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by troymc 7y ago
I'm guessing Emacs, because vi has modes and he was not a fan of modes.
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by troymc 7y ago
I grew up in North America (where 911 is the emergency number), so when I moved to Germany and wanted to remember 112, I noticed that it spells out: 1 + 1 = 2
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by troymc 7y ago
This is a clever idea.
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by troymc 7y ago
They say it's not a concept car; their intent is to put it in production. They need to get some approvals and exemptions first. Edit: More details in this video from The Verge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3E7p4S_1m
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by troymc 7y ago
"Apple names some of its most opaque holding companies after kinds of apples." --- see https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-subsidiaries-are-named...
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by troymc 7y ago
I can see this phone being a great fit for certain markets, such as senior citizens who like to talk on the phone, but who get baffled by the complexity of modern smartphones.
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by troymc 7y ago
Or maybe some memory got corrupted by a passing cosmic ray (out in the realverse).
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by troymc 7y ago
The page at the other end of the hyperlink uses the word "adaptation" twice and "adaption" never.
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by troymc 7y ago
Most bookstores would put leadership books and self help books in different sections of the bookstore. And these are the folks who put science fiction books and fantasy books in the same section!
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by troymc 7y ago
Google has offices in Berlin, just not in Kreuzberg.
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by troymc 7y ago
I had to read this sentence twice before understanding that a "report" is a person. Maybe that has become accepted terminology in some circles. I hope not. It's terribly dehumanizing.
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by troymc 7y ago
It reminds me of The Great Wave off Kanagawa . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa
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by troymc 7y ago
This service (Passbox) seems to be equivalent to LastPass's "Emergency Access" feature. See: https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/set-up-and-mana...
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by troymc 7y ago
When I moved to Berlin four years ago, I saw these big clusters of tiny lots with small houses surrounded by gardens and wondered what I was looking at. They are often visible from the train (U-Bahn and S-Bahn). I asked some coworkers and g
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by troymc 7y ago
Check out Anvil: https://anvil.works/ There's a good recent interview about it at: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/anvil-web-application-developm...
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by troymc 7y ago
I wasn't familiar with schemes that use app stores for money laundering so I did some basic web searches and it seems it can been used to launder more than $50.00. Here is one example: https://complyadvantage.com/blog&#
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by troymc 7y ago
Meanwhile, everyone involved knows about the black raven in the room (the one with the reddish key in its mouth). It's just not polite to mention it.
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by troymc 7y ago
This provides random Joe a way to show that the Riemann Hypothesis is false: try a bunch of big numbers (bigger than 5040) in σ(n)/(n ln(ln (n))) and check if the result is greater than or equal to e^γ (1.781072417990197985236504103107
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by troymc 7y ago
The blog post says, "Public topic pages will be free to access and the text available on CC 4.0." What does "CC 4.0" mean? There are many version 4 Creative Commons licenses. I looked at an actual Golden article and the
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by troymc 8y ago
"...three Alcanivorax species that were isolated from 10,400 m water supplemented with hexadecane were able to efficiently degrade n-alkanes under conditions simulating the deep sea, as did a reference Oleibacter strain cultured at
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by troymc 8y ago
A file in ipfs is stored/addressed by a hash of its content. If you know the hash of the next version and put that in the file, then that hash will affect the hash/address of the file itself. But the hash of the next version depen
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by troymc 8y ago
Yes, and the legal frameworks for people to pool their data and _license the pool_ are now being explored. One such framework is the so-called "data trust" (trust as in legal entity).
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by troymc 8y ago
"the best is paper prototyping"
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by troymc 8y ago
"Join a Spatial meeting from HoloLens, MagicLeap, VR, PC or Phone"
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by troymc 8y ago
It's like two peas in a pod. Or a pod of whales. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pod
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by troymc 8y ago
Fast Company wrote an article about Inrupt, published on September 29; see the link below. It has been in stealth mode and is only just launching publicly this week. https://www.fastcompany.com/90243936/exclusive-tim-be
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by troymc 8y ago
I wasn't able to find an interactive simulator online, but this video has a nice visualization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5O77OV9_ek
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by troymc 8y ago
The belief that there's no exact solution to the three-body problem is common but wrong. There is one, and it was found about a hundred years ago. The history of the problem, and its solution, are all described in the book Poincare an
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by troymc 8y ago
The L1, L2 and L3 points are all unstable, but there are nearby orbits that are neutrally stable, e.g. the halo orbits and the orbits described in the article. A spacecraft on one of those orbits will still need to use some propellant to ge
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by troymc 8y ago
Maybe asking HN people isn't the best way to decide. Please also consider talking to a career counselor (or similar) or reading a book based on evidence.

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