omnius19

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by omnius19 3y ago
With that framing, I agree. However, I don’t think it needs to be. I’m hoping it’s more that virtual reality is where to go to interact professionally and you’ll take off the goggles for your personal time. If, instead of needing to live
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by omnius19 5y ago
I’m assuming that running multiple 5-6k monitors will still require multiple cables/ports though. One thunderbolt port per monitor. I’m still waiting for the day we can hook 2 5k monitors + peripherals up to a thunderbolt dock and then
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by omnius19 6y ago
Yikes
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by omnius19 8y ago
I generally see that rational applied to whaling only when discussing indigenous populations such as the Inuit in Alaska. They are whaling in small boats and canoes using traditional techniques. Japan’s excuse for whaling is “scientific s
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Ask HN: What do you say when asked “How do I become a software developer?”
2 points by omnius19 8y ago|6 comments
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by omnius19 9y ago
There are two reasons why you should absolutely boil your water instead of purifying with the sun on a backpacking trip. 1. Fuel is light, water is heavy. A liter of water weighs roughly 2.2 pounds. That is not including the weight of the c
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by omnius19 9y ago
The mathematics standards for Common Core were released in June 2010. So college freshmen this year would have been in 5th grade (seniors in 8th grade) at the earliest when introduced to Common Core style mathematics. Probably later, sinc
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by omnius19 9y ago
This is also why Imodium is included in most thru-hikers first aid kits. It decreases the effects of diarrhea to keep you hydrated long enough to reach civilization if you get giardia in the backcountry.
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by omnius19 9y ago
Sure but this is a highly impractical method when you are hiking from dawn to dusk and consuming 1L of the water an hour on a backpacking trip. For most backcountry excursions, water purification methods must not only be effective, but als
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by omnius19 9y ago
I like this interpretation. It’s been a while since I saw Interstellar, but from my somewhat fuzzy memory of the film, that does seem to resolve everything nicely.
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by omnius19 9y ago
Telcos in the US have localized monopolies. Their customers are a captive audience. The incentive in that situation is for the telcos to wring as much money out of its customers as possible since they have nowhere else to go. Apple is ve
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by omnius19 10y ago
Fair enough and I apologize for adding that assumption. It was unnecessary for making my point and disrespectful to you. I will leave it in for context but please disregard it.
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by omnius19 10y ago
You're right, the Guardian and the Intercept have done some very good investigative journalism in the last few years, particularly around Snowden and the US surveillance state. However they are certainly not the only ones producing im
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by omnius19 10y ago
You may be right, but if so, that is quite a self-defeating and unproductive stance to take. If I accidentally start a fire on my stove, I don't say "screw it" and let my whole house burn down. I pull out a fire extinguishe
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by omnius19 10y ago
There are comfy media bubbles on both sides of the ideological spectrum and it is a serious problem. It is easy to criticize the other bubble while sitting comfortably in your own (please note I don't mean you personally, just a gener
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by omnius19 10y ago
Your question is a red herring. Of course the owners of news organizations have biases, as do the reporters, editors, readers, and everyone else in society. Sometimes the bias is political. Sometimes it is sensationalism. Sometimes the w
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by omnius19 10y ago
I would posit that you haven't looked very hard... http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/206
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by omnius19 10y ago
Many people, myself included, have supported the media long before Trump became president. It is easy to forget now, but Obama was also known at times for having an adversarial relationship with the media. Of course there are click bait a
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by omnius19 10y ago
I completely agree. It is one thing to give reasonable criticism of a specific incidence of news media misconduct. It is another thing to blanket condemn every news organization based on inaccurate hypotheticals and personal opinions with
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by omnius19 10y ago
Good catch! Its always good when your typos completely invalidate the argument you are making.
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by omnius19 10y ago
If we are going to go down this road, then very well... Being the descendant of Isildur does not, by birth right, make Aragorn king. When the two kingdoms of the Dunedin were formed in Middle Earth after the fall of Numenor, the North Kingd
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by omnius19 11y ago
Thanks so much! This is really exciting.
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by omnius19 11y ago
Oh it can definitely be applied to computer science classes. At my college, most computer science classes had optional lectures and were heavily project based. Some of the slower or less experienced students went to lecture (usually less