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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals? on Thursday May 27, 2021 @10:28AM (#27303569)
Might not technically be blogs, but definitely by individuals: https://mediamonarchy.com/ https://www.corbettreport.com/ And for the musicians: https://guitardashboard.com/
Hands down, Windows 10. Don't even have list the 100 reasons why, because we all know them.
Re:Can Our Ballots Be Both Secret and Secure? on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:25AM (#23801258)
German physicist Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle states that the more precisely the position of some particle is determined, the less precisely its momentum can be predicted from initial conditions, and vice versa. (Edited Definition from wiki)

I want to posit that secrecy and security have the same relationship as the uncertainty principle ascribes to electrons.

Re:Skepticism after Windows 10 search failure on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:46PM (#22273680)
If I need to search for something outside my policy limited range, I use explorer++. It will find it, and it will allow you to have tabs and to store favorites.
Re:Programming an HP-15C (2013) on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:37PM (#22242836)
I still have mine and the user manual sits on a shelf in my basement. I bought mine in a private deal from a guy whose father was a distributor. Cost me $110 in 1984. It allowed me to invert a 4x4 matrix, thereby earning me an A in my power engineering class. I programmed a sinc function to the amazement of my linear systems instructor. And I programmed complex multiplication and division routines. This was pretty cutting edge back in the day, long before mathcad.
Re:How to Find New Music on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:24PM (#22198077)
http://musicforprogramming.net/?thirtynine ~60 hours of ambient music to keep you in the creative mindset. Featured here on ycombinator in past posts.
Re:How to Find New Music on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:20PM (#22198056)
https://mediamonarchy.com/ The best source, bar none, for new music on the www. Covers all the bases music, memes and media, daily, m-f. The discord channel plays live streams of the music program 3PM Eastern.
Re:Don't rinse with water straight after toothbrushing on Saturday January 25, 2020 @08:07AM (#22146083)
Appears as though my original comment was flagged. That's OK if the article wasn't well cited.

If you do a Fluoride search here on ycombinator you will find many article that point to fluoride as a nuerotoxin.

Cheers.

One thing I learned many years ago, you can solve infrastructure problems with software. If prior jets have multiple sensors and the new jet has one sensor, then software isn't going to help in this situation. Gyros worked back in 1911. why not use one to back up the failed sensor? seems like a simple fix that could be mounted anywhere on the plane.
Re:Quiet Hacker News (2017) on Monday July 22, 2019 @06:23AM (#20496696)
That has to be one of the best advertisements of all time!
Re:I was wrong about spreadsheets (2017) on Friday July 12, 2019 @05:16PM (#20424593)
I convert cell equations to visual basic so that I don't screw up the cells and so I can share my results without giving away all my code.

There are also methods to animate simple graphics for the purpose of providing high level presentations.

I 'learnt to code' by recording macros and then reworking the syntax to suit my needs. After a while it becomes much less difficult than it appears at first. And I will admit my code isn't a model of perfection, but it gets the job done.

Re:Our love-hate relationship with PowerPoint on Sunday January 28, 2018 @08:37AM (#16251246)
I have a funny PowerPoint story.

I worked for hours putting together a presentation to the VPs and owners of the company.

To make it extra special I used background water marks from rainbow infrared scans of very hot equipment. With the transparency set to around 15%, each slide made a very appealing pastel presentation.

At the start of the presentation something went wrong because the software rev of the machine to present on was lower than the one I developed on.

All my water marks came out in full intensity. My presentation looked like an Andy Warhol psychedelic acid tripping fantasy.

My boss, on seeing the first slide, said roll with it, as he motioned with his hand, moving with a circular motion, because you know, time is money, and more importantly, the big bosses have no capacity for waiting on peons.

So side 1 wasn't so bad, but as each slide progressed, each infrared back ground became more and more intense. The CFO owner on each slide would grimace, reminding me of the kid in Home Alone, looking like he was pushed back in his chair by a stiff breeze.

The topic could be interesting to a processing engineering nerd, but under ordinary circumstances it would be lost on all but 2 others in the room. This presentation, however, is burned into the memory of everyone in the room. I am certain nobody remembers a thing I said, but they remember the trippy presentation by sTevo.