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by yarcob 5y ago
I'd love a bandsaw in the kitchen to cut frozen food. (so I don't need to thaw the whole thing if I need just a bit)
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by yarcob 5y ago
Except that commercial vacuum cleaners are huge, loud and cost 3x as much as a good consumer vacuum cleaner. But the bags are bigger.
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by yarcob 5y ago
I was a PhD student at a newly started research institute (started about two years before I joined). I really liked the place. The number one question is how to motivate people to join. For us PhD students, the motivation was 1) a salary an
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by yarcob 5y ago
I definitely prefer a bicycle bell to getting yelled at from behind. But you know what would be even nicer? If bikers had the curtesy to slow down a bit when the trail / path is crowded. I also love riding fast. I understand that crowd
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by yarcob 5y ago
Thanks for the video! Curiously, many of the boards in the video with planar transformers have the inductor integrated in the board rather than on a daughter board, so despite the difficulties it seems like it should be doable. Maybe for re
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by yarcob 5y ago
I wonder why they don't integrate the transformer in the circuit board, that would be even more elegant. Does the transformer PCB have more layers or heavier copper than the rest of the board?
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by yarcob 5y ago
OK, that's not how I understood your comment. I thought you meant that macOS always renders in 2x and scales down for 1x. That's not the case. (Also, the pictures in the blog look like they have been resized for the blog, so I wou
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by yarcob 5y ago
Could you explain how that would work? I thought DOS generally worked by overloading a host with mostly invalid incoming packets. Are DOS attacks that cause lots of outgoing bandwidth common? And wouldn't launching such a DOS attack be
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by yarcob 5y ago
If you host a static blog I don't think you don't need cloudflare.
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by yarcob 5y ago
No, it's not. This is a bug. macOS has two rendering modes: Normal (1x) and HiDPI / Retina (2x). For this reason, most apps have two different sets of assets like icons and other images shown in the UI. After rendering the content
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by yarcob 5y ago
Here in Austria we have a similar law that requires disclosing minimum salary for a role. Companies usually just post multiple ads if they are hiring for junior or senior roles. I don't think a job posting for both junior and senior de
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by yarcob 5y ago
The problem is not which of the two is the default, the problem is that only one of them looks like a button. It's good to use different styles. Symmetry is bad when you want people to make a choice. But in this example it doesn't
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by yarcob 5y ago
It's definitely a scam. They do not "provide a service", they mislead you into thinking you are dealing with a government office and that you are paying an official fee. This is not "better advertising", it's j
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by yarcob 5y ago
Exactly. In cases like this using an HTML/XML parser instead of a regular expression won't make a difference at all.
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by yarcob 5y ago
I think the Zalgo answer is an wonderful example of people thinking they are smarter than they really are. Spot the error: 1) HTML is not a regular language 2) Regular expressions can only parse regular languages 3) Regular expressions can
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by yarcob 5y ago
Do people really make individual cups of drip coffee? Drip coffee is perfect to make a pot with as many cups as you want. And while the coffee is dripping, you can go do something else!
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by yarcob 5y ago
You make a good point about variance. Eg. I could take the car, which is usually the fastest, but if I am unlucky there's a traffic jam and I have to wait. Or I take the bike, which is slower on average, but there is no risk of a traff
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by yarcob 5y ago
How is it hard to say "You can go to a bar as long as you bring a confirmation of vaccination"? That's really easy to say, and pretty much everyone except for a few hardcore antivaxers would understand. I'm sure that 90%
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by yarcob 5y ago
I also think the lockdowns should end. I'm merely suggesting to end them for vaccinated people first.
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by yarcob 5y ago
I understood what the article was saying very well, I just don't agree with it. The same argument could have made without vaccinations as well. Why close bars, if you could just tell people to stay at home? The people who choose to be
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by yarcob 5y ago
Why not open everything just for vaccinated people? Give people a choice: Get vaccinated, or stay at home. Get vaccinated, or wear a mask. Not forever, just for a few months. I'm pretty sure that would convince a few of the people who
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by yarcob 5y ago
What's stopping US companies from competing based on price? There's multiple producers of insulin in the US. Why do you need a foreign company to undercut them? If an international market would fix it, why doesn't the natio
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by yarcob 5y ago
I don't think it's an algorithm, I think it's a bunch of executives who think they are really smart because they found a loophole in the law.
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by yarcob 5y ago
Holy whackamoly! Booting directly from .iso files on a thumb drive? What kind of black magic is that? This is the neatest thing I've seen on HN since the actually portable executable!
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by yarcob 5y ago
> If everyone charges more and pays more you have, on aggregate, gained nothing You would reduce income inequality. People who earn money from labour would now earn more vs. people who earn money from capital gains. It would also incenti
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by yarcob 5y ago
The logic is a bit misleading, because you implicitly assume that goods and services should be as cheap as possible, while rents and real estate prices are rising to all time highs. If rents were lower, and goods and services were more expe
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by yarcob 5y ago
I've hired a few (paid) interns in my company. They all produced useful things. But they cost so much of my time that I no longer want to hire any.
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by yarcob 5y ago
Of course they also sell access to new customers. I'm not saying they don't. But they also sell access to your existing customers, both to you and your competitors. That's what companies don't understand, and I'm su
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by yarcob 5y ago
I think the number one thing people should understand is that it's really important to own the relationship with your audience. Tech companies like Google and Facebook want you to pay for reaching your audience. This sounds like a good
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by yarcob 5y ago
When I was in Sweden on vacation, I was surprised that almost all except the most minor roads have a central divider. To allow overtaking, they have 2+1 lanes, and then after a few km they switch to 1+2 lanes (extra lane in the other direct

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