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by jackhack 7y ago
Agreed, this news doesn't square with market performance. For instance, FSELX (Fidelity Select Semiconductors portfolio) mutual fund is up 43% over one year, doubling the performance of the S&P500. Top-10 holdings (68%) include Int
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by jackhack 7y ago
I can't help but wonder what sort of maintenance might these machines require before starting up again? I imagine, at the very least, cleaning corrosion from the contacts of all mechanical switches and changing out the filter capacitor
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by jackhack 7y ago
If it were "only" entertainment. It's worse than that -- it's "business!" One of the more insightful things I've learned in my lifetime can be paraphrased like so: "There is just as much money to be m
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by jackhack 7y ago
To my mind, the hypersaturation of colors in digital photography is the same as the loudness wars on CDs (which ironically loses one of the great benefits of CD, the huge dynamic range which is now effectively unused outside of few jazz and
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by jackhack 7y ago
thank you. A very useful contribution that neatly answers the question of why anyone would go through so much trouble. I would have guessed the difference in price was "only" a few hundred, and obviously would have been quite wron
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by jackhack 7y ago
interesting list of hardware and beautiful photos, but this blogpost missing one key item -- cost! HOW MUCH $$$ TO BUILD THIS MONSTER of a "mac", and how does that compare to a similarly-specified Apple product? Without this, it f
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by jackhack 7y ago
>it is not likely that US$ 15,000 or US$ 30,000 is something that any police department has in a drawer I wish that were true. Police in any small town in America could start at lunchtime and have that amount by nightfall. Let me introdu
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by jackhack 7y ago
exactly. It's user hostile to correct/undo the action. A 2 second drag-drop mistake requires the following to correct it: 1. realize mistake / stop-everything-you're-doing 2. reboot to recovery mode 3. change SIP setting
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by jackhack 7y ago
Even as a native speaker, that was still a linguistic speed bump.
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by jackhack 7y ago
Very impressive simulation! For others unfamiliar with the term "lane sweeping", it means crossing/changing a lane during a turn. You must turn into the lane closest to you. https://cherinlawfirm.com/2018&#x2F
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by jackhack 7y ago
Yes, it's a safe bet we're talking about rubbing (wood) alcohol here, not grain (e.g. booze) to clean fingerprints and miscellaneous cooties off the screens. A single-malt is only effective for scrubbing off residue from social in
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by jackhack 7y ago
Is the cloth in the shape of a delicate snowflake? If not, they missed a marketing opportunity.
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by jackhack 7y ago
what's the purpose of a fancy coating if it makes the surface less durable such that it now requires special techniques just to clean it? Serious question.
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by jackhack 7y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with this. Everybody needs a &^%$ job once in a while to reset their empathy scale. Walmart does something interesting for their software development process. Say a developer is working on a warehouse automation s
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by jackhack 7y ago
My ability to predict the future is mixed but I think it's safe to say, with the recent dawn of CRISPR, that comment will seem quaint in 20 years.
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by jackhack 7y ago
How ironic. Breaking the paywall on a billionaire's newspaper to read an article about a billionaire's paywalled beachfront.
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by jackhack 7y ago
"Thank you for choosing Streisand Effect Charter Service, providing daily access to the hotspots of entitled Billionaires who abuse the legal system since 2019..."
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by jackhack 7y ago
Honestly I'm surprised there are 2400 employees who have stuck around this long, waiting for the other shoe to drop. How could they not see the obvious implosion coming? The proverbial tidal wave of ugly news has been steady for months
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by jackhack 7y ago
And rebates (5% bonus) on purchased made with her Amazon credit card.
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by jackhack 7y ago
agreed. disgustingly antisocial and immoral. I was astonished back when the poisoned chinese baby formula story hit the news, thinking "how could people knowingly perpetrate such evil?" yet here is this story about "Jessica&q
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by jackhack 7y ago
I don't think it's a Dutch vs USA thing. More a white-collar vs blue-collar dichotomy. Some people don't seem to understand or appreciate how good they have it, and their complaints ring hollow to me. It's a matter of pe
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by jackhack 7y ago
"...they get paid per recorded hour." And, as members of the actor's union, they are paid scale. (edit: and royalties.) I'm struck by the irony that voice actors (who work for a day or two on a video game) are paid royal
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by jackhack 7y ago
Thank you. I don't, unfortunately. It was formulated purely on my own experience and instinct. This was part of a presentation I gave in the early 2000s, literally begging my management not to destroy productivity by moving our company
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by jackhack 7y ago
Yes, I've seen this, and experienced it myself. It's possible, but hardly preferred. Do you ever wonder how much better could you perform in a non-distracting environment?
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by jackhack 7y ago
I think this is it -- he had control . Once others are free to intrude into your space, injecting distraction, all is lost.
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by jackhack 7y ago
There are two mutually exclusive groups of people: "Concentrators(1)" and "Communicators(2)". Concentrators must have conditions that allow one to form and hold complex ideas, and act upon them. This is almost always som
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by jackhack 7y ago
>That probability is n_word/total_words the corpus. Thanks. It's been 15 years since I implemented it. Guess I failed the interview.
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by jackhack 7y ago
Bayes is very simple, easily understood by a 6 year old, if explained properly. There are scary looking integral equations used to express it, but ultimately if you can count you can implement this. Let's build a bayesian spam engine:
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by jackhack 7y ago
For me, this is the takeaway quote : "The biggest change is that I finally don’t feel like it’s constantly fighting me. Its design doesn’t feel spiteful."
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by jackhack 7y ago
“ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL / BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.”

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