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Re:Traveling with Apple Vision Pro on Thursday October 17, 2024 @01:59PM (#41871983)
You can use your CPAP machine with a external battery pack on airplanes. I do this regularly when flying long distances. In principle you should be able to also just plug in to the power sockets but for some reason this goes against most airlines policies.
I'm not an insider, but as far as I can tell they never had a vision or a strategy, so ended up just doing "AI" consulting for random enterprises. Surprise, surprise that wasn't a path to a successful business.
Re:All models are wrong, but some are completely wrong on Sunday April 05, 2020 @06:57PM (#22789430)
What about 538?
Is it worth getting the electronic versions vs. the manual ones?
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019) on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:57AM (#20336354)
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Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:19PM (#16854269)
No, Eglinton line is bored tunnels, only the stations are cut and cover. http://www.thecrosstown.ca/stay-informed/fact-sheets-backgro...
Re:Justice.exe: Bias in Algorithmic sentencing on Sunday May 07, 2017 @06:39PM (#14288123)
That's not a bias of the programmer
Re:US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:24PM (#13943905)
Too bad the Republicans with principles couldn't muster up enough principle to actually vote no instead of abstaining.
Re:Affordable Care on Friday January 13, 2017 @01:41PM (#13393347)
Re:The Story of Apple's $14B Tax Bill on Tuesday December 20, 2016 @03:27PM (#13223609)
How is that "double taxation"?
Re:Microsoft, Rebooted, Emerges as a Tech Leader on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:55PM (#13196719)
Incognito mode
It's more like 75% because only one person stays at home while the other keeps working at 100% salary.
Re:Reddit overhauls upvote algorithm to thwart cheaters on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:23PM (#13124807)
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "men are psychologically torturing women just by enacting common male body movement patterns in the workplace" ?
Let's not forget tax-expenditures like the home mortgage interest tax deduction.
Counterfeit != defective

I agree though that those bloomberg stories indicate that defective drugs are in fact reaching consumers :(

Re:The Curse of the Modern Office on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:10PM (#13032151)
I read it. It's good focus practice (and I enjoy it).
Do you have evidence that defective drugs made it to customers?
Re:Deutsche Bank to fight $14B demand from U.S. authorities on Monday September 19, 2016 @07:49PM (#12535717)
Or dilute shareholders by selling stock.
Yeah the millions of Americans who gained health insurance are going to be real mad that a doctor had to pay a little more money for his health insurance.
Re:The Secret of Billions on Monday May 23, 2016 @01:23PM (#11755295)
Decreasing marginal utility of money plus "fairness" (everyone sacrificing an equal proportion of their utility).

Fairness is in quotes because it's a complicated word.

Re:The Apple Watch on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @03:55PM (#8292455)
The Ars review talks about the poor battery life: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/09/moto-360-review-beaut...
Re:$4 ARM PSoC prototyping kits on Monday June 16, 2014 @06:04PM (#7901744)
Does anyone know what the programming environment is like for these boards?
Re:The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @06:36PM (#7741060)
Can you provide a link to an article discussing how you can treat the latent characteristics as a point in Euclidean space?