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811.
by scoot 10y ago
Surprised no-one has chipped in here to say the same, but the top comment on Reddit calls bullshit: https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5n14a9/a_way_to_na...
812.
by scoot 10y ago
No idea what style the first is, or the relevance of the third image, but the second image looks like Art Deco to me.
813.
by scoot 10y ago
Battery tech - it's the next big thing that never was.
814.
by scoot 10y ago
Name checks out! (As they like to say on a certain other message board where snarky comments are de rigueur. )
815.
by scoot 10y ago
This seems like a slightly more balanced blog post (posted to HN a few weeks ago): https://medium.com/gomix/introducing-gomix-aec205c421cb#.jcd... Also discussed on this Show HN post: https://news.ycombinato
816.
by scoot 10y ago
"Disclaimer: AWS employee" That's a disclosure. (But don't feel bad - even the attorney up top go that bit wrong!)
817.
by scoot 10y ago
A near-empty repository for a yet-to-be-published book... What am I missing?!
818.
by scoot 10y ago
"there may be various HBAs, raid controllers, etc., in between ZFS and the actual disks." Or in the case if EBS - NFS and a network stack. EBS is "Emulated Block Storage" despite what AWS may like you to think.
819.
by scoot 10y ago
My 13 year old doesn't have a phone and is none the worse (and arguably much better) for it. His grandfather bought him a top of the range iPhone 7 for hist last birthday, but by his own choice, he's going to sell it and reinvest
820.
by scoot 10y ago
I prefer a slightly more general line in the sand: we'll pay for what you need§, you pay for what you want. Needless to say our kids pine for neither paid games nor in-app purchases - they've chosen (mostly) better ways to invest
821.
by scoot 10y ago
LEGO, Lego or lego - I really don't mind, but please don't pluralise it like all the other sheeps!
822.
by scoot 10y ago
Unfortunately due to lack of Moderator Distribution Network, the mods are all in bed. Flag it and move on.
823.
by scoot 10y ago
I so misinterpreted that headline - for a moment I though military aircraft had attacked a cargo ship!
824.
by scoot 10y ago
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL2OpWNCpmY
825.
by scoot 10y ago
Get ready for GDPR. 1. You need consent to handle PII (doesn't matter that you scraped it) 2. Massive fines for data breaches Good luck!
826.
by scoot 10y ago
"A lot of research went into everything from the gender to the tone of the voice" And according to that wikipedia link, most of it was wrong or conflicting!
827.
by scoot 10y ago
Homepage says lite is free and unlimited, pricing page says it's limited to 10 invoices per month?
828.
by scoot 10y ago
That's a fantastic hidden feature - thanks for pointing it out.
829.
by scoot 10y ago
I don't even see an option in Firefox ESR 45.4.0 to disable 3rd party cookies.
830.
by scoot 10y ago
I'm the context of Material Deaign, MUI is short for Material UI, a React based implementation of Material Design. Not sure why the developer of this library would choose the same name, although I can guess. In any case it can only lea
831.
by scoot 10y ago
> the answer is always along the lines of "just try a load of stuff and pick the one that works best" Forgive the naive question, but why couldn't ML figure out its own best "stuff"?
832.
by scoot 10y ago
Okay, so it doesn't work in Chrome or Safari, and here it doesn't work in Firefox... where does it work? I.E.?!
833.
by scoot 10y ago
> The most difficult thing for me was actually the proof of address. You don't need to prove a UK address, just an address. Depending on the bank, you can open a UK bank account with an overseas address, and change it after you move
834.
by scoot 10y ago
Apple under Jobs was never afraid to cannibalize a product line.
835.
by scoot 10y ago
So someone could spoil all the votes by breaking the seals?
836.
by scoot 10y ago
> don't try to dockerize databases Why ever not? There no less reason to do so in a container - and all the usual benefits still apply.
837.
by scoot 10y ago
But how did the final bet work?!
838.
by scoot 10y ago
Best as I can determine, this is original writing. I like it very much.
839.
by scoot 10y ago
/disclaimer/disclosure/ - when you disclose something, it's a disclosure. (Sorry, personal bugbear, along with e.g. / i.e. confusion. Both are rampant on HN! :) )
840.
by scoot 10y ago
"Their warehouse policy of arbitrarily mixing stock is actively customer hostile in practice" There isn't a "warehouse policy" per se. As a seller, you can choose "Stickerless commingled inventory" as an

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