rsheridan6

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by rsheridan6 14y ago
He posts the same thing over and over again because essentially the same article is posted over and over again. It all gets pretty repetitive anyway.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
4K at 27" would still be considerably lower pixel density (~160 ppi) than my old Motorola Atrix phone (275 ppi), which had lower density than my current HTC Rezound (342 ppi). I found the difference between the Rezound and the Atrix to be s
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Not really. At this time, 3D printing is too low quality to produce something with tolerances remotely close to what you want. I've seen some 3D printed Legos but the quality is not good.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I passed down the same older Space set that was mentioned in the article, along with a few others, to my son, and now it's mixed in with mostly newer Legos. The pieces are indistinguishable except for the unique pieces like the amber windsh
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
They're also made of a different kind of plastic - they don't look or feel as smooth and shiny. There are a number of Lego knockoff brands, but I don't think any of them measure up to Lego.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
A lot of these requests, if fulfilled, would get the person who granted it in trouble with their jobs, and I'm sure a lot of the requests make the target uncomfortable. This is perilously close to "Being an Asshole Therapy."
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Some colleges do let students live off campus. Mine did.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
The folks you know wouldn't happen to be over 35 or independently wealthy, would they? Tuitions have gone up tremendously in recent years, and following your bliss like it was 1998 would be a disaster now if you didn't have a good job lined
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
When you have a 22:1 male to female ratio and a 23:0 white to non-white ratio, it'll take more than a tie-breaker to make it look as diverse as a PBS cartoon.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
You can play word games looking for precise definitions of anything. I don't have a clear-cut definition of the word "hacker," but in most places it's clear who is or isn't (I'm definitely not at this point in my life, though I might have b
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Yes, but do hackers find this interesting, or are non-hackers voting this to the top? There was a time when you didn't see stuff like this on HN.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Maybe not, but Dr Strangelove is extremely dated, and the people and issues it satirized are mostly dead now.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Everybody knows what they're getting when they buy a Macbook, but not every product is familiar as a Macbook, and not every brand is as concerned with protecting their reputation as Apple. The existence of Chinese-made Macbooks proves that
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Actually, you would probably not get away with having failed auto-headlight-dimming because you would annoy a cop going the other way and get a ticket. But features that aren't so obvious will go uninspected in many locations.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
USA-made goods have a reputation for better quality than China-made goods. Not as much in the tech world, where top-of-the-line iWhatever is made in China, but, for example, in the world of mechanics and tradesmen, Chinese goods = Harbor Fr
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
It scares me too. What happens when this car is 15 years old and the third owner is to broke to fix things when they go wrong? Will they be driving blind, or blinding everybody else?
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I just got one for just that purpose and I can vouch for its suitability. I actually prefer the Chromebook to the $1700 Windows laptop most of the time because it doesn't take so goddamned long to start up when you open it.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I don't know anyone who has an iPad but not a PC, but I know several people who have smartphones but no PCs. They're good enough for people who aren't heavy internet users and don't want to spend money on a PC or a separate internet connect
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
>If you are hiring for any kind of job in the United States, prefer a work-sample test as your hiring procedure. If you are hiring in most other parts of the world, use a work-sample test in combination with a general mental ability tes
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
It might be riskier, but most of the time nothing's going to happen either way. And I'd rather have someone trash my car, if insurance covers it, than trash my house.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
I agree on the second point, but then again, I'd never rent my house out with Airbnb either, and apparently they've done well. Different people have different tolerances for risk.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
As a renter, I've usually already bought my return tickets and have to be at work the next day, so there's no chance that I'm going to extend my trip, unless I get stuck somewhere. The company should have provisions for giving a loaner to a
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
If it was true that agriculture has caused a substantial slide in intelligence, remnant hunter-gatherer populations, and populations that were hunter-gatherers until recently, should be the smartest people on earth. For example, Native Amer
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
3000 years is 100+ generations. That's a lot of time for evolution. Russian researchers turned wild silver foxes into tame pets in far fewer generations than that: http://www.brighthub.com/science/genetics/articles/46555.asp...
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
From the article: "There is a PPA coming out soon to make installation much easier. If you are not comfortable with compiling software in linux, I recommend waiting for the PPA." Several months from now, if you google "netflix ubuntu," you'
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Nobody's talking about moving to another city to take advantage of another ISP's residential/consumer service as a business decision.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
It seems like a lot of risk to base your business on the proposition that Google probably won't enforce their TOS.
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Continuing on the game theme, I recall that Rage originally had hundreds of gigabytes of textures, and they pared it down to the point that it would fit on a BluRay. That would not be necessary with such a fat pipe. How many design decision
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Well, it's conventional wisdom. Here's a source that says bad weather suppresses turnout to the benefit of Republicans. http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/10/weather-affects-electio... The principle is the same. We also have Republicans f
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by rsheridan6 14y ago
Ultimately this will end up benefiting the Democrats, since they tend to have a harder time turning out voters, and anything that makes voting easier tends to help them.

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