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It seems that "professional designer" means a person who makes changes that are generally bad. Once the UI is perfected, it must continue to change (and thereby become non-perfect) because how else would customers know that they g
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Khan Academy is no longer motivating for kids. It used to work great. It was mainly math. Each lesson was marked out in a big 2D map, with arrows connecting lessons. Kids would earn meteorites, stars, comets, and other sky object badges. I&
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How certain are you that the pear was fresh picked? (did you watch?) Do you have a high tolerance for grainy texture? Normally, pears must be picked green. If they ripen on the tree, they get a grainy texture that most people hate. They are
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We don't, at least not with general-purpose computers. There are too many distractions. It's a disaster. Students need to access school web sites which include links to book publishers and YouTube. There might be math videos on Yo
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Ask HN: Online Classes vs. Computer Addiction?
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The reduced runtime overhead, including optional temptations, is what makes Rust an interesting and modern language. Language design took a wrong turn in the 1990s, leaving us stuck using very old languages from the 1970s.
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They do the slow fade-in effect when you open the door. That's got to cost something. I, mistakenly, bought the refrigerator with LED lighting because I hated how old-style bulbs would turn on slowly in the cold. LED lighting should be
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Most terminal emulators won't support the -S option. That is needed so that another program can feed data into an xterm that has been created as a child process. I've seen it used for a modem dial-up program and I've seen it
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He does, uniquely, have alternatives: https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-circumvents-twitter-ban-wi...
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Someday the traders will be beaming neutrinos through the Earth.
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Uh, so what? Letting the compiler assume that a "switch" without a default will never go there is a great optimization too. Why not put that in the standard? Actually, this is worse. Letting the loop be UB is like letting a true &
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Just what is gained by failing to loop forever? It seems like a really low-value optimization. Nearly always, the optimization would violate the programmer's intent or it would change an ordinary bug into a confusing bug. An infinite l
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Is that high cost mostly for an inherent reason, or mostly because such concrete isn't in mass production? What sort of cost difference would that be? If I actually wanted that type of concrete, how would I specify it and then ensure t
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Bush Jr. did not attend. He was on an aircraft flying to Texas. This is memorable because the FAA had to modify software to support the callsign of an aircraft changing during flight, in this case from Air Force One to something else.
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At one place, fresh out of college, I quickly found myself tracing trough about 1000 lines of assembly code for trap/exception/interrupt handling. That job was to develop an embedded supercomputer OS kernel. (for use in aircraft a
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3.5" disks are less durable. The sliding door snags inside the drive. This destroys both the disk and the drive.
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1. Regulations were severely cut. Those choke the life out of American business, making it uncompetitive. Maybe you like some of the regulations, but they have costs. Those costs aren't very visible to most people, because most people
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Right before the virus hit, unemployment was hitting record lows. (various unemployment records being about half a century old) The pay, adjusted for inflation, was starting to creep upward in a way that it hadn't for many years. If th
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You'll get mixed answers because people don't like the same stuff. I like the Melbourne area. I'm to the east, out on the barrier island. I have a coworker out to the west, with canal access to a lake so he can go shoot allig
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Florida has both Sarasota County Area Transit and Space Coast Area Transport. Both are SCAT. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scat https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scat
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In two decades I have never dealt with ASP.NET, Javascript, or kubernetes. Those are not on the checklist that HR will use. No assembly skills? REJECTED It's literally in the interview. Most of the interviews that I've had, includ
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Why settle for an average job? Assembly is fun. I work with it nearly every day. I've done assembly at every employer for the past two decades. Those "kids took it very seriously" would get hired, not you. Some people take pa
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No, a US tariff on Saudi Arabia wouldn't matter for either country. Make it an embargo, with other nations coerced into cooperating, and it would matter. The US was getting oil from closer places like Mexico and Venezuela. Some came fr
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That checklist strongly assumes you want to make yet another web site or phone app. I'm closely familiar with a few startups, 2 of which were in your area, and not one of them fit that checklist. One started with mortgaging a house for
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You don't know until you try. Computed goto is great by itself, but it can disable some optimizations. Large functions can also disable some optimizations, so splitting opcodes out into separate functions can sometimes be good. Sometim
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There is no need for the A-10, or any other weapon system, to be used all by itself. In hostile airspace, the EA-18G Growler brings the AGM-88 HARM, assuming those modern air-defense emplacements haven't already been hit by cruise miss
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We like our aircraft "Made in USA" for obvious reasons. An aircraft "Made in China" is a great way to save money, and it works fine for China. It probably doesn't help that practically every congressional district g
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MANPADS are not the end of the A-10. The A-10 was designed with them in mind. Note how the strange tail wraps around the engine exhaust. That is a tiny bit of stealth, blocking the IR seekers from seeing the engines from most angles. Other
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I often get the sense that people see retribution as inherently evil, barbaric, and unfit for civilization. That doesn't match up well with the prevention of lynch mobs. It's plainly evil and uncivilized to create conditions condu
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People are kept separate. In first grade, I was in the "green" reading group, with just 4 or 5 out of about 30 kids. Nothing was ever said about abilities. I just assumed that the groups were random. I was the best in the green gr

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