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by retSava 5y ago
We as human beings should always strive for the better, to improve, to do the best we can within reasonable bounds. It's imo not about pettiness, finding errors of others to shame them, or holding others to a bar set too high, but rath
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by retSava 5y ago
It is a hard problem, but it is also largely a solved problem since literally decades ago. If you were to start from scratch, you'd need to reinvent all of those things, which undoubtedly would make any such endeavor not worth it. Of c
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by retSava 5y ago
I've been scammed by a car salesman while, I thought, I was really read up on signs and paying attention. I was buying a 2 yo Toyota car at an official Toyota salesplace. Before this, I've bought three used cars, looked at tons of
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by retSava 5y ago
Aha, I was under the impression that it was simply and literally a question of passing too much current through a conducting trace internally, causing the internal resistance to overheat it, thus melting it. Perhaps that would be a method t
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by retSava 5y ago
Even low-probability bugs will surface often enough if you give it enough potential times to do so. There are >100 Mn Switch'es out there, and the interrupts happens at least tens to hundreds of times a second when in use, so plenty
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by retSava 5y ago
This is a nice tool! An alternative for us preferring CLI tools, is the nir-set of tools. Put nircmd ( https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html ) somewhere in path and add an alias to it. Something like this, alia
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by retSava 5y ago
I feel many of those points ring true, in our case. What I discovered was that Minecraft is the Lego of today, but digital. It fills many of the same creative urges. We have quite some Lego Friends and different kits on shelves, which can&#
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by retSava 5y ago
Hehe, if that were the only modus of communication, yeah :). Thankfully it isn't, we are also known for leaving messages in the snow, ads in the local newspaper under pseudonyms, anon leetspeaks on the dark webs, and occasionally speak
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by retSava 5y ago
I made https://github.com/msloth/lgtv.js which can control a webos LGTV on your local network. It was in my js beginnings so pretty sketchy and not at all clean. Once I was able to control it I kind of lost interest in
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by retSava 5y ago
I love Tokyo and can't wait to go back. In the meantime, the Norra Tornen (northern towers) in Stockholm is pretty much complete and shares some resemblance :) Had our previous office closeby so was fun seeing them take shape during co
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by retSava 5y ago
Apart from all the other aspects - is the picture even a good testcase? I'd assume there are probably far better test images to use when evaluating. Why not use those? If I were to design an algorithm working on images, I'd make s
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by retSava 5y ago
They've seemingly done some a/b on me so that many times it requires me to log in/sign up. Also looking at you reddit, "this thread can be read in the app". Thank the kings and queens for 3rd party viewers (using Sl
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by retSava 5y ago
> but this is the norm these days Norm as in normal, but I'd not say norm as in what most people expect and would accept if they knew. And norms change, let's not accept a "normal" as the de facto "this is how it
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by retSava 5y ago
Thanks. First thing I do when I see a HN post being a twitter thread, check comments for link to this (since I never remember the name of threadreaderapp). After all, that's at least 24 tweets. But this horse has been so badly beaten t
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by retSava 5y ago
Absolutely. But one of the things Facebook does, is to favor showing those bad things to others because it drives engagements. The feed is just a steady stream of the same low-effort, high-emotion stuff. The problems with Facebook are not (
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by retSava 5y ago
When I'm a cynical, I'm thinking bad search and bad implementations (to me) are really good implementations, the difference is that the goal is not my goal. Examples: * when starting to type, Chrome address bar preferring to go
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by retSava 5y ago
Pointing out that this is published under _engineering_.fb.com.
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by retSava 5y ago
Obvious growth hack thing - try to bypass the brains "this is spammy mail ad crap" by making you first think it's written by a person and not a printer, thus it should be important.
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by retSava 5y ago
It doesn't, in Germany? Criminal law in Sweden allows both - if no specific reason exist for a psych evaluation of the accused, the person is assumed sane. That's the basic assumption. If the person doesn't show up, a trial i
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by retSava 5y ago
How does the launch prep, launch, and deployment compare to the assembly of the sat? I was under the impression that eg fairing separation likely is quite messy, perhaps even metal flakes dropping of due to abrasion and such. Silicone off-g
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by retSava 5y ago
The throttling was a reaction to poor battery performance at the technical endish-of-life part of the product. After X cycles the battery recharge ability was limited, couldn't be fully charged. It also had increased internal resistanc
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by retSava 5y ago
Not just that they went for that - but that they ended up in that situation to begin with. IIUC, the outer rim was two (or more) metal pieces, whereof one acted as antenna. The signal degradation occurs when the user holds the phone and br
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by retSava 5y ago
Is that related to the (old) Swedish jet fighter Draken? It has a lovely design, quite iconic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saab_35_Draken
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by retSava 5y ago
It's pretty funny actually, history is - it turns out - often more incredible than what you would consider a really bad plot point ("naaaaah c'mon that could never happen!"). And many organisms on Earth exceed even reall
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by retSava 5y ago
Some see "internet points" as "payment". But are you sure they aren't paid, ie employed by Reddit? Would totally make sense to either hide an army of moderating "grunts" behind a single user, or moderating
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by retSava 5y ago
This is the video with the blog post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk To me, I like to see when they stutter or slightly-fail, since that to indicates the dynamics and real-time part of the thing, that it is not
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by retSava 5y ago
Washing clothes do wear them a lot, so if you can avoid washing clothes too often that'll help. Socks, undergarments, and (most often) t-shirts I don't do this with, but everything else like shirts or pants, do hang them nicely ac
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by retSava 5y ago
Yeah; from time to time we reuse old t-shirts or bed sheets and turn them into handkerchiefs. We do use a lot of handkerchiefs with a small child :). But also other things, eg my wife took a pair of old jeans and cut off all but the waist+p
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by retSava 5y ago
I love this interview with a Vietnam veteran regarding his experiences deploying to Vietnam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tixOyiR8B-8
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by retSava 5y ago
1) many thieves doesn't care. The most brazen ones simply fill up a large sportsbag or similar, then just leave. They don't care if someone spots them, they win on signalling pure aggression and implicit threat of "if you try

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