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by mchahn 8y ago
My wife's phone and my daughter's have straps. They are built into the case. They swear by them.
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by mchahn 8y ago
This is at least the second time that tap dripping was involved in a scientific study. The first that I know of is when some Santa Cruz (hippie capital) students set up electronics to record the timing of drips for a paper. They were going
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by mchahn 8y ago
In the 70's at HP (a very different company than the current HP) we had G-Jobs. A G-Job was working on personal development on HP time using HP parts. The term G-Job was a joke. If a manager asked you what you were working on you to
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by mchahn 8y ago
I thought google had removed the 20% project program.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> Games console manufacturers and media player vendors often maintained exclusive services software and content distribution right[?] That must not be true. Atari had to patent a mechanical mechanism that its cartridges used in order to
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by mchahn 8y ago
The article did nothing to explain the motivation for making sick videos instead of bland knockoffs. I know my grandchildren will watch anything. Surely a sick video won't gather more views than a bland one. Maybe the number that are
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by mchahn 8y ago
I was referring to the fact that an "exact value" doesn't even exist. There is noise on every analog signal. If there is no exact value then lossless becomes a meaningless term.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> using lossless analog compression What does this mean? Analog is inherently lossy to begin with.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> using that symbol in positional number systems Exactly. There is a book about the number zero which is a good read (as are the ones about pi, e, i, etc.).
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by mchahn 8y ago
Can some tell me what the "{\em ex ante}" I see in several places means?
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by mchahn 8y ago
> Damn, glad to see this Hmmm. I seem to remember seeing this a year or two ago. Didn't really find any use for it.
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by mchahn 8y ago
Why are the results so dark?
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by mchahn 8y ago
> the thing that blew me away the most with Dell is the support. I have an XPS 13 and when my keyboard got flakey a repairmen came to my house and replaced the keyboard without even checking it first. Also, after I bought the laptop th
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by mchahn 8y ago
And myth explanations spawn more myths. I had read (forgot the source) that it was a myth and that the lemmings were really jumping off cliffs to swim to an island people weren't generally aware of. Although swimming to an island is c
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by mchahn 8y ago
I you restore a work over and over is it the same work of art? A serious philosophical question goes: if you replace the planks of wood on a boat until eventually all the wood is replaced, is it the same boat?
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by mchahn 8y ago
Did he say his work was real or a copy? If defrauding then I can't be sympathetic.
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by mchahn 8y ago
Ditto. I use Github because of the network effect and I don't have the time or desire to try something else. If I have a problem I will switch. I'm not losing sleep over anything.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> Linux wouldn't have been a solution on those platforms And why is that? It takes a while for the most popular hardware to change and linux could easily track it.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> I've never had an actual Ph.D. Psychologist [prescribe drugs] That may be because they aren't allowed to.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> covers how to use threads safely and sanely. It takes a lot less expertise to make events as fast as threads as it takes to make threads as safe as events. I don't know about the rest of you, but I personally do not have a brain
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Ask HN: Should I switch from JavaScript to typescript just for IDE features?
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by mchahn 8y ago
Depends on the temperature.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> i'm not sure how to avoid this feature Talk about a bug being called a feature. This drives me crazy.
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by mchahn 8y ago
> now I know Apple didn't do it first It may not be apple's fault, but many apple fans incorrectly think features originated at apple, like mobile fingerprint scanning. My daughter thinks apple invented everything. :-)
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by mchahn 8y ago
I take it that you don't use node? I write all my scripts in node instead of bash.
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by mchahn 8y ago
My eyes! My eyes!
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by mchahn 8y ago
> I use VS Code now exclusively, having moved from Atom months ago. Ditto. I was a huge atom fan when it came out. Being able to customize it with web tech that I already knew was exhilarating. Between jobs I wrote over 20 packages. Wh
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by mchahn 8y ago
That will also work, but the & isn't needed because foo is already a pointer address.
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by mchahn 8y ago
What are these 1000/4000 year starting points? From when mankind evolved?
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by mchahn 8y ago
To me, if it requires an explanation then an explanation would be best. I certainly don't care for explanations of things that don't require explanations.

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