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by noxToken 5y ago
Andrew Huang does a good job of explaining harmonics and overtones[0]. You only need to watch until about the 4 minute mark (from the timestamp) to get an explanation of harmonics and what the sonograms represent. The short of it is that mo
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by noxToken 5y ago
10k out of 2M isn't a good metric, because there will be a long tail of niche, unpopular clone (AKA a student's first to do list app), shovelware or spyware apps that most people will never encounter. If the list of apps is sorted
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by noxToken 5y ago
Late reply, but I was speaking in generalities. HN doesn't quite fit the bill for a general forum that would improve from those tactics. There is a somewhat focused expectation of submissions, and the comments typically need a certain
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by noxToken 5y ago
Sites like HN tend to plateau unless there are added features to get new sign ups. Full-length profiles, social features like chat, reply notifications and following/subscribing to users are engagement tactics to keep the community eng
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by noxToken 5y ago
For the record, there is a way to highlight changes. An ellipses denotes that material was left out. Brackets denote that something was changed. In either case, the intent should never be to alter what was said. Using yours as an example: &
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by noxToken 5y ago
Downvoting can also have a snowball effect. If someone disagrees with you, especially in a contested topic where it's opinion or unclear who is correct, downvotes signal other people to also downvote. You can see the effect on Reddit.
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by noxToken 5y ago
What people don't realize is that the USDA and FDA operate on guidelines such that the most basic cook can follow them. J Kenji Lopez-Alt points this out in his book Food Lab. There are graphs that show that there are safe temperatures
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by noxToken 5y ago
I hate that this dominates the conversation. I tried some stuff with a pi once. It was a nightmare. I fidgeted around with the installation, and after some slight hiccups, I finally get to install the package for my security system. Errors.
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by noxToken 6y ago
I think it's less apathy and more that they don't understand the stakes. It's a lot like how laws in the US were written when data collection and processing was a manual task. Sure, I could tail someone for two weeks, flash t
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by noxToken 6y ago
This will remain opinion until we can get longitudinal studies that account for this. Current pediatric recommendations are basically no screen time for small children even though there are apps specifically for educational enrichment. It m
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by noxToken 6y ago
Sometimes people just want to vent. There was a host on a podcast who admitted to venting to a company. He bought an item. It arrived and worked as advertised, but he was thoroughly underwhelmed by the product. The podcaster emails the comp
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by noxToken 6y ago
I assume it's because people are awaiting their return to physical work environments. If your employer or team hasn't done anything to facilitate working remotely other than moving meetings to Zoom/WebEx/Meet, then you&#
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by noxToken 6y ago
Another thing is product revisions. Version 1 might be an actual BIFL product. Version 2 might have a small yet significant revision impacting quality. Even process revisions like offloading part of the manufacturing process or a different
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by noxToken 6y ago
I ran out of dish soap a few weeks ago, and I came across this same recipe. I found that my dishes were clean, but glassware and ceramic had a film on it. It wiped off easily with a towel. Note that I tried this exactly 1 time.
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by noxToken 6y ago
A word's denotative meaning has little relevance if the connotative meaning is something else. "Literally" is probably the best example of this.
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by noxToken 6y ago
Have you manually reviewed some of these clusters? Automatic clustering for subjective topics tend get gamed by users (if they can be influenced by users) or labeled incorrectly.
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by noxToken 6y ago
Conversely in the US, you can grab an unlimited plan for something like $30. The first 2GB to 15GB (depending on carrier) will have full 4G-LTE speeds. After that, you're throttled. 480p videos can have significant startup buffer with
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by noxToken 6y ago
> Why do software developers believe that if someone gets there first that's it it's done? It doesn't help that when you come to HN or Reddit releasing something, the comments are quick to point out other competing produc
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by noxToken 6y ago
You can sent your Internet connection to "metered" to stop this. I hate that you can't just outright disable forced updates, but this is the working solution that MS offers.
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by noxToken 6y ago
I have a coworker who basically doesn't participate in meetings. Their connection is so bad that maybe 10% of their sentences are intelligible.
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by noxToken 6y ago
CI will always be product specific unless you're going to create your own scripts for your pipeline. Even then, your script for executing tests, deploying, etc. will still be dependent on your stack. Some general guidelines: When a dev
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by noxToken 6y ago
There's another water park that does something similar in the pools. There are lifeguard chairs stationed around the pools as usual. There are guards in the pools as usual. There are also guards roving the edges of the pools doing visu
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by noxToken 6y ago
This is supposed to bypass soft paywalls. Then with a subscription model, you're going to pay back the site that had its soft paywall blocked by your software?
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by noxToken 7y ago
Some people's audio portfolio is on SoundCloud. You would hope that your followers are people who are enjoying your creations.
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by noxToken 7y ago
>a huge part of craft is communication, and open offices are great for that. Can you explain this to me? How does an open office lead to better communication than cubes or partitioned group work spaces? I'm in an open office. A lot
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by noxToken 7y ago
Off-topic but tangentially related. There was Reddit post[0] about a clothes dryer's eco mode being a scam since it consumes more power than a regular drying cycle. Here[1] is a single comment thread noting that the user was measuring
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by noxToken 7y ago
Graphs for these really hammer home the point that regular expressions aren't magic. Parsers have so many abilities that when starting out, my expressions were horribly inefficient and missed many corner cases. Learning to graph them j
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by noxToken 7y ago
There's a good chance that a millionaire came from old money. That doesn't make them inherently interesting. The ones who are self-made, the anomalies in that population, are more likely to be interesting.
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by noxToken 7y ago
>I'll cede that some of Nintendo's online strategy failed, hard, but...outside of a few things, I don't think they did that bad? Netplay on Nintendo consoles has been terrible. I admit that they did some interesting social
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by noxToken 7y ago
Not everyone works for Google, Facebook, or a prestigious tech company. There are smaller companies making ethically questionable choices with customer data. Not all tech workers are employed by prestigious tech companies.

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