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by y33t 1y ago
> Unfortunately this stunt is functioning as free publicity for this firm, because it's getting written about... Yeah I suspect a lot of their cases going forward will be on contingency.
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by y33t 1y ago
It's already the start for Night of the Living Dead .
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by y33t 1y ago
It might be a fun project to create a UI for use with low refresh displays. Maybe have config options for super low refresh rates, color calibration for the new eink displays and adjust the scroll step size. No mouse pointer, just keyboard
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by y33t 1y ago
Personally I love the feature, but I really feel like window managers/desktop environments should be handling window tabs. Imagine your desktop handling all tabs across all programs the same exact way instead of being reimplemented dif
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by y33t 1y ago
I read somewhere that he even programs on paper and punches it into a computer when he's done. As for myself, I definitely understand the problem he's describing. I catch all my fleeting thoughts with a keyboard, but I always find
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by y33t 1y ago
You should talk to some teachers who've been teaching since before 2010. They almost all say that kids got noticeably dumber around the time smartphones became common. They also say that grading standards today don't resemble anyt
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by y33t 1y ago
It was in an Economist article sometime around December; unfortunately I canceled my subscription because of their screen-hijacking ads, so I'm not able to find it. Problem was, Ukraine was being chipped away slowly by Russia and Biden
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by y33t 1y ago
I'm a bit of a nerd for hand tools and I've the same book for axes, and another for hand files lying around somewhere. Around this time these tool companies had a huge array of designs for their tools. It seems like almost every r
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by y33t 1y ago
People are getting screwed every which way so any change seems like an opportunity for improvement. Even Ukraine was excited to see Biden leave office so they could at least have a chance for a better arrangement with America.
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Ask HN: What are some neat or useful equations you know?
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by y33t 1y ago
Nitpick? No. I'm kind of a fan of Mason and Dixon and I think it's a great story.
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by y33t 1y ago
Just curious, were they able to purge or scrub the smoke from the cabin? Seems like a battery fire in a closed space like that would be a lung hazard.
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by y33t 1y ago
One notable exception to this was Jeremiah Dixon, of the Mason-Dixon line. From Wikipedia: > "Jeremiah Dixon, happening upon a slave driver mercilessly beating a poor black woman. 'Thou must not do that!' he shouted. &#x27
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by y33t 1y ago
Vitamin D deficiency has also been linked to cancer, specifically colorectal IIRC. Also people who had D deficiency were more likely to have problems with COVID.
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by y33t 1y ago
The base units of the metric system are often not very ergonomic. Why is a meter so damn big? And why is a gram so damn small? I can barely detect a gram. And a meter is frickin huge, causing people to usually divide it into hundredths of a
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by y33t 1y ago
Muni utilities get treated with kid's gloves by courts though. I have direct personal experience of a muni burning nearly a quarter million acres, destroying over 500 homes and ~100K acres of timber. When it came to trial, the court ca
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by y33t 1y ago
Heat is the real killer for LEDs. Most LEDs sold for home lighting do not have very good thermal regulation, possibly as a planned obsolesence "feature".
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Learn CW Online(lcwo.net)
2 points by y33t 1y ago|0 comments
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by y33t 1y ago
> with intelligence comparable to dogs Pigs are thought to be closer to toddlers in intelligence and they can use tools without any human help. Personally, I never eat them. Too weird.
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by y33t 2y ago
It goes back at least to Plutarch: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/misctracts/plutarchE.html There's speculation that this was derived from an earlier Erisian mystery cult, but how it ended up in a temple of Apollo
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by y33t 2y ago
I've begun to notice the number five a lot. I was reading Tammy Wynette's wiki page the other day and noticed that it appears quite a bit -- born May 5th (5/5), married five times, dead at 55. She also collaborated with the K
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by y33t 2y ago
Thanks for the heads up! Just ordered one.
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by y33t 2y ago
If you want a native options on a mobile device, Free42 and 48sx work great on Android (I believe at least Free42 is on iOS). Emu48 works on desktop (personally I like `dc`). Look at SwissMicros if you want a physical calculator.
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by y33t 2y ago
I have several of these and I'm really impressed with the quality. The DM32 is nice and has a manual available from SwissMicros, but I prefer the DM42n. I had a print shop print and spiral bind an HP-42 manual for me. Works good.
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by y33t 2y ago
Fun fact. Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, using theodolites, plumb bobs, and spirit levels, were able to detect variations in gravity from the local environment in 1767. Upon completing the resurvey on the way back to Philadelphia, they n
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by y33t 2y ago
I love the idea of shortwave but all I ever pick up are Jesus channels.
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by y33t 2y ago
Had one. Price was good, but the resolution made it nearly unusable with most DE's, and I don't think I ever got the nvidia card working on Linux. Great concept though. I wish the format would have stuck around. I'd like a pr
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by y33t 2y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/208/
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by y33t 2y ago
I saw a documentary (PBS? Ken Burns? Something like that) about bison and I'm astonished we have any left today. They had a couple of private herds and a handful of individuals in zoos, and that was just about it. That's after hav
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by y33t 2y ago
I'd say causality and entropy are contingent on the (very compelling) assumption that time is real. We could be Boltzmann Brains, or something even weirder. Do I believe that the world is terribly different from what it appears to be?

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