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by mchahn 11y ago
> Not having the ability to execute it over a network or VM I am willing to give every new method a try but this is a serious roadblock. Another recently announced solution (blanking on the name) has the same problem. So I'll proba
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by mchahn 11y ago
> There's clearly a pretty severely diminished return in chasing further thinness for laptops. Also, weight is approaching the totally diminished return. As long as I can hold an extended laptop between thumb and forefinger, weight
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by mchahn 11y ago
You can trust we give you security because we say so.
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by mchahn 11y ago
As a die-hard liberal I think the top 1% should pay 99% of the taxes. The numbers add up (to 100%).
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by mchahn 11y ago
Isn't there an HN rule against linking to paywalls? If not there should be.
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by mchahn 11y ago
It bothers me when popular culture uses the term 8-bit graphics for low-resolution no matter what the pallette. They see pixelization and automatically use the term.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I like how the mount can be temporary based on a process and be removed when the process is killed. I have scripts to mount directories easily but then they hang around, although I doubt it is causing much problem to do so.
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by mchahn 11y ago
That isn't concatenative either.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> are those dudes representative of males who believe in feminism as a whole? As a single data point, I am a male who is strongly feminist and I am not trying to impress any women. I know it wouldn't have worked anyway. None of my
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by mchahn 11y ago
I knew of an assembly worker at HP Labs whose job including trimming off gold flash. It was a small amount but she threw it in her desk drawer. After a few years she sold the collection for a lot of money. She was caught and had to pay i
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Autonomous flight up to 10,000 feet Count me in the skeptical crowd. A typical prop plane takes minutes to get to 10,000 feet and has many advantages in terms of fuel capacity, engine power, and airfoil lift. Or is this whole thing fa
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by mchahn 11y ago
Yes, but almost half of americans understand completely how we were created intelligently.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> the whole point is discussion of the evolution of warm-bloodedness among dinosaurs. And the question of whether dinosaurs were really cold-blooded is obviously a part of that discussion.
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by mchahn 11y ago
That's funny stuff. Did someone do this on purpose? Surely google would escape the html properly.
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by mchahn 11y ago
How many people here will admit that most of the reusable code they have written has never been reused (other than actual libraries)? I discovered this many years ago. I think it is a corollary to premature optimization.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Can someone who is using a VR headset tell me if they cause headaches like 3D TVs do? The headaches are caused by a conflict between what the brain sees and what the muscles in the eyes are doing. This same phenomenon would surely happen in
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by mchahn 11y ago
I would phrase it as "In Science It's Always 'Just A Theory'". There is always a doubt.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Coffeescript has a good implementation. > The switch statement is seldom used in most applications I must be the odd one that uses it often, when it is needed. When needed any alternative sucks.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Good read. I am one of those who have feared blindness, for no reason. I've spent time wondering how I would code. One little comment ... > You have to choose whether you want to get a job or sit around at home. You have to decide
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by mchahn 11y ago
We are going to do something. We don't know what. Not very interesting.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Does anyone remember the talk of computing going the way of smart agents? It was 20 years ago or so. Apple was one of the main proponents. It never happened then but appears to be happening now. Of course the big success back then was M
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by mchahn 11y ago
If I knew swift I'd understand monads.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I must be slow-witted, but what is wrong with a public salt? A salt works whether it is public or not.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Nice article. > At present, the SuperKEKB accelerator is successfully storing both electrons and positrons to prepare for the tests that will lead to new experiments. I couldn't help but read that as they are stockpiling electrons a
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by mchahn 11y ago
I wonder if there would be any way to apply voting, like that used here, to moderate the toxic behavior. I know there is a big difference between live chat and discussion boards, but I think this deserves some consideration.
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by mchahn 11y ago
My favorite sentence ... "I used to think that I knew what I had always thought it to mean, but I no longer think so".
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by mchahn 11y ago
In the thirty years I lived in SV I made more money from home appreciation than I did from salary, and I made top dollar.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> When we change the name of our functional object by copying it and refreezing, we will not change the functions inside the object. All those functions will still only have access to the old version of the object through reference. That
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by mchahn 11y ago
Move along, nothing to see here, just an asshole.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> They’re little round carbon circles, I wonder how many pieces of carbon he has to look at to find his specimens.

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