, and you're definitely not getting internal plumbing/wiring. And concrete is actively bad for the environment. It all feels
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>> you would think people in his position would know what private keys are and how to secure Bitcoin funds they pretend to "seize" How exactly would you have handled this differently? They were well aware the account could b
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There's a certain irony to me that this discussion of cool html elements is all embedded as images
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Ecommerce filtering for electronics generally is terrible. I even made a hobby website for used electronics, specifically inspired by the precise parametric search we expect from McMaster and Digikey etc
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Yes, but buying and 'delivering' the gift are two separate actions. So I can buy $30k in bonds for you today (which benefit from the current rates), held in the gift box until I transfer them to you. But as you said, I can only tr
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It works for me in any case, I've done it several times. Not sure what's different
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I find it easiest right-click>inspect the password field in chrome, and paste my password directly into the html value field. Another thing to note, if you're particularly trying to load up, is you can buy I-bonds as a 'gift&#x
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> This is solved off-cloud > You already do, if you store it off-cloud > This is solved off-cloud Yes, but I think the goal is to have these things AND be on-cloud
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All I want is an AI to give me beautiful color palettes. For some reason that is the absolute hardest part for me to get right.
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I would recommend getting comfortable with some basic double-entry accounting software like GNUcash [1]. I found that extremely helpful in learning how to reason about these things, as well as grasp the purpose of different types of account
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This was a great and informative article, but one thing it misses is that there is in fact another way to purchase a 'legitimate' peerage title (though the cost is much much higher). I recall reading about it a while back here [1]
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Now we just need a slick UI for the full workflow: DALLE concept, DALLE scene extensions, and AI up-sampler
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It's just a bunch of regex, nothing too sophisticated. Generally the people making listings are trying to convey all the data, so in a sense it's semi-structured. The most limiting factor is getting a CPU model; I'd like to e
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I like to buy used electronics online, but it's very tedious cross-referencing model numbers and benchmarks and such to determine what's actually a good deal. For example which is better, a 10th gen i5 or a 7th gen i7 at the same
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Like a Zestimate?
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I'm actually stunned just how effective that MARPAT pattern is compared to the NATO blob camo, in the second image.
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Worth noting also that a lot of the more specialized roles that someone like Intel or the few other HW companies need is increasingly specialized, meaning MS and PhD. That makes it all the more frustrating to encounter these salary dispari
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That's a bit like saying SWEs just bang out fizzbuzz every day and poof, out pops the software.
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So I think your complaint is really about the internal float storage truncating sig figs more than anything. I agree that for all its "smart" pattern matching features, Excel should be able to figure out when to give you a better
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I guess I'm confused what alternative you want, to display long numbers? Even more so than a sheet of paper, an excel doc has tiny windows to display a huge potential range of values, and something like 0.00000567 simply might not fit.
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Looks nice, but I'm confused how to read the Expected Returns y-axis. My assumption would be that's an annualized ROI, but it's displaying for instance that US Stocks return 0.7% ? Also no idea if Risk has any objective unit?
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Interesting, and congrats on launching! On the one hand it sounds nice for me to be able to sell a side project and have finality. But also I've never had the patience to actually advertise/monetize them, so the valuation a pre-re
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At a glance this seems to show that bonds are in a historic drawdown. Can anyone ELI5 the implications of that?
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It's because large, directive antennas are still 'dish' style and have to be mechanically pointed at the target (Earth based DSN receiving antennas). That pointing causes vibrations and potentially a shifting center of mass.
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Not sure about lichess specifically, but I know many game servers are a bit cagey about their cheat detection systems, since they don't want to give the cheaters any hints. But as a broad concept, one technique is to compare moves agai
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Related (-ish) is the free and open source Go server [1,2], OGS. A great community, and ad free. I've been playing there since the pandemic started; lately even some professional/tournament games were being hosted there. [1] http
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Cool use of emscripten. Is this handling inflation at all? Fixed-number items like standard deduction will be impacted by that. I think it gives a general idea of the tax situation, but possibly decreasing accuracy at high incomes, where a

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