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by readingnews 23d ago
This seems to be happening in public parks also. I visit two cities literally half way across the country from one another, and have visited them for decades. All of the public restrooms in the public city parks (which are quite popular wit
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by readingnews 2mo ago
"I keep coming back to this topic for two reasons. First, I think these components are usually explained poorly, making them a major stumbling block for folks trying to learn the craft. Second, op-amps have gotten really good, inexpens
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by readingnews 3mo ago
Totally agree, I went to fiber years ago, and the decrease in latency makes it _feel_ so much faster than 10G copper, it is not funny. Besides, if you put in the "good stuff" them moving to 40G and beyond is not a problem later on
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by readingnews 3mo ago
The real problem is his example, "you start off with 2 million dollars and 95% growth rate". Fine, show me the average person who can come up with 2 million dollars. I sure as hell can not. I even went to banks and founders with m
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by readingnews 5mo ago
Dropped in to say this. The Marzoccos are good, but dang the Kees van der Westen are downright amazing... I know a lot of cafe owners who threw the Marzocco out and purchased a Kees and the espresso shot quality went through the roof.
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by readingnews 5mo ago
On the flip side, a really good bag, and these have lasted so long I can not recall when I purchased them, are really expensive [ https://www.tombihn.com/ ]. What is really irritating is that sometimes we see the same thing w
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by readingnews 5mo ago
Completely agree with this comment. Had to cut / paste it into vim and q! when done, was getting a headache.
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by readingnews 7mo ago
Not sure if they were the first, or whatever, but this really seems like a breakthrough technology / methodology. How many cardboard boxes do we use a day? The mind boggles. Totally cool stuff.
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by readingnews 7mo ago
I thought your blog sofware was interesting, and you have a blog on it from last year. The Git link on this page: https://elliotbonneville.com/building-a-blog-in-90-minutes/ however, is broken. Broken Git link: https:
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by readingnews 7mo ago
Heh, I made myself laugh. Literally clicked on that link thinking I had read _asteroids_, as in a remake of the 1979 game. Total disappointment ensued.
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by readingnews 7mo ago
I will admit, I type exclusively on 40% keyboards. I used to have a Happy Hacking Keyboard, (in fact, the original Happy Hacking Keyboard (HHKB) with separate PS/2, Sun and ADB cables, still have the board and cables), then the HHKB US
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by readingnews 7mo ago
I worked at 5 universities, two of them in the top 50, and I do not know of one tenured professor that "does nothing" and "publishes next to nothing". Some of them teach very little, and that may have been for the best,
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by readingnews 8mo ago
I have an old HP 15C RPN scientific calculator. - I know where the buttons are without looking. - It has functions my Android calculator does not have (directly or that I know of). - It has a strange satisfying tactile feedback. - It never
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by readingnews 8mo ago
Not sure why you have to read 3/4 of the article to get to a _link_ to a pdf which _only_ has the _abstract_ of the actual paper: N. Benjamin Murphy and Kenneth M. Golden* (golden@math.utah.edu), University of Utah, Department of Mathe
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by readingnews 9mo ago
Thanks for the links, that is a company I did not know existed, and the woofers are interesting. Really makes you wonder if they have overcome the traditional problems of large woofers. The Fostex super woofer users recommended rotating it
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by readingnews 9mo ago
Unpopular opinion: What does this have to to with hacker news, technology, computers, combinatorics??
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by readingnews 10mo ago
It is hard to put into words how so many people "out there" can print things, have people read them, and they are so worded that the average person is probably reading this as "the truth". > but it’s rather difficult
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by readingnews 1y ago
Wow, I read your informative link. Where are these jobs? I went through a round of interviews last year for Sr. positions, across a number of locations in the U.S., and quite frankly, the average salary for the positions interviewed for was
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by readingnews 1y ago
I have indeed lived life wrong. I work in HPC as a Systems Engineer (right now, in 2025, with graduate degrees in engineering, and 25 years of systems admin / engineering experience) and do not make what this person made in 2017, much
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by readingnews 1y ago
"Graduate degrees" listed as a reason. Yes, designing chips is hard, it takes a lot of knowledge. This is why medical doctors need to go through all that schooling... designing a tiny chip with more transistors running software th
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by readingnews 1y ago
Thanks for posting, I thought the same thing... my (useless data point of one) results showed 100% accuracy except the last four, which I thought "wow, I am just guessing now, can literally not see a difference".
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by readingnews 1y ago
No, OP is correct. I was teaching CS at a uni two years ago... files, directories, filesystem hierarchy, but yes, even just a file, this is a strange concept to them. It is not a insurmountable hurdle, but it is interesting in the sense tha
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by readingnews 1y ago
>> be able to understand and empathize with the various (and often opposing) groups involved in a topic Interestingly, I have seen Elon (DOGE) and others outside of politics (that mega-church leader) telling the public (dare I say, th
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by readingnews 1y ago
I am not sure, and it may be this persons culture/background, but I do know that at a college/uni, your advisors/reviewers would tell you not to do the adjective/drama stuff, as it adds no real value to a scientific&#x2F
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by readingnews 1y ago
I have not actually heard that argument. It has always been noted that Benz invented the car, and Ford invented the assembly line, for cars.
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Ask HN: Has spam email gone up exponentially in the past week?
4 points by readingnews 2y ago|0 comments
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by readingnews 2y ago
>> Connectors are actually extremely difficult to make. While your points listed are valid, we have been making connectors that overcome these points for decades, in some cases approaching the century mark. >> I'm not surpr
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by readingnews 2y ago
There is something strangely magical about the pictures of the city streets at night. Lack of trash? How clean the roads are? The lighting? I have been out at night in plenty of places (not Japan), but it never looks like this. At first I t
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by readingnews 2y ago
Used to use sublime, and wanted to purchase a license, but it is only good for the version you are on. Since I use gentoo and it upgrades frequently, my license would require me to hold it back, and eventually it will break. How do others d
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by readingnews 2y ago
These guys killed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YS_7U0mDgA

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