amhokies | 3 years ago | on: ‘Return to the office’ rhetoric needs to end
I’m sure you correctly guessed that I’m American
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amhokies | 3 years ago | on: ‘Return to the office’ rhetoric needs to end
My mother-in-law works an office job and is easily able to do her job from home with no impact on productivity. She also has had a heart transplant so is immunocompromised. Recently her bosses have started pushing her to come back 100% to work even though she has a note from a doctor saying she shouldn't be going into the office.
amhokies | 5 years ago | on: Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
You probably shouldn't be uploading sensitive pdfs regardless.
amhokies | 6 years ago | on: Nancy Pelosi Says House Will Pass Coronavirus Bill with Free Testing for All
The reason this stuff is acceptable is we just shrug it off as "normal politics". Politicians should not take advantage of emergencies by tacking wish list items on to bills that address the emergency.
amhokies | 6 years ago | on: White House told federal health agency to classify coronavirus deliberations
In theory, it's only for things that can "cause harm to national security"
amhokies | 6 years ago | on: DirecTV races to decommission broken satellite before it explodes
The word "de-orbited" used in the article seems to not be the normal use of the word. Normally if you de-orbit a satellite, you lower its orbit until it either burns up in the atmosphere or hits the Earth. Satellites in GEO don't de-orbit in this way because it would need too much extra fuel. Instead, when GEO satellites are decommissioned, they raise their orbit into what is known as the graveyard orbit.
amhokies | 6 years ago | on: Building a walkie-talkie for remote work
From the HN guidelines: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
amhokies | 6 years ago | on: Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]
Money is important to people.
amhokies | 6 years ago | on: Ants Are Practically Immune to Traffic Jams
I think once we have self-driving cars that are able to coordinate with each other, it will improve traffic significantly.
amhokies | 6 years ago | on: Everything I googled in a week as a professional software engineer
My most recent Google search is "reddit brushing teeth at work"
amhokies | 7 years ago | on: Brian Acton Tells Students to Delete Their FB Profiles
But it's still 50 million...
amhokies | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How should a programming language accommodate disabled programmers?
Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to type this comment?
amhokies | 7 years ago | on: Tiny Books Fit in One Hand. Will They Change the Way We Read?
This is why I switched to a Kindle. I can comfortably hold it in either hand without having to pry the pages open.
amhokies | 7 years ago | on: Google Assistant’s latest feature: “Tell me something good”
What about a feature to read just the headlines of articles, since that seems to be what most people do.
amhokies | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Grep with colours written in Go
Reading comprehension is difficult when there's missing punctuation. For example, "Let's eat grandma" versus "Let's eat, grandma".
amhokies | 7 years ago | on: Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact
You're able to send voice messages to other people that have an Alexa. Basically like voicemail.
amhokies | 7 years ago | on: Publix cake ordering UI's obscenity filter rejects mom's 'summa cum laude' cake
Yeah, a profanity filter sure is a sophisticated algorithm.
amhokies | 8 years ago | on: $1M to build decentralized social networks
Just don't read the Youtube comments.
amhokies | 8 years ago | on: Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real World Tasks Over the Phone
I wonder if it would be able to tell if it was talking to another Duplex bot and instead of speaking in English, it would communicate more efficiently.
amhokies | 8 years ago | on: iOS 11.4 to Disable USB Port After 7 Days: What It Means for Mobile Forensics
It's not 7 days from when you last connect it to a computer. It's 7 days since the phone was last unlocked.
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