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by ISL 4y ago
Wait. It is my perpetual guess that evolutionary pressure alone will be sufficient in the long run. Our society is now strongly selecting for parents who want kids. That choice has only been a choice for a few generations. Ten generations
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by ISL 4y ago
The jurisdiction question is an interesting one.
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by ISL 4y ago
I bet there are a lot more three-letter names left. 26^3 = 17576.
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by ISL 4y ago
The random-number addition is sometimes suggested by websites as a simple way to retain personalization but bypass collisions with existing names. "behnamoh is taken. Would you like to use benamoh37?" Some people will tag on a bir
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by ISL 4y ago
Makes sense -- thanks!
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by ISL 4y ago
@dang -- the upvotes for the topic didn't seem to move with it? At present this posting has 107 upvotes while the older one contains ~52?
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by ISL 4y ago
For a Foveon, the way you first think it works is the way it works :). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor
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by ISL 4y ago
I was part of a research group that extensively trained small neural networks for image-processing in 2001, the high-energy physics community had been using them for many years by that time. Furthermore, I believe that the PalmPilot's
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by ISL 4y ago
Yep. I've ported myself over to Mastodon in case it is needed. The primary community that I interact with on Twitter has done the same. With that backup in place, everyone is still interacting on Twitter. The network effects are still
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by ISL 4y ago
If they are lying, the warrant canary opens them up to a substantial lawsuit.
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by ISL 4y ago
How should a judge intrepret a typo?
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by ISL 4y ago
That professors were thinking real hard about which problem sets to give us in hopes that we would actually learn something. I don't think I really understood that completely until I started TA-ing.
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by ISL 4y ago
A U.S. survey foot is expressed as a fraction — 1200/3937 meters — while an international foot is expressed as a decimal, exactly 0.3048 meters. A decimal is an alternative notation for a fraction.
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Ask HN: What happened to Magic, the text-message concierge?
104 points by ISL 4y ago|46 comments
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by ISL 4y ago
No one in the US, for instance, has any excuse because it is all very very affordable More than half of people in the United States may not be able to cover a $1k emergency expense from savings. https://www.google.com/amp&
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by ISL 4y ago
Seattle has restricted public financing for teams. We just picked up an NHL expansion team anyway :). https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Initiative-91-Seattle...
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by ISL 4y ago
Excited to see continued maintenance and improvement on the pixelpipe. Sometimes incremental and continuous improvement of the details can make a big difference in the long run.
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by ISL 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that if you have me interview with an AI instead of my prospective manager/team, you'll find that I find somewhere else to work?
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Darktable 4.2.0 Release Notes(github.com)
1 points by ISL 4y ago|0 comments
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by ISL 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20221219173909/https://tafc.spac...
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by ISL 4y ago
Direct referenda solve this particular problem, but create other conflicts: Referendum 1: the State shall not raise taxes in any way without a vote of the people. Referendum 2: the State shall fully fund the education of children living in
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by ISL 4y ago
On a log-plot, that's a whole lot more than we had a decade ago. Approaching 1% and doubling every few years seems like a wonderful trend.
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by ISL 4y ago
I don't think anyone has launched it because they can see how much difficulty Twitter had turning a profit. There are a number of companies that could launch such a thing (especially now that hiring former-Twitter employees should b
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by ISL 4y ago
Yes, including Lockheed Martin, who has the original Skunk Works.
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by ISL 4y ago
Probably not. Twitter is wonderful as a public service/utility, but it is unclear if it will ever be profitable. I thought Twitter could never die, but if acts like this continue, Twitter's users will slip through Elon's fing
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Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account, making a good case for Mastodon(techcrunch.com)
43 points by ISL 4y ago|3 comments
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by ISL 4y ago
For the confused: Slack isn't just the modern messaging platform.
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by ISL 4y ago
People definitely protested the Apollo program. The primary objections of which I am aware focused on Apollo's prioritization above addressing poverty: https://www.ajc.com/news/why-civil-rights-activists-proteste..
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by ISL 4y ago
If the two halves of a mold have some helicity, I suspect it is possible to cast such a shape. After all, the water also needs to flow through the prop, so too can the halves of a mold.
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by ISL 4y ago
Probably not without violating a patent.

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