willchang

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by willchang 1y ago
What was Alex Roman's lie? I'm having a hard time figuring that out.
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TF Serving has been unavailable for 8 days(github.com)
3 points by willchang 4y ago|1 comments
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by willchang 5y ago
You can start with fried items from McDonald's: https://querysprout.com/what-oil-does-mcdonalds-use/#:~:text=For%20some%20people%2C%20it%20may,of%20its%20main%20cooking%20oils.
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by willchang 5y ago
As a man, is there anything I can do or avoid doing in the workplace to make it easier for coworkers like you? Let's assume I don't know and don't suspect anything specific about my coworkers. I just want to know if there&#x2
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by willchang 5y ago
This wouldn't be Hacker News if someone didn't comment that ACTUALLY a random walk of n steps will get you sqrt(n) in some direction, which is much better than log(n). I guess my special skill is being pedantic.
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by willchang 5y ago
This yields the same result: when did neil armstrong set foot on poop
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by willchang 6y ago
There's a good chance Netflix is behaving rationally. Shows are like startups. The payoff is a very skewed distribution, i.e. median and mean are vastly different. After one season, I'd argue you have a pretty good estimate of the
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by willchang 6y ago
Here's another list of them: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~field/holzer/living.txt
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by willchang 7y ago
The opposite is true. If you are a freelancer, healthcare premiums are an above-the-line deduction, which practically has the same effect as a business expense. This is better than a regular deduction because you get it even if you don&#x27
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Non-Sticky Defensive Patent License(google.com)
2 points by willchang 8y ago|0 comments
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by willchang 8y ago
Yes, just click in the nasal cavity above 'lip' and 'hard palate', respectively, to get [m] and [n].
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by willchang 8y ago
You're right. It sounds to me like [s] with lip rounding, where the teeth don't contribute as much acoustically, but it does indeed sound like an [s].
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by willchang 8y ago
This is amazing. I can get it to make almost any speech sound, but one I can't get is [s], because the model lacks teeth!
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by willchang 8y ago
Toilets work the same way! When water in the bowl rises to above the highest point in the drain, everything (hopefully) siphons out.
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This Father-Daughter Team Says It Has a Cheaper, Safer Way to Bury Nuclear Waste(bloomberg.com)
1 points by willchang 8y ago|0 comments
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by willchang 9y ago
How about searching the web? I'd rather most queries take 1 second, and 10% taking 10 seconds, than every query taking 5 seconds. I don't understand how you can be so confident about attaching a utility function to latency.
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by willchang 9y ago
Captchas are useless for their intended purpose if a bot can get it right better than every other time.
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by willchang 10y ago
"currently unavailable" http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd
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by willchang 10y ago
"Neurons, brains, space … these are just symbols we use, they’re not real." Such bullshit. Yes, they are symbols, but "just" symbols? They don't approximate reality at all? If so, how would he even know? Edit: Le
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Here’s the 9-step plan to save Yahoo(businessinsider.com)
3 points by willchang 11y ago|1 comments
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by willchang 11y ago
Something's going on that's more than just network effects. Google was arguably not the first dominant search/advertising company, and Facebook was not the first social network, etc. But these companies can convince very go
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by willchang 11y ago
I would love to read an account of the games that administrators play, or of how businesses use universities to "launder money", if you know any. We've all seen numerical analyses that suggest that administrator compensation
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by willchang 11y ago
The pictures stopped loading halfway through, but up to that point, I was entranced. Even the writing, by itself, is fun to read. It's rare to see someone with talent in both visual and textual forms. Edit: Blame rests with my crappy
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by willchang 11y ago
I generally sympathize with homeschoolers, but these parents seemed pathologically unable to doubt themselves or admit to mistakes. They were unable to see that their son, James, needed help learning to read, and even seemed to minimize hi
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by willchang 11y ago
There is no design trend more inimical to the function of the web than gray on white text. If only it stopped at gray values of #444444, which is bad enough on old displays or in bright ambient light. The text on this site is #7f8d8c — mo
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by willchang 12y ago
In the same vein, the most bravado-laden thing an American president ever said was Madison announcing his intent to fight the Ottoman states that were sponsoring raids on American ships: The United States while they wish for war with no nat
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by willchang 12y ago
Give me a break. Is it absurdly childish to give pregnant women special seats on a bus because in general they are less mobile? It's common to base a social norm on the general characteristics of a class of people.
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by willchang 12y ago
Lots of people object to what you are saying, but I'm relieved to hear someone say it. Many 'specializations' are actually worlds unto themselves, with endless amounts of things to learn. They are fun to explore (for a kid
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by willchang 12y ago
We don't all design type, but we all cope with imperfect and rapidly changing technology. Carter describes what it was to make the best of it. There's much to learn from such an attitude.
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Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces [video](ted.com)
7 points by willchang 12y ago|1 comments

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