vidanay

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   by vidanay 9y ago

   I am 6'3" and 300 lbs. Mosquitoes pretty much ignore me.
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   by vidanay 9y ago

   I've always gone with "for really small values of infinite"
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   by vidanay 9y ago

   I'd love to know the story behind "I" and "Z" swapping places.
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   by vidanay 9y ago

   Downsides of trying to illustrate sounds with writing without using IPA (which I do not know enough of). I'm sure we are saying the same thing.
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   by vidanay 9y ago

   If you are a native English speaker trying to lean a Germainic foreign language, then retraining yourself that the vowels are pronounced "ah, ay, e, oh, ooh" instead of "ay, e, eye, oh, you" helps your pronunciation trem
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   by vidanay 9y ago

   So $2 per month per user sounds about right.
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   by vidanay 9y ago

   This is one of the many reasons NY wife and our son spent the last week looking at properties in Raleigh NC and Tampa FL this week. We feel that the clock is ticking for Illinois and the judgement day is going to be spectacular. It's t
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   by vidanay 9y ago

   Thank you for that link. That is not the type of "test" I am referring to. I am referring to the sample project style "test" that you mention in your second paragraph. This was explained to HR, with examples and referenc
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   Ask HN: Today, HR told me I can't test candidates

   3 points by vidanay 9y ago|4 comments
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    >"...the incident occurred roughly 100 years from a crosswalk." How slow are Uber's cars driving?
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Git is the poster child for "leaky abstraction"
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    I think the "for reasonable problems" is the question for fusion.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    That's.....amazing It almost gives the impression that an air traffic control system is actually easier (although also failed.)
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    So, what makes a payroll system at this scale so difficult? On the face of it, there are salary employees and there are hourly employees. How many taxing bodies does Canada have? Federal, provincial, and municipal? Is that a few dozen or a
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    A "free" incentive is completely orthogonal to the demand required. The electricity during that free EV charging period on weekends must still be produced and is part of the aggregate demand.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Whenever my wife and I watch the show Time Team, we always joke that in the UK, you can just grab a shovel, walk out into just about any random field, dig a hole, and you will find at least _some_ sort of artifact.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Masonry has far fewer secrets than Dan Brown would like you to believe.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Masons can barely organize a pancake breakfast, much less a conspiracy to commit murder. Source: I am a Mason in Illinois.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    I literally just stopped working on my discreet math homework tonight before loading HN and seeing this article.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Wouldn't it be more accurate to call this an acoustic suspension beam? Calling it a tractor beam implies that it can be mounted on the ceiling and pull an object off the floor. Hence the name (at)tractor beam.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    If by "very thin" you mean up to 2.5 meters thick, then yeah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Without a doubt....travel. Domestically, internationally, secluded nature, popular tourist places, all of it. OK, I might need a year instead of a month.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Sounds suspiciously like a LUT
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    No, Chicago
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    I have no need for it, but I would be VERY surprised if it is functional
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Interestingly, I still have the monitor from my IIc. I no longer have the computer, but the monitor is sitting in my garage. Sadly though I think it has water damage.
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Typically, that would be called "a virus"
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    Especially considering this news https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/30/amazon-holding-exploratory-t...
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    $1.58 million in 2012 for the house. http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/ct-biz-h...
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    by vidanay 9y ago

    I suspect any quantity of metal sufficient to act as an RF shield or Faraday cage would be toxic to humans in paint form.