andyv

7 ms·

1.
by andyv 5y ago
> I would really love to have someone summarize how we "oversaw" Japan and Germany as opposed to Afghanistan. Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, bad as they were, still had traditions associated with modern civilization. After t
2.
by andyv 5y ago
The outrage machine need fuel!
3.
by andyv 5y ago
Years ago, I listened to the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. The most hilarious incident was when he had the famous political humorist Mark Russell on his show. Russell was in-studio and said something like, "Hey, you sent me this keyboa
4.
by andyv 5y ago
With the check held in escrow, it makes cheating harder. The contractor knows that the money has been paid by the company and won't be withheld after the job is done. The company knows that the contractor doesn't have the money un
5.
Apple/Google lobbyists swarming AZ over a bill that would reform the app store(protocol.com)
4 points by andyv 6y ago|0 comments
6.
by andyv 6y ago
-Selling a business built over decades
7.
by andyv 6y ago
"Nice channel lineup you have here, it would be a shame if something happened to it."
8.
by andyv 6y ago
You can get a serology test to see if you have covid antibodies. It really defeats the purpose of the double-blind.
9.
by andyv 6y ago
Answering my own question, this would be the first two volumes of William Manchester's "The Last Lion", a comprehensive biography of Winston Churchill.
10.
Ask HN: Best book you read during our Annus Horribilis (2020)?
2 points by andyv 6y ago|1 comments
11.
by andyv 6y ago
The math doesn't look too good, at least in the US. There are currently about 100,000 vaccinations a day in the US. Ignoring the vaccines that need two doses, vaccinating 300 million people at that rate will take 3,000 days = 100 mont
12.
by andyv 6y ago
The great thing is that the next time this happens, a vaccine can be created equally quickly.
13.
by andyv 6y ago
I doubt that Elon is done making money.
14.
by andyv 6y ago
It would work at night, too.
15.
by andyv 6y ago
UEFI is much like MS-DOS. It is capable of loading programs from the FAT filesystem into memory and running them. The entry point, EFIMain() is passed a couple of pointers that point to system tables that can be queried to find the addres
16.
by andyv 6y ago
A good companion book on the subject, "The German War", is about the German 'home front' during WW2. Very readable, one neat anecdote was how security agencies like the Gestapo were increasingly hollowed out as the war
17.
by andyv 6y ago
Not a book, but https://fpga4fun.com . I've looked at a few FPGA books, and have not seen a really good one yet.
18.
by andyv 6y ago
About twenty years ago now, the Arizona legislature put a referendum on the ballot that would have adopted switching between standard time and daylight savings time. It lost by about 80% to 20%, the most lopsided result I've ever seen
19.
by andyv 6y ago
In the US, "Congress" is both the House of Representatives and the Senate, not just the House.
20.
by andyv 6y ago
My suggestion is to only wipe your butt the first two times during the prep. After that, use a shower nozzle (or a bidet) for the other dozen bowel movements...
21.
by andyv 6y ago
It seems to me that splitting google up is wishful thinking. If they split google into a dozen small search companies, one of them will eventually become larger than the others through luck or smarts. The bigger reach becomes self-sustain
22.
by andyv 6y ago
We went with that plan at my HOA for some of our water lines. They replaced a corroded and failed section of pipe, repressurized the line and POP! went the next section... Two or three times as I recall.
23.
by andyv 6y ago
Sorry, I don't know how popular it is with respect to similar solutions.
24.
by andyv 6y ago
My favorite is the python-based Urwid library at http://www.urwid.org . It was a little hard for me to wrap my head around it at first, but once you get it, you can write TUI applications without a lot of code. Easy to install,
25.
by andyv 6y ago
> How does the retimer recover the underlying clock if the signal is (say) all zeroes for an extended period of time? Data is encoded such that all-zeros or all-ones doesn't happen. For Gen3, eight bits are encoded with ten bits, lo
26.
by andyv 6y ago
FPGA for fun at https://www.fpga4fun.com/
27.
by andyv 6y ago
The article didn't really say how the private companies were obtaining the geolocation data. Sure, people can give apps permission for location data, but I think it unlikely that people install apps from political consulting firms. An
28.
by andyv 6y ago
Oh, you won't have to be rich to purchase E2EE. I'm sure that Zoom will make it surprisingly affordable.
29.
by andyv 6y ago
You really need a voice coach, because you really can't hear yourself sing. Crazy but little known fact-- even professional soloists hire voice coaches. A former coach of mine works over Skype, though I never tried that.
30.
by andyv 6y ago
One of Frederick Wiseman's wonderful documentaries is "The Store", which is about Neiman Marcus sometime in the 80's. Currently streaming on Kanopy. One sequence showed the CEO giving a pep talk to his buyers, whose rel

More ›