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I wrote Windows Task Manager and I just remembered something(reddit.com)
4 points by smacktoward 6y ago|2 comments
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The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia(influenzaarchive.org)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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YouTube’s ‘Skyrim’ Grandma Is Taking a Break After Reading the Comments(vice.com)
2 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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You’re Getting Used to Masks. Will You Wear a Face Shield?(nytimes.com)
3 points by smacktoward 6y ago|3 comments
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Captured Warplanes(hushkit.net)
69 points by smacktoward 6y ago|27 comments
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Our Top 45 Aircraft(hushkit.net)
3 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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Lavish Parties, Greedy Pols and Panic Rooms: How the ‘Apple of Pot’ Collapsed(politico.com)
3 points by smacktoward 6y ago|1 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
I’m in exactly the same boat. TrackPoint 4 life, yo. What’s extra weird is that the first TrackPoint laptops appeared more than 20 years ago, so any IBM/Lenovo patents on the technology must have expired by now...
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Interview with Commander ‘Sharkey’ Ward: Sea Harrier FRS Mk 1 and Air Combat(hushkit.net)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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That Office AC System Is Great – At Recirculating Viruses(nymag.com)
3 points by smacktoward 6y ago|1 comments
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Coronagrifting: A Design Phenomenon(mcmansionhell.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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Amphibious Warship USS Portland Shot Down a Drone with Its New High-Power Laser(thedrive.com)
40 points by smacktoward 6y ago|36 comments
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Ten Unusual Aircraft Design Solutions(hushkit.net)
2 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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How the Cruise Industry Became Synonymous with Disaster(slate.com)
3 points by smacktoward 6y ago|1 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
> Search relevance is incredible difficult, especially when there is not enough information provided in the query and there are multiple "correct" answers. Someone is always going to be disappointed. Sure, but in that case yo
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by smacktoward 6y ago
Sure, if they wanted to risk a war. That was the benefit of the agreement to the CCP: it gave them everything they wanted without having to risk war to get it. The only downside was that they just had to wait 50 years for the prize to fall
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by smacktoward 6y ago
They will argue that, sure. But if their position is that any agreement they have ever signed can retroactively be declared invalid whenever it suits them, that’s bad news not just for Hong Kong but for the entire world. Signing treaties an
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by smacktoward 6y ago
The context in Hong Kong is completely different. Hong Kong is only part of China because the CCP agreed to the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-British_Joint_Declaration )
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by smacktoward 6y ago
It wasn’t luck or popular appeal, it was like they say in real estate: “location, location, location.” JavaScript came bundled with every Web browser, and GW-BASIC came bundled with every IBM PC clone. A language that everybody in the world
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by smacktoward 6y ago
Why are we assuming that Amazon, the third largest corporation in the world by market cap, needs to limit itself to small teams? They could afford to 3x the teams if they wanted to. They just don't want to, because management prefers
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by smacktoward 6y ago
According to TFA, programmers at Amazon are required to be on call for a full week at a time. More programmers could mean sparser on call shifts, but it could also mean shorter on call shifts -- i.e. instead of going from one week every t
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Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots(technologyreview.com)
110 points by smacktoward 6y ago|28 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
> as there would be a massive market for a DVCS for Office files Would there, though? I mean, we HN readers want that, but I don't see any evidence that the average Office user is clamoring for it. Even comparatively crude syste
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by smacktoward 6y ago
I don't understand this response. You are proud you didn't read the article? Does it add any value to the conversation to just pull out one sentence and react to it out of context? The only thing I can think of is that HN rewards
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What Is the Point of Temperature Checks?(slate.com)
2 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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by smacktoward 6y ago
This. I had great results from working with a cognitive-behavioral psychologist. She helped me see patterns in my life that I had never even suspected were there before. I'm skeptical that I could have gotten the same results by readin
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by smacktoward 6y ago
Here to see how many comments don't bother reading the piece and just react to the title.
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by smacktoward 6y ago
It's the final resting place of the remains of something like 1,500 people. In what meaningful sense is it not a graveyard?
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Why the porn industry has a lot to teach us about safety in the Covid-19 era(statnews.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments
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Ohioans share their confidence, concerns about returning to work(ohiocapitaljournal.com)
1 points by smacktoward 6y ago|0 comments

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