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Re:Particle mystery: physicists confirm the muon is more magnetic than...
on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:26PM (#26728892)
Think of your velocity vector as having a time component. The magnitude of this vector is c, so when you are at rest, you're moving full speed through time. When you accelerate, you shift some of this speed into the spatial dimensions. This is also why time passes more slowly for moving objects. Gravity also has this effect because not only is space curved, but space-time is curved. This means what would normally be a straight path through time is partially warped into the spatial dimensions when you encounter such a curvature.
Re:SEC Charges Interactive Brokers with Repeatedly Failing to File SARs
on Thursday September 10, 2020 @04:49PM (#24436435)
Sure it is, an agency is a generic term and isn't limited to government entities.
Re:GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row
on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:52PM (#23532160)
Are black developers uncomfortable with the existing name?
Re:Show HN: Senior Remote Jobs via Telegram
on Friday June 12, 2020 @02:08PM (#23501949)
I hate to pile on, but you're putting up a lot of barriers that are going to discourage casual viewers. I don't want to sign up for some app I won't use for anything else. I don't want to give out my email. I definitely don't want to pay for anything. Maybe I'm not your target market, but this is going to be a hard pass for many people.
Re:Apple acquires Dark Sky
on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @04:45PM (#22742363)
That's because Google is an ad company while Apple is a hardware company.
Re:Windows: Interface Guidelines (1995) [pdf]
on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:59AM (#22476290)
That's funny, I did the exact same thing, although I didn't make it as far as you. I had a working mouse cursor (reading the mouse data directly from the serial port) and buttons. At that age, I didn't know about subroutines and had gotos all over the place.
Re:Rubberduck – COM add-in that enables IDE features in the Visual Bas...
on Friday February 28, 2020 @07:39AM (#22442355)
Thanks, I was thinking VB6, which I thought was relatively fine as an IDE for its time, although could probably benefit from some ReSharper-style improvements.
Re:Yocto: Tools for building a custom embedded Linux distribution
on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:35PM (#21677348)
You've never heard of a slow-poke? Similar usage, you can be pokey or you can be a slow-poke, both mean slow. The "small" definition is new to me. Seems like difference between British/American English.
Re:How Y Combinator Started (2012)
on Thursday November 28, 2019 @08:41AM (#21657224)
There's really no reason to secure a site if it's just informational or someone's blog. The worst that's going to happen in this case is someone might be able to see the blog sent to you in plain text, which is no big deal, because it's public anyway. Now if it has a form asking you to enter personal information or credit card numbers, you would definitely want SSL.
Re:Toshiba device tests cancer types from a drop of blood
on Monday November 25, 2019 @07:57PM (#21634699)
Most likely some form of Windows CE, but close enough.
Re:The Editable PDF Initiative
on Thursday November 21, 2019 @10:37AM (#21595144)
MacOS's built-in Preview app can do this. It's fairly limited, but it supports text boxes and signatures, which I have found very useful for not needing to install custom software.
Re:For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Ca...
on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:27AM (#21593746)
It's reasonable for casual biometrics, such as a phone unlock, where the likelihood of someone with a match trying to use your phone is remote. Many people will choose the same password or PIN, for example, but of course you can't change your fingerprint on a whim.
Re:For six years, man who refuses to identify himself has held in a Ca...
on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:25AM (#21593731)
In the presence of other evidence, it's definitely useful to narrow down to reasonable doubt territory. Even DNA isn't unique, in the case of twins, but is still used all the time.
Re:Ask HN: Agriculture startups doing interesting work?
on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @02:45PM (#21327186)
Farmers Business Network - https://www.fbn.com
Re:Why UTC is used as the acronym for Coordinated Universal Time
on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @09:56AM (#21323612)
They really ought to, when possible. I can't count the number of times I've encountered a new word that I could trace back to a basic Latin root. I feel like it gives you a good foundation for any romance language and goes hand in hand with the history of western civilization.
Re:I used to fear being a nobody, then I left social media
on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @01:42PM (#21128276)
I stopped posting happy birthday's on FB because it's always someone's birthday. Occasionally I will wish a close friend a happy birthday, but usually through text message. It's also annoying on my birthday when all these people I barely know come out of the woodwork to comment. I usually ignore FB that day, then reply to all with a thank you the day after.
Re:Woman treated by doctors after her blood turned blue
on Monday September 23, 2019 @10:58AM (#21049491)
If they didn't have it on hand they could go down to the local Walmart, I've used it many times to treat my fish with ich.
Re:Wikipedia's JavaScript Initialisation on a Budget
on Thursday September 19, 2019 @02:34PM (#21019138)
It may never be prioritized, but it's much better to have a bug report/ticket than to casually mention this in a comment no one will ever see.
Re:Edward Snowden says he would like to return home
on Monday September 16, 2019 @01:02PM (#20986135)
If it were an actual pardon there would be no way to retract it. Now if they just declined to prosecute, that would be a different story.
Re:SmartyKit Apple I replica
on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @03:27PM (#20823156)
Wasn't the Apple I originally shipped as a kit that you had to put together? I think it's trying to recreate that same idea, but with easier assembly.
Re:How do black holes destroy information and why is that a problem?
on Monday August 26, 2019 @02:49PM (#20802553)
Also, try adding a value to an enum via ALTER TYPE ... ADD VALUE
Re:Hackers ship their exploits directly to their target’s mailroom
on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:20PM (#20638513)
I once stayed late and noticed a cleaner was wearing a polo from the company I used to work for. I asked him about it and it turned out he was an engineer and was filling in for his girlfriend who owned the cleaning business. Holy red flag! I made some noise and that cleaning company was let go.
Re:A Programmer’s Regret: Neglecting Math at University
on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @03:36PM (#20568332)
It would really help if professors would give you a taste of something applicable before diving deep into the math itself. I suffered through most of differential equations and calculus, but I happened to take a computer graphics course before linear algebra. We learned just enough math to make things work but linear algebra really took a deep dive that I was able to appreciate having had the basics around affine transformations explained in a very visual and intriguing manner.
Re:Apple: No Macintosh Forks. But the iPad...
on Saturday July 27, 2019 @11:33PM (#20545707)
The word fork has been used for various things in computing long before Github was around. I agree it's a bit overused in this article, but you have the Unix fork command, which creates a copy of the current process and effectively forks the execution. Older Macs of the 80's and 90's used a filesystem that allowed files to have both a data fork and a resource fork; they worked like independent streams to separate program data and embedded resources like images, sounds, etc.
Re:Anxiety nightmare comes true for pianist at competition
on Friday July 26, 2019 @02:30PM (#20537157)
I was in a pretty competitive high school marching band. We had two parallel lines moving in opposite directions, and I watched the slide of a trombone get its spit valve caught on someones shoulder strap and pulled off. The trombone player kept on making the motions as if the slide was still there, and the other marcher-with-trombone-slide-still-attached continued on until the end of the show. Fortunately we were in the last movement, but the point is that the show must go on.
Re:IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders
on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:55PM (#20536783)
It's not buying a cup of coffee that's the issue. The issue is in converting between currencies, which is no different than investing in foreign currencies. If you exchange USD for EUR, wait a while, then exchange back to USD and you've made a profit, it's taxable.
Re:IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders
on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:52PM (#20536746)
Intent or playing dumb maybe only matters as a defense against tax evasion charges, but everyone is liable to pay taxes and associated penalties for late/non-payment, even on an under the table side gig.
Re:No CS Degree – Interviews with self-taught developers
on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:30AM (#20507524)
Well, you're literally writing step-by-step instructions that a computer will faithfully perform without deviation. Once you understand how a computer works and how to talk to it, it should be as easy as having a conversation.
I don't think this is easy, but when you've been doing it for years and years, it feels that way.
Re:At what time of day do famous programmers work?
on Thursday July 18, 2019 @09:47AM (#20469704)
The original article was written in Russian, so I'm assuming this is an automatic translation.
Re:Guide to Slack import and export tools
on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:27PM (#16639637)
Are you certain that IT can't read deleted emails? I would think there would be backups and logs in the email server.