OedipusRex

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by OedipusRex 8y ago
I'm a little confused as to why Grab would hire a firm to update OSM via satellite images. OSM had to be more accurate than the outdated sat. images so why was there a need in the first place?
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
I don't hear anyone around me but I only share one wall with another apartment and I'm on the top floor so no one above me. That said, noise leaks to and from the hallways.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
Sameness at scale.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
I've lived in two of these types of buildings, I live in one currently. The first one I lived in was at a big state college and was put up in very short time. The craftsmanship, or lack thereof that went into this building was very not
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
I mean both iPhone and Android do this but Google won’t pull competitors.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
IPv6 is interesting, https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/ipv6/confi...
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
What's more important, doing important work, or thinking you're doing important work?
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
Enough address space for every atom on the surface of the earth.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
It doesn't, Bitcoin is as safe as the security of the person who holds it. And as someone who had Bitcoin on Mt Gox, this is a moot point to argue.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
Yes a nationstate does protect the value of it's money with a standing army but to imply the purpose is to protect the currency is false. The armed forces and stability of the country bring about the value of the currency, not the othe
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
My mother got a call about three years ago from a man who told her he thinks his mother is my mother's sister. Turns out my grandmother had a child at 16 and put her up for adoption. Now I have an extra aunt and she's super cool.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
So what's the alternative? Even if we roll our own software we still utilize ISP lines.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
GoPro has been dying for a few years, there are a ton of alternatives at much lower prices and if you're just strapping it to a bike or something no need to go top of the line. https://youtu.be/l4fHeiqtGOA
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
"The platform operates under the guidance of 27 government departments..." China loves bureaucracy.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
China is really good at keeping track of dissent.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
But you can't turn it off. That's the issue.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
Twitter is a master class in how not to run a social media platform. They alienate their power users by shutting down APIs which break 3rd party apps. Their censorship seems to have no rhyme or reason to it. They simply do not listen to the
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
"Give us your ideas"
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
Not to mention Twitter would ban your IP if you did large amounts of scraping.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
"In a statement, Timothy Barrett, a spokesman at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which released the annual report, said the government “has not altered the manner in which it uses its authority to obtain call detai
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
This was my go to podcast app on Android, excited to see how NPR does with it.
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
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by OedipusRex 8y ago
1. Because those still haven't been taken care of 2. Because these sensationalized risks are the ones that get coverage more than the true risks
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by OedipusRex 9y ago
I knew Don "MindRape" Moore personally, he passed away pretty recently but he was a big influence in my life as I got into computers. Crazy cool dude, gave himself a "snake tongue" with a pair of scissors by himself!
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by OedipusRex 9y ago
That was a temporary fix, then a software patch was released. I also wouldn't call that a "software" fix.
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by OedipusRex 9y ago
* Bushcraft 101 [1] * Be Expert With Map and Compass [2] * Lots of notebooks with pens * An Almanac [1] https://www.amazon.com/Bushcraft-101-Field-Wilderness-Surviv... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Expert-Map-C
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by OedipusRex 9y ago
And they load so slowly that you start to read and then the text shift and now you've lost where you were.
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by OedipusRex 9y ago
I graduated in May from a Big 10 college with a computer technology degree. As much as remote work seems great, I still need a senior level developer I can walk over to and ask questions of. As well, the program I was in was in a constant s
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by OedipusRex 9y ago
The issue with work like this is it is very distressing. Having to look at videos and pictures of horrific acts (suicides, child porn, etc) is not a pleasant job. Many of those who do this in law enforcement (mainly child porn) have high ra
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by OedipusRex 9y ago
Which includes what?

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