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by rm445 9y ago
That's the usual way things are done. If you buy for instance a simple 5:1 gearbox for industrial use, it will quite likely be a sealed casing 'greased for life'. Not that I'm disagreeing with you really - mechanical dev
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by rm445 9y ago
Exactly. Inflation is calculated based on a basket of goods that excludes all kinds of expensive and illiquid assets that the average person doesn't buy often or at all. I guess it's fine if people want to describe that situatio
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by rm445 9y ago
The obvious way to make the charts easier to interpret would be to use pink and blue. Who knows why the author used green and yellow - feels 'blue for a boy and pink for a girl' is outdated and sexist, or just likes green and yell
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by rm445 9y ago
I was under the impression that when John Gruber quotes a 'rumour', it's because someone at Apple has personally given him complete, direct, but off-the-record information. He seems very well-connected.
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by rm445 9y ago
You should have held out on the wait-and-see. The moderate-sized rear cabin with those little suicide doors (you are talking about the RX-8, aren't you?) is absolutely great for baby and child seats. Also, yeah, I had my RX-8 tow start
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by rm445 9y ago
I've had Mazda's last model of rotary-engined car, the RX-8, as a daily driver for the past five years (sixty thousand miles). It has served me well and my local garage have performed regular servicing and mechanical repairs with
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by rm445 9y ago
I agree on the oddness. In my mind, the story about a highly-tracked webapp-facilitated worker committing a crime goes something like: Crime committed -> worker details go to police -> criminal conviction | current mechanisms for dire
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by rm445 9y ago
I suspect the author was being exact and referring to the product just called 'MacBook', rather than referring vaguely to a MacBook Air. (I can't back that up, except to note that Apple fans are usually fairly scrupulous abou
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by rm445 9y ago
He could fly to five metres attached to a safety line on a ten-metre tower, or a crane. A simple auto-descender would do fine. My impression watching this guy's videos when they have hit the news over the past few months has been that,
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by rm445 9y ago
Then perhaps your first sentence should have read, "Rocket packs are officially dead". I think that the terms have historically been used interchangeably, but the distinction should be made. It's awfully nice not to need to c
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by rm445 9y ago
Those of us aiming for the news link get to click the little bell instead. It's an infuriating order of loading. Not much point complaining in this particular thread though. As the article says, 'We are essentially hamstrung by th
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by rm445 10y ago
So this article is about whether London will lose its multicultural appeal after Brexit. Here's an observation about the nationalities of the people cited. Quite a few Europeans, but also: - An Indian-British writer (Nikesh Shukla) who
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by rm445 10y ago
For those wondering, the article makes an analogy between Thompson's 'Trusting Trust' paper and gene editing. It wouldn't have surprised me to hear that Thompson had moved into gene hacking (at the age of 74) but I think
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by rm445 10y ago
The UK has a large market in coin-operated gambling machines - there are heavily-regulated low-stakes ones in all kinds of non-casino locations and, I think, higher-stakes ones in legal betting shops. A relative who works in the industry to
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by rm445 10y ago
There are things we just don't sense. Obviously they weren't significant in our evolutionary history but they could be of use to us in the modern age, or to our successors. As you mention, giving up existing sensors doesn't m
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by rm445 10y ago
> Other than the educational value of doing so, what would be a reason to write a brand new operating system? Well an operating system talks to hardware and allocates resources, right? The motivation to write a non-toy operating system m
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by rm445 10y ago
Perhaps that was the author's intent. But influencing without sabotage is perhaps relevant to our modern world, especially to the HN crowd - because weapons systems are likely to become more autonomous. If you're working on a batt
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by rm445 10y ago
There's something that never seems to be mentioned in articles on making decisions for planet colonisation based on cosmic radiation: humanity is already trying like crazy to defeat cancer, for the obvious reason that it kills people h
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by rm445 10y ago
Sigh, that's another one on my reading list. I thought Baxter's Voyage was a wonderful novel - quite dry, but masterfully put-together, using NASA's true history to inform how an alternate history might have gone. Titan s
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by rm445 10y ago
Hmm. I've read the first book in the series (must get around to reading the rest), which is mainly exploration and doesn't focus too much on society-building, but as an engineer I'm not sure I buy that bootstrapping in a new
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by rm445 10y ago
Conversely, I have stopped wearing other watches because I believe my rather rudimentary smartwatch has made them obsolete. The device in question is a Fitbit fitness tracker. The killer feature regarding the battery is the ratio of life to
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by rm445 10y ago
I think there's a separate Lisp lineage anyway, wherein someone in the 1960s wrote a minimal machine-code interpreter, and ever since lispers have been writing interpreters on top of other Lisps and revising them to emit compiled code
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by rm445 10y ago
One could build a courtyard, or a passage or archway to a garage behind. Or go underground. I think these are expensive options compared to sprawling out like the houses in the article. A large, attached garage is such a pleasant amenity, I
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by rm445 10y ago
Come on. All the people who worked on those features designed them with the intention that they would work. All of them would have been happier, and better regarded by the rest of the world, if everything had worked first time. It's ju
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by rm445 10y ago
Careful. Loanwords into Japanese are transliterated into a fixed syllabary, that can then be transliterated back in a standard way. i.e. that's an authentic transcription of a (borrowed) Japanese word, not a rude impression of a Japane
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by rm445 10y ago
Your HN bio says "DevOps Engineer" - I think that means that you apply software development techniques to tasks that traditionally belong to sysadmins or "IT"? Note that the article quotes Spolsky talking about "dev
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by rm445 10y ago
Not just Yammer but Sharepoint, Sway and Delve. For companies that are bought into the whole Office 365 thing, there's actually a pretty comprehensive 'company social network' offering.
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by rm445 10y ago
Product already exists in the form of consumer NAS devices. You don't have to build anything, just turn on remote access.
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by rm445 10y ago
I think you mistook the direction of that sentence slightly. I don't think there's much information around about giant squid, but it's likely that they're intelligent (by animal standards) because other squid are intel
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by rm445 10y ago
I didn't downvote but I found your point utterly specious. Meetings have quorum rules to prevent skulduggery, a minority group colluding to pack a low-attendance meeting and vote on momentous issues. A national referendum is open to an

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