AdamN

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by AdamN 3y ago
'pod' comes from Play on Demand and pre-dates the iPod (iPod being an apple branded Play on Demand device).
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by AdamN 3y ago
Any recommendations on a mind melter?!?!? Something that is logically consistent is my only criterion (not much of a mind melter if it's incosistent within its own world) ... and the writing not being at a 10th grade level (distractin
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by AdamN 3y ago
Yes. My understanding is that the original album was released as an album but was originally intended to be the soundtrack for the movie - the movie itself was not meant to have any human dialog, just the music. For whatever reason they n
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by AdamN 3y ago
It is cool and I've seen it (it's what I was referencing above). The original concept though was to purely have the album match the movie with no transmissions at all (the version I'd like to see).
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by AdamN 3y ago
The movie I'd like to see is For All Mankind without the spoken audio recordings from Apollo but with the album that was originally meant to be the soundtrack.
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23andMe's Fall(wsj.com)
302 points by AdamN 3y ago|267 comments
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by AdamN 3y ago
It doesn't seem like a 'problem'. For new tech, the emphasis should always be on pro users first (even if they don't initially adopt it because of the long lead times for those industries). So if you're designing a
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by AdamN 3y ago
You can buy different fertilizer for rhododendron to change the color.
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by AdamN 3y ago
I had 'swamp carrots' for lack of a better word a few months ago at an amazing restaurant in Berlin. Fundamentally different than a regular carrot - super smooth but crisp flesh, almost creamy.
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by AdamN 3y ago
syn ... ack ... synack
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by AdamN 3y ago
There was an IBM article a while back advocating for '5 Hows' as a replacement for '5 Whys' with this logic. How was it possible for this to happen and that should be the root question that drives improvements. Pilot e
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by AdamN 3y ago
Rail/Road doesn't compare to ships in terms of throughput by weight so the land route to China from Russia, even if the freight train system were robust, would not handle the same amounts that a trans-oceanic route like China to t
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by AdamN 3y ago
The problem was that it was more like a bank. Person gives you $9k cash, you add that to their account but it doesn't work so you push the button again. Now the computer thinks you should have $18k more cash in the till but there&#x2
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by AdamN 3y ago
Any car can have a governor installed and some parents do it. I believe many modern cars have this integrated and can do things like notify the owner even if a limit is exceeded.
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by AdamN 3y ago
An electronic governor wouldn't care about that. The important engineering issue for an ICE car would be the gear ratios of the upper gears but that's already pretty well handled. Fundamentally there is limited consumer demand fo
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by AdamN 3y ago
It's true for me also but I didn't think of it as much of a burden. The car would last for about 2+ weeks between charges with the way I drove it and there was also the option of trying to charge near work which I would drive to
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by AdamN 3y ago
This airline went bankrupt: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/engine-di...
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by AdamN 3y ago
That's a second order question - and one worth asking when decision-makers and stakeholders are being intellectually honest. The problem is that Trump et al. are disingenuously saying that we shouldn't build wind turbines at all b
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by AdamN 3y ago
I wish the EU would do that. Driving in Germany is impossible without one of the charge cards. I really don't get why credit cards aren't mandated to work on all public chargers.
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by AdamN 3y ago
Charging infrastructure in Berlin is fine - I had an EV for over a year and charged on the street no problem. The two major caveats are that you really need a card specifically for paying the charging networks (not a credit card which is a
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by AdamN 3y ago
Seems like those investigators should be the target of public prosecution
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by AdamN 3y ago
Don't focus on the IT/software stuff - it's missing the forest for the trees. Some people really do need to go to jail, and it's the people at Fujitsu, the Post Office, and the prosecutors offices who were involved and
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by AdamN 3y ago
I think the work is spiky so the quotes are inversely related to how busy the contractor is at that moment (for small shops). Also, there is the supply/demand of the people doing the actual work who are often not employees and may be
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by AdamN 3y ago
This is very true which is why athletes with certain body types will simply never win in certain roles. With that said, I'm pretty confident that a swimmer with the wrong build could, with lots of practice, get within a small margin o
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by AdamN 3y ago
It's unmanned so a self-destruct mechanism is probably the straightforward solution - or disable power and use a parachute
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by AdamN 3y ago
Took me a while to parse this. Not sure what the relationship is here: 1/ you clearly do think the source tells you something about the credibility (in your case you now think NYT is not highly credible), 2/ the laptop story was
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by AdamN 3y ago
It's not the opposite. The opposite would be banning the activity at multiple levels (like the war on drugs). Criminal liability is a very thin lever from the government - it obviously is hugely material to the person charged but cha
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by AdamN 3y ago
FTP splitting the data and control ports was a smart implementation. It allowed for optimization of the ports (one focused on throughput) and meant that control could still occur even while long responses were happening on the data port.
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by AdamN 3y ago
That's exactly what it is. Criminal liability is a deterrent model with a very high bar that is usually used when other mechanisms are not scalable. The number of people determined to be criminally liable in a country like Australia
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by AdamN 3y ago
You need to be precise about whether it's the pre-Google system or the current one (after they went all-in on Google).

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