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by richardhod 7y ago
You can't do that in Android on the S9+, nor on any variants that i know of on Android 8 or 9. All you can do is restrict it to a long press. If you have a link to reassignment, I'd like to see it.
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Researchers store digital images in common small metabolite molecules(brown.edu)
5 points by richardhod 7y ago|1 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
I don't understand the downvoting of the parent here, which is factually correct and worth noting. It's incredibly unhealthy and this is just down to marketing that anybody eats it. You can make really nice chocolate spreads with
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The military secret to falling asleep in two minutes(independent.co.uk)
33 points by richardhod 7y ago|1 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
Useful sleep hack from the military. I tried it and it seems to work: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/national-napping-da...
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by richardhod 7y ago
Agreed. Also mods, please can we alter the title to something more descriptive and less baity?
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by richardhod 7y ago
Absolutely not: it's essential, because all but psychopathic people learn how to do things for real by going through the actions. This is essential training.
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Climate change drives wide rapid thermokarst development in Canadian Arctic(agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
3 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response(en.wikipedia.org)
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by richardhod 7y ago
Unreliable source. This is one of those stupid articles which takes a very very unlikely worst case scenario and paints it as news. The earth could get hit by an asteroid tomorrow, Shock! Horror!. You should know better than this
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by richardhod 7y ago
The problem with your formulation is that 'better' is perhaps the most subjective word there is. Define it in measurable terms, and perhaps you have a reading there. There are many factors to consider which may lead you to find th
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by richardhod 7y ago
Thank you, although I'm glad this was reposted because the former Microsoft host of this pdf references in that posting is now a dead link
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'Maintainers,' Not 'Innovators,' Make the World Turn(citylab.com)
2 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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Ultimate Limit of Human Endurance Found(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by richardhod 7y ago|1 comments
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Missing Numbers: a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't(missingnumbers.org)
2 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
they were not safe, and they were only approved because the research that said they were safe was done by the manufacturers themselves. They were taken away once academics and other experts showed that the risks were way too high using them
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by richardhod 7y ago
The photographer John Nevil Maskelyne was a well-known magician, writer, card-sharp, occultist, and early hacker. Worth reading about him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nevil_Maskelyne
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Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough Uses Gold to Turn CO2 into Liquid Fuel(sciencealert.com)
1 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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Miracle Mineral Supplement(en.wikipedia.org)
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by richardhod 7y ago
I think it very much depends on the population. Online quiz takers will skew young, whose English is a lot better than that of middle aged and older Swedes, on average. Most Swedes I know have at least competency in English, and I know a lo
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by richardhod 7y ago
The odds might go even further up if you all get together and shoot the abductors instead
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by richardhod 7y ago
Thank you for the clarification!
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Black, Hot Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water(quantamagazine.org)
4 points by richardhod 7y ago|0 comments
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by richardhod 7y ago
Your argument appears to be, in TL;DR form: OOP and dependencies are bad and wrong, you must use Functional Programming or you will be wrong. Isn't that a little extreme?
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by richardhod 7y ago
Good points, yet for context there have been weird official conspiracies in modern art: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-...
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by richardhod 7y ago
Only partly true, I'm afraid. This source is hard right. I don't want to go down a non HN- rabbit hole bc we're here to talk mostly about tech and information related things, but in extreme cases it's worth noting. I h
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by richardhod 7y ago
Thank you for this enlightening addition. I certainly was not complaining about the article's presence here, but rather instead warning against the rest of a particularlyedangerously truthy political site. Your context really helps us
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by richardhod 7y ago
I think many here learned to appreciate this poem from HN postings of this analysis of Howl: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ SSC is a great site, and if you haven't, pl
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by richardhod 7y ago
This is frequently because people don't trust that there's not spyware in them. Whether there is or not, the Chinese government's control over businesses in its realm is stronger than the American government's, and even
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by richardhod 7y ago
That's a good point, but there are other vendors, like the reborn Nokia, that use stock Android One, no crap on top. And these come with the latest stock Google Android OS, (oreo, milkshake, fries, whatever the latest one is) and upgra

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