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How can a simulation be more accurate than what it's simulating?

Check out Karabiner Elements ( https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/ ). You can create a rule to change caps lock to control if pressed with other keys, else escape if pressed alone. I h…

I'd be curious to see if the crash rate is similar to the crash rate of other cars in the same class (BMW, Mercedes, etc). Is it possible that people tend to drive more cautiously …

> Without spreading the achievements of science and technology to everyone on the planet, humanity is doomed. Forget ethics/morals for a second - this is just patently _false_. It …

Those "largely-irrelevant sci-fi stories" are partially what helped inspire the people that accomplished this.

Ignorant question (I'm not very familiar with the music business): what do the labels provide to the artists - why do they need to sign with Time Warner/Sony/etc at all, rather tha…

Haha. I can see how someone would think I'm trolling, but I assure you I'm not. It's a pretty deeply-ingrained behavior that I perform quite often, so yes, it does make a differenc…

I tried (again) to switch to FF yesterday when 57 was released, and unfortunately still ran into a known bug that makes it practically unusable for me: FF treats underscores as pun…

Not all calories are created equal.

Here's my point of view as someone who's title currently is "Senior DevOps Engineer", and used to be a software engineer for many years: DevOps has multiple meanings - in some (usu…

I'd be very interested in hearing more as well. Email is username @ gmail. Thank you!

I'm not even the target market (too young), and this is my favorite job board already. Very fast to navigate around - speed IS a feature! Also love how granular the locations are.

For me it's not so much the slow start-up time - that I can deal with since it happens so infrequently - it's the intermittent lag when typing or selecting text, and the high memor…

And this threat right here is exactly why encryption is so important.

Need to take dilution into account here. If we assume a (optimistic?) 1% stake, that's $650M. YC recently (1-2 years ago?) started giving 120k. Before that, it was 10-20k. So let's…

Cotap - www.cotap.com - San Francisco, CA - Full Time Enterprise mobile messaging startup We're hiring all across the stack! Backend - mainly Ruby and Go service-oriented architect…

I don't think the "average business manager" is going to be reading a Google blog post.

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Took me a bit to figure out, but you can click on 'store' in the upper right. I would think that 'home' would/should take you there, though.

So Google basically took what Lytro has been using hardware to achieve, and did it entirely in software. Pretty impressive.

Interesting. "...our present thinking is that we won’t have to increase the size of our development groups, because we’ll simply be making programs that sell in larger quantities. …

I think you guys are in agreement. Of course luck plays a role, but you have to put yourself out there to give yourself a chance to get lucky. The best entrepreneurs recognize luck…

In both examples that you provided, the cross-sectional area over which the force is applied is greater, so the overall pressure is lower. The magnitude of the force applied isn't …

The 'How This Works' link is throwing a JS error in my Chrome console.

And yet arrogant enough to think that we're so much smarter and more advanced than those that came before or all other life forms we share this planet with. BTW, not saying I disag…