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by mchahn 11y ago
> why is it that the schools have to learn and not the parents? Because the schools set the schedule for their classes, not the parents.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have observed crystals and oscillation circuits syncing up on PC boards because of tiny noise on the power supply. This is a direct analogy of the Huygens observation.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> shift taxes from income to consumption Which is another way of saying to make the poor pay a higher tax rate and the rich to pay a lower one.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> 10 percent of smartphones shipped this year will be capable of wireless charging That doesn't sound like a mature market to me. And most of those units will never be wirelessly charged since it requires an accessory be purchased
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by mchahn 11y ago
> I should point out I'm speaking as a Canadian... which might mean my bar is a lot lower. How unpatriotic (grin). My experience has been that Canadian film is high quality. Less hollywood car chases and explosions. I think this i
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by mchahn 11y ago
I guess it would be more interesting to watch than the film Empire by Andy Warhol. It is just a camera pointed at the empire state building for 8 hours. Then there is his 5-hour film of someone sleeping.
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by mchahn 11y ago
What a coincidence. The discussion board for the github Atom editor just started offering canned replies today also. It is not their software, it is the new discuss software by coding-horror that is getting popular.
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by mchahn 11y ago
A bit ironic. Teach students how to sue and you get sued.
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by mchahn 11y ago
This is ridiculous. The amount of data accessed by all Tesla vehicles combined is miniscule compared to the fiber capacity in this country. This should be flagged.
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by mchahn 11y ago
XKCD has become the go-to communication medium between us geeks. What would we do without it?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Unfortunately mercury isn't soluble in water. You would have to use trialkylmonothiophosphates instead of water. (Google makes me dangerous).
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by mchahn 11y ago
Is it true that climbers on Everest pass by frozen dead climbers that are permanently there?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Very misleading heading if you are like me and didn't realize Dell Systems isn't Dell, just a division.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> without your knowledge Then how did you know about it? (sorry, I had to). Seriously though, everyone knows most web pages use GA.
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by mchahn 11y ago
The languages Atom supports have very little to do with the languages Atom is built with. Anyone can add first-class language support to Atom and many have. I watch all the new Atom packages as they are released, which is taking more and m
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Full ElectronJS apps can use something called ASAR That was a major reason Atom went from unbearably slow to start to reasonable. I wonder if the Atom github people pushed the Electron github people to do this.
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by mchahn 11y ago
This reminds me of the story from a while back about a contractor who took jobs and farmed them all out to Indian companies for a small percentage of his take.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I wish I could see some of these packages. I'm too lazy to install and run meta-noop.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Chrome pretty significantly jumped the gun on shipping Shadow DOM The Atom editor uses shadow dom because Atom is chrome-only. I don't know what is going to happen now that it is deprecated. I see warnings to not use it in the d
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Many of the packages on NPM are literally one-liners. I've never seen one in the 2 or 3 years I've browsed NPM for my needs. Can someone provide some examples?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Yup. How did that happen? I'll have to be more careful. Oh well, a bunch of downvotes won't kill me.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> perfecting bipedal motion is a worthwhile endeavor. Especially since it is extremely efficient. The human legs act like pendulums and need only a small push every step to continue.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> but cork remains in heavy use especially for the pricier wines. At my local grocery in california the most expensive wine is screw-top and most of the cheaper ones have corks. My favorite wine name is screw-kappa-napa which is a medi
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by mchahn 11y ago
> I am the only person who thinks the entire idea of Theranos is nuts? Were personal computers replacing mainframes nuts? > It's far more painful to take blood from a finger than from the MCV in your cubital fossa (arm). Why didn
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by mchahn 11y ago
For a number of years the only remaining applications for tubes were the CRT and the magnetron. We are now down to only one.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Citizens United came from the Supreme Court, an institution that is explicitly designed to be shielded from the will of the people as much as possible. The people have nothing to do with that decision. It is just plain unconstitutiona
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have a place in my heart for concatenative languages. When I was a junior engineer in 1970 working on the first sealed hard disk, I used forth to build test routines for the disk. I started with transferring bytes, to seeking, up to rea
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by mchahn 11y ago
I thought this was a parody on pad-left.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> you risk the second system syndrome But a major cause of that syndrome is adding new features to legacy code. If the code was new that wouldn't be a factor.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I am always surprised when I hear of developers letting new versions of dependencies go into production. I cannot imagine taking such a chance. Even if every new version of the total app is tested heavily before production, you lose the in

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