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1 year ago
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on: What someone learnt when they replaced their Pi 5 with a Amazon mini desktop
I bought an N100 mini that looks just like the Ars picture, but it's branded from Beelink as an S12Pro -- it does all of this and more. Mine is in the living room with the HDMI attached to my TV, but I RDP into it for most things. I installed WSL and and initially ran Plex from Docker, but switched to Windows native as it is simpler to setup and maintain.
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?
Middle class is shrinking; people in tighter economic situations can't afford hobbies?
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3 years ago
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on: If ghosts could speak, their speech would approximate this key (1778)
It's an interesting history, better explained here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_equal_temperament but in short, prior tuning systems were more mathematically correct, but an instrument would be tuned for a particular key and playing in other keys would sound (to us, anyway) like the instrument was out of tune.
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Is this a feasible idea or rather not?
Seems possible from the technical side, but not so sure about the money part. if I'm following you correctly, XYZ.com would have shown an ad on their site and received, say 1 cent. With your service running, you visit XYZ.com, ad is replaced by a white box, and they receive, let's say 2 cents? If so, seems like efficient microtransactions will be a challenge.
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: New job at BigCo. Everything has friction
There's a way to work in such an environment and not go crazy, but it will take time to get used to it. Think of it system with big asynchronous methods. You need to arrange your work to put in the slow running requests early, then focus on other things while waiting.
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3 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What's your use case for iPads/Android pads?
My nicer one is in the living room for end of the day games and such, but my older one is an always-on weather display.
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4 years ago
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on: I am getting out of software development after 10 years of coding
I see agile as the problem here. Before agile, I would essentially 'own' pieces of the code, so I was committed to making it maintainable. Now, it's all just pieces and parts, and I'm not responsible for nearly as much, which make me fungible, and in general is dispiriting.
As a side note, I question the author's appeal to Marx as an authority.
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4 years ago
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on: Restaurant menu tricks (2020)
Well, it's 8 bigger, isn't it?
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4 years ago
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on: Netflix's “Love Is Blind” Wants Unpaid Photographer for Five Weddings
I would have though SAG-AFTRA require all on-screen talent to be paid.
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6 years ago
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on: Data Analysis Shows That US Is Significantly Outpacing Italy
Age of the infected population?
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6 years ago
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on: Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’
Do you have some reason to believe that meat is healthier, or is this speculation?
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7 years ago
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on: Why I prefer objects over switch statements
The article provided some good examples of times when code readability can be increased without a bulky switch statement. However, there are times when I find the switch statement most closely communicates the idea of what needs to occur to some developer in the future.
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7 years ago
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on: Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost
tldr: legalizing video gambling has brought in additional revenue, but not as much as expected. Illinois borrowed money in advance based on the expected rates.
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7 years ago
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on: China prepares mission to land spacecraft on moon's far side
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
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7 years ago
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on: Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea
There's no one-size-fits-all for programming. FWIW, I can recall a project where one piece was built visually (SSIS) and I enjoyed working with it.
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7 years ago
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on: “A Horrifically Bad Idea”: Smartphone Voting Is Coming
I would be in favor of software that makes it easy to pre-vote. Then, when I go to my polling place I could quickly print, review and submit my votes. Where I vote the process is tediously manual. If we could get, say half the voters in and out quickly, there would be more time for the election commissioners to assist everyone else.
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7 years ago
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on: 3D Hair Synthesis Using Volumetric Variational Autoencoders
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7 years ago
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on: Cloudflare Ordered to Expose YTS, Showbox, and Popcorn Time Site 'Operators'
Someone correct me here, but as I understand it, the torrent file itself is not the content. It is metadata about the content, and thus it can be shared without copyright violation. Using the torrent file, on the other hand, might very well be illegal.
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Software development after 40, how do you keep the fire?
When friends try to pitch me on their million-dollar ideas, I feel that I have a much better ability to estimate the size and scope. So instead of starting construction, I'm more likely to say something like '3 full-time devs working 6 months for a solid prototype, another 6 months for something that could be released' -- who's paying for all of this?
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7 years ago
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on: Engineers teach a drone to herd birds away from airports autonomously
