Cushman

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by Cushman 14y ago
Doesn't it? Figure ~200k readers. Figure ~1% of readers are working on something this year they might like to Show HN. 2,000 / 365 = ~5 projects posted per day. These numbers are obviously just guesses, but there should probably be several
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by Cushman 14y ago
This is without doubt the best fad ever to hit HN. I hope it keeps up.
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by Cushman 14y ago
The reverb room actually sounds cooler: > ...a reverberation chamber with bowed aluminum panels in which he sounds the same from 300 feet away as 3 feet away.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I don't think you should feel guilty for that at all. In fact I'd encourage it. Voting systems which are based on momentum are inherently fickle. Whether or not people see the story at all comes down to whether or not it gets votes in the f
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think smart appliances will catch on eventually, but not until you can say "Siri-- I'd like pizza for dinner" and the phone takes care of everything. Until then, there's just not enough benefit.
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by Cushman 14y ago
When you're dreaming, it feels real, but as soon as you wake you realize that it was not. In a lucid dream, it feels like a dream, and that feeling persists through waking. Perhaps you will wake in a moment and discover that your present fe
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by Cushman 14y ago
One thing to try (if it's worth it to you) is to get in the habit of checking if you're dreaming, even in waking life. Try to read printed text, or use an electronic device, and really pay attention to whether it works the way you expect.
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by Cushman 14y ago
For what it's worth, it's not "Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light" so much as "Moving faster than light is a concept which makes no sense physically."
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by Cushman 14y ago
Fair point. Although, I'd wonder if it's right that video is inherently a stream, and not that that's a limitation imposed by storage speeds. I might only want to watch video front-to-back, but (without knowing much about encoding) I coul
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by Cushman 14y ago
Well, there hasn't been a major upset in the PC paradigm in 35 years :) Really, I agree with that bit-- marketing the thing would be a nightmare. But whether it's the first company to try it or the tenth, at some point the utility benefits
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by Cushman 14y ago
Filmmakers would kill for that ability.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I think you're assuming a level of opacity to the OS that is true theoretically, but not realistically. Conceptually we can treat the computer as a black box which does the same thing, eventually, whether it's using cache, RAM, HDD, or the
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by Cushman 14y ago
Eerie-- I was imagining something exactly like those maps just last night. It looks about as cool as I imagined.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> It’s been a long time since there was a direct correlation with the number of hours you work and the success you enjoy. It’s an antiquated notion from the days of manual labour that has no bearing on the world today. It has never been
945.
by Cushman 14y ago
Video games are one of if not the primary driver of consumer hardware. You're reading these words right now using probably dozens of technologies originally invented to make better games. Gaming may not be your cup of tea, but the cutti
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by Cushman 14y ago
> They have autos. (No, they're not convertible.) It's a side point, but many semi-automatic weapons can in fact be converted to fully-automatic mode with drop-in parts. Makes sense; if you think about it, it's actually harder to make a
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by Cushman 14y ago
If everyone were valued by how much money they could be making, we'd all be billionaires.
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Anyway, I'm glad about this drop. Not out of any kind of schadenfreude but because the market is acting... rationally. These P/Es were never justified and instead of not mattering and the stock skyrocketing anyway (which would happen
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by Cushman 14y ago
This is a good point, but as my sibling points out there are suppressors and there are suppressors. It's certainly well in the ability of a competent amateur to make an effective suppressor for .22LR -- I understand you can use PVC or such
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by Cushman 14y ago
> Although I imagine we'll just start seeing a lot of silencers I wouldn't bet on this. Suppressors are highly controlled Federally, and completely illegal to own in Illinois (and Iowa and Michigan and a number of other states as well).
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by Cushman 14y ago
Return fire?
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by Cushman 14y ago
> The idea that it could've been a lie -- that the AI was engaged during the crash -- doesn't have to be a conspiracy involving PR. I think if it was in fact a lie it would be much more likely to originate from the engineer in the car.
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by Cushman 14y ago
I don't expect Google to be completely open, I just don't expect them to lie for no reason, and so don't see why I should doubt what they've said. They've been quite reasonably open about the limitations of their technology: It requires map
954.
by Cushman 14y ago
Believing in mysticism might be crap, but it's certainly worth thinking about. Anthropological study of belief is highly valid and valuable. Even in jest.
955.
by Cushman 14y ago
What would it mean to boycott a company which has already refused to market their app?
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by Cushman 14y ago
> There's no way to verify Google's statement This seems absurdly paranoid. Why is it, on the face of things, more likely that the LIDAR-packing robot which is scanning 360 degrees hundreds of times per second got into a fender-bender t
957.
by Cushman 14y ago
You're opening yourself up to a serious race condition by using a global variable ('params') to share state across requests. The delay between the GET and the socket connect could easily be seconds; under load, it will likely be next to imp
958.
by Cushman 14y ago
Perhaps we don't, but that is the purpose of Bitcoin: To be digital cash, with all that that entails, for better or worse.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It doesn't look like CoffeeScript, it is CoffeeScript, and it does compile to JavaScript. `: do ->` is idiomatic CoffeeScript to set a complex value inside an object literal; it compiles to `: (function () {...})()`. The output of that
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by Cushman 14y ago
I can only presume that Bitcoin, to what extent it's spent on real transactions, is disproportionately favored by the type of person who would not put their money in a bank account.

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