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Re:Boeing 737 MAX crash and the rejection of ridiculous data on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @03:07PM (#19627777)
This needs more than an IF statement. This needs calculation of the rate of change of the variable, in addition to observing the value of the variable. Rate of change calculations are atleast an order of magnitude harder than just reading the variable. Doing it for infinite number of variables, in embedded, memory constrained, real-time systems is hard. So this wasn't going to be fixed via trivial 10 characters of code. But, yes, a more complex system would have avoided it.
Re:The new Google Calendar for web on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:13PM (#15495006)
This happens to me _everytime_. So frustrating. Is it possible that inbox only searches the literal "inbox" whereas Gmail searches your entire mailbox?
Re:Ask HN: How do you lose weight? on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:42PM (#14318473)
For me, it's counter-intuitively not been hard socially -- the office day has been a lot more difficult.

When out socially, I just eat the salad and the protein and politely pass on the bread. Hard alcohol without mixers also helps.

Re:Ask HN: How do you lose weight? on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:14PM (#14317679)
Just started the Keto diet and its working wonderfully so far. (Lot) more info at http://reddit.com/r/keto/
This is so close to what I was looking for!

Feature Request: Sub-tasks The first interface I use to create tasks is always an outliner, that way I can quickly breakdown everything that needs to be done and add details about their implementation. This is close to mindmaps as shown in your demo, but a text based outliner is faster to type, edit, rearrange in. Having Subtasks would allow an approximation of this.

Also, please start charging for it.

Re:The Trading Game on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @05:04AM (#10418162)
The game definitely leaks information, I got better at every try -- this was the 4th attempt:

Your returns were 329.0%, against the stock’s 139.7% and the S&P’s 14.7%. You outperformed 100.0% of players, ranking #1.

This is when you call a top to the market.

When service providers start deferring 100% of their fees to cash in on some future bounty.

Re:The Three Hats Game on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @05:29AM (#9061484)
This doesn't make sense to me.

See below chart -- The probability that my hat is M/O is the same (50%) regardless of what the others are wearing.

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