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by thsowers 8y ago
(2015) Wonder if there is more recent info available
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The physics of stone skipping (2002)(arxiv.org)
2 points by thsowers 8y ago|0 comments
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by thsowers 8y ago
This is really interesting. Would anyone have a link into more information as to how they are making this happen behind the scenes? How is this different from wine?
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by thsowers 8y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17810503
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by thsowers 8y ago
> Whoever signed off on throttling them This was likely the work of an automated system following a set of pre-programmed business logic. However, one would think that this could easily be undone with human intervention and a click of a
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by thsowers 8y ago
Thanks so much for the share, great gems in here, I still found myself surprised at this: > True, linux is monolithic, and I agree that microkernels are nicer. It's hard to believe that he was only 23 when he wrote this
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by thsowers 8y ago
Just to piggyback off of this comment, IMO sometimes the original offers significant advantages that the copies can't attain Example: I want to love Gitlab but no matter the additional offerings they provide, I am totally sold on the U
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by thsowers 8y ago
BikeShedding: I have a large vertical monitor and spent a minute or two trying different combinations of enter and shift+enter before finally noticing the search icon on the opposite corner of the screen, this is one aspect of material desi
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by thsowers 8y ago
Theoretically, Twitter would be an entity capable of knowing this information by correlating IP addresses and user-agents, but I agree that would not constitute "hard proof" as that could be spoofed + VPN
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by thsowers 8y ago
IIRC within the past year or two it seemed like the account was being managed by someone else. The tone of the tweets changed, and spelling errors started to arise where there had previously been very few. This could be a result of pressure
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by thsowers 8y ago
Sometimes when the ship is sinking, you need to jump off
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by thsowers 8y ago
I've used wkhtmltopdf for many years, and although it certainly has it's issues, it does work once you get it to a stable point. Is it as easy to get there as it should be? No Recently, I've been investigating writing new pro
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by thsowers 8y ago
I'm surprised that there appears to be no link to the Github Repo on the homepage: https://github.com/stencila/stencila
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by thsowers 8y ago
Now _that's_ a package manager!
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by thsowers 8y ago
Really? I have used sublime for years for log files, Atom and other web based editors would just crash. Hard to imagine that JS would be better at handling viewing large text than C++ (which I think the core of Sublime is written in) Edit:
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by thsowers 8y ago
What would you recommend over yaourt?
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by thsowers 8y ago
Also never played the original, but made it to the end with 4/5 people and a score of 7k. I feel like the difficulty likely isn't the same
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by thsowers 8y ago
This is a great listen. The interviewer doesn't seem to understand that there are hard limits to humans ability to search, compute, organize, notice patterns etc
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by thsowers 8y ago
It's ironic (and frustrating) to see this marked as "resolved" (albeit from a bot), when really this issue should be left open for others to see
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by thsowers 8y ago
If you ping textsecure-service.whispersystems.org, it points to localhost 127.0.0.1 Wonder if this is a misconfig / related to AWS error / legal action
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Ask HN: Is Signal down?
20 points by thsowers 8y ago|17 comments
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by thsowers 8y ago
I think this is one reason GitHub rolled out the "thumbs-up" reactions, too many comments just state "+1", which pollutes actual technical discussion, but at the same time it is crucial to know if many people have the sa
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by thsowers 8y ago
From the first thread on this issue[0], it appears that the GPS data transfer exchange is happening underneath the OS level. I tried the locationsmart demo, after disabling the GPS on my phone, and all location services, my exact location w
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by thsowers 8y ago
Same here
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by thsowers 8y ago
The tracking seems to be happening below that level. I had all location services turned off, it dropped a pin on the very room of the house I was in
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by thsowers 8y ago
No, I tried with my number, all location data off. GPS landed right on my house, very room phone was in.
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by thsowers 8y ago
While RMS has undoubtedly contributed much to the FOSS community, he seems to undermine some of his core points with trivial matters. For example, his piece "Reasons not to use Facebook"[0] contains some great points, but I find t
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by thsowers 8y ago
Hopefully this could be integrated with typescript as well, but this proposal would be great in certain cases to replace JS switch statements while also cleaning up the look of "case:" "break;" with something more elegan
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by thsowers 9y ago
I see your point...I think that this post is railing against those companies that are floundering and don't have a clear direction and goal. Amazon & Google may have multiple goals: retail, servers, search, home automation, etc. bu
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by thsowers 9y ago
Thanks! I was unaware of these I wonder if a similar system is used for AWS Glacier..

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