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by wtracy 6y ago
> We say deaf & hard-of-hearing please, not hearing-impaired. Whoops, my apologies. > Flashes / vibration are common alerts yes. A quick search reveals that there's a mishmash of different ways to use a phone's flas
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by wtracy 6y ago
I'm going to take this as an excuse to ask some questions about how the hearing impaired use video chat: How much does the video component help? I'd assume that most modern video chat solutions are adequate for sign language (but
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by wtracy 6y ago
It's not entirely true that regulators haven't plushed back: in the USA, there's a minimum amount of cream required before the vendor can call the product "ice cream". The products in that category that have been
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by wtracy 6y ago
I'm surprised that Overstock is simultaneously still running at a loss and is seeing rising share values. Every time I've tried to shop there, I've found a terrible selection, middling prices, and a mediocre UI. (To be fair,
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by wtracy 6y ago
The possibility that a lot of that investment might be coming from pension funds or from government-insured banks is concerning.
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Folks also get so worked up about highly efficient new renewable power sources that they forget about transit and storage. I don't know about the situation today, but for years the massive wind farms on Tehachapi weren't even co
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by wtracy 6y ago
I think there's a world of difference between saying that targeted advertising as it is done now is unacceptable, and saying that targeted advertising is fundamentally unacceptable. The first one I'm actually sympathetic to. T
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by wtracy 6y ago
> Never allow dynamic ad content! Ads should be individually approved by publishers and not subject to change after approval. Partially agree. Publishers should definitely be able to blacklist advertisers. However, networks like Google
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by wtracy 6y ago
Taste might not be a concern, but toxicity would be even more if a concern if the crops bioconcentrate the chemical.
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That, and feedback that they genuinely enjoyed things that the rest of us hate. Microsoft heard from hundreds of users who were heartbroken when Clippy was removed from Microsoft Word.
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I wouldn't be surprised if that's intentionally done to force users to leave enough space around the console for airflow.
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If so, one or two companies could handle fix this problem by dedicating an employee to working on Postgres. Unfortunately, most of the likely candidates with money to throw around have their own pet database systems, and don't have in
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by wtracy 6y ago
> but it comes from a no-reply address. I consider that an antipattern in and of itself. Unless you have a truly abysmal average CLV, replies should be directed to a system that first filters out (and acts on) bounce messages, simple uns
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by wtracy 6y ago
I personally strongly agree, but I want to point out that HN is not a remotely representative sample of email users. Study marketing a bit, and you'll find loads of things that email power users loathe that still get an overall very po
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by wtracy 6y ago
It's primarily used in the context of reaching out to users who just signed up for a service. After they're signed up/subscribed, you send an "onboarding" email with general information on how to get started using t
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by wtracy 6y ago
If settle for just being able to disable animated emoji in the subject line. (I was shocked the first time I got spam that started playing animations before I opened it .)
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by wtracy 6y ago
Even without electricity, there's plenty of horror stories about sex toys--particularly dildos--made with unsafe materials. Some materials can cause allergic reactions, others are carcinogenic.
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by wtracy 6y ago
In this particular case, I think everything compute-intensive happens in the GPU anyway, so there's not much to lose by using a high level language on the CPU side.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Here's an idea: Make a pill that cures any viral disease! Don't bother me with questions about how to make it work. I'm an idea guy, not a chemist. Are you interested in the idea or not? The reason people don't buy ideas
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by wtracy 6y ago
> Bipolar patients tend to struggle with unlimited free time, unstructured days, and no accountability to their work peers. I was thinking more broadly in terms of people with disabilities when I made the remark about social safety nets.
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by wtracy 6y ago
I saw this behavior under Ubuntu. Poking around the Firefox wiki, it looks like it uses it's own native backends on basically every platform except Windows. I have no idea whether any of this is relevant to the original Firefox support
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by wtracy 6y ago
If you're curious: I don't have the machine in front of me, but it's an eee PC with I believe an Intel n550 CPU and an Intel GMA 3150 graphics chipset. I saw this behavior under a recent version of Ubuntu, probably 19.10. (Th
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by wtracy 6y ago
Whoops, you're right, I got my acronyms mixed up. Funny enough, I also used to know a (different) person who had borderline personality disorder. I can confirm firsthand that they are very different!
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by wtracy 6y ago
Chrome seems to have a more full-featured shim layer for handling older graphics drivers. I have a netbook that Firefox won't even try to launch WebGL on. Chrome seems to run WebGL just fine, though shaders with more than about twelve
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by wtracy 6y ago
Meanwhile, I know of a practicing therapist in my community who stops just short of encouraging patients to experiment with hallucinogenics. (She's also fairly vocally anti-vaccine.) The range of attitudes within the profession just
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by wtracy 6y ago
I knew someone with BPD. She might have been the hardest-working person I've known. She also couldn't hold down a job to save her life. She's the reason I can't ever see eye to eye with anyone who wants to cut our social
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by wtracy 6y ago
The article is indeed garbage. It smells like there's actually some interesting research being done here using graphene to extract energy from the ambient environment (possibly harvesting the work done as the graphene expands during he
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by wtracy 6y ago
> the author seems to be out for blood Sometimes a really over-the-top reaction is the only way to get the attention of a large organization.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Exactly what regulations are preventing new broadband providers from entering the market?
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by wtracy 6y ago
Over half. 52%, actually. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...

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