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by griffinheart 5y ago
Thank you, that puts it in perspective. Just to validate then, these barely moving electrons will create a field that induces a current on the electrons on the other side of the wire that is 1m away, which would turn on the bulb, that if th
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by griffinheart 5y ago
I had a question about the veritasium video, at some point they say that the electrons barely move, that confused me since that doesn't match my understanding of amperage, flow of electrons being for example 6.24x10^18 per second. Anyo
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by griffinheart 6y ago
I don't disagree with a lot of your above reply, but this part in particular picked my interest, mostly because I don't understand how its not racist. > They aren't saying "this man is unable to perform this role due
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by griffinheart 6y ago
When is tether org involved in this? From your example the only thing that happened is that now you hold x euros and Kraken holds x amount of USDT. Unless Kraken goes to Tether org and asks "hey I got these USDTs, please give me the US
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by griffinheart 6y ago
I really don't like chord like shortcuts, while ctrl and [ are positioned in a way you don't have to contort your hand it kind of requires you to move away from the hjkl row or stretch your pinkies. Consider mapping esc to jk (as
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by griffinheart 7y ago
I remember reading an article on hn that the rise of SUV's and their design is related to the increase of fatalities. Like, compare a pedestrian collision where the car has a lower and more aerodynamic front vs the wall that is a SUV&#
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by griffinheart 7y ago
TenTen | Tokyo, Japan | VISA for exceptional | ONSITE https://www.mytenten.com with offices in Omotesando/Harajuku We built our own hardware to control and interface with vending machines, doing what the Web 2.0 did for Web
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by griffinheart 7y ago
TenTen | Tokyo, Japan | VISA for exceptional | ONSITE https://www.mytenten.com with offices in Omotesando/Harajuku We built our own hardware to control and interface with vending machines, doing what the Web 2.0 did for Web
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by griffinheart 7y ago
> Nor do Japanese cities have many official celebrations of immigrant culture or contributions. Tokyo certainly has. Almost every weekend right next to Yoyogi park[0] there is one, Cuban fest, Thai fest, Rainbow fest, Cambodia fest. And
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by griffinheart 7y ago
Your problem with Vim is that you don't grok vi. [0] I agree with you that if you don't use a specialist tool 24/7 you'll be slow, but that is expected vi optimizes for expert users not for novice users. In the same way
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by griffinheart 8y ago
This seems great, so why does the article state: > It remains in use today for certain special cases but is considered controversial and some surgeons refuse to perform it. I imagine there's a reason, but I hope its not "doesn&
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by griffinheart 8y ago
I would read that as the "red book in algorithms" this is probably because of the famous OpenGL red book, so now we refer to the "fundamental" book in an area as the red book. In a sense yes its "wrapped up in a par
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by griffinheart 8y ago
Also in Japan we just had record temperatures in the last 2 weeks. While summer is humid and hot in Japan I can't recall ever being this hot.
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by griffinheart 8y ago
Was at the Kaigi and on the opening keynote Matz talked a bit about it. He doesn't really support adding it since he feels like in 20/30+ years, advances in technology will make writing types "obsolete".
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by griffinheart 8y ago
There's a lot of care about not disturbing other people in Japanese culture. A few additional reasons, for wearing a mask, not in the article: - Forgot or didn't have time to put makeup on - Kafunsho (hay fever) protection - Odor
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by griffinheart 9y ago
I used to think the same but a little thought exercise proved me wrong, if you ask the question: what happens if the general datacap goes down, even maybe to 0? I'm from Portugal and the different telcos/ISP's don't see
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by griffinheart 9y ago
Sure, also because you're going to pay taxes into that ku (city), and they deal with pension and health insurance, even if you're not a foreigner you're going to have to register. Your residence card gets updated every time y
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by griffinheart 9y ago
I live in Japan for quite some time (multiple years) and never had to, or heard about, having to "register at local police station".
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Oracle: Use of open source software declining rapidly in the private sector(github.com)
4 points by griffinheart 9y ago|0 comments
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Primitive technology – Forge blower(primitivetechnology.wordpress.com)
2 points by griffinheart 10y ago|0 comments
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by griffinheart 10y ago
I'm Portuguese but far from knowledgeable in matters of energy. Going north from Lisbon you'll start to see many wind turbines while in the freeway and inner roads.
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by griffinheart 10y ago
The graphs show the downtime even while the green was at the top. My guess would be that its just something that someone as to toggle.
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by griffinheart 10y ago
I'm like this, without the extra added steps. I have 2500 unread emails in my inbox, I skim over what's new in the inbox and read what I want that's it, the important thing is search. I've found this is applying to almos
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App that stops college students from using their phones(businessinsider.com)
2 points by griffinheart 10y ago|0 comments
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by griffinheart 11y ago
I work at a Start up in Japan with about 10 people, we have: 1 Japanese, 1 Portuguese, 1 Brazilian, 1 Filipino, 1 Canadian, 1 Australian, 1 German, 3 Americans (although 2 of them have been in Japan for a really long time). 1 Female 9 Male
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by griffinheart 11y ago
Its in the issue comments def foo? Object.new end foo?.class since "foo?" is a valid method it would conflict with "?." Edit: with ".?" looks like "foo?.?class" Edit 2: side no
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by griffinheart 11y ago
We'll probably soon move out of Heroku exactly because of this, makes no sense to have our stuff in the States when our user base is in Tokyo.
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by griffinheart 11y ago
What do you mean so few? If you expect the same hype you get from SV startups yeah it doesn't compare and also the language factor plays a big role there. But there is a community and Japanese startups, at least the ones targeting Japa
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by griffinheart 11y ago
moving your mouse should allow you to rotate around the Y axis, took about 2 seconds of exploratory hacking to find that out.
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by griffinheart 11y ago
Here is another one for you https://www.otakyou.com/en/otakyou-box (disclaimer: used to work for them) From the moment the business had this idea I forwarded them your blog and website, don't think they really app

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