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by nitrogen 5y ago
Humidity is definitely a huge factor. A/C acts as a dehumidifier. Another factor is the amount of IR being emitted by interior surfaces. If it's really hot outside (and the building isn't insulated to the latest top-tier b
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by nitrogen 5y ago
122F is exactly 50C, so it's probably just a nice round number that was chosen for the shutdown temperature.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
To add to this, depending on the amplifier design you might get better linearity (less harmonic distortion) by significantly overprovisioning power.
784.
by nitrogen 5y ago
TN panels are still very popular. On those, elements displayed on screen very easily lose contrast when looking at them at an angle. Back when ads were actually a different background color on Google, I suspect they A/B tested backgr
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by nitrogen 5y ago
You can even do this with things that are true, to discredit them. Then, when someone independently comes to the same true conclusion, their friends can robotically shut them down with "you are just repeating side X's talking poi
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Make it clear, add structure, add visual boundaries. And push back hard against linter/prettifier rules that remove all developer discretion from layout and structure.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If you're building a UI frame, like in this Swing example, I think it's reasonable to keep the code in a single method and separate it into functional blocks with comments. But the variable names and comments should still include
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I wonder if it would help if the plan of action was always conveyed in written form, as well as verbal.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm doing my best and nothing really works anyway. This is probably something that most of us can relate to at some point in our lives.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Doctors have to play a whole metagame I really detest this idea that blatant manipulation is necessary from people we are supposed to be able trust. How about this instead, where the doctor provides information and a plan of action ins
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by nitrogen 5y ago
>> the private sector solves this by having competition. >The idea that private competition will solve broadband internet problems in the US has been garbage for many, many years I live in an area that just rolled out a municip
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Approval voting would allow third parties to win without having to change the number of seats.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This doesn't tell you how big VR might have been if Oculus remained independent, or tied to a less controversial parent company and profit model.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
We need to create a system that makes the wrong people do the right thing. Or even better, a system that makes the "wrong" thing right (e.g. lab-grown meat).
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Tuning kernel/process priorities has made a big difference in my audio code. Tweaking the GPU and USB IRQ handler priorities let me do realtime audio together with realtime OpenGL data visualization and screen recording, where before
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by nitrogen 5y ago
reaching the limits of human perception with FPS Nothing can hit 200fps at 4K, which you'd need to reach low enough latencies to be imperceptible.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm inclined to agree with this, but could you elaborate on some of these behaviors? The ones that come to my mind are punctuality and subservience. Absolutely critical for a bottom-tier laborer, but nobody is upset if the CEO is lat
798.
by nitrogen 5y ago
Back when I was in elementary school, my favorite feature of Word Perfect was that it had a keyboard shortcut for opening a DOS command prompt. This allowed us to play hidden games after we finished our work without having to wait for the
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by nitrogen 5y ago
So we're going to let incompetents govern incompetently for what exists and ask them to govern competently for NEW things? How peculiar. Believing the government to be incompetent is a self-fulfilling prophecy: - Only the incompetent
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There have been movies, such as The Other Side of Heaven. But as a former Mormon myself I think entertainment is more interesting if it focuses on what we have in common despite our differences, rather than focusing solely on amplifying dif
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There is a vast space of possibilities between (and orthogonal to!) the line between "unregulated market" and "centrally managed economy." Just because someone says "this didn't work" doesn't mean th
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by nitrogen 5y ago
SVG seems really intimidating at first, but for simple (especially non-work) use cases where you only need to do one thing, it's actually really fast and easy to generate minimal SVG directly from data. The learning curve is no steepe
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I ran a bootstrapped non-IoT home automation startup from 2009 to ~2014. The hardware UI was presented as a web interface over the local network (backend was a mix of Ruby and C, some of which I have open sourced). Some customers had probl
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Sometimes the prey can hide?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Bitcoin has value that they can spend on doing all of this. Money doesn't directly convert into food. Someone still has to consume the energy to actually make things. By using energy to mine bitcoin to buy food, one is potentially
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Hi HN! I previously released a Rubygem for generating animated Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26871080 That gem was created for this video, which tries to
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Voronoi diagrams and natural neighbor interpolation [video] (with transcript)(blog.mikebourgeous.com)
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by nitrogen 5y ago
And then, at the peak popularity, in part due to my presence, I am forced out, because someone who has never been here says that they would like to live here. This is exactly what is happening in parts of Utah. Planners accounted for nat
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by nitrogen 5y ago
There's flippers who truly restore a dilapidated house and help resuscitate a neighborhood, and there are flippers who put a thin veneer of newness on a rotting frame, bury the waste in the backyard, and then still try to charge the sa
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by nitrogen 5y ago
People generally buy a house because they want to live in it. The nominal value of the house does nothing to benefit them.

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