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by w-m 9y ago
I think learning just the SOS distress signal (...---...) has a decent bang-for-buck ratio. And because of its frequent use in films there's usually not even much learning involved.
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by w-m 9y ago
To me the homes, people and their experiences in the video feel artificial. Thus the whole video makes me strangely uncomfortable, even though I am probably in the target audience.
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by w-m 9y ago
My experience (with the carrier “Free”) is quite different. If there’s data at all, it’s mostly Edge and will cut out when the train gets to the next station. In some deeper lines I won’t even get a phone signal.
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by w-m 9y ago
When I'm trying to resize the "Welcome to Firefox" window on a Retina iMac on 10.12.6, the wavy background animation completely freezes. Firefox then takes more than a second to update the window content and restart the anima
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by w-m 9y ago
Except for a bunch of small buses that go at walking speed in a very limited area there are no commercial autonomous cars currently deployed. There are self-driving cars that drive themselves well in clear conditions, but these are the R&am
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The Dying Art of Disagreement(nytimes.com)
42 points by w-m 9y ago|54 comments
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by w-m 9y ago
> In Paris, if you leave the bike in Montmartre (high hill) they give more time in your hide. This incentive seems to have little to no effect. Bike stations on top of the Paris hills (Montmartre, Belleville, Pantheon, ..) are almost alw
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by w-m 9y ago
That may not be too viable. My first try: > ruby -e 'puts File.read("/usr/share/dict/words").lines.sample(3).map(&:chomp).join(" ")' xanthopsin pollenite aquascutum
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Platforms State of the Union – WWDC 2017(developer.apple.com)
2 points by w-m 9y ago|0 comments
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The Story of Hyper(medium.com)
1 points by w-m 9y ago|0 comments
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by w-m 10y ago
Maybe the best answers could be given by those who would not hang around Hacker News on a weekend.
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by w-m 10y ago
Milk usually isn't hard to find: just go to the back of the store, as far away from the entrance as possible. Works often and in many countries.
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by w-m 10y ago
Their explanation that the speedup comes from the task changing from a catching task which requires higher brain functions to a simpler visually guided pointing task seems strange in this regard. As you say the catching point doesn't h
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by w-m 10y ago
Your mind would just skip the 371 though, like it does with year dates, as the 371 would be the same for a long time. And you're back to version 3 or 4.
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by w-m 10y ago
As all national and even some international media outlets have reported on it, we now have a discussion going. When talking electric cars nowadays, the focus is often on battery, range, Tesla and price, yet not about fundamentally replacing
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by w-m 10y ago
After looking for something similar some time ago, and also not finding anything suitable, I wrote a simple script that would let you repeat given phrases from a text file. I gave it two modes: 1) show a new phrase to type and time the wpm.
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by w-m 10y ago
Until now I knew the exploration-exploitation-dilemma mainly from the path finding problem in a partially unknown environment. Exploitation will definitely get you to the goal, even if not in the optimal path. You can choose to spend some r
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by w-m 11y ago
VideoStitch | http://www.video-stitch.com | Paris, France [ONSITE] | Full Time | We are focused on bringing the highest quality Post-production and Live 360° video content creation software to content producers and creatives all
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by w-m 11y ago
VideoStitch | http://www.video-stitch.com | Paris, France [ONSITE] | Full Time | We are focused on bringing the highest quality Post-production and Live 360° video content creation software to content producers and creatives all
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by w-m 11y ago
VideoStitch | http://www.video-stitch.com | Paris, France [ONSITE] | Full Time | We are focused on bringing the highest quality Post-production and Live 360° video content creation software to content producers and creatives all
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by w-m 11y ago
Paris has over 400 of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanisette They're free to use, not drug dealer proof, and close at night. I'd say they work well, but they're rather ugly.
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by w-m 11y ago
Great project, a usable search engine for programmers would be a fantastic tool to have. Realising that Google still delivers the most relevant results for the things I want to look up quickly I created http://www.stacksnippet.co
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by w-m 12y ago
The first couple of times Lessig replies, and tries to summarize something Snowden said or give some citations, I can't follow him very well. Also I can't make out any question in his remarks. Strange interviewing style. > But
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by w-m 12y ago
Didn't I see a question on how to get the object when an AttributeError is thrown on stackoverflow yesterday?
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by w-m 12y ago
Doesn't really reference mooning, I guess: https://github.com/keendreams/keen/blob/master/kd_keen.c#L15...
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by w-m 13y ago
What, it's only a little over two hours if you keep a steady pace of two moves per second. I just played til I got a 2048 in a corner. It wasn't fun.
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by w-m 13y ago
It does look much nicer than Cmd+Ctrl+Alt+8...
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by w-m 13y ago
huh? gcc 4.2 -Wall: warning: the address of ‘geteuid’ will never be NULL gcc 4.8 -Wall: warning: the comparison will always evaluate as 'false' for the address of 'geteuid' will never be NULL [-Waddress]
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by w-m 13y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8JwNZBJ_wI Interesting that they chose a walk and talk kind of thing, in a completely vacant office. What where they hurrying towards that they couldn't take the time to sit down?
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by w-m 13y ago
That Adobe got hacked isn't your fault - that you chose a weak password and reused it, is. Showing a few more numbers might help more people realize that their passwords aren't actually unique, creative or safe. The data that came

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