SiVal

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by SiVal 2y ago
Yes, Dick has been a nickname for Richard for about 800 years but only got its modern slang meaning in probably late-19th or early 20th century. It seems to have come out of the British military from the phrase "Tom, Dick, and Harry&qu
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by SiVal 2y ago
The English form of daughter was also -dottir, but it was not common.
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by SiVal 2y ago
Would a bit of Post-It Note (for minimal adhesion) damage the screen coating if left on most of the time? Would even that much thickness stress the screen when opened and closed thousands of times? Is there a better (self-service) material?
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by SiVal 2y ago
It's a little sad, but you're right of course that many books no longer make business sense now that everything they offer is online and free. Well, when the AIs put us all out of business and we're home all day in our rabbit
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by SiVal 2y ago
Ah, I thought your name sounded familiar! In 2008, I bought "Reading Japanese with a Smile" on a trip to Japan and loved it. It was very well done and perfect for me. I ended up buying two copies and for years I kept checking on K
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by SiVal 2y ago
Is this for the paid version? I'm using the free version, and it hasn't asked me for a phone number, but if the paid version requires a phone number, my reaction would be the same as yours: sorry, no.
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by SiVal 2y ago
I would love to see kids given the materials and taught how to build makeshift emergency radios in science class every couple of years. Then they could take them home, stick them in a closet or drawer somewhere, and in case of emergency, th
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by SiVal 2y ago
Does Apple charge 15% for each dollar up to a million plus 30% for each dollar above a million, or when you cross a million (in a year), do they suddenly jump to 30% of everything ? IOW, if I have earned $999,999 so far this year, I have t
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by SiVal 3y ago
I understand that some businesses might want to take the hit from a cost surge because they get an even higher revenue surge. But a large fraction of sites aren't like that and would prefer a loss of service to a cost overrun. Service
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by SiVal 3y ago
I'd like the same but with one more deployment option: create a (simple) static site that doesn't require any web server. I started an old relative on Dreamweaver about 25 years ago thinking that simple HTML files would make a goo
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by SiVal 3y ago
I completely agree. The wonderful speed of the compiler allows for quick small-change, test, small-change, test development. In theory. They then sabotage it by making "unused" warnings into errors, which forces you to waste the t
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by SiVal 3y ago
If they were so advanced that they left the ordinary material world behind, then anything is possible. Otherwise, they would probably be like us in the sense that their in-use technologies would span every level from lowest to their own hig
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by SiVal 3y ago
No, it's a demonstration of the mind virus that caused these changes in SF, Portland, Seattle, NYC, etc. If you shift left and things get worse, you should go further left. The problem must be worse than we thought. If things get even
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by SiVal 3y ago
It's not. Combine a loud emergency whistle with Morse Code, and you have the ability to signal without any electric power over much longer distances than voice.
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by SiVal 3y ago
The article says lightning rods don't attract lightning. They just give it a safe path to ground. That makes no sense. Lightning pushes (& pulls) against resistance. Most current will follow the path of least resistance. A lightnin
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by SiVal 3y ago
Can you install it [edit: the .Net 7/8 platform that sounds interesting, not the IDE] for free on a Linux server and get the same benefits? (This isn't advocacy, it's a literal question about something I don't know.)
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by SiVal 4y ago
There is some evidence that posting at certain times can help you grab that virility factor ...Or have virality as Plan A and grabbing your virility could be Plan B.
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by SiVal 4y ago
recent events around Go show why, I am extremely glad that I never payed much attention to Go... What are you referring to? This is a literal question, not advocacy. I haven't been paying enough attention to know what you mean.
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by SiVal 4y ago
I don't ever reach for my Mac screen because I'm not used to interacting with a large touchscreen. But I'll bet I would enjoy being able to use a stylus on my laptop screen when doing a few things such as Photoshop editing.
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by SiVal 4y ago
Vice emerged from the hostile takeover of the National Enquirer by Google's Office of Ideological Purification.
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by SiVal 4y ago
But diamond foil is brittle, and if it cracked, all of your vacuum would leak out.
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by SiVal 4y ago
Oh, please don't let anyone at Apple hear you complain about "thicker". I'm still not back to trusting them after years of downgrades pretending to be upgrades: "We've made the thinnest, best-looking Mac ever w
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Ask HN: Weather API Recommendations?
8 points by SiVal 4y ago|6 comments
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by SiVal 4y ago
What I don't understand is how lawns remain legal in California. Drive through a Silicon Valley neighborhood at midnight when the sprinklers are spraying and maybe one in fifty of the sprinklers, run over by some gardener, are spouting
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by SiVal 4y ago
Two great arguments for digital readers for people like your mother and me: vision and size & weight. You love to read, but it gets physically more difficult as your eyes age. With a digital reader, every book is a "large print edi
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by SiVal 4y ago
Iron is always spoken of as the dividing line, but I'd like to know whether iron is exactly on the line, on one side (which?), or it depends. IOW, does fusion of iron atoms release energy (hydrogen side of the line), absorb energy (u
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by SiVal 4y ago
Chris, I'll second the pricing feedback. It sounded interesting, so I went to the App Store. FREE. Yay! But with in-app purchases. Oh. Okay, I guess that's how they all do it these days. Could mean you don't really need to pa
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by SiVal 4y ago
Not to mention the huge amount of subtitled media available online. Where are some of the best places to find it?
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by SiVal 4y ago
I'm with you with both shell pipelines and Perl "one-liners". The latter was a wonderful step up from the former back in the 1990s: a modern programming language designed around paving the cowpaths of shell pipelines. The pow
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by SiVal 4y ago
For decades, a foundational principle requiring frequent reminders was, ALWAYS back up your work. We have another just like it these days: NEVER rely on Google.

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