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781.
by snarfy 7y ago
Fill a small water tower
782.
by snarfy 7y ago
" Are paywalls ok? It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds." There is no workaround. HN hasn't honored their own policy in years. At this point I can only assume there is a referral deal.
783.
by snarfy 7y ago
I'm surprised at all the night owls. I thought it would be a more even split. I'm a morning lark and usually in bed by 10pm and wake around 3am. 5 hours is enough, right?
784.
by snarfy 7y ago
We should be encouraging vendors to release the source to their binary blobs instead of making it easier for them.
785.
by snarfy 7y ago
As a user and a developer, I have zero interest in Fuchsia. Between Android patents and Oracle lawsuits, the only problems Fuchsia solves are Google's problems.
786.
by snarfy 7y ago
That's one solution. You could copy the description to the invoice item. That's another. There are a lot more solutions, but the point is none of them will be trivial to implement in a large existing code base. It's really
787.
by snarfy 7y ago
You made a great example, and I think it's the most important thing to remember when designing schema. I've seen arguments for/against 1NF, 3NF, various db features, etc, but really, the schema should model the real world re
788.
by snarfy 7y ago
That's right. Here is a pretty good video explaining magnetism as a relativistic effect of electrostatics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TKSfAkWWN0
789.
by snarfy 7y ago
So you want to be a plumber? Here take this graduate course in fluid dynamics.
790.
by snarfy 7y ago
New features? They started rewriting it shortly after I was hired. Maintenance issues were always fixed by the grey beards. One of them was blind and used a talk box, a wyse terminal, and vi.
791.
by snarfy 7y ago
lol. It was a complete system with accounts, billing, 'tui' screens, all glued together by scripts, kron jobs, and awk text processing. It definitely embodied The Unix Way™ of everything is a file and small tools you can pipe in
792.
by snarfy 7y ago
My first programming job was on a telephone exchange system that was 50k lines of sed, awk, and korn shell.
793.
by snarfy 7y ago
I remember those books. They were all helpful in teaching assembly, bios, and general pc programming like serial ports, etc. None of them really helped with 386 protected mode programming. GDT, LDT, selectors and descriptors, paging, etc.
794.
by snarfy 7y ago
Have you looked at the official docs? Back in 386 days that's all we had. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm
795.
by snarfy 7y ago
They don't come with safety glass, but 'safety' glasses, which I recognize as brazing/welding glasses. They are absolutely the wrong color to protect from that blue led laser.
796.
by snarfy 7y ago
The BOM is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eU_76EaB256B_k3UIFOs... I'm surprised the laser tube is $1000. It's not much different than a light bulb. Sure it is different, but not by that
797.
by snarfy 7y ago
Volunteer at an animal shelter for a couple hours a week. The cats at pet stores always need volunteers. Animals can't communicate so you are forced to empathize.
798.
by snarfy 7y ago
It wouldn't be different than a regular calendar. It would be nice if they prompted you to 'add to calendar' when you are creating certs.
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by snarfy 7y ago
"...there is a high degree of uncertainty that the person opening the link will be asked to pay money to read the content.” I feel the same way about clicking links on hacker news.
800.
by snarfy 7y ago
It sounds like your CPU fan isn't seated properly.
801.
by snarfy 7y ago
I have the same problem with perfume, cologne, and hairspray. Even more of a problem with automobile exhaust. I don't complain to HR though.
802.
by snarfy 7y ago
Yes according to the article.
803.
by snarfy 7y ago
laughs in gigabytes
804.
by snarfy 7y ago
I can barely get candidates to join two tables.
805.
by snarfy 7y ago
My problem is when the oligopolies hurt the market with these practices. I used to buy boxes of nitrile gloves from Home Depot for painting. Then they started carrying 'HDX' brand nitrile gloves. Then they stopped carrying all o
806.
by snarfy 7y ago
You only have to quit for a few days and the dreams will come back. After a week and you'll have some nights that are almost entirely dreaming.
807.
by snarfy 7y ago
non paywalled link - https://upnewsinfo.com/2019/11/14/to-make-this-tofu-start-bu...
808.
by snarfy 7y ago
I use baby shampoo for everything. It's face wash, body wash, shampoo, shaving gel, etc, and has no perfumes.
809.
by snarfy 7y ago
I've basically seen this happen at my former employer. They started an industry, made hundreds of millions, but instead of investing in development, the executives all receive massive bonuses. Competition is now creeping in and they
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by snarfy 7y ago
It doesn't all have to be destructive. We could build fusion powered fully automated tree planters and plant entire forests. CO2 scrubbers, etc. The problem is when the waste heat can't escape into space due to things like gree

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