acvny | 4 years ago | on: Writing a Programming Book in 2021
Good points! Thanks.
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acvny | 4 years ago | on: Writing a Programming Book in 2021
The author forgot to mention that Amazon kindle publishing take 70% out of your sale price :) Also, that when they print the books, the quality sucks - thick cheap printer paper, toner saver enabled. As a customer I have had very bad experience with books printed by Amazon.
acvny | 4 years ago | on: The End of AMP
I have always detested AMP. But there was no other way around - if you wanted to appear in google results on top you had to use it.
acvny | 4 years ago | on: India’s second wave
Not surprising. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/12/india-thousands-joi...
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Screw it, I’ll host it myself
Completely misleading title and this is basically an ad:
(* Links to Vultr contain my referral code, which means that if you choose to subscribe to Vultr after you clicked on that link, it will earn me a small commission.)
host yourself means - running on your own hardware
acvny | 5 years ago | on: The Health Hazards of Plug-In Air Fresheners (2017)
You don't have to be very smart to figure that out. I get sick only from the slightest smell coming out of those things.
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Janet Yellen to call for global minimum corporate tax rate of 21%
This is not necessary. They only have to tax the parent company at 21% and any of it's subsidiaries. If on the other hand a company buys services from its subsidiaries located abroad, then impose a customs tax of 21% for any imports / exports.
acvny | 5 years ago | on: How to deal with difficult people on software projects
I don't see the Seagull
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Seasonal energy storage in aluminium for 100% solar heat and electricity supply
350–530 kg Al would be needed per apartment. One question left unanswered is - how many cycles does this system support before it becomes substantially inefficient?
acvny | 5 years ago | on: I bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an email service
This promotional video is epic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKxEXZv4G3c
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Decades-Long Quest Reveals Details of the Proton’s Inner Antimatter
"We learn in school that a proton is a bundle of three elementary particles called quarks..." - do kids learn this in school nowadays? Because I don't remember learning that in school.
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Making Games on Your Own as an Engineer
I haven't read the whole article, but making games on your own is really hard. You are either good designer, but bad programmer or the other way around so. I think the easiest if you are a programmer and know a little bit of Unreal or Unity, you should use free assets and not bother with creating assets as this will eat up all your time. It's better if you pair with someone.
acvny | 5 years ago | on: United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
Must be a bad batch. Please return by post with batch number visible for a refund and let us know what you didn't like about the product
acvny | 5 years ago | on: United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine
Also, the same destination: Honolulu. And only 1 digit difference in registration number (N773UA in 2018 vs N772UA in 2021).
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visit
Enough advertising this guy's new book already
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Apple Watch can help track Parkinson's disease symptoms: study
Marketing has reached new levels
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Email from Jeff Bezos to employees
Probably `Cadabra` came from `Abracadabra`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abracadabra
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Google has been testing a replacement for third-party cookies
So they are now rebranding the fact that they are trying to monopolize the ad space?
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
I can't see the video. Incredible that the actual appearance of the crystal happens in phase transition - almost instantly.
acvny | 5 years ago | on: Have we already been visited by aliens?
How many times has this story been presented over different names and titles?
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