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d-sc··on Using Web Bluetooth to Communicate with Bluetooth Devices
Bluetooth is much simpler to implement and cheaper than WiFi.
d-sc··on Pizza Hut’s First Website
It loads so fast!
d-sc··on Ask HN: How to deal with seasonal affective disorder?
Get some outside time. Pets (dogs, cows, etc) are good for this as they force you to attend to them.
d-sc··on Ask HN: What software do you use to manage contacts?
Idk, iPhone Contacts app isn’t a crm, but it seems to work otherwise.
d-sc··on Exceptionally Gifted Children: Long-term effects of grade-skipping
In my experience with being ahead, I had to move school districts a couple times to avoid administrative resistance. It goes ok, then you get the teacher that doesn’t want you to be ahead of her son and then proceeds to teach you stuff that she already taught you a couple years before.

My parents also had plenty of free time and money which helps with the process.

d-sc··on Exceptionally Gifted Children: Long-term effects of grade-skipping
I skipped a grade in elementary school and had done calculus before high school. By the time I got to college, I decided I didn’t care for any of that and spent my extra mental energy on forming positive relationships with the people around me and couldn’t be happier. Graduated without honors with an ok gpa but have an excellent professional network and friends and family around me that care.
d-sc··on Dog Ownership and Survival
Kinda, my family dog lives on a farm and has free reign (eg, no fenced backyard). He just goes in and out as he pleases, but he still gets super excited when you take him for a walk.
d-sc··on Cross-Laminated Timber
The process you describes is kinda a safety net. Buildings aren’t like software where you can continuously design and push updates. You get one shot and mistakes are very expensive.

If you want to change the environment right now, build buildings that let people live closer to work and commute less.

d-sc··on Yellowstone National Park’s Sound and Video Libraries
I live in Montana - Coyotes howling are a bit spookier when they are outside your window. :)
d-sc··on Ask HN: Cool stuff that's still completely unregulated?
I used to work in the physics industry (cryogenics specifically). There was/is practically zero regulation at the scale we were at & lots of room for innovation. The market is pretty small though so you have to be at a company that is good at selling to academia.
d-sc··on I hate living in my tiny house
I lived in one of those 50k prebuilt, they aren't as nice as they are made out to be. But the premise of your comment still stands.
d-sc··on The Streets of San Francisco
It’s worse than conservative media makes it out to be because in a wide swath of the country 6 figure incomes are large enough to completely insulate you form the issue.
d-sc··on The Streets of San Francisco
Idk, I think the statistic is probably a bit misleading. But the case it point is a bit off as well. Alaska is top ten homelessness and very rural.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territori...

d-sc··on The Streets of San Francisco
I think if you arrive at the page from a google search you see more information.
d-sc··on Apple approves previously rejected HKMap.live app
I’m genuinely curious. Does this app do anything that couldn’t be accomplished by a progressive web app?
d-sc··on Lethal memory fail: Why drivers see, and then forget motorcyclists
In my experience, bicyclists tend to go slower, stick to downtown roads or rural country roads and generally do not attempt the same sort of highway driving that motorcycles do. Eg. Freeway/interstate.

So while they may be in more danger, there is a different set of expectations.

d-sc··on How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers
Sounds like cognitive dissonance. Your coworkers felt like they are nice people, but nice people don’t steel from the poor, so their brain didn’t know what to do.
d-sc··on The Failure of 3D Touch (2018)
I have an iPhone 11 Pro, the only part I don’t like on it is the lack of 3D touch. The replacement tap and hold gesture is slow comparatively.
d-sc··on Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/children of alumni/donors
Or leave the desert as desert, Nature is pretty nice.
d-sc··on 20,000 Startup Ideas
I’m pretty sure your mocking. But the funeral industry needs to be disrupted. Went through the process a couple weeks ago and it felt pretty scummy.
d-sc··on What should the next search engine look like?
Idk, I’ve always looked for a search engine that prioritizes good content over pages with ads. Like, there’s 7 billion people on this planet, are you telling me there is no one that has a cookie recipe that nicely fits on one page without going through oodles of advertising.
d-sc··on Man jailed for criticizing court system has been acquitted by jury
Rereading my comment now, it looks a bit confusing. I would think that it would be hard for the state to convict him. Generally a threat must pass a higher standard of scrutiny when directed at a public official. E.G. a judge.[1] Threading to dig up skeletons in the courts closet, while not very nice, doesn’t suggest that the guy intended to cause physical harm to the judge and is well within the realm of political banter. Even the case report didn’t find intent of physical harm to the judge. Also, there was a guy a couple years ago that made much more threading remarks on social media that the Supreme Court said were ok. [2]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_threat

[2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonis_v._United_States

d-sc··on Man jailed for criticizing court system has been acquitted by jury
I studied a fair bit of free speech literature in college. Based on my reading of the article, I would have a hard time seeing his comments pass first amendment scrutiny with enough lawyering.
d-sc··on Team closes in on “holy grail” of room temperature quantum computing chips
That’s not even half that equipment needed to reach cryogenic temperatures. What you linked appears to be the experimental setup that will get placed in some sort of cold chamber.

On an unrelated note: room temperature quantum chips would likely be more energy efficient as the coolers that go that cold aren’t particularly efficient.

Source: I used to work for a cryogenics companies.

d-sc··on Mysterious waves have been pulsing across Oklahoma
The detectors are extremely sensitive. As the article stated, a cow walking by or leaves rustling in the wind can be picked up.
d-sc··on Are forest fires as bad as they seem?
Glad to see this on here. I grew up in a town next to National Forest, and learned that Forest fires are part of the natural lifecycle. Feels weird to see everyone blaming them on climate change.
d-sc··on Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second
What are the things that make the difference between invigorating and exhausting?
d-sc··on Chasing the Whale: Examining the ethics of free-to-play games
Not related to games, but the stuff in this book is pretty informative, albeit disturbing. I listened to the audio book a couple years ago.

https://www.nirandfar.com/hooked/

d-sc··on US Gen Z and the iMessage Lock-In
Emojis are a Japanese thing. Apple didn’t enable them at first in the States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

d-sc··on How annoying is too annoying?
Fun. But I don’t feel it’s entirely accurate. I don’t mind typing with a delay as I can watch my keyboard, but clicking on moving objects with a variable delay is quite dreadful.
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