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by mchahn 11y ago
> there should be a substantial reduction in power usage, no? There is no way to know by just watching the phone's behavior. The task could be using 0.1% or 10%. If the GPS is processed mostly by hardware and the app just periodic
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by mchahn 11y ago
I'm surprised there are only two seats per row. It must be smaller than it looks in the plans. I hope it is still economical with low capacity seating.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I didn't know that they are pretty sure it uses real quantum effects. The article says Google confirmed it. This is amazing news. Most articles say there are only a few qubits in labs.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Several days later he just received a rejection email. Wow. That is rare nowadays. 30 years ago in silicon valley all companies sent at least a rejection form letter. Recently no one seems to take the trouble. Maybe just the last y
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by mchahn 11y ago
Couldn't you get close to optimization by just observing the load order in a real page load? Why go to the trouble to construct the dependency graph?
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by mchahn 11y ago
It is a shame that this will reduce the adoption of such a useful medical breakthrough. There should be exceptions for things that greatly affect the public good.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I'm having trouble figuring out why this is on HN. Is there some interest here in the ethics of betraying our country? I love Greene and his novels, but why here?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Me too.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> I do it because it reduces physical code size And aren't the number of bugs loosely related to the number of lines of code? A darling has fewer chances of a typo bug.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> several individuals and groups have developed methods for adapting self winding gear tech Anyone know where I can find out about this?
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by mchahn 11y ago
This is only loosely related, but does anyone else have a problem with the new standard of a left-pointing arrow on the top left of a screen with a label? The label tells where you are now but it's presence next to the arrow makes i
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by mchahn 11y ago
Does anyone else hate the white background of the title font? I've seen that look before, but only when my css was screwed up. I don't see how anyone could intentionally choose that.
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by mchahn 11y ago
It left me very curious as to who Viki is. He mentions her (him?) often. Anyone know?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Ah, I understand what you are saying now. Technically, not being able to install new software isn't bricked since you can still run the old. I only run the browser on my old phones so I didn't notice this.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Isn't the warp of the universe determined by mass? I wish there was some indication of how he plans to warp space while not having the mass of a star in his ship.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> phones becoming nothing more than expensive bricks after 2-3 years due to lack of vendor support, coupled platform DRM that prevents re-use? I have repurposed my old Samsung android phones around the house as displays on the walls. Th
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have all my aliases in the form of v-object, where v is a one-letter verb and object is the object of that verb, which can also be just one letter. This avoid conflicts because I haven't seen many commands with a hyphen in them. For
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by mchahn 11y ago
It didn't seem too bad to me, but I'm running an ad-blocker.
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by mchahn 11y ago
The abbr tag didn't work in my latest chrome browser. The pop-up always showed, not just on hovering.
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by mchahn 11y ago
The "paradox" is that if player's batting averages, when high, get worse predictions and low averages are predicted to get higher, then these predictions work better than just guessing they will stay the same. This doesn&#x27
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by mchahn 11y ago
https://hardsci.wordpress.com/2016/03/03/evaluating-a-new-cr... http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Science-s/235582
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by mchahn 11y ago
A tool whose goal is efficiency shouldn't have verbose syntax like "rash search --cwd . --include-pattern " test " --include-pattern "tox*". By the time I type that I could have found it via other means. For
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by mchahn 11y ago
I had trouble with this. The editing pane was on the bottom, not the left, and problems would expect an answer that would have required me to be psychic to answer. E.g. I was supposed to type in foo but foo wasn't mentioned in the pr
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by mchahn 11y ago
A paper was just released that showed this paper was wrong. Humorously the authors say they are now waiting for someone to show they are wrong.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> there has been no documented case of exploding teeth since the 1920s ... ... which makes be believe this is baloney.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I was impressed when my dog would lie down by his bowl one minute before feeding time. I think he may have been keying of the sunlight position, which is always available where I live.
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by mchahn 11y ago
If only someone could make the election technology itself better.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I think the IOT just jumped the shark.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Finally, things predicted in the 60's are coming true. Now I'm waiting for my flying car. Seriously though, this is awesome.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I love the figures.

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