lnanek2

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by lnanek2 4y ago
I bought the founder's edition Stadia hardware and I'm thrilled with what I got out of it, personally. I got a free game system for years since they are giving everyone refunds. Played several AAA games I had no access to otherwis
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by lnanek2 4y ago
> On the Left, opposition to the West’s support for Ukraine isn’t difficult to explain. Leftist figures such as Corbyn, Noam Chomsky, and Australian journalist John Pilger generally view the United States (and the West in general) as the
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Not super interested in GMO or not myself, but knowing where beef comes from seems important. Outbreaks of mad cow disease tend to be confined to certain countries, so it's valuable to be able to know your meat isn't coming from o
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by lnanek2 5y ago
As a mobile developer I generally see WEBP getting served to Android devices and HEIC to Apple devices. Is there any advantage to JPEG XL over those? If our app supported older iOS devices, maybe JPEG would be needed as a fallback, but it s
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by lnanek2 5y ago
I bought a Yaris as my first car to go as cheap as possible. Even electrics were more expensive despite the tax breaks. My Dad felt like a new one would break down less than a used one too which is why we avoided used. Yaris worked well in
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by lnanek2 5y ago
I used to feel that way, then noticed my friend driving a Tesla. He had this neat use for the LCD that showed a map of where all the cars around him was as output from the sensors. Yes, theoretically, on a traditional car you can adjust the
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by lnanek2 5y ago
I kind of like how my BMW X3 looks like a spaceship, personally. Especially all the lights at night like in the door handles. Maybe someday we'll have the fairings of all cars 3D printed at the factory and customizable to taste when or
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Most likely true, but that doesn't mean it is useless. Adherents to the split universe religi...er...theory might be more content with their lives, experience less anxiety, etc..
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by lnanek2 5y ago
At least where I work, the only thing project managers care about is releasing the next big feature for their resume or next promo packet. Making it work well or be well tested is very low on the priorities. In fact, if you time budget that
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Why wouldn't it? Bright light and dark light causes your pupils to dilate differently, right? That's muscles actuated by input from the retina. Focusing is also about shaping the eye using muscles. It would actually be kind of wei
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by lnanek2 5y ago
My wife works as a language teacher and I noticed a big difference when she started doing an adventure game like this with one of her young boy students. The kid went from accidentally turning off his web cam a lot, pretending audio isn&#x2
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by lnanek2 5y ago
You can always setup some named pipes. E.g.: mkfifo named_pipe echo "Hi" > named_pipe & cat named_pipe I used to do this in bash scripts to keep them cleaner and the lines simpler.
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Personally, I save TikTok for each night when I sit on a reclining bicycle in the gym and exercise for an hour or two. I've stolen the weight routine from Flywheel so it isn't all legs either. I do watch some Chinese lessons and e
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Not only that, many laptops and tablets nowadays use microphone arrays, not just one - so get better quality from that. Also there's no time lag. Half the people dialing into meetings in airpods at my company have a very noticeable del
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Not super surprising. I get constant flak from management just for pointing out bugs in other team's components and offering fixes, due to the negative optics, and it sounds like the author was not only organizing employees to jointly
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by lnanek2 5y ago
The old cylindrical mac pros had a similar trick where the case had a magnet in it and the computer itself had a detector for it. So if you ever wanted to turn it on without the case to see the diagnostic lights, you had to know where to pu
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Salary differences are huge, though. I recently got an offer for a $100k perm. raise + relocation benefit on top of that to move to Mountain View - and I'm not in a cheap city. My current company as well, if you move somewhere cheaper
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Don't see how ships to trade is a red herring. First Google result for "Black Death rats ships": > The Black Death was also carried by rats on merchant ships through the trade routes of Europe. It struck Europe in 1347, wh
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by lnanek2 5y ago
There's a lot of full spectrum lighting options out there since they are used for some other reasons (treating seasonal depression, etc.). Personally, I like this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XDI
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Isn't there a population shift, though? The users who will install an extension for this have different tastes than the users who won't, so you can't assume the like-dislike ratio for the population who will matches the popul
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by lnanek2 5y ago
As an American, I totally feel the same. But working with some of my European counterparts, they can just totally disappear for a month or two when they vacation, like into a black hole. They just take vacations more seriously. If one of th
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by lnanek2 5y ago
I can't, but at least the article did add a paragraph claiming designers can: " Does it matter? Quite often, shadows are incredibly sensitive to opacity changes, and many shadows use values from around 5% to 20%. That means there’
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by lnanek2 5y ago
> if the smart home system was just a bit off in predicting a human’s preference, the human and AI developed misaligned behaviors. “This led to more time spent by the individual changing temperature and activities than without the smart
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by lnanek2 5y ago
I was expecting a horror story about some leet code problem. It's been 5 years since I last interviewed, but I always memorized how to write the common sort algorithms ahead of time first. Having to write merge sort in C doesn't r
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by lnanek2 5y ago
> So contrary to the traditional employer/employees balance of power, there is also a employees/employees thing going on here. We have that on my team at work too. About 10% of the people on the team prefer to work in office, b
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by lnanek2 5y ago
It was an enjoyable read for me back as a kid even though I knew little history. It's pretty strong on the wish fulfillment end of things. E.g. big bad ass Americans go back in time and are better than everyone else. That sort of thing
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Would we be nice if they'd fix wifi terms of service pages first before layering on yet another security screen. Every time I go to the gym or mail room it's a five minute battle with Chrome to let me see my apartment complex&#x27
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Maybe it is being investigated and you don't know. For both drivers, your responsibility begins and ends with getting a police report done and informing the insurance companies, then they'll fight it out. If they think they can go
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by lnanek2 5y ago
He seems kind of spoiled to me. My apartment has two windows. The one in the bedroom is always closed because my wife works the night shift and needs to sleep during the day. The other window always has the shades drawn because I'm too
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by lnanek2 5y ago
Are you sure you aren't living in a techie bubble? Oculus consistently tops the best selling headsets list at amazon cnet, PCMag, etc.. The only non-developers I know with headsets all have Oculus or more rarely PSVR. Maybe they aren&#

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