EamonnMR

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by EamonnMR 4y ago
People still use a limited form of echo navigation. Hearing sounds can give you some information about a space - compare listening to music in a room versus headphones, or the deeply unsettling feeling of a sound-dampened phonebooth.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Gonna repost my standard question on Mastodon articles: cool, how do I get into it?
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I've been following the story all morning and only now just realized it's tea like the beverage.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
The notion that a probabilistic world enables free will in a way that a deterministic one doesn't still confuses me. A coin I flip isn't exercising free will.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Anyone else not seeing any results?
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
> Taking on what amounts to a lifetime commitment and a massive investment of time and money for an experience that I have zero interest in and think I would actively dislike, seems like a terrible use of my finite resources. If you cons
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Of course it's better to do processing client side. You pay for server side compute, you don't pay for client side compute.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Here here. I've never empathized with the Luddites more than when discussing this.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I don't think that having emotional discussions around technology that does no less than provoke homan emotions on command is low quality.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Second book is the best of the bunch, and if you've already been spoiled by this thread the first one may lack some of the thrust.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I won't spoil the three body series for you, but it definitely has a 2001 scale representation with the power differences between civilizations.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
If there's some obvious-but-not-to-us way to break Newtonian physics without ever figuring out atoms... maybe.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
If you hit random on Wikipedia you usually get a stub for a random town or a random sports team of a random town.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Maybe Developer Experience?
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
It's as close as I'd like to be to a gamma ray burst, thanks.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
The chances of a focused beam tagging us are astronomically small.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I don't remember it, but it's the sort of thing I run across.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
They probably aren't losing money on $800 jars of peanut butter.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Jira used to aggressively interpret keyboard input as a stream of hotkeys which would result in entropy being introduced into your board. Latest redesign fixed that, but at the cost of being criminally slow.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Mismeasure Of Man? SJG is underrated.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I can't believe they're making a site for individuals with ADHD that uses that many carousels.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I assume they mean figuring out what mechanism they're using to bind and attacking it to prevent formation.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I just replaced my x220 workhorse with an x280. Grabbed a cheapo referb and had to replace a single busted key. So far so good and it's far more solid than it looks.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
http://www.ominous-valve.com/shortwve.html Some quality stuff there.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Few people actually enjoy being in a community without moderation though.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Oh no, now GameFAQs will be turned into the bloated mess that fandom is.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Location: Metro Boston (US) Remote: Yes please Willing To Relocate: No, thanks Technologies: Python, Kafka, Amazon Redshift, FastAPI, and happy to try and pick up Rust/Go/Elixir Resume: http://eamonnmr.com/resume&#
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Laggy might add a tasteful zest of glitchyness.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
I've been running into this since the 00s.
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by EamonnMR 4y ago
Less Cambrian Explosion, more Permian-Triassic Extinction.

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