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by NamTaf 10y ago
Nothing much to add but I just wanted to say thank you for this post. It's concise, calls on obvious counter-examples (light not being blocked), conveys the points clearly and establishes sound conclusions. For lack of a better term, i
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Never mind the data usage, how about the House ENERGY committee focus on the woefully inefficient battery usage the app has? I mean, that directly impacts their area by way of forcing heaps of people to charge devices far more often.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I do know that (to the extent that it's true). I also know that not driving head-first into a truck that's turning across in front of the driver, or into a stationary car when the one in front of you swerves around it, is even saf
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This is going to keep happening until Tesla change their approach from a move-fast-and-break-things startup philosophy to sound engineering one that puts safety in design front-and-centre. Traditional real-world enigneers have been drilled
815.
by NamTaf 10y ago
See all these people in the below photos? They're playing it. At night. In a public park. I walked through there at midnight on Saturday night and it was just as busy. During the day it's even more so. Walking through just about a
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I get where it comes form, and it makes sense, but it's long and will inevitably be shorterned to IFTTT which is just awkward. An acronym/initialism is better if it can be pronounced like a word. CAP is one of them, and thus I fee
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by NamTaf 10y ago
So is gunning down other people. Fortunately, many people can separate games from reality and this lets all types of games, from Counter-Strike to Pokemon to the Total War series, to succeed. I'm utterly convinced the average 13 year o
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by NamTaf 10y ago
"What can CAP do for you? First let's agree….. worst name ever. Now that we're past that, here's our story, and an ask." MS, you're competing with a product called "IFTTT". Don't think so lowly o
819.
by NamTaf 10y ago
From what I understand, it'll ask a new login if the servers crash between usage sessions of the app. I've not had to log in today, for example, but yesterday I had to two or so times. The login bug is relatively low-priority to m
820.
by NamTaf 10y ago
Fair; I called it such because I was bitter that they completely and unapologetically dropped T:A just as it was getting some momentum behind it simply to divert everyone onto SMITE. It felt like the next trend came along (MOBA) so they jus
821.
by NamTaf 10y ago
If Google had any sense, they would be throwing a tonne more at this. It may be Ingress with less features and a Pokemon skin but that latter part is exactly the mainstream appeal they need to make AR big. This is their big chance to create
822.
by NamTaf 10y ago
The devs made some utterly idiotic decisions regarding how they wanted the game to work and it ended up having a whole load of unintended negative effects. If you're falling above 72km/hr and jetpack, they do nothing and you actua
823.
by NamTaf 10y ago
That's not quite a valid analogy in my books, because either you have BPA in a water bottle or you don't. In contrast, "customers don't want pollution" isn't quite accurate - it's better described as &quot
824.
by NamTaf 10y ago
Except it was painted when Doig was 17, before he was famous and so at the time there was no reason to imitate some kid hundreds of kilometres away?
825.
by NamTaf 10y ago
This is why I like HN. Opening the comments and seeing "oh maybe this is due to something I did back in the 1980s when I wrote most of that, here's some inside info/explanation" about something as significant as Excel&#x
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Another Aussie here, I'm headed over for 8 weeks in September - November and this is by far and away the most exciting prospect for me. I'll be spending some time driving around the place just marvelling at the concept that buildi
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Welcome to Australian journalism.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This is true. A big course of broad-spectrum antibiotics creates an... unpleasant response. They really do nuke the biodiversity of the gut and it takes a while to strike a balance back. Here's a good wired feature done a few years ago
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by NamTaf 10y ago
There's been a lot of hugely promising work in the field of using symbotic bacteria to regulate gut immune responses. In one case [1,2], a strain of hookworm were used to treat coeliacs for their gluten intolerance with incredible effe
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Here's a comment from 5 months ago about one example - not me personally but it's one of the major case studies in the AU rail industry - that covers exactly this topic. It also sort of morphs into general discussion about alertne
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This is what I've now said 3 or so times in various autopilot threads. It has to be an all or nothing thing. Part of responsible engineering is engineering out the many and varied ways that humans can fuck it all up. Look at how UX wor
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Because it glosses over the fact that upgrades to OSs have defined security benefits. A better one would be to say that it's like your bank upgrading your card from signature to chip + pin and issuing a new card number as a result. It&
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Toyota doesn't have to keep paying for your maintenance, whereas MS does keep having to pay for their time to develop patches for XP. A better :caranalogy: would be whether, as emissions standards come in, you lose the ability to drive
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Except MS is the one who cops the blame, the negative PR and the reputation of being insecure when malware runs rife across old Windows systems that weren't patched for years. There's literally no way they can win this. If they fo
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Absoutely. See also: Waffleimages after it. This is cyclical, an image site gains critical mass, builds in size and then buckles under the weight of providing a free, clean, high-bandwidth service.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
They have a quantity of engineers they're trying to evaluate quickly. If you refuse why would they bother wasting their time? Chances are that you're not the stand-out candidate of the group so why not just pass over you and fin
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by NamTaf 10y ago
South America isn't invading you any time soon and every other mob has a whopping great pile of water to cross and not much in the way of an active carrier fleet to support it, or they're already your allies. The only one that fal
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Looks like a solid phone, my only issue is the lack of GSM frequency bands for use here in Australia. Half of the frequencies we use for 4G LTE aren't listed so data would be congested and signal would be weaker. Otherwise, I'd to
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by NamTaf 10y ago
No there was an article on here several months ago that I couldn't find when searching where someone wrote a PoC for the transmission of data via near-ultrasonic sounds from a computer speaker and microphone. I don't think it was
840.
by NamTaf 10y ago
Was there not a PoC recently (~months ago) of someone who did similar over a speaker/microphone but outside the audible range of ears? It was a PoC of the Flame malware capability to jump airgapped PCs

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