FatalLogic

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by FatalLogic 1y ago
I can't edit my comment now, but here's a good review of the Tilt Five https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbjjCn1zJq8
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
In the class action case[0], which was allowed to go forward by the court last year, it is claimed that Valve told someone: "This includes communications from Valve that “‘the price on Steam [must be] competitive with where it’s bein
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
>"they pretty much killed off our project.” That project was CastAR — augmented reality glasses which Jeri Ellsworth is now working on as a separate project, having been handed the legal rights to do so by Valve . But how many bill
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
Try https://archive.today
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
>Are you sure that Bitcoin payments work much better because the amount of payments has dissipated? I don't know. On the base layer, payments are all just transactions on the Blockchain, like any other. So it's not easy to see
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
>Steam did support bitcoin at one point but decided to end usage because the price fluctuations made it to unpredictable on their end. Valve knew that there would be price fluctuations. Everyone knew that, and knew how to deal with it. T
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
Thanks, for adding the joke that I thought was too boring and obvious to say
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
But I should be more careful when making jokes on this site. Thanks for your comments.
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
>peak manufactured drama That's largely true. There is at least one, wonderful, reward from all the rule-fiddling, though it might be orthogonal to the issues you've highlighted, but driver deaths and severe injuries are much l
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
> (To be real: if they had not undone the transaction immediately, then the price of Bitcoin would have collapsed, and probably that would have been the end of Bitcoin) Yes, Bitcoin does not have sufficient trade volume, and it was a jo
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
I think it's US$21.7 trillion? That's now about 15% of the total global money supply. So, it's good that the transaction was undone, or 15% of our planet would now be owned by some hacker. (To be real: if they had not undone
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by FatalLogic 1y ago
I guess (I really do mean 'guess') that they experience a disorienting sense of disassociation which is comparable, though much more shocking, to the situation of other people who realize, late in life, that their difficulties in
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The First Interstellar Software Update – The Hack That Saved Voyager 1 [video](youtube.com)
3 points by FatalLogic 1y ago|0 comments
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
>It was dismissed with prejudice, and can’t be tried again But there were in total six murder-for-hire allegations against Ross Ulbricht. That Maryland case in your link [0] was only one of them. That Maryland one was also a case in whic
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
> We can also make an educated guess that MARC refers to Marc Blank, who was one of the initial creators of Zork, but I couldn’t figure out who JW could be. JW: That was probably Jerry Wolper. He was a coder and designer at Infocom in t
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
>Wouldn't the keyboard queue the following keypresses and only apply them once the fix has been made? I don't think that works. The keyboard can't buffer your input while it waits for a match on its autocorrect dictionar
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
It sounds ingenious, but dangerous. For example, what happens if you make a mistake and then immediately switch to a different window while the keyboard is deleting your mistake and then typing a correction?
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Castle Bravo, the science and history of the Castle Bravo nuclear test [video](youtube.com)
1 points by FatalLogic 2y ago|0 comments
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
Thanks - that link is very interesting. You can see some distortion and 'hallucination', which would be a risk with my suggestion. Their video output is great work, but the far end of the fence at the right hand side glitches and
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
Thanks for your reply
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
Stabilization appears to be a subset of a literally wider, but more rewarding, challenge: reconstructing the whole area that is scanned by the camera. It could be better to work on that challenge, not on simple stabilization. That's si
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
What are "T_COMMAND" and "T_STATUS"? I searched but that terminology doesn't seem to be used much
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
Maybe you can find the answer to your question in the original papers? These are probably the publications: Ross, L., Lepper, M.R. and Hubbard, M. (1975) Perseverance in Self-Perception and Social Perception: Biased Attributional Processes
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darl_McBride Seven children. Filed for personal bankruptcy in 2020. Died of ALS aged 64, which is probably not a nice way to die. I wouldn't celebrate his life, but I wouldn't ce
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
Archive - https://archive.ph/tna5m
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
I wonder if debris in GEO orbit is a problem for other satellites in GEO orbits. It'll be up there for a very long time I guess. But maybe it just stays orbiting at about the same velocity in the same orbit, so it's not really a b
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
"Late on 7 April, the Intelsat 29e propulsion system experienced damage that caused a leak of the propellant on board the satellite resulting in a service disruption to customers on the satellite." [0] Intelsat 29e, way back in 20
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
What happened to it? Any ideas? Hit by something, or an internal problem?
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
For HN, emphasize your best demos Slide 7 shows teaching, and it looks interesting, but it does not show learning I think. Slide 10 shows a little learning, and it looks less interesting than slide 7 Good luck (not trying to discourage, but
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by FatalLogic 2y ago
>i can safely assume that bytedance was scraping youtube videos by abusing our private api I'm not doubting the OP. But why is ByteDance doing this? What does that company get out of scraping YouTube?

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