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901.
by snarfy 8y ago
When all the jobs are replaced by robots there will be nobody to buy the products.
902.
by snarfy 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12821586 (2016)
903.
by snarfy 8y ago
We stopped where we are at because the eye cannot see more colors. The same goes for 4K displays. More resolution doesn't make sense. 4K pixels is more pixels than there are cones in your eyes.
904.
by snarfy 8y ago
"I can't send a fax from where I'm at" "Where are you?" "2019. I'm in the year 2019"
905.
by snarfy 8y ago
I have a couple things written on a post-it note. Sometimes I lose the note. Nothing bad happens. The really important stuff will either get done or find its way back to a post-it note.
906.
by snarfy 8y ago
But somehow automobiles are OK.
907.
by snarfy 8y ago
(within their brand) That's the kicker. I have DeWalt, Makita, and Rigid brand electric tools. They all have different, incompatible (yet same voltage/amp) batteries and chargers, each costing as much as the tool. At least gas
908.
by snarfy 8y ago
“Nintendo is not interested in making a large amount of revenue from a single smartphone game,” one CyberAgent official said. “If we managed the game alone, we would have made a lot more.” Yes, they would have made more, at the expense of t
909.
by snarfy 8y ago
I assumed the bc command would be listed.
910.
by snarfy 8y ago
This video from the Royal Institute has a lot of good info on the microbiome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LUuqxQSaFQ
911.
by snarfy 8y ago
This is a pretty good video describing Bell's Inequality - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_0o2fJhtSc
912.
by snarfy 8y ago
As a US citizen I do not want a single cent of tax dollars going to Larry. It's infuriating the US government is Oracle's biggest customer.
913.
by snarfy 8y ago
It's because colder air is more dense, making it more heavy and stay closer to the ground.
914.
by snarfy 8y ago
Also like putting strings on a guitar with a floating (floyd rose) bridge.
915.
by snarfy 8y ago
There are really only so many modeling kernels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_modeling_kernel
916.
by snarfy 8y ago
> Nicotine extracts They are not extracts. The nicotine in vape juice is 100% synthetic.
917.
by snarfy 8y ago
Glad I never gave them my number.
918.
by snarfy 8y ago
They could if they understood their users. A lot of UX design you see today is designed for new users, as apposed to say expert users like assessors that use the same software all day, everyday. Those are different UX goals. A good UX des
919.
by snarfy 8y ago
> Issue: Control systems for most of the city’s 3,000 traffic signals date to the 1960s and make it harder for the department to manage congestion. Cost (per intersection): $175,000 to $735,000 That cost seems outrageous. Are traffic si
920.
by snarfy 8y ago
Nowhere on that page did I see a chart showing the dramatic increase in CEO pay since 1950. The money is still there, it just going to the top. Are you saying the CEOs are solely responsible for this productivity gain?
921.
by snarfy 8y ago
Totally agree. Actually I think were are worse in that laptops and workstations are more potent drugs than the phone ever could be. People will be glued to their phones in public, but we don't even bother to go out into public.
922.
by snarfy 8y ago
Not fast enough. Performance is king during development.
923.
by snarfy 8y ago
You might even say the unattached "one" is more real than the fork. At the end of the universe, that fork is long gone, but "one" is still there.
924.
by snarfy 8y ago
In Linux, if libssl is compromised, you install a new libssl. In Plan 9, if libssl is compromised, you re-install Plan 9. That's static linking for you.
925.
by snarfy 8y ago
Support is the main reason I wouldn't use GCP. Production is down and the only response I get is an automated email? No thanks.
926.
by snarfy 8y ago
There is always overlap. No need for two HR departments.
927.
by snarfy 8y ago
A simple hello world style app in electron and in my own project [1] show electron using ~100mb while the webview based project ~50mb, so there's that. [1] https://github.com/zenakuten/webview-cs
928.
by snarfy 8y ago
When I had a landline, I set my voice mail message to the 'we're sorry, your number cannot be completed as dialed' message. Worked great.
929.
by snarfy 8y ago
I have to disagree that Agile is any kind of solution to this. I've seen it fail too many times. If implemented correctly, maybe, but that rarely happens. And why is that? Why so many Agile horror stories? There is a real lack of
930.
by snarfy 8y ago
They still work as libraries. 'Pure arduino' with it's setup(), loop(), pinMode(), etc is hiding a lot of firmware from you. If your device has wifi, it becomes more difficult to use it without an OS since you must manage t

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