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by resters 5y ago
great story! I believe 1 watt may actually be legal, so it was not actually pirate radio from an FCC perspective, only an RIAA perspective.
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by resters 5y ago
It was actually a leaf from a foreground tree, not an image processing artifact: https://twitter.com/mitchcohen/status/1476951534160257026
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by resters 5y ago
Chicago, anyone?
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by resters 5y ago
I think people often confuse the representation for the object itself, and thus create a limited mental model that must be undone later. Analogous to a world in which all cookie shaped objects are edible and delicious. Sure it would be nice
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by resters 5y ago
You describe the one thing I don't like about complex numbers, that people often don't realize that the same things can be represented fully using other mathematical objects. Complex numbers are basically syntactic sugar for that
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by resters 5y ago
GPS data from the satellites was intentionally "compromised" for all civilian uses until fairly recently. Why alter the maps if you can alter the GPS.
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by resters 5y ago
Well said. The level of blind jingoism on HN is chilling. Not to mention that the US government gets any data it wants from banks, telcos, social media, google, etc., which is called metadata surveillance here in the US but it is used to fo
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by resters 5y ago
We should not give Google a pass on this. Google does whatever the US Government wants, and lately the US Government has a far worse humanitarian track record than the Chinese government (when you consider all the civilian death and sufferi
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by resters 5y ago
It's sort of strange that everyone thinks that an aggressive eugenics program for animals is completely normal and morally acceptable (just because it's been going on for a long time). In my opinion, purchasing a purebred pet is c
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by resters 5y ago
> This is called inharmonicity I think I've been hearing this for a long time but didn't realize it was real so questioned my perceptual system. Thank you for the info!
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by resters 5y ago
I think the price point sets the stage for a lower cost offering in the $699-$1299 range that will not be branded as "pro" and will likely have more of the eco cores and incredible battery life.
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by resters 5y ago
The pricing suggests that the M1 mini was priced aggressively as a marketing strategy, and that now that the dust is settling the cost of the M1 powered macs is going to be less of a value win than I'd initially hoped. Looking forward
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by resters 5y ago
similar story here. i mostly operate CW these days too. Many on HN would love one (or many) aspects of amateur radio. 73
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by resters 5y ago
that's like saying that surfboards are not useful because we have cruise ships. Radio is fun and a way to surf the ionosphere! 73
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by resters 5y ago
It's less about ideology than about the impact of entrenched power. For all the leftist rhetoric in SF, interest groups like property owner, landlords, etc., have political power sufficient to preserve the status quo. I think the geogr
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by resters 5y ago
This is part of Facebook's antitrust defense strategy. People under estimate the extent to which Microsoft's experience clued companies in to the importance of grand strategy in this area.
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by resters 5y ago
Learned indexes are an optimization technique that can help a lot in specific scenarios, but the authors were not under the impression that they are applicable to most use-cases.
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by resters 5y ago
Wow, the last example is so much more readable than all of the others... the way I think Python should be written and (generally) a nice aspect of Python culture that people will write code that way.
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by resters 5y ago
Yes, and that is how they will train the AI that will replace us all. It's a brilliant strategy, so I can't help but play along.
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by resters 5y ago
While there is probably some benefit to the concept of impostor syndrome being discussed now and then, most discussions wreak of false humility. Very rarely are coveted positions acquired by merit alone, getting there required some degree o
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by resters 5y ago
That's not a requirement. RTFA
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by resters 5y ago
A lot of math is taught in a sloppy way, which thwarts the pattern recognition progress in brains trying to learn it. Programming is significantly easier than math (for something equivalently complex) because of things like syntax checking
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by resters 5y ago
There are many examples of a "hello world" for event-driven architecture, but there doesn't seem to be the equivalent of the "sinatra/express" of event-driven architecture, a minimalistic foundation to build a
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by resters 5y ago
Startups take on a lot of types of debt. Sometimes they hire less experienced people, you could call that HR debt. Sometimes they work out of a cramped or less ergonomic office, you could call that facilities debt. Sometimes startup founder
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by resters 5y ago
It will be interesting to see if Google Docs undergoes a feature explosion and achieves parity with MS Word after the rendering engine enhancements. I wonder what competitive pressures Google is responding to with this decision. My guess w
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by resters 6y ago
there are some useful ideas in responsive design, but for the most part it has become a cargo cult where checking the box of responsive design matters more than a thoughtful design for any of the sizes in question. There are a variety of sc
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by resters 6y ago
I almost stopped watching it during the first few minutes for the same reason, you just have to get past that first bit and get to the first underwater shots. It's an incredible film, definitely my favorite nature film.
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by resters 6y ago
Of course. I suppose the same caveat applies to hiring anyone who has significantly more education than experience, particularly when that person is hired into a management role, as new MBAs often are. Also, very few have familiarity with m
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by resters 6y ago
This is a big part of why I suggest not hiring MBAs in a startup. They have typically been indoctrinated into the shortsighted modes of thinking described in the article, yet because they are MBAs they consider themselves adept with the fin
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by resters 6y ago
Youtube has been successful even though most videos are watched a dozen times or so. NFTs are a parallel copyright system. The market price of an NFT that violates meatspace copyright law would be a function of the relevance and enforceabil

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