Ah, that makes sense. I don’t usually use soap washing stuff backpacking, just a rinse and we’re off, hadn’t occurred to me that soup would be a problem.
Code, by Charles Petzold. It came to me at exactly the right time, and broke through the biggest conceptual barrier I’d had until that point; how do you actually go from logic gates to general purpose computing? Having Petzold walk you up the ladder of abstraction, never missing a link, really got me over the hump of treating all that complexity as a black box. On a meta level it gave me confidence to go approach apparently impossible things with an open mind and dig deep enough that you see how the “magic” works.
It's odd, don't you think, that an "artisan" of some kind, with a "specialist" product, would only make about 10% more per annum, adjusted for inflation, than a generalist churning out a staple food by hand?
Something I learned from the article that I didn't realize before is that the surface of the ice used isn't smooth; they pebble it on purpose in order to give it the texture required for the stone to curl. Apparently, getting the right texture is difficult enough that it takes an experienced professional to get it right, and they haven't had satisfactory results trying to automate it. Wild peek into something that I didn't even know was a thing!
Assuming OP was an undergrad, it’s totally fair to assume that the prof in question was trying to euphemistically say that they weren’t good enough for the class, especially since “mathematical maturity” is something of a term of art in the field. I don’t think it’s worth putting down teenagers for not understanding the nuances of every single bit of terminology in a field they’re dipping their toes into, the expectation should be that professors be more empathetic to that.
Does your latency measurement account for dropped packets? Rain-caused attenuation could cause more packets to be dropped, increasing latency if you measure it as an average over total packets sent, instead of just across packets that get delivered?
I mean, it’s obvious in retrospect. If you’re the type of person who read the first half of this story and immediately went “Ah, I know what the problem is, the kid’s looking at the other signal!” then kudos to you for not needing this advice ever again, but I suspect the vast majority of folks could do with being reminded of common sense things from time to time.
Actually nope. It takes more energy to slow yourself down enough to crash into the sun, starting from the earth, than it does to hop on over to the moon.
I think it's fairly safe to assume that organizations with managers like that will end up producing code that's defunct enough to sink the organization, given the bar of talent they'd manage to attract. A bit like expecting stellar journalism out of a newsroom that downsizes and hires high school kids to feed headlines into GPT-3 expecting fully-formed news articles out the other end.
I didn’t realize this happened to me until reading this comment. I think for me it was a combination of air flow redirection and just pinching from the metal bits high enough on my nose that maybe there’s some squeezing the tear ducts going on?
It's pretty clear from the original thread and the reply that the implication is that Postmates was the first to offer subscriptions through iOS without going through IAP, therefore bypassing Apple's 30% cut, not that they "invented subscriptions."
The article addresses systemic concerns with BNPLs fairly well, is there anything about the arguments OP makes regarding this kind of consumption being far less risky at a macro level than the kind of wizardry that led to the mortgage crisis that you specifically find unconvincing?
One explanation I’ve heard proposed is that the sweating induced by spicy foods helps you cool down faster in hot climates than just your body trying to maintain homeostasis.
Why would it be either/or? Strong organic growth goes hand in hand with efficient marketing spending, and it sounds like their guerilla marketing efforts dovetailed nicely with how they grow normally. Nothing in the article gave me the impression they were bragging about only needing organic word of mouth growth.
It isn’t “unlock a door.” It’s “unlock a door from your phone regardless of where you are as long as you have cell signal and the car has cell signal, it doesn’t have to be in range of the fob.”
Is it common to use the forward slash as a separator between sq and ft? My physics brain reads that as squares per foot, which doesn't make much sense.
Turns out the city in the state of Georgia is named after this region. I don't know much about the city, except that a handful of friends from my university days are from it, so I was surprised, to say the least, to see this pop up on HN. Haven't thought about the city in years. [1]
Why Tor over something like tailscale? Works out of the box, and they take care of all the fancy network traversal for you and you get essentially direct connection level speeds.