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   by smlacy 9y ago

   We had one of these as well -- a fairly standard routine of TV after dinner before going to bed quickly taught the dog that the ultrasonic sound made by the "Off" command to the TV meant "everybody go upstairs and go to bed&q
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   by smlacy 9y ago

   I learned a lot about programming and debugging from Rocky's Boots ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots ) , so at least you have that. I don't think there has been enough time to say if any "g
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   by smlacy 9y ago

   In the U.S. the term you're looking for is 'Conservation Easement' which is how private landowners can get a tax break for preserving forested lands. I'm guessing that there will be more pressure to have similar programs
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   by smlacy 9y ago

   Neither does the article body. How did this even pass HN muster?
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   by smlacy 9y ago

   The English Grammar in this article is substantially worse than the poor English Grammar used in the article title. Couldn't get past the first paragraph.
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   by smlacy 9y ago

   A system and method for letting "The Marketing Guy" choose and design the font instead of a trained graphic designer. This isn't going to end well. Have you ever seen a font and thought "oh, that's ugly" but it
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   by smlacy 9y ago

   Essential question: What matters more in a portable computing device (i.e. "phone") the software or the hardware? Essential seems to be flaunting unique hardware designs, but in fact, it seems that as though without a software sta
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   by smlacy 9y ago

   I think it's not so much the weight of the pilot but how requiring a pilot effects the upper bound of 'delivers per day'. - Pilot can't reasonably fly more than 8-10hrs a day Need at least 3 pilots per aircraft for 24&#
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   by smlacy 9y ago

   Wow, thanks
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    by smlacy 9y ago

    Biggest missing part of the article is the "Music" promised in the title. In other words: I was hoping to hear a musical composition or performance using samples generated by WaveNet. I think a better, more realistic title for th
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    by smlacy 9y ago

    Have you looked at Lilypond? http://lilypond.org/
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    by smlacy 9y ago

    You seem to be under some delusion that a vehicle purchased in the year 2017 doesn't have any software in it, and isn't fully electronically actuated (steering, brakes, throttle) They sell these features as "parking assist&qu
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    by smlacy 9y ago

    Your argument is about the same as "Humans can calculate arithmetic perfectly accurately, why do we need computers to do it for us?" There are a host of obvious reasons why even a "simple" L4 car will beat a human hands
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    by smlacy 9y ago

    There was some talk of the maximum resolution being 3MP, but that through some hackery this could be increased to 12MP. I didn't see any mention of resolution in the blog post, and many comments here and elsewhere about low quality. Is
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    by smlacy 9y ago

    And much, much louder.
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    Quite a bit of marketing-speak here on the official site, without a lot of technical details. I know the Optane SSD drives are fast -- is this just device-side driver software that allows you to virtually expand available "RAM" an
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    Point is that if they're selling a product, they could make it more clear what the thing they're selling is. I'm EXACTLY the target market, and they failed to entice me.
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    No its not. :) Blog has no product description, and even the product description on getpostman.com (below the fold) is amazingly vague: "A powerful GUI platform to make your API development faster & easier, from building API reques
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    So this is a text editor?
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    This Fails my simple "I've never heard of Postman, can you please explain it?" * Blog post (linked) is very vague, no "About Postman" or similar link. * Toplevel of blog page is the same, no "About Postman&quot
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    Just adding one more link with a negative relationship between Political Unrest and Profits makes this much more interesting! https://goo.gl/lL7EvY
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    What's Torus and why should I care?
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    GitHub page has a much better introduction than this beautiful yet uninformative website. https://github.com/gioblu/PJON PJON™ (Padded Jittering Operative Network) is an Arduino compatible, multi-master, multi-media co
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    lld is the LLVM linker. More details here: https://lld.llvm.org/
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    Are you saying that xterm has poor performance? This appears to be true (from other comments on terminal performance in this thread) but other VTE-based terminals (gnome-terminal) have high performance and work great on sub-1GHz class machi
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    I use tmux+emacs inside gnome-terminal for 8+ hours a day. I rarely (never?) see any "terminal glitching" except for the cases where I've done something absurdly wrong, like running a bash inside emacs-shell with the wrong se
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    - I dispute "many devs/hackers use xterm". I switched away from xterm over 20 years ago, when it was clear that they were never going to have good support for anti-aliased fonts. I work heavily in the linux and with linux d
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    I work literally all day long in multiple fullscreen gnome-terminal instances, and I can't remember the last time I encountered a "bug". It literally never crashes, and works perfectly for my use case. I can imagine there co
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    by smlacy 10y ago

    Why do people care so much about terminal emulators and their supposed "bloat" and "complexity"?
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    Ask HN: What build tools does Apple use for large-scale macOS projects?

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