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> The other term you hear all the time inside is “weird” or “weirdo.” I'll have to request a user name change I guess.

You are just not part of the right target group, so facebook won't show them to you.

It's nice to have specific terms for special generic concepts. However, use of the German language doesn't stop there, and creates an association between some terms and use in a sp…

There's this one page that disables the login submit button until the password field is filled. The browser auto-fills, login still disabled. Need to manually add and then remove a…

Many alternative refrigerants are combustible. That's not a big problem for stationary use, but in vehicles it is. It is confusing that the article mentions buildings and not vehic…

I guess it is limited to specific industries. Check the product description of Mathworks Simulink, which has many examples of things rightfully called model. In reality though (I d…

Has anyone tried CO2? The idea: Deep trash can for the tasty banana peels. Flood the trash can with CO2. CO2 is heavier than air. If the trash can is deep enough maybe a sufficient…

> Is that not a "model" because it is not necessarily graphical? For some people model==graphical, usually mechanical/electrical engineers, not software-engineers. Engineers mainta…

There are people who consider software written, I mean painted, or as they say modelled, in the language of e.g. Simulink to be of higher value than other representations of code. …

But that's only for code that's painted using the mouse, not for code typed on the keyboard.

(2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30930985

> why would anyone actually sift through thousands of hand-written pages of arithmetic? 2840 pages. Doesn't seem crazy. Page looks like it was written by hand? Next. At two pages p…

> We have enough nuclear weapons to kill off humanity. Humanity yes, mankind I'm not so sure. Earth is huge. There are a lot of humans. Some will survive winter. Some will survive …

> All the other things the engineers can themselves address (e.g. better tooling, etc) Everyone choosing their own tools? Isn't there usually some central department that takes car…

Early ones at least had some parts from ducks, but there's no relation to ducts at all. Ducts are not sealed using duct tape. Language should be updated to call it reinforced self-…

> As you can see, I still don't. I don't think we can. Or can we?

Do whatever you want, but DO NOT put space before punctuation marks. With the exception of space before smileys that are substituting punctuation.

Numbers of instruments sold would be extremely low and as a result the price extremely high if only people who actually use them bought them.

Examples have been discussed here [0] before. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4331688

Most people love to hate something. That and reproduction are the two main factors that govern almost all human behavior.

And those meaningful relevant comments will be invisible in between those useless comments that were added to satisfy some tool that counts them.

A small inconsistency: The "i"nfo button claims it is also converting Kelvin, but those don't seem to be displayed. Kelvin is not degrees, probably the info text is wrong. Could th…

Is cash still used a lot in GB? Or more specific, do Tesla drivers use cash?

You want a Tesla? Simply change your local rules of the road from left to right.

No difference in functionality, but in one case a manufacturer provides the desired product, in the other case a manufacturer actively pushing a non-desireable product to the marke…