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by z2 8y ago
I try to travel with friends each year, but the core issue for most of us is, even with PTO, a few weeks of overtime is needed before or after the trip because work can't wait, and our colleagues cannot absorb our work. Speaking of our
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But how else can they pay for their beautiful open floor plan offices? Standing bicycle desks! Developers, QA professionals, even DBAs! Informal discussions! Beer-o-clock and hack days! From the promotional video anyway: https://
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by z2 8y ago
I'd argue the US and China have more chaotic/lawful neutral elements, at least with the former valuing nobody above themselves and breaking the laws when convenient, and the latter's obsession with stability at the cost of fr
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by z2 8y ago
Getting HomeAssistant set up with integration into an ancient home security system has been a blast! (Someone reverse-engineered the bus protocol for a very common hardware provider [1]) Besides security, now I have automations like turning
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by z2 8y ago
There's a quote I can't find that echoed this, from a former ultra-nationalist, who said she, despite being unemployed, in a rut, etc., was still a citizen of her country, and so she clung to vocal nationalism for a sense of despe
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by z2 8y ago
This is going to sound like a killjoy, but it's all fun and games until an Easter egg unintentionally introduces a weak point. Microsoft made a point of banning them entirely, and high profile easter eggs these days are well designed a
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That's what the article said, unless the developer made it up for damage control. I'm not defending the abhorrent overreacting that led to the company self-censoring. It's just, if the game makers scripted this and designed i
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by z2 8y ago
When I buy a game, or any consumable for that matter, I'm not expecting angry rogue staff to hide political Easter eggs. There's a place for activism/satire, but perhaps not on the salary of a presumably neutral employer.
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It's good that this design puts the foldable screen in the inside. The surfaces of these screens probably won't be using scratch-resistant glass any time soon.
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Reminds me of a real version of what this ad in every Boy's Life magazine promised for at least 30 years. I always wondered if the mail-order hovercraft plans encouraged or dashed the dreams of kids across the US for over 2 generations
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There was an anime series called Dennou Coil from 2007, that explored a lot of these themes, based on a world with a very detailed AR model of reality. Being a TV show, it had lots of anthropomorphism, but it asked questions such as, what i
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by z2 8y ago
Sci-Hub's user flow is so ridiculously friendly, that I'd often use it even when I have credentials to some obscure authorization network. This is true even for the free SSRN which started requiring logging in around the time Else
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I got this book as a part of some math prize in high school. It's supposed to give the reader a sense of appreciation of how knots can be modeled, and in turn can even model other patterns. But when I learned sailing, I realized that t
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by z2 8y ago
> The transceiver on board Longjiang-2 was designed to allow radio amateurs to downlink telemetry and relay messages through a satellite in lunar orbit, as well as command it to take and downlink images. This is so cool and would have ma
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by z2 8y ago
The Bloomberg reporter watching from a distance part was a bit weird. Also, independent of this alleged wrongdoing, the product itself clearly failed to get traction in the (mobile device) market, for reasons we can only speculate. Sure, th
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by z2 8y ago
It's great that the FTC in the US rolled with the flood of scam calls and partnered with call blocking lists [0], but ignorant question--why are scammers able to cycle through and commandeer and route through so many domestic phone num
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by z2 8y ago
Anecdotally, having gone through some selective institutions, I've seen this more than a couple times (though maybe this also says something about myself too...). My unfounded theory is that gatekeepers (e.g. admissions, HR) are inhere
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by z2 8y ago
Interesting--is this a euphemism ingrained in industries, or is this explicitly defined somewhere? I just searched for some articles (limited, using Google translate), and the articles mainly glorify research work, and sometimes talk about
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by z2 8y ago
This article, if true, gives the best context so far, in suggesting this was indeed highly coordinated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18676706
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GP was asking if anyone would send a FOIA request.
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Wait. Do you mean a cube of silver|gold that's 55|20 meters on one side, as in the width of the cube and not its volume? As in 55^3 = 166,375 m^3 of silver, and 20^3 = 8000 m^3 of gold? That 5.36m diameter cube illustration representin
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by z2 8y ago
Yes, and in between the former and latter, there was also a short-lived attempt to simplify characters further [0]. It failed, perhaps because it was completely contrived, whereas the first simplification adopted many existing cursive/
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By this, do you mean turning ego into something productive, or getting rid of it so that resistance to change can stop and growth can happen? Meanwhile, as far as attitudes go, I'm more disturbed by the pervasive zero-sum mindset coupl
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There's an older article that attempts to explain the motivations for this with a more narrative approach: https://tbshamden.com/images/TBScontent/safetreyf.pdf In addition to the 'welcoming' nature
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Thank you! I'm going to take another look and try to get this set up. Looks like udev and device paths will do it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43361613/how-can-i-ident...
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I made a Shairport server for 6 audio zones years ago on an ancient desktop computer and multiple PCI sound cards. After it died, it was hard to migrate to a single Raspberry Pi due to the USB audio cards devices scrambling on each boot (so
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In working on an Android app for thermal receipt printers, I just recently learned how pervasive these control codes still are! It's great that Epson has kept up on very clear documentation, and even a surprisingly well made Android li
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For what it's worth, I attended an event where Murdoch spoke a couple years ago [0][1]. Despite the interviewer's best efforts, he actually seemed a bit extreme to the other direction in refusing to say a negative thing about Chin
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On the motorized chair, specifically, it turned out to be an epic scam where all the wrong incentives were in place to get people who had no need for them to get one through their insurance. If only increased spending could be less wasteful
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Two factor authentication for cars, here we come! Though, searching for this phenomenon shows articles at least 3 years old warning to get Faraday cages or otherwise wrap fobs in aluminum foil. But do they really transmit all the time, or d

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