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by mohn 8y ago
I agree that such standardization would be valuable, and I will try to agitate for that. For the average person, however, it seems that a web browser is practically the whole OS to them. I bet a media player, and office productivity softwar
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by mohn 8y ago
That's good. It's an ordeal to disable them on Pro, and the once-good guide I found[1] is usually out of date (or some of its settings get overridden) with every major update. [1] https://superuser.com/questions&#x
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by mohn 8y ago
I know I'm preaching to the choir here at HN, but I feel like there is a very important point that the author has skipped over: Part of why the install process and general use experience went so well is all the time and effort Dell put
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by mohn 8y ago
Whoa, I primarily run Win 10 Pro on my home machine and was assuming that if I'd splashed out for an Enterprise license, I wouldn't be having this problem of extremely pushy/sneaky updates. It's good to know I'm pro
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by mohn 8y ago
I'm not sure about systems older than the NES, but as of the NES era, it was reasonably common for a game's "physics engine" to model player position and velocity at finer values than just the displayed pixels. That is,
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by mohn 8y ago
The second column here [1] has links to individual level PNGs. It's not the whole game in a single image, though. I'm surprised to see that "VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas" hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread
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by mohn 8y ago
Unless you've tested OP's fiancee's system yourself and found that to be the case, I wouldn't be so sure. I had a Logitech G500 with awful coil whine and the opposite problem: it would stop whining when moving and start
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by mohn 8y ago
Huh, given the context of loop ranges over integers, when I saw the EWD link in that thread, I guessed it would be the "Why numbering should start at zero" one. Instead, the one linked ("On the cruelty of really teaching comp
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by mohn 9y ago
Nuclear physics is not my forte, but if spin is to be conserved, wouldn't there need to be a spin-isomer transition: one photon in, two photons out --> spin quantum number of nucleus must change to balance? I think one good way to n
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by mohn 9y ago
The image in David Wong-Campos' Quora answer [1] is a bit different than what you've described, but maybe it would have similar educational use. David says the image was made with a long exposure time, but that it's (faintly)
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by mohn 9y ago
I'll second George Saunders! I highly recommend his "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" (a novella plus a collection of shorts). I have not heard him compared to DFW before. Maybe I should give DFW another try.
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by mohn 9y ago
I may have been wrong in my previous post. Apparently "razor" is one of several styles of dice edge and is intended to prevent excess tumbling, so a craps throw doesn't take too long to come to rest. I'm tempted to buy s
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by mohn 9y ago
Indeed. I think anyone who has done some work with a milling machine will know firsthand that a freshly cut 90 degree edge that has not yet been rounded over is sharp like a blade. If casinos actually did use dice that were extremely cubic,
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by mohn 9y ago
Previous discussion on the "InterNyet" topic (a 2016-10-17 Aeon essay, not this exact PDF): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12724009
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by mohn 9y ago
Ah, I should not have stuck with the original post's use of the word "pass". I was envisioning each word being announced publicly, and the speaker designating the next person with eye contact or pointing or something. In this
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by mohn 9y ago
I haven't played this game myself, but from the description I suspect that "passes the word to someone else" should have been "comes up with and passes a different word to someone else". You end up with a stack of w
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by mohn 9y ago
I agree, and judging from the many rolling stops they undertake, so do drivers. When any vehicle has to come to a complete stop for absolutely nothing, they're just putting wear on their brakes and wasting energy. I'm happy to see
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by mohn 9y ago
I've done a little walking in Toronto, never biked. The streetcars' recessed tracks in the road look like a nightmare. I'm sure they're easy to cross perpendicularly, but riding longitudinally with them and getting your
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by mohn 9y ago
As a cyclist yourself, I'm sure you're familiar with intersections where the sensors controlling the lights do not sense bikes. I think the best way forward is for more states to adopt Idaho's policy: cyclists can treat stop
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by mohn 9y ago
Oh wow, the JPEG block artifacts in the big orange buttons on that Amazon Locker page are really something. Thank you for sharing! I don't know if they've changed the table image on the HQ page since your post, but at the moment,
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by mohn 9y ago
The analogy with images is demonstrated in this screenshot [1], which is referenced in a StackOverflow answer on the topic of image scaling in web browsers [2]. When the high resolution image is downscaled poorly, some high (spatial) freque
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by mohn 9y ago
Such a weird piece of history, and exactly what I thought of too after reading this headline. I wanted to check out the site when I visited Boston a couple years ago. For anyone who is considering the same, a small memorial plaque is the on
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by mohn 9y ago
I read that certain optical illusions are not experienced as strongly by native, non-city-dwelling populations. It was hypothesized that this was due to the relative absence of 90-degree angles and "carpentered" features in their
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by mohn 9y ago
It's unfortunate that this workaround is needed, but in KeePass you can set a custom keystroke sequence to define what actions are performed during auto-type. Right click > "Edit/view entry" > "Auto-Type"
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by mohn 9y ago
That looks very promising! I was searching for systemwide EQ apps about a year ago (with the aim of cutting several dB across all frequencies, not actually using it as an EQ) and I don't think I saw that one. I just gave it a try on my
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by mohn 9y ago
My approach to solving that problem in software was to play music through an app with an equalizer where I could cut several dB across all frequencies (see my other post above). Now I can use much more of the system volume range with the ro
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by mohn 9y ago
I had exactly this problem when listening to music on my phone using cheap, low-impedance earbuds! I searched for audio player apps that offer some equalizer controls. One option is to lower all the sliders equally across the different freq
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by mohn 9y ago
I think I see the problem: they didn't make a left handed model as well. Tut-tut.
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by mohn 9y ago
Absolutely! I think my introduction to Big Clive's channel was a review of one of those electrode heater deathtraps for rapidly boiling water. I need to check out more of his stuff.
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by mohn 9y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, I look forward to checking out MikesElectricStuff. I have seen a lot of EEVblog videos, but only a small fraction of his output, prolific guy. I definitely agree, too much grousing at times. Though he did seem

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