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by vdnkh 11y ago
I live in NJ, in the shadow of NYC, and commute to work every day on some of the busiest roads in the state. The real problem I see are trucks. Big stupid semi-trailers and dumptrucks, queued up by the dozens with shipments fresh from the n
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Most of those items are fixed and can be powered more efficiently and reliably by wall power
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I've always fantasized about making a 3D world with a built-in scripting language so I could make The Black Sun
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Neat! I could probably do something similar with my 3D printer, although I'd make it more friendly - instead of using coordinates (i.e MOVE X0 Y0 Z0) I'd probably just do something like MOVE LEFT and set it to a fixed amount. I&#x
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"No true Scotsman"
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>My friend's gamedev company pays an ad agency to astroturf on amongst other places 4chan Does this actually work? Shills are pretty obvious on 4Chan due their usual lack of "culture fit" and tendency to call anyone praisi
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>Halting Problem What an easy way to confuse someone whose never heard of the term for "does the program stop". It's pedantic.
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>Barriers To Entry There's another group facing barriers to entry in the tech world: those without CS degrees. There are plenty of people without a CS degree who are talented, have natural aptitude, work hard, and can certainly prog
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Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
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Do you have any statistics to show the division of HN before and after posts like this? If you don't, then clearly you're wrong about this, and everything else you have ever said.
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>practice of a specific mental skill has little influence on other mental skills I disagree. Take reading, for example. Does reading not make you a better writer?
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It is all low tech. I've been undergoing significant dental work over the past year and I always come back to this same thought. The reason the "brutal" techniques works is because of the amazing resiliency of the mouth. Woun
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by vdnkh 11y ago
>I like the twitch platform, technologically You shouldn't. Twitch is still holding onto Flash. They could have really leveraged their position as the most used streaming site to push for adoption of HTML5 streaming. They have a HLS
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Looks like a great gift for my younger brother. And if he doesn't end up using it I wouldn't mind making a tin hedgehog myself.
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And really nicely designed/styled
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>It's like saying that a mechanical engineer just has to know how to use 3D modeling computer software and doesn't need to know physics or mathematics ... that would lead to disastrous outcomes. It's also like saying a Sof
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There's some "accent" typical to Reddit comments that I've also been noticing more of here.
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That was my conclusion too, going to try this out when I get home
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>Underline links I would, but I want an entire paragraph (title header + body) to be clickable. It looks pretty bad if the entire thing is underlined, and just underlining the header makes it look like a decoration and not a link. The cu
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>Links are easily recognizable. They look clickable. Items that aren't links don't look clickable, for example underlining text is avoided. I've been struggling with making things 'look clickable' on my website (
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>We feel strongly that Engineering will move much faster with a smaller and nimbler team What percentage of 336 cuts would produce a team that is smaller and nimbler, I wonder? It sounds like engineers not on the "greatest impact&qu
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>If you major in "mechanical engineering", you will take courses in calculus, linear algebra, probability, computer programming, physics (thermodynamics, mechanics, electrodynamics, strength of materials, maybe aerodynamics and
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Powershell supports both dir and ls
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I dislike Carly but I agree with you. Liberal hand-wringing doesn't belong on HN.
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Nice! Displaying a popup of "at a glance" info on pin rollover would be a nice feature.
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Advertisers will get their wish (crawlerbots don't have a pulse) when wearable tech becomes more mainstream. A quote from The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson: You could get a phantascopic system planted directly on your retinas, just
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I've been lifting for a few years now and I really dislike the cargo cult mentality when it comes to heavy lifts, mainly barbell deadlift and squats. If you're not trying to become an olympic lifter, barbell squats and deadlifts w
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I'd like to see this picture redone with dumptrucks and semis. My commute each day forces me onto a road clogged with shipping routes and truckers with little regard for a tiny 2-door Honda. They take excessive space, excessively pollu
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>skateboarding is easy! True, but it's hard to look cool on a skateboard. I've been skating for over 10 years now and it's really easy to tell when someone is a beginner (nothing wrong with that). The difference is that th
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Yes, the author is correct. There is a distinct lack of OSS in .NET. I've been trying to find a project to contribute to among the graveyard on Github. However, I think the author falls flat explaining the why. I have a few thory on th

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