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ellenhp
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About ellenhp
ellen.h.poe@gmail.com
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Comment #48201493
They probably update these answers offline. I tried "how do you profit from options" and got: > Call Options: You buy these when you believe a stock's price will go up. If the stoc…
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Comment #47829315
I don't know how much it has to do with the administration and the top-level comment here was flagged so I'm lacking context but American exceptionalism is instilled here from birt…
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Comment #45691556
If someone cared enough to spend money on this I think it would be an easy to medium difficulty project to use an FPGA and a CSI-2 IP to pretend to be the sensor. Good luck fixing …
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Comment #45640360
Thanks for the summary of the document, but not quite what I asked for. Why would e.g. a VHDL engineer need to have read it to deserve the title senior?
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Comment #45637138
You're off base here for what may be a rather subtle reason. While I am not a marxist, I do think that the purchasing behavior of the wealthy makes much more sense when you think a…
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Comment #45636522
Would you mind elaborating on why you believe people need to have that number memorized to deserve the title senior?
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Comment #45629021
> some measures EROI for biodiesel is well above 1:1 from what I can tell. Please elaborate on your sources.
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Comment #45276510
Over the last few weeks I’ve been hard at work building a FOSS maps app for Android from the ground up based on Material 3 components and industry standard maps tooling. It has onl…
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Comment #44849635
My guess is that they're using FastText for semantic search, so it's more likely to break queries like "coffee near me" than address search, the latter likely being handled by tant…
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Comment #44839230
There are a few piece of this that rely on proprietary data, especially the FastText training step, so that's a dead-end unfortunately (would love to be proven wrong). I'd consider…
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Comment #44839097
What's wrong with S2? H3 is so much more complex for very little gain from what I can tell.
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Comment #44712294
Sibling commenter covered most of what I have to say but the other reason this is wrong is because many bicycles can go 20-30mph, and I'm just going to leapfrog you anyway at the r…
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Comment #44379777
Well there are two competing factors, one of which you pointed out--not every woman who experiences harassment reports it. The other which may be less obvious is that the people wh…
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Comment #44378759
I've been treated to the the "you're so beautiful, do you have a boyfriend" act about 2% of the time[0] I get into a stranger's car pretty much across the board, which makes me a l…
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Comment #44011215
This reads like a product advertisement IMO, not a Show HN post.
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Comment #43186998
> nowadays People have been writing provocative titles for things since before the internet.
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Comment #42692861
> existing remotely exploitable wireless security vulnerabilities That's just it though, in my opinion being able to flash the thing at all would count as a remotely exploitable wi…
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Comment #42692403
Disclaimer I don't have a pacemaker: As a biohacker, I think this is a really bad take. I regularly put things [1] in my body of questionable provenance, and then cut them out of m…
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Comment #42422327
I think my info might be old then! I went and found where I learned that: https://discuss.graphhopper.com/t/does-graphhopper-gtfs-not-... I may also be conflating inter-agency rout…
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Comment #42415647
I sure am! Feel free to email me if you want, I'd love to chat about OTP, transit and maps in general.
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Comment #42415605
It's after midnight here so take this with a grain of salt but the generated timetable for the puget sound is taking up about 40 MiB on-disk and the server process is using 100k of…
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Comment #42414259
Yeah I strongly suspect that there's something in the GTFS spec that I'm missing that's resulting in some vehicle journeys not being added to the timetable. This would also explain…
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Show HN: Performant intracontinental public transport routing in Rust
I made a public transport route planning program that's capable of planning journeys across Europe or North America! There's only one other FOSS project I know of (MOTIS/Transitous…
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