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by sgbeal 3y ago
> The non-ballistic nature of their maneuvers during atmospheric reentry makes their trajectory unpredictable. Please help me understand why an unpredictable payload carrier is a desirable thing.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Officials added that the worker – whose identity has not been publicly released – was ingested into the one engine which the plane in question had on at the time. ... > But the cause of worker’s death hadn’t officially been determin
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Pro tip: animated hyperlinks make the surrounding text impossible for many people to read. Human eyes are built to follow movement, and animation simulates movement.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
The author seems to believe that speed is the only competitive factor. The fact is that many services don't need but a fraction of the speed they have available to them and that power consumption is, in some areas, the more important c
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by sgbeal 3y ago
The Palm Pilot and its clones, e.g. the Spring Visor (i think it was called). i read my first e-book on one around 2000 or 2002 (Alice in Wonderland) and have fond memories of them.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Wow, i misread that as "barely a third of Americans still have landmines." What a difference a single letter can make.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Likewise, what a sad state of affairs that mobile-device users should have to add custom CSS to a given page to use it properly.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Skill issue Presumably you're talking about the HN developers' skills?
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Just installed, thank you.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit. Because, as the OP states, i'm on a phone.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Nothing that can be done about it now, but for the future you might want to look into getting a smart phone keyboard. i've tried 3 of them over the past 10+ years and hated every one of them. The fact is that Android apps are simp
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by sgbeal 3y ago
On a desktop it's fine. For fingers on a phone screen it's... well, it's less than fine.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Link please?
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by sgbeal 3y ago
i'm currently living on a boat (since a month) and don't have that luxury. It's a phone or nothing. #TheAddictionIsReal
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by sgbeal 3y ago
Yeah, but it's annoying! It "should" "just work." This is the 21st century, for Pete's sake! PS: you lost me at "Steve Jobs".
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Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?
96 points by sgbeal 3y ago|100 comments
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Whatever the situation, whatever the company, you should show up with your very best. Not for them, but for you. i cannot stress this enough. Case in point: after having been a moderately successful I.T. Guy my whole life, i was knocke
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> My message to all those authors is: don't use web-based forums. While his message is certainly relevant for _most_ forum software, i feel compelled to point out one which enables anyone to clone the whole forum, in full, and sync
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> Why so eager to end someone's career? Because certain careers, e.g. lawyers, surgeons, and law enforcement give their practitioners the ability to make or break their clients, potentially killing them or ruining them financially a
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by sgbeal 3y ago
That should be a career-ending move, not a fine.
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> What do you mean by not using "you're the best"? an exaggerated compliment Exactly that. Exaggerated compliments come across (to me, anyway) as condescending. Honest feedback is all fine and good, but meaningless pseudo-
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by sgbeal 3y ago
- They tell you what they want and trust you to do it. They don't say "it has to be done yesterday." Likewise, they trust you to come to them when you need something. - They shield you from other organizations or colleagues w
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> If Google Workspace/Gsuite disappeared tomorrow, where would you go? To the nearest ledge high enough to guarantee a fatal fall from. Or maybe the nearest downed power line or water-filled bathtub (into which i could drop a plugge
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> However, if all you require is text editing, I'd actually discourage using Emacs. He obviously doesn't know about esc-q. :)
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> A riffle shuffle (pictured above) requires seven shuffles to randomize a 52-card deck More generally, it takes a number of shuffles equal to "approximately the square root of the number of cards," per a documentary i watched
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> It's not enough to guarantee the code has not been copied from somewhere / can be released in the public domain. FWIW, within the sqlite project we have a very strict policy against copy/paste of anything from outside so
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> If I follow correctly this is about working with the SQLite team to upstream WASI support, which will eventually enable official support for it, and hence WASM on the server/cloud/edge and other WASI complement runners. (sqli
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by sgbeal 3y ago
> If UFOs are real then that necessarily implies the existence of some new physics beyond general relativity. One explanation (which i can obviously neither confirm nor deny) is that aliens don't come from Far Away, but from neighbo
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by sgbeal 4y ago
> You must have confused the part of it only being available to the browser, I don't see how that's even technically possible. It's uses a virtual filesystem, not available _as-is_ in the filesystem to any application othe
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by sgbeal 4y ago
> Why can't they be distributed as a PWA that interacts with logical files that exist in my filesystem? Files I can generate from other applications (like performance profilers). And files which other folks can generate, like market

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