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1. 751.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   Sorry if I wasn't clear - I didn't mean 8 bits for the whole number, just 8 bits for each part between decimal points. I can't imagine doing 256 iterations of something without deciding that you need to bump the next number
2. 752.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   And at the same time admitting that perfection is impossible. Brilliant. P.S. on my screen your pi symbol π looks too much like n, I was confused for a moment.
3. 753.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   I'm not familiar with Linux version numbers, so apologies if this is a stupid question. How often do version numbers increment that any portion would overflow 8 bits? None of the software I've ever worked on would even come clos
4. 754.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   And Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb. History doesn't look on him any less kindly for that.
5. 755.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   From what I read recently, New Zealand was already struggling to cope with its tourist population. That means they're already on the edge. Probably not a problem anymore since COVID, but we'll see what happens when/if thing
6. 756.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   If you have an actual "Spacetime Modification Weapon" I doubt you need a patent to protect it.
7. 757.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   Something to do with the difference between UTC and New York time zones, perhaps?
8. 758.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   That's why phones have cameras.
9. 759.▲
   by mark-r 6y ago

   We decided early on that a daily scrum was just too frequent to be effective for our team, so went to 2x per week. When we started working from home, we added a "keep in touch" meeting for the other 3 days of the week just to sta
10. 760.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    That's a very cool piece of useless trivia. Thanks.
11. 761.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I thought the 750ml bottle was a single serving size? For a joke, my family got me a 750ml glass a couple of Christmases ago. I have yet to use it.
12. 762.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    My (former) boss uses the time for audio books. If traffic is bad, he doesn't care - it gives him more time with his book.
13. 763.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    That one can be attributed to Grace Hopper.
14. 764.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I've always been confused by the confusion between yellow and orange. I've had people insist that pumpkins are yellow for example. And Yellow Freight (now YRC) has always had an orange logo.
15. 765.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I'm with you, the relationship between brown and orange is anything but obvious.
16. 766.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I thought the majority of their current problems stemmed from having lost the lead in fabs. You can't have the best chips if you don't have the best fab tech.
17. 767.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I love Raniers, and they're not at all rare in grocery stores in Minnesota. Only downside is that they're significantly more expensive than Bings.
18. 768.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I don't know about that. The Gros Michel supposedly has more of the chemical that's used for artificial banana flavor, and I've always hated that flavor.
19. 769.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    It's funny how history repeats but we don't learn. The most popular banana variety used to be the Gros Michel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gros_Michel_banana but it was almost completely wiped out by a fung
20. 770.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    In the case of bananas, efficiency is precisely the problem. The Cavendish is so popular that the entire production pipeline has been hyper-optimized for it.
21. 771.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I was kind of surprised to see a notice to uninstall Flash when I turned on my laptop yesterday. I wasn't even aware that Flash was installed on that machine.
22. 772.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    The whole goal of a modern computer is to abstract away the lower level details that don't matter to most people. The benefit of growing up with those classic computers is that you got to understand the details before they were abstra
23. 773.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    Yes, Jira is very configurable. But whether you'll be allowed to configure it is an open question. I worked on a team that had a very finely tuned Jira workflow. Then one day we discovered that all our customizations had been elimina
24. 774.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    That's a good theory, but it doesn't always work that way. I was working on the most profitable product the company had, but was laid off anyway. The new 6 month CTO had a new idea for how software development should be done and
25. 775.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    Using high heat on Teflon pans can also end badly, particularly if you have birds. http://www.animalplanet.com/pets/other-pets/teflon-bird-guid... .
26. 776.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    Burnt bits of fat don't come off with acid, they need base. My wife pours ammonia into a baggie and leaves things in it.
27. 777.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I bought my new car exactly a week before being laid off.
28. 778.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    Car dealerships often sit on prime retail locations. So that vast inventory will often sit in a location close to but not conveniently adjacent to the actual dealer.
29. 779.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    I think that's more a comment on the insane dot-com bubble era valuations than anything else.
30. 780.▲
    by mark-r 6y ago

    This is why I like Hacker News. If the content transcends the medium, it will get a high enough ranking to bubble to the front page.