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Flash is about more than just games, musicals featuring Colin Mochrie, and documentaries about badgers and mushrooms. Flash has lasting anthropological significance. Some of the kids who grew up tinkering with Flash grew into structural rol
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Yeah, the air compressor got my attention too, but a little 1.5hp pump isn't a big deal. Surely no one's going to plug in their old full size piston pump and try to keep up with a plasma cutter and a die grinder, right? I do expec
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Duty cycle isn't mentioned. I'm assuming 7.2Kw would be peak output rather than continuous until Ford says otherwise.
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I'm lost on the broken windows analogy. Projects like software are constructed from these discrete elements; criminal activity is not. Bank robbery doesn't have a dependency on littering and jaywalking. It makes more sense from th
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The original source is the Bureau of Labor Statistics [0], which is a bottomless rabbit hole of detail. Data quality side note... Others have pointed out before that a primary work related risk for nearly all of these professions is transpo
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The irony is that eliminating couterfeits would enable product quality for legit goods to actually be different for Amazon stock and brick and mortar grocery stock. It's already normal for brands to have Walmart-specific product releas
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Just this morning I was thinking about the increasing volume of propaganda, trolling, and heterodox/'edgy' I've been seeing on HN in the last couple of months. Now here we are with a piece suggesting that cognitive super
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Think of Roy Underhill as the Cliff Stoll of woodworking instead of klein bottles. Imagine Roy waxing philosophical about klein bottles then reproducing an oaken klein bottle he found buried under a barn that one time. Working frantically,
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Not to mention, the court system in the US is already at capacity, even though the vast majority of cases are settled before reaching a decision. Sweeping in more cases resulting from a flood of new information won't make it any easier
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These fall into the class of 'thought terminating cliches': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...
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I definitely recommend Cannery Row, it was fun and rowdy and not all that long but still as memorable to me as Grapes of Wrath even if vastly different.
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If it's recreational reading, most hard copy books I only consume once. It's nice to pass on a hard copy book to a friend and have the opportunity to hear what they got out of it. Ebooks don't work this way. I borrow them fro
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This is an excellent example of effective apology! 1. Accept responsibility 2. Acknowledge the harm done 3. Describe your understanding of how the mistake was made 4. Describe your understanding of the wronged party's expectations and
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The layout's been just like this since last century. It was an appreciated feature when we were all on dialup, and at the time I found readability to be no problem on a 17" CRT monitor (10.5" x 14") at 800x600 resolution
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The links page (remember those?) is a gold mine of high quality ancient internet archaeology. I definitely remember Sam's site from the altdot days. I do miss the sheer quantity of irresponsible electronics that was on the internet 20
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Assume for a moment I'm a bad-faith, nosy employer who reads HN on a Saturday morning. All it takes for me to match up my little stack of current employee's resumes is a person's city of residence, skills, and employment date
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I started taking a few bites out of a job shop scheduling solution that's been in the back of my mind for ages. I tend to end up doing general geek stuff for small manufacturing businesses. At a certain point they always ask about sche
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For the same reason you'd quit walking in your house at night without turning on the lights after your dog develops a bowel problem. Testing helps us see the problem and deal with it before we step in it and spread it around. Isolating
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It's not about the nine people. It's about the perceived guileless neutering of a media outlet by a far more powerful entity with financial attachments to a financially formidable presidential candidate. Of course, it's too e
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"...without reasonable accommodation" suggests Amazon has moved beyond testing regulatory constraints, to openly challenging them. I'm someone who always reaches for Hanlon's Razor first, but I can't see how any bus
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Johnny Cash recorded a song that's relevant. Wikipedia has a lengthy entry full of unisex names from around the world. Surely, someone, somewhere in the world makes up a new name every day. Based on a person's name alone, there&#x
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Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet(spaceweatherarchive.com)
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Like other commentors, I have astigmatism. Something not mentioned by other commentors; I have highly asymetrical astigmatism. Reading #FFF against #000 (dark on light or light on dark, either way) with both eyes open causes vividly strobin
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It wouldn't be too remarkable if they stopped there. It's not unusual for enterprise-targeted application databases to return nothing when one queries sys.foreign_keys. However, they've done the extra credit work to redefine
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NYC cabs are cars only because that's the environment they operate in. Think of what a cab would look like in a busy carfree city. Disneyland makes an okay example for North Americans. There's no need to go to the considerable exp
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It's odd that crows were chosen for this study. It's well established that crows are talented vocal mimics, and in captivity to use those vocalizations to interact with their captors. It's analogous to looking for this behavi
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Some ICE vehicles don't have a transmission! The most important reason for ICE engines to have multiple gears is low speed operation and moving from a stopped position. First - ICE engines have a minimum running speed, usually between
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To the first criticism - Internet TV is somewhat like using a tivo or similar. It removes the time constraints attached to broadcast and cable TV. Internet TV has the additional advantage of being pre-loaded with content, no planning ahead
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It's not impacting all of Insynq's services. I work with an Insynq customer. Their Insynq services are still running, by some generous stroke of fate. The only outage we noticed was in the middle of the day on the 16th. For about
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There's something at play that causes precision ground surfaces to stick together. Oil certainly plays a part, but there's a point that when two surfaces are flat enough, they'll stick hard in place, and there's a "

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