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by mchahn 10y ago
> dimming at such an incredible rate that it can't solely be explained by any of the leading hypotheses So it must be aliens. That can explain anything.
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Wow. > Development for TempleOS began in 2003 after Davis suffered from a series of manic episodes that left him briefly hospitalized for mental health issues.[2][3] In general it is not politically correct to call someone crazy. But in
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settings/security/Unknown sources
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by mchahn 10y ago
Google allows absolutely anything to be installed on Android. There's a setting for that.
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by mchahn 10y ago
> nearly everyone uses their phones while sitting on the toilet. Gross. That's a common myth. Toilets have virtually no germs. I've seen so many studies that say "ice dispensers have more germs than a toilet", etc.
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by mchahn 10y ago
>There were great expectations for fusion about 40 years ago. I was at the NY world's fair, I think it was 1960 (56 yrs ago). I remember walking through an exhibit that showed fusion. They had a chitload of capacitors in a bank tha
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by mchahn 10y ago
How in the world could image recognition tell apart the zillion hotel rooms that look identical? And what good does it do to know the room? It's not like the trafficker hangs out in a single hotel room.
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by mchahn 10y ago
> Why not order your Risk FREE copy of TERSE today? Are ads allowed on HN?
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by mchahn 10y ago
One of the first things I looked up in XP was how to turn the dog off in search.
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I must be getting old. I dread the idea of learning a new, complex command-line option set.
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by mchahn 10y ago
> The term was supposed to be “Ttpfe”, but he had mistakenly called it “Ttpre”, The same cognitive mistake could have happened with it spelled out. Two concepts closely related can easily be confused.
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by mchahn 10y ago
I've read that there are cicadas with a period of over a hundred years. I wonder how they were discovered. Also... When Bob Dylan got an honorary degree at princeton, the cicada's were out in full force. He wrote a song about it
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by mchahn 10y ago
I couldn't watch much of the video because of the jump cuts every 3 seconds. Why?
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by mchahn 10y ago
This reads like an advertisement. Also, I wonder where this is going. When DVDs first came out with the capability of different camera angle choices, porn quickly picked up on this and made a big deal about it but it went nowhere as far a
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by mchahn 10y ago
Is this a copyright violation? (just asking)
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by mchahn 10y ago
A somewhat related story... I have a problem recognizing faces. I have many times asked who someone is after seeing them many times before. My wife tells me who different characters are in a movie since I can't tell them apart. To me
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by mchahn 10y ago
When I have been programming for many hours, up to 14 or so and then I close my eyes I can see code scrolling up. If I look closely at the lines scrolling I can't see the actual text, but I can clearly see "text" scrolling.
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I'm curious how you steal cable with a tv box. Anyone know?
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by mchahn 10y ago
Is something supposed to happen on the first page? I just saw a blank page using chrome.
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by mchahn 10y ago
I just saw the pages for New York and Toronto and I literally laughed out loud. I'd love to attend one of these.
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by mchahn 10y ago
> A friend of mine even got an unpaid internship Until I read this I thought all internships were unpaid. My children did several each with no pay.
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by mchahn 10y ago
> I'm starting to get tired of seeing the same "minimalistic" landing pages I can't take enough minimalism. I hate complex websites from 10 years ago. I do have a little problem with all the new sites that make you
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by mchahn 10y ago
Another thing good about gold is the fact that you can't carve off a piece, even with the best knives. I learned this on a tour of the federal reserve gold depository. The guide passed around a brick of gold (very very heavy) and said
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by mchahn 10y ago
The name stringbike immediately made me think of a toy. The word string sounds flimsy and weak. Maybe wooshbike? (I'm obviously not good at naming).
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by mchahn 10y ago
Yeah, I'm trying to pick up babes here on HN. (grin)
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by mchahn 11y ago
In the 90's the big thing was "cocooning" which meant staying at home. Some fake trends never die.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> It doesn't, nor has it ever, served hackers. Wrong. When I first lurked here a high-percentage of posts here were relating to startup concerns. The number have dropped dramatically over time. My non-hacker son-in-law who only k
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Can you show me how fast coding is in vim? I would literally like to see how fast coding in vim is. Can anyone point me to a screen capture of editing in vim? I've always been skeptical how editing without a mouse could be fast.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Tide laundry detergent has widely been reported as a favorite target of drug gangs. The author didn't do his homework. Tide detergent bottles are (were?) a fiat currency for drug transactions. Weird but true.
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Just as Amazon does.

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