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by z2 4y ago
Along these lines, they already virtual gearboxes in China for license exams as fleets got electrified but the rules require passing with a manual transmission for a full license. Gear shifts and crucially, stalling all simulated with softw
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by z2 4y ago
"Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. At the first hint of trouble, they turn totally black and thus prevent you from seeing anything
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by z2 4y ago
Here's a better, more holistic overview, in case you want to see what starting "from nil" actually entails (hint: you don't just step off a plane and tell Uncle Sam that you want to be a citizen): https://immi
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by z2 4y ago
The bigger non-financial question, as the Inside Job (2010 documentary) claims, is that this expert witness ecosystem is a conflict of interest for academic experts. If I am a real estate economist, and an investment bank wanted to hire me
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by z2 4y ago
Indeed family relationships are complicated enough to warrant _calculators_ to tell you what term to use: https://lishengzxc.github.io/relativecalc/
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by z2 4y ago
My most sincere condolences. I am thrilled to hear the content is still there. Of all things I missed, I drafted most of my own wedding website through 1mb. What I didn't get a chance to say back in 2019: I really enjoyed using your se
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by z2 4y ago
The original 1MB came up a few years ago just as I was looking for a place to build and host some js-based tools. The editor and file manager were great -- so easy to use that I forgot to make backups until after 1MB suddenly decided to del
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by z2 5y ago
Which is potentially useful if the aggregate is weighted appropriately and whatever insights respect the implications of using an aggregate. It's even more useful with the additional information that temperatures in the US tend to be h
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by z2 5y ago
I recall Samsung struggling with high end fabrication since the iPhone 6 "chipgate" issue where the CPU (designed by Apple) manufactured by TSMC ran cooler than those by Samsung. It seems this happened again last year with Qualcom
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by z2 5y ago
I've been out of it for a while, but my understanding is that humans are still better at video recognition and extracting high-level information from moving videos, while the state of the art CV still tends to focus on rapid frame-by-f
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by z2 5y ago
Maybe an edge case, but ever since I've had people forgetting to turn off my stove, I've wished there was something like this that could trigger an alarm on either temperature or timer (say, heat detected on stove for over 2 hours
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by z2 5y ago
I've heard that IDA explicitly allows licensed users to decompile IDA itself. What's stopping someone from reverse engineering it transparently and making a competitor?
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by z2 5y ago
It's the case for about 80% of characters by my very unscientific estimate -- there are of course some logograms and ideographs left even if the meanings have also shifted. But the difference (and maybe one awkward part) in written non
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by z2 5y ago
As a mandarin speaker (not from northern China though), I feel that the OP's anecdotes seem a bit extreme and appeared to imply ignorance in most speakers. Anecdotally I know none to few people who would claim that dialects can be writ
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by z2 5y ago
> Mortgages, Fraud Claims And 'Dumb Dolphins': A Tangled Past Haunts Better.com CEO Vishal Garg (1 year ago)
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by z2 5y ago
Before one studies Zen, mountains are mountains and waters are waters; after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment, mountains are once again mountains a
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by z2 5y ago
Looks to me to be similar in approach and philosophy to Constellation Software ( https://www.csisoftware.com/ ), which has done very well.
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by z2 5y ago
I've seen a few apartments in Asia have small electric water heaters right before the faucet. They provide instant hot water until the main boiler's hot water arrives.
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by z2 5y ago
In North America, as far as I know there are a few modular standards at different sizes, so definitely not new as a concept. For small things like Ethernet, USB, and coaxial there is the keystone standard which is common and very cheap [0],
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by z2 5y ago
I did almost the exact same thing (minus scrabble score!), and am convinced there's at least a few interesting blog posts or even research papers left that can come from these records. Maybe because it was all too contrived, it fell by
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by z2 5y ago
That's what I thought as well. It seems the article attempts to keep closer to the financial options analogy, however, in talking about the figurative trader on the other side of the table. I'm still not understanding that in the
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by z2 5y ago
There are probably business journals that put this better, but the issue may not be that these creative people will vanish if we directed them to serve a need. Rather, the issue may involve willingness to take risks to try crazy new ideas b
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by z2 5y ago
The linked Bloomberg news article is a much more informative source than this summary of Twitter comments. If anything, it doesn't make the mistake of calling the bank the "USB Group". https://www.bloomberg.com&#x2
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by z2 5y ago
For instance, having a century headstart in industrialization and fast economic growth? It actually returns to a longer scale version of having accumulated wealth through working a long time... Also taxi driving isn't exactly the most
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by z2 5y ago
I am very proud to say that I was successfully able to get "Northern Cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis - Almost certain" by whistle-copying the cardinal that lives in my backyard.
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by z2 5y ago
The worry I have with these TVs is that basic functions like channel seeking or brightness controls now rely on a computer running Android. It feels like a 1000-fold increase in complexity and risk for something to hobble the TV part of the
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by z2 5y ago
Camera app as in a required smart home app to access the WiFi camera. About 300MB installed. It does do push notifications on motion detection so maybe that's 50MB there?
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by z2 5y ago
I've dabbled in Android development for a rather simple app, and am fighting to keep it in the single digit MB size. I was shocked that even after as much build optimization as possible on libraries, a DEX analysis shows a handful of b
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by z2 5y ago
I mostly use gas. I loved my induction cooktop and its precise and fast heat control when I had it, but the only thing I didn't like was that it required all pots to be flat (I have round woks with only a tiny flat area) and everything
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by z2 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26244093

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