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by pgt 7y ago
Sure, but I think it’s interesting to point out the trade-off since you can apply the same principle to antenna design.
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by pgt 7y ago
This will create reverb or sonic “smear”, which may not matter for listening purposes, but technically reduces the timing resolution of notes.
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by pgt 7y ago
I have a sneaky suspicion this finding can used to speed up expert system matching (e.g. Rete networks), which would affect rendering and compilation times for lots of software.
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by pgt 7y ago
You might have a sulfite allergy that’s triggering an immune response. Do you have any other skin conditions triggered by consuming food or drink preserved with sulphites or sulfides, e.g. red wine, dried fruits?
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by pgt 7y ago
What are good alternatives to 1Password?
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by pgt 7y ago
Companies do not act according to their morals: they act according to their incentives. And there is an incentive to sell more iCloud storage if SSDs are hard to swap.
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by pgt 7y ago
You have to apply your argument to yourself, which is "are you responsible for creating any of the value you create?" If you didn't exist there would be another you, so luck and society made you. But you know that is not true
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by pgt 7y ago
I'm working on a graph-based Excel that moves away from a Cartesian namespace to a web-based canvas that lets you place a "cell" on the 'easel' by clicking anywhere and typing whatever you want. The parser will try
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by pgt 7y ago
The author seems to hate the rich more than he loves the poor. Orwell wrote: "The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselv
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by pgt 7y ago
Town planner or city planner is a great analogy! The role conveys the uncertainty of future growth and anticipation of problems much better than an architect, who typically only does a once-off design. Thanks for that :).
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by pgt 7y ago
How did you manage to constrain the time overrun to only 4x? As a mercenary engineer, I've had to answer the estimation question many times. Whenever I've given estimates, it has only ever shot me in the foot. Spolsky might have f
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by pgt 7y ago
Nice job! Some feedback: 1. Ditch the two pulsing animations. I tried to click on the pulsing animation top-left and nothing happened. 2. The logo is hard to read. Consider simplifying your logo, but keeping the flashing red record icon on
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by pgt 7y ago
Clojure's pmap function (parallel map) is pretty cool: http://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#cloju...
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by pgt 7y ago
Can you expound on this? I recently applied some classic signal processing techniques to help reconcile my personal tax accounting by tracking coherence. This sorta works if you consider double-entry accounting as reverb in a linear time-in
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by pgt 7y ago
Aren't complex exponentials signal rotations? If you multiply a sinusoidal signal by e^(-iwt), you are essentially shifting its phase modulus, no?
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by pgt 7y ago
Consider a point on the edge of a rotating circle which is rotating counter-clockwise at a constant frequency. If you plot the point over time in three-dimensional space (starting from 0rad), you get a spiral or helix (like one half of a do
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by pgt 7y ago
People want to be a part of his story and enjoy his donuts at their convenience so they can invite their friends for donuts and retell the story.
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by pgt 7y ago
CONTROL THEORY NERD ALERT! This is hands-down the best video on control theory I've ever seen, clearly depicting the relationship of the Laplace Transform to the Fourier Transform. The Fourier Transform decomposes a signal into its sin
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by pgt 7y ago
Duplicate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21433710 The aha comment that made me realise why this probably won't take off by @claudeganon [^1]: > "The whole arrangement is about control, preventing workers
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by pgt 7y ago
I've been thinking about the nature of security in biology. How do you keep enemies out when you are guarding something valuable like an oasis or your heart/brain? Well, we can install layers of access control like cell membranes
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by pgt 7y ago
I have turned down immoral projects because I could afford to: - a conference room proxy that intercepted and replaced HTTP ads - an app for a quack that promoted a cancer cure - a high-paying gig in gambling software, - building
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by pgt 7y ago
Can you define `collectiveOwnership()` and `selfActualize()`?
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by pgt 7y ago
Following Google's [ad-blocking restrictions]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 ), I switched from Chrome to Firefox and from Google Search to DuckDuckGo. It's been great so far, browsing in incognito
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by pgt 7y ago
I love this idea, but I think there is a stronger pricing model than paying per session. Is the founder on HN? Please talk to me - this is a large market that I've been keeping an eye on for a while. If this is executed with the right
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by pgt 7y ago
Differential Dataflow solves the second hardest problem in computer science - caching - by calculating the optimal reactions to an event that will maintain the client's view. Of course, this requires tracking client queries and state c
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by pgt 7y ago
Differential Dataflow is going to cause a huge upset in several high value areas, including incremental compilation, database view maintenance, UI view maintenance (subsumes React), and differential database streaming: https://gi
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by pgt 7y ago
I would happily wear a wool suit every day! I have two pairs of Falke hiking socks that are made from double-layered silver-infused wool. They don't smell even after multiple days of wear and the two layers slide over each another to p
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by pgt 7y ago
In a heartbeat.
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by pgt 7y ago
I meant the precautionary principle. Fixed, thanks.
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by pgt 7y ago
Where can I read an unbiased summary of the current state of climate models? Last night I was called "alt-right" and a climate change denier by a peer for hesitating to agree that we are in a climate crisis, because I said don&#x2

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