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Re:Being Ambitious and Being a Dad on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @06:50AM (#49359742)
This is one of the things I think about when considering kids++, when does the regret start (if at all)? Or as posted in other comments, will the health lottery have me regret having +1? Time will tell.
I always wonder why these robot forms don't have cameras and distance sensors on every single joint, processing costs I guess?
Isn't that a good thing? Let's you compare easily.
Re:Snake on a Globe on Sunday June 01, 2025 @03:28AM (#44149229)
Fun, found myself going over the poles more than I expected.
Doesn't that mean effectively losing market share to devices that do have capabilities in the eu, or that are accepting restrictions, say Android?
Re:Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:13AM (#43137462)
Would you mind sharing the age of your kids when you started this approach?
How about harvest? Machines are quite specialized, how do you see that working out?
Re:Generals.io – Capture enemy generals to defeat them on Sunday December 24, 2023 @11:15AM (#38754428)
Neat clone of empire attack (now defunct, https://www.ianandrew.com/empire-attack). Used to play the 10 day variants there which were great fun, although more defense focused I think.
Things like "6,000 vertical feet of climbing, 60 meters of rope at a time" do stand out.
Re:Show HN: Obl.ong, Free, quality domains for all on Friday August 11, 2023 @02:24PM (#37092044)
I guess? After they get my email verification code I get a physical usb/nfc request - no idea what it's for/does. A "email login" would have been less of a blocker.
Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:40AM (#36876671)
If the label contains sugar, it was added and not inclusive of other whole ingredients. You can buy canned apples (ingredients :apples) and canned apples (ingredients :water, sugar, apples). Guess which costs more.
Unfortunately that wired website seems to be following the enshittification protocol.
The first book is one of my all time favorites, highly recommend. I didn't know there were 2nd and 3rd ones!
How about using something like NaN instead of 0? To not have a small set of calculations being all 0 and missing from a larger end result (which would go to NaN instead).
Re:Things people blamed on bicycles on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @04:36AM (#32576499)
I hope this is a joke and not serious.

Bicycles are supposed to be on the road, pedestrians are not.

Re:Clojure Dart on Sunday April 17, 2022 @02:06PM (#31062851)
I'd think so to, but hope angular dart takes off as I kind of love it!
Re:Gut microbe linked to depression in large health study on Sunday February 06, 2022 @03:54PM (#30236909)
Sorry if I didn't understand correctly, but how did you make the alcohol (celebration), work stress, pandemic stress > GMO link?
Re:Why is the Gaza Strip blurry on Google Maps? on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:27PM (#27189182)
50cm is not really good to identify a person. And it's not real time at all. You'd be better off calling the gyms directly.
Re:Tracing Paper (2020) on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:19PM (#26653309)
You personally might not, but the article gives plenty reasons why some might.
Re:Ask HN: What is the most complex concept you understand? on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:53PM (#26495355)
Mikhail Gromov, quoted in M. Berger, Encounter with a geometer. II

http://www.ams.org/notices/200003/fea-berger.pdf

Re:Ultra-weak gravitational field detected on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:08AM (#26421548)
On a tangent here, but "not just 3d printing a plastic part" got me thinking.

Scientists, instead of requesting time on Hubble, ask time for the 3DBuilderAndExperimenter, give it a blueprint and inputs/outputs, it runs, returns any results, and is recycled.

Maybe, but that doesn't make the question invalid. If a majority decides a subset of coins is invalid or should not be used, wouldn't that work?
I'd just like to point out the 'played UO' and 'working on EVE' =] I love EVE, I just can't find the time to work on it anymore.
Re:New campaign targeting security researchers on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @09:51AM (#25916335)
Sure, encryption over image data and printing works fine for retrieving it at a later date.
Re:New campaign targeting security researchers on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @04:44AM (#25914034)
Never seen this before, very interesting!

But how much can one realistically print? 500KB per page isn't much for today's data hoarding standards.

I guess you don't keep images?

Re:FBI agents track cell phones that pinged near the Capitol on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:54PM (#25885963)
My guess is that this being possible would be the norm, rather than the exception. And that keeping track of individual queries is not.
Re:Software effort estimation is mostly fake research on Monday January 18, 2021 @06:14PM (#25827898)
Well, the metric is #papers and #citations to get funding. So yes that's true, ideally, but...
Love that last line! Wonder what will happen drm wise in the future if we get to this point.
Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @04:14PM (#22649637)
What made you chose matter over others, say phaser? I'm building a p2p thing and want to build some showcase simple apps on it
Re:Birthright Citizenship Needs to Change on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:35PM (#20500305)
That list seems off. Multiple European countries that I know of should be on that list.

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