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by pnut 5y ago
High quality, low latency, whole house, distributed wireless audio without a disposable speaker tech business model.
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by pnut 5y ago
Plus supervillains. They're notoriously expensive to arrest.
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by pnut 5y ago
I wear house shoes, and keep my outdoor socks with my outdoor shoes. I do sock shoe sock shoe because the sequence takes less time overall that way.
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by pnut 5y ago
off-ten An-thunny tor-toys
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by pnut 5y ago
Are you bouncing between countries as your tourist visa expires in each place, or are you a citizen of somewhere other than the US?
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by pnut 5y ago
Seems like he was stumbling towards the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism.
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by pnut 5y ago
Related https://skysedge.com/unsmartphones/RUSP/index.html
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by pnut 5y ago
I believe lithobraking is a joke euphemism for "crashing into the ground"
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by pnut 5y ago
Please disambiguate acronyms in the absence of context.
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by pnut 5y ago
Cheap places are a false economy in my experience.
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by pnut 5y ago
I've never understood that quote... Is he rising in defense of Texas, or is he saying Texas is his personal hell?
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by pnut 5y ago
Obligatory post http://datassette.net/businessfunk/
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by pnut 5y ago
We're going to have to agree to disagree, if you are arguing against mandatory code reviews in software projects. Beyond the obvious sanity checks, they exist for establishing collective consent, and knowledge sharing - these are respo
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by pnut 5y ago
Isn't this situation a counterexample though? Nontechnical ways to prevent behaviour were attempted, and failed. For distributed software development processes, the only thing that works are hard boundaries. No hard boundary -> impl
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by pnut 5y ago
Reminds me of Landscape Jasper.
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by pnut 5y ago
pseudo. "sudo" means "super-user do", is pronounced "soodoo" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudo
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by pnut 5y ago
I'm always surprised how unpopular perl (and even more, its spiritual successor raku) is with the HN crowd. It does not square with my experience of various languages' ergonomics. It's not at all surprising that perl put tho
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by pnut 5y ago
It takes like 3 weeks on average to make a one-way Atlantic transit by sail, only retired people / gap year / independently wealthy can swing that.
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by pnut 5y ago
Yes
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by pnut 5y ago
Netflix is now a major player in the entertainment business, and I would guess there is a pay-to-play element behind the scenes as well as ROI on new productions, forcing them to jam these options down our throats. User viewing preferences
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by pnut 5y ago
You're right, this approach is going to fall flat. Imagine someone coming to you and saying it.
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by pnut 5y ago
After reading so many samples of machine generated text throughout the article, the conclusion paragraph felt entirely artificial and machine generated to me.
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by pnut 5y ago
This generalises human behaviour too far. Not everyone does this. I actually prefer delayed gratification, and will eat my least favourite items on my dinner plate first, so that I might savour the best at the end. I do this with fridge con
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by pnut 5y ago
After 2 whole weeks, I don't think you should be offering "in the long run" advice about things.
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by pnut 5y ago
It's true in the sense that they are the precursors to gentrification, which is significant both culturally and economically. Actually, also fashion and music trends, lots of things. The bohemians just suck at capitalism.
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by pnut 6y ago
The only closeable door at my office is the bathroom stall, so 100% agree, it's super rare for someone to open it.
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by pnut 6y ago
Every power centre in America will happily point the finger somewhere else while the entire system repeatedly fights the same battles, one generation after the next. This dissipates the political power and attention of the individual, leavi
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by pnut 6y ago
There's some interesting ascii art sprinkled throughout that book, for instance https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t0vq3q... https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id
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by pnut 6y ago
Salty/sweet contrast is the core of Hawaiian pizza appeal, and flavour/texture contrasts are the foundation of some of the most interesting foods, for instance salted caramel, pork and apples, etc.
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by pnut 6y ago
Engineering manager's reports are team leads, so that's like 40-50 people probably. Plus any cross-discipline interviewing.

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