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Willson50··on 2019 redefinition of the SI base units
"The kilogram is the mass of a body at rest whose equivalent energy equals the energy of a collection of photons whose frequencies sum to [1.356392489652×10^50] hertz."
Willson50··on Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding
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Willson50··on Student Loan Debt Crisis Is Bankrupting Millennials
https://outline.com/c6c7dy
Willson50··on Sleepless in Silicon Valley
https://outline.com/E7sbMG
Willson50··on Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github
I don't think it's just you, I've been getting them too. It's probably Github timing out trying to render the notebook.
Willson50··on Uber S-1
"We do the right thing. Period."
Willson50··on Super-resolution on the Pixel 3
People have gotten a lot of Pixel 3 exclusive features to work one Pixel 1 + 2 by install Pixel 3's camera apk. I'm assuming most of the reason for backporting features is not a hardware limitation.
Willson50··on Showing a Craigslist scammer who's boss using Python [video]
They try the username + password on other sites.
Willson50··on MoviePass Parent Files to Raise $1.2B to Stay Afloat
$1.2B is around 100x their market cap.
Willson50··on Lyft Follows Uber Into Bike-Sharing Lane, Buying Owner of CitiBike
From Wikipedia: "Named after lead sponsor Citigroup, it is operated by Motivate..."
Willson50··on USPTO issues 10 millionth patent [pdf]
Maybe this is a sign that there are too many patents.
Willson50··on FBI Recovers WhatsApp, Signal Data Stored on Michael Cohen’s BlackBerry
Might be one of BlackBerry's newer Android phones.
Willson50··on Reverse engineering Animal Crossing's developer mode
I'm assuming they changed it just enough that normal players wouldn't find it by accident.
Willson50··on How to get rich without getting lucky
It's 1.6% now /s
Willson50··on Japan Fights Crowds of Crows (2008)
I'm guessing the title would have sounded like the crows are being murdered:

> Japan Fights Murders of Crows

Willson50··on The iPhone dongle is still my fucking nightmare
iMessage turns texts that are not from iMessage green.
Willson50··on China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI startup, closes $620M round
I don't think we can say the AI Winter is here until these large funding rounds stop.
Willson50··on Sweden distributes 'be prepared for war' leaflet to all 4.8m homes
> “we will never give up. All information to the effect that resistance is to cease is false.”

That seems like a rather dangerous philosophy.

Willson50··on I Got Catfished by a Candidate
Does being a catfish really matter if they passed the rest of the interview process?
Willson50··on Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard
Yes. Even the original DS had this with pictochat.
Willson50··on Australia Bans Cash for All Purchases Over $7,500 (Jul 2019)
The article says checks are allowed.
Willson50··on Do Fathers Who Exercise Have Smarter Babies?
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Willson50··on Show HN: Corral – A Serverless MapReduce Framework
Because you don't need to manage any servers.
Willson50··on MrWint's GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version “Arbitrary Code Execution” (2017)
How does he do that?
Willson50··on Show HN: Giving a Broken Barcode Scanner a New Life with Elixir and Nerves
That's the same problem I have with a lot of hobby projects I think of doing. There's always a cheaper or more time efficient way to do things.
Willson50··on Man Accused of Making 97M Robocalls
These apps exist. Here's a rather funny one: http://www.jollyrogertelco.com/
Willson50··on 911 calls from chronically ill drop after Milwaukee community initiative
The original title does not give information on the total number of people, only the 100.
Willson50··on Prototool – A Swiss Army Knife for Protocol Buffers
You might be interested in KSQL, SQL queries that run on Kafka streams. https://www.confluent.io/product/ksql/
Willson50··on Intel brings a six-core i9 CPU to laptops
In my experience, it is usually 5 1-hour meetings.
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