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811.
by prewett 5y ago
Very creative approach! I'm curious whether they got the deposit on their apartment back, given that apartments in Beijing are usually furnished, so probably the furniture was the landlord's. Could go either way: the landlord migh
812.
by prewett 5y ago
I love the MBP trackpad except it is way too big: the 2012 size was perfect. I have tap-to-click enabled. At least once a day I have a palm or finger grazing the tackpad resulting in the cursor jumping to another line mid-word, or Cmd-click
813.
by prewett 5y ago
Given that he is donating $200 million towards its construction, presumably he spent a substantial amount of money on getting qualified people to design it. It's not like he's short on money.
814.
by prewett 5y ago
Not that I want to compliment Zuckerberg, but "buy what you can't build", "know what you can't build", and "reasonably estimate the value of a young company" all seem like business savvy to me. Warr
815.
by prewett 5y ago
I'm on Mojave, but I've had the same symptom for audio happen to me but just using wired headphones, and `sudo killall -9 coreaudiod` fixes it.
816.
by prewett 5y ago
China treats its major cities (and the nearby area) at the province level: Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing. So it's not unprecedented among governing systems. And given the size of those areas, it is a pragmatic approach.
817.
by prewett 5y ago
UI feedback: when selecting time zones to coordinate for a meeting, having a huge list to select from is such a pain that I would use some other tool just for that reason. Some of the common zones for an English-language tool are way at the
818.
by prewett 5y ago
Another interpretation is "[because] I was a financially-insecure immigrant, I knew this deal would change my life [by clearly achieving the financial security I had been constantly worrying about and seeking to get][and therefore I wa
819.
by prewett 5y ago
You get a nice, perfect rectangle. It goes nicely with all the other rectangles in the product (case, keyboard, trackpad). Two lines of symmetry everywhere. Now the main rectangle has a big chunk out of it marring it and removing the horizo
820.
by prewett 5y ago
That makes me happier, but it's a deep gash into an otherwise perfect rectangle. It's a little like the buying a brand new table (or car) and the first thing you do is accidentally put deep gouge in it. Perfectly serviceable? Yes.
821.
by prewett 5y ago
If you think that’s chilling, read the essay “Engineering the Human Soul” ( https://sinocism.com/p/engineers-of-the-soul-ideology-in ), by a long-time Australian China-watcher. He asserts that Xi Jinping though follows i
822.
by prewett 5y ago
I don't know what "antinuclear othodoxy" is but it seems reasonable to oppose a technology that creates waste products that cause mutations in the genetic code for thousands of years, and for which we have two cases where rea
823.
by prewett 5y ago
What percentage of adults are childless, though?
824.
by prewett 5y ago
Lao is often use as a colloquial form of respect. So “ba” means “father”, so “lao ba” is kind of like “my old man”. “Lao ban” (ban meaning business owner / boss) is “boss”. Wives might call their husband “lao gong”. I think “jiu4” is o
825.
by prewett 5y ago
Neither list seems to include much fiction. I've been reading "Diaspora" based on HN recommendations, as well as "Snow Crash", "Cryptonomican", and "The Martian". ("Cryptonomican" was a
826.
by prewett 5y ago
For me it's not an economic thing, it's that the metric units aren't that useful for everyday things. Sure, converting between them is easy, but there aren't centimeter sized things, meter sized things that I use every d
827.
by prewett 5y ago
Kudos for taking on this project, and I like the idea! I think it'll be a big project to take it to the next level, but would love to have a search engine that's more useful. Some reactions: - The font is really big and the column
828.
by prewett 5y ago
But you could continue to be happy: you're being paid what you were happy being pad, and now you have information that you are worth even more, which you can now leverage.
829.
by prewett 5y ago
It sounds like you can afford a car, you just don't think it is worth it, which isn't the same thing. I'm unconvinced you have a lower quality of life than your father if you factor in everything. You're a senior engin
830.
by prewett 5y ago
The only reason I can think of to still be using DOS is that you can do hard real-time processing with it. Although that seems fairly niche, and there are other options for that.
831.
by prewett 5y ago
As far as I am aware Qt is the only cross-platform toolkit that has reasonable traction, and it has been successfully used by commercial applications. Other cross-platform applications are either so old that there was no other choice but to
832.
by prewett 5y ago
Ugh, I'd rather have the electron app. I've never seen a Java application that didn't garishly stand out, the widgets do not act at all native, and it's inevitably sluggish. Although, the biggest offenders I've used
833.
by prewett 5y ago
I'm currently writing a cross-platform toolkit, and I'd like to know what native looks like in Windows. As far as I can tell it's worse than Linux. You have the old Win32 / MFC style widgets, and programs like Notepad++
834.
by prewett 5y ago
It kind of already has a discharge mode, just short the leads of the capacitor with one of the probes.
835.
by prewett 5y ago
If they are going to invoke 1984, it seems like Minifree would be a Windows laptop with WSL installed or something else that has the appearance of freedom while being completely the opposite.
836.
by prewett 5y ago
More characters. I believe there are a mandated 2000 characters that learned in school and used by newspapers. I believe 3000 Chinese characters only gets to 97% and 5000 is still 99.44% [0] [0] https://lingua.mtsu.edu/chine
837.
by prewett 5y ago
The web is a good distribution method . However, HTML/CSS was intended to display the equivalent of MS Word documents, and is completely unsuited for general purpose UI. In fact, we know how general purpose UI should look like, becaus
838.
by prewett 5y ago
It not even a drawing API, even. It's a 3D triangle rendering API. Things like lines, bezier curves, gradients are all do-it-yourself. None of it super-hard, I've done them all, but before you write your UI you have to write all y
839.
by prewett 5y ago
This is hilarious because it's so true... There's also a conversational/argumentative style where you take the opposite position, either because you like to go against the flow or because you want to see how well the other gu
840.
by prewett 5y ago
I met a guy who sold his lawncare? business and bought one of the RV's that is basically a bus, and his family of five lived in it, to be prepared for the collapse. (I'm not sure how he was planning on getting gasoline if the coll

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