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by wffurr 4y ago
Two big use cases: 1) Wok cooking, can’t use a round bottomed wok easily or create “wok hei”. Though you can also do it with a blowtorch: https://www.seriouseats.com/hei-now-youre-a-wok-star-a-fiery... 2) Causing childhood
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by wffurr 4y ago
Kate's of Maine is an excellent American butter. I buy it over Kerrygold or Finlandia (which are also excellent) because it seems silly to ship butter in cargo ships when there are plenty of cows right here. If the only other option w
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by wffurr 4y ago
Did you see what this project actually is? It's not a live internet connection. It's a content pack of extremely useful reference materials and such for solving exactly a lot of those problems, with solar power and local wifi. It
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by wffurr 4y ago
It's highly entertaining! But also I understand not watching videos.
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by wffurr 4y ago
Per the video, this was for typing while holding a sleeping baby. Hence the need to be quiet.
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by wffurr 4y ago
Why not let me read first and then prompt? "Want more like this? Enter your email to subscribe." You could probably get much higher conversion and lower unsubscribe rates by only going after readers who stuck around a bit.
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by wffurr 4y ago
At the pressures in Saturn’s core, the hydrogen and helium aren’t gases anymore, but liquids. Imagine a rock and liquid hydrogen slurry.
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by wffurr 4y ago
Rituals can still have meaning even in 2023.
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by wffurr 4y ago
That has been a draft for over ten years. I studied out of it in print out form in 2009. I wonder why it’s never finished. Maybe the authors aren’t satisfied with it?
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by wffurr 4y ago
While the GP is obviously wrong now, that was the common take among analysts prior to the invasion. The underperformance of the Russian military has been stunning to say the least.
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by wffurr 4y ago
Great advice but tough when the real estate market near the Google offices are completely insane.
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by wffurr 4y ago
It was the AC50 and I see you’re right; it does have standing rigging.
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by wffurr 4y ago
It’s rumored that Apple will release a 15” MacBook Air model soon: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/15-inch-macbook-air/ That might decouple screen size from premium specs and bring the cost down.
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by wffurr 4y ago
There are many designs of unstayed masts throughout history including modern designs with aluminum and carbon fiber: https://www.google.com/?q=unstayed+mast&tbm=isch America’s Cup AC55 yachts come to mind with an unstay
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by wffurr 4y ago
You may not have class but you are a member of a class and regardless don't deserve shovelware and ads in your start menu.
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by wffurr 4y ago
A carbon tax would be technologically neutral compared to the patchwork of mandates and such we have now. It would also be substantially more efficient.
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by wffurr 4y ago
It sounds like the discoverability of the LabView “syntax” leaves much to be desired. Perhaps because it’s a proprietary tool used by lots of non programmers, the Google results seem to be really lacking. Much harder to find a top Stack O
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by wffurr 4y ago
Wh/Kg is the relevant metric to optimize though. Whether it’s LFP or solid state doesn’t matter. If that company is building higher density LFP batteries, that addresses every concern you mention.
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by wffurr 4y ago
It wasn’t so much that they forgot but that Android 10 changed the meaning of the “w” file mode flag for open.
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by wffurr 4y ago
I still can’t believe they changed the meaning of the “w” flag. I had never heard of the “wt” file mode. Does that exist on other POSIX systems?
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by wffurr 4y ago
Can you even leave the host a review at that point to warn others?
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by wffurr 4y ago
The real secret sauce to HN would be cloning dang.
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by wffurr 4y ago
One line of thought that hadn't occurred to me until this thread is that The Netherlands car infrastructure is also probably quite good, in keeping with their general high quality of infrastructure all around. Although as many of the o
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by wffurr 4y ago
I rented a bike in Holland no problem. Weird that you weren't able to do so.
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by wffurr 4y ago
There's 138 trains per day between Amsterdam and The Hague. It's faster to take the train than to drive on that trip. Driving in either city in an exercise in frustration. Why would anyone in a rich country with a high function
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by wffurr 4y ago
Release the server code and let the 10,000 maintain it themselves.
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by wffurr 4y ago
Would be fun to compile that with Emscripten for WebGL and make a live demo.
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by wffurr 4y ago
Like this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxIPcbmo1_U
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by wffurr 4y ago
>> Try using object destructuring in a class constructor to create optional named parameters for a class. Works perfectly in Vanilla JS, but TS will throw a hissy-fit. What? You mean like this? class Foo { constructor({
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by wffurr 4y ago
>> the rest of TS features are just trying to put Java into Javascript, empowering people to turn 100 LOC worth of functionality into 1000 LOC of cruft Not sure what features those are, but TypeScript still has first-class functions,

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