nitrogen

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by nitrogen 5y ago
100x this. Bioengineering is the epitome of the hacker spirit this site is supposed to represent. Optimism and motivation to solve the problems of the world come from ... solving those problems, not by belittling the efforts of those doin
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by nitrogen 5y ago
They're in the US: https://www.energy.gov/em/moab-uranium-mill-tailings-remedia...
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by nitrogen 5y ago
That was already in the environment to begin with.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
What makes Ruby a fantastic language is that Ruby code can be structurally beautiful and poetic. It just flows well.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Distros should really be setting niceness levels on more processes by default, especially background software updates. And anything audio-related really needs to be at a realtime priority.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Unless you used XML.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Have other people experienced this scorn for writing that Dan Luu refers to? Sort of. At a point >10 years into my career I had a junior dev ask me to remove my method comments during code review because they might become out of date
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Spend the time on MOOCs or getting a graduate degree.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas Nothing was merged, and last time I tried the nvidia driver didn't work with his scheduler. It's a shame, because BFS was the snappiest desktop experience I'v
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by nitrogen 5y ago
When I was a kid my parents had some bible (plus other books) software for their PC XT that came on dozens of 360K floppies and filled most of the 20MB hdd. What impressed me most was the search feature, and I've never seen anything l
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Student loans and grants existed before 2007.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
weren't even considered Phones had navigation before they had GPS chips based on cell location. Standalone GPS navigation devices with similar form factors to phones existed as well. And GPS dongles for laptops allowed turn-by-turn
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Honestly, it would probably help if American music and entertainment had more of a "here's how we overcome together" theme and less "sing about my bling and you don't get a thing."
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Some but not all of the reasons: It's virtually impossible for a primary candidate to unseat an incumbent in their own party, and gerrymandering makes it so that opposing parties rarely have solid candidates.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Desktop OSes all have some form of optional sandboxing now, so it makes sense to keep chipping away at the edges of the attack surface.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
> >We just need to make political viewpoint a protected class as well. > I have not gasped at the outlandishness of an HN post in some time. How else can a democratic republic preserve the diversity of viewpoints required for suc
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Probably can't make this kind of show on a national cable network anymore: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Deathmatch
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The only must-have feature from a given new phone for me is the upgraded camera. In most other regards, reusing stuff from previous generations where profitability peaked should be fine, giving a dozen niche manufacturers enough clout to b
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Along these lines, I recommend also trying Pry's ls command, which breaks the methods down by which module or class implements them for a given object, and the show-source command. It's this great ease of introspection that ma
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by nitrogen 5y ago
If the game is scientific research, the metagame is as described.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
One week at one of my jobs they went around the place with a megaphone shouting at everyone before a weekly company all-hands. "It's all hands time!" etc. I walked out the door instead.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
A simple keyword search wouldn't get so confused.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
But why is that? Phones are more expensive at retail and more profitable than ever. Why should it be so difficult to make one even with a billion dollars? And it wasn't hard to run a video rental store 25 years ago. What changed?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
niche players can’t exist This is where the world has gone astray. We would be much better off with a thousand three comma companies taking the place of a single four comma company. Also, niches used to be considered socially acceptabl
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Users who turn off tracking and data collection are less profitable. For ads maybe, but if anyone thinks this for retail it's either because they are relying on the invasive tracking for (mis)attribution, or because they broke the ch
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Yes, exactly this. Iff there is more than enough free solar (or nuclear) energy, then our goal should be to maximize energy used per capita and minimize energy only for specific activities, because energy is a proxy for utility.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The "job to be done" is still listening to music on demand.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
We really need an open standard for wireless and wired audio distribution, so different brands can interoperate.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
How long did it take to try all 256 codes?
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This "everything is politics" line really needs to die. It's completely ignoring what people actually mean when they say "turned political" -- that people focus more on scoring points and amplifying divisions inste

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