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by sxp 6y ago
"you" in this context refers to the devs who want to build an alternative launcher from scratch without writing one from scratch. User's just download the launcher and select it just like they would download & select a se
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by sxp 6y ago
Isn't that sort of like complaining that you can't use an Bing unless you "switch to an custom [search engine]"? Does Google do anything to block you from switching to a different launcher? Or block Bing from writing a B
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by sxp 6y ago
I prefer Stephenson's description of the team in Cryptonomicon: Epiphyte Corp.’s business plan is about an inch thick, neither fat nor skinny as these things go. The interior pages are slickly and groovily desktop-published out of Avi’
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'Near extinction' of influenza in NZ as numbers drop due to lockdown(rnz.co.nz)
136 points by sxp 6y ago|239 comments
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Archive link http://archive.is/qmPRy
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by sxp 6y ago
What is the distribution for HN & Reddit? I've found that most tech people self-describe as xNTx so I expect that for most HN users. I was INTP the last time I checked and got ISFP 0.320051 ENFP 0.170778 INFP 0.121951 INTP 0.111226
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Mineral: Bringing the era of computational agriculture to life [Google X](blog.x.company)
2 points by sxp 6y ago|0 comments
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For those missing the context, this model was a reductio ad absurdum response to https://twitter.com/MartinDaubney/status/1314590150245183488 You can overfit any small dataset using a relatively simple error red
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Programmer Competency Matrix (10x and log(n) programmers)(sijinjoseph.netlify.app)
2 points by sxp 6y ago|0 comments
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If doctors were really interviewed like programmers, it would be possible to get into top medical position without a major degree. I only have a BS in computer engineering from a mid-tier college, but I was able to get into two FAANGs based
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by sxp 6y ago
It would be nice if the article directly linked to the report. The PDF can be downloaded from https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA788-1.html The price charts are on page 10.
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by sxp 6y ago
When I was at Google around 2012, the company had a custom 2FA dongle that detected motion rather than touch. An engineer who had remotely ssh'd into their workstation needed to 2FA and realized that they could send an SMS to their pho
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by sxp 6y ago
http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ has easy to compare graphs and per-captia information if you want more numbers.
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by sxp 6y ago
20% of Americans hold >90% of stocks: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/composition-of-wealth/
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by sxp 6y ago
Note that this is _total_ net worth which is a bad metric to track. If the small percentage of people who own stocks had an increased value in net worth due to the bull market, this metric goes up. A better metric would be tracking the medi
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by sxp 6y ago
Another similar script is http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/ which has a pretty wide set of features for ASCII art. With some slight tweaking, it can be used to embed markdown inside normal HTML+JS docs so I've b
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by sxp 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/c/Bulkhandlingsystems/videos has demos of automatic sorting machines.
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by sxp 6y ago
This article doesn't actually explain Dust Theory to someone who hasn't read the book. I haven't found a good standalone explanation of the theory that explains it in a compact manner so my recommendation to people is to re
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by sxp 6y ago
Charles Stross had an interesting short story about hobbiest particle accelerators called "Dechlorinating the Moderator": http://www.antipope.org/charlie/fiction/moderator.html I was hoping this article
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by sxp 6y ago
You can use localStorage.clear() in the dev console to clear this info and chrome://settings/content/javascript to blacklist JS on a domain in Chrome.
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by sxp 6y ago
In Chrome, you can do this with chrome://settings/content/javascript which lets you blacklist JS on certain domains.
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by sxp 6y ago
Netflix has a debug screen that will show you the codec info. It varies depending on platform but you can Google it to find the one for your platform. For the Windows app, it's Ctrl-Alt-Shift-D. That shows H264 on my device since I don
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by sxp 6y ago
Another interesting related article is https://iquilezles.org/www/articles/checkerfiltering/checker... on how to nicely render a high res checker pattern.
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by sxp 6y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm... has a similar graph as your link, but you can mouseover to get weekly numbers.
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by sxp 6y ago
If you need a lightweight solution, Dear ImGui is a tiny cross platform GUI library: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
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by sxp 6y ago
> Johnson said these planets are not likely to support life. "They would probably be extremely cold, because they have no star," he said. (Other research missions involving Ohio State astronomers will search for exoplanets that
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by sxp 6y ago
This is blogspam from https://www.inverse.com/innovation/integrating-electronics-w... The source article has more useful info and actually defines "PEDOT": > The polymer coating is technically called poly(
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by sxp 6y ago
The quest for immortality isn't a 0 or 1 objective. Using technology to reduce or reverse aging is one aspect. Using technology to reduce the accident fatality rate is another aspect. E.g, what was the car fatality rate 100 years ago a
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by sxp 6y ago
This isn't really true if you use Bayesian science. The idea you're stating is something like "It's not possible to prove hypothesis H1 if H1 is 'all swans are white' by sampling swans and only getting white on
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Mozilla extends its Google search deal(zdnet.com)
3 points by sxp 6y ago|1 comments

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