ythn

28 ms·

241.
by ythn 9y ago
> At the individual level, I've always thought discussing person responsibility for getting pregnant or attempting to cast blame for doing so is pointless. The hope is that it prevents future unexpected pregnancies by making people
242.
by ythn 9y ago
VSCode is the only Git GUI that you need and it's available on Linux
243.
by ythn 9y ago
That artificial super intelligences are not science fiction
244.
by ythn 9y ago
A lot of "hackers" also have a min/max mindset where they have to optimize everything, including society. And min/maxing society means solving problems like wealth imbalance, causes of death, etc. And from a purely analy
245.
by ythn 9y ago
Because OP can order more cases of his current contacts without paying an optometrist for a "new" prescription
246.
by ythn 9y ago
If you know your prescription you can order new glasses online without paying the optometry tax
247.
by ythn 9y ago
Who cares? The whole eye prescription thing seems like a shakedown anyway. Keep paying for a new Rx every 2 years if you want new glasses/contacts even if you can still see crystal clear with your current prescription. I got a glasses
248.
by ythn 9y ago
Because when it's a utility you can't treat different traffic types differently and QoS suffers, especially in domains like satellite internet
249.
by ythn 9y ago
He addresses this in the article if you read a little further down. Briefly, any sequence of 1 million coin flips is equally unlikely, but because most fall within our expectations, they are not surprising. 1 million heads in a row does not
250.
by ythn 9y ago
> - Go true native, not hybrid What about for games? Unity is extremely tempting, especially when the alternative is to write the game twice in two different languages...
251.
by ythn 9y ago
Have you ever tried Chip's Challenge 2? Chuck finally got the rights back and released it recently[1]. I actually thought the second one had even more interesting computer-themed mechanics than the first one, it's a shame it was r
252.
by ythn 9y ago
No because DRM like Adobe ADEPT is very mysterious and only authorized ereaders are given access to it. I highly doubt they would allow an open source ereader to implement ADEPT.
253.
by ythn 9y ago
I'll believe it when I see it
254.
by ythn 9y ago
Georgia has a few good ones. Georgia Tech and Columbus State University have fully online graduate CS programs
255.
by ythn 9y ago
"Please keep buying our product but don't say we didn't warn you"
256.
by ythn 9y ago
It's true - the universe is made of nothing. Galaxies are mostly empty space. So then you find some matter in the galaxy. Atoms are matter. But atoms are mostly empty space as well. But then you find the nucleus. But protons are mostly
257.
by ythn 9y ago
> Personally I'd have a quick reminisce then all slam it. What the heck? You'd destroy our entire species to "spare" those that don't have it good?
258.
by ythn 9y ago
So your options are to watch with ads or not watch. Why is this so hard? If Walmart only let you "buy" DVDs at the checkout by watching ads that the cashier shows you, how is it okay to just steal the DVDs because you don't w
259.
by ythn 9y ago
> If I mute the TV and go to the bathroom while the commercials play, am I stealing? If I read a magazine and flip past the ads, am I stealing? If I change the channel on the radio on a commercial break, am I stealing? I think everyone c
260.
by ythn 9y ago
> But if they want to say "you must instruct your computer to download and display our ads", that's not valid, IMO. Why not? I can sell you a video stream without ads for $1. Or I can let you watch it for free with the imp
261.
by ythn 9y ago
So? Install Ubuntu, receive updated firmware/disabled ME, reinstall distro of choice. Also: > System76 will investigate producing a distro-agnostic command line firmware install tool. Follow us on your preferred social network for u
262.
by ythn 9y ago
Leave it to HN to poop on even the coolest of projects. "What? This tiny DIY rocket that can go all the way to Mars on a liter of hydrogen didn't use a space elevator? Disappointing."
263.
by ythn 9y ago
> I think this is really great but IMHO college is too late for this. Personal finance should be taught in middle and high schools just like health classes. That's all well and good, but it won't really help if the students hav
264.
by ythn 9y ago
If people always wrote software responsibly we'd have a great deal fewer interesting projects on GitHub
265.
by ythn 9y ago
> The key is that you have to not give a shit about anyone other than yourself This is actually quite difficult. Despite its shortcomings (and perhaps ironically) religion can be effective at convincing people to put others first but I w
266.
by ythn 9y ago
The best argument I've heard is that Telecomms have spent X billion dollars of their own money building out infrastructure and NN makes their infrastructure public utility lines that they won't get compensated for.
267.
by ythn 9y ago
I don't even understand how this became a bi-partisan issue. Everyone I know, republican and democrat, are for NN. The only people that are against NN are convinced it was introduced by Obama in order to "socialize the internet&qu
268.
by ythn 9y ago
> I do hope that this debate is considered thoroughly settled in favour of the whistle-blowers by now? I think the answer is "it depends". I mean, you could leak information that gets people killed but as long as you invent a r
269.
by ythn 9y ago
Come on, the juiciest tidbit was the latency and he left it out what it ended up being! I'm guessing the latency was around 1.5 seconds. It can't get much faster than that; the speed of light is too slow.
270.
by ythn 9y ago
I don't get why it's racist to not prefer Indians and Chinese H1Bs because of bad language skills. At my current company I can say with 100% confidence that the source of many bugs is bad communication in part because of Chinese H

More ›