SpikeDad

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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Not sure what world you live in but at least on iOS Siri is highly accurate and can interact with enough of the system that it is highly useful. In the original post's case calling contacts is a trivial exercise and one that works 99%
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
I get the visual issue and the font is nice. But Apple has put a lot of effort (and garnered praise from organizations and users) in providing visual assistive technologies. (I don't know what Android does but I'm sure they have a
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
I've had a 102 for many years and I programmed on a 102 back when I was in college writing programs for farmers for our Plant Pathology department. I never knew about this AP ROM. Fascinating. So interesting what kind of computing you
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Ugh. I use this behavior for my air mouse so I can assign "Go Back" to one of the buttons. Well reading to the end fortunately Firefox will have a configuration to restore this behavior. Nevermind.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
A transparent effort to move to a state that doesn't care what goes on there and to avoid legal responsibility. Reminds me of a soon to be former president leaving their town. How is a group allowed to file for bankruptcy when they&#x2
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Gonna be interesting how they're going to handle the 50 difference systems for determining who's eligible for vaccinations. I assume only a small % of employees would be in 1A or 1B categories of most states.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
More likely 52 however with DC and Puerto Rico. Nice article - I like the arrangement. I would assume no one would be interested in a less traditional arrangement much like no one is interested in more colorful currency.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Gee. Nobody would criticize antique car repair or collecting. Nor pretty much any other historical recreators. Makes me angry that retro computing gets special criticism.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
He certainly should lose his license and have his Pharmacy degree revoked. Then he should be unemployable. Then he should be convicted of 500 counts of criminal endangerment.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Seems a simple choice. Get vaccinated or find work in another less critical area of the economy. This respects everyones personal choices.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Except of course there is no deity which can assist us in this decision. That means our society has to have this difficult discussion and determine if or how we can gain the wisdom to change things. There is no question this is an issue whe
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Please do. What delusional thinking do atheists engage in? To be an atheist one only needs to not be convinced god(s) exist? Are you saying we are deluded into thinking that the existence of gods has been proven? Please expand on this?
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
It's easy to live by moral codes when you cherry pick your own religion. You seems to avoid the moral codes mentioned in the same book that encourage genocide, rape and slavery. How do you know which morals to cherry pick? That would b
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Such a significant project that is practically unwatched. I watched the live event and was amazed at the technology and competence of the people involved.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
>As a company that provides psychotherapy services, the confidentiality of customer information is extremely important to us This rings a bell. Where have I heard this before? Oh yea, EVERY data breach that has ever happened. Does no one
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Which god? Faith just makes you live a life without evidence. Seems like a poor choice to me. And with all of the negative associates of being religious seems to me you're blowing the one absolutely confirmed life for some fairy tale.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Confused because all of the stuff I've read and the videos from respected physicists say that there's no way the total mass of black holes could even be 5% of the predicted amount of dark matter that would have to be present to ex
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
How does this happen - Facebook tells me that vaccines don't work and disease isn't caused by viruses and bacteria.
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Just like you'd think a Trump sycophant would implement. Reducing services, removing equipment and cutting back on employee hours. Mail is piling up in Iowa (where the person being interviewed is located) and from other reports all ove
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
I typed this in using an IBM terminal with an APL ball during my first year of Comp Sci at Penn State Delaware Valley campus in 1976. I also typed in Trek-76. There's nothing slower than tying in APL code using a hard copy terminal. At
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by SpikeDad 6y ago
Very true. I retired early (around 50) and not having enough money to be a world globetrotter I found things boring around my town. So I started working again (2x) 4 times per week and that helped a lot. I agree that older workers not in sp
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
This article is nonsense. The gadgets aren't refusing to die due to fan support - it's companies buying old nonsense tech and then trying to resell it. We'll be see these on late night infomercials soon.
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
Hmm. Snuggle getting benefits for the US - kinda ok. Snuggle getting personal profits for Trump and his kids - nope. You don't differentiate?
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
Doesn't WiFi calling render microcells irrelevant?
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
Because a) oil and b) Trump properties making his kids (and himself of course) billions.
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
Thanks
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
RCT? Sorry don't know that abbreviation.
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
A country using an unproven treatment to quell panic is hardly unprecedented nor out of the realm of many governments and sorry for me to say the US as well. "Lets all pray for God to cure us" comes to mind.
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
Haha. Continued use seems to imply it's efficacy. This might be the most illogical post on Hacker News in some time. I think we could have a whole website of things that were continued to be used without a shred of evidence of effecti
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by SpikeDad 7y ago
If it's a high quality article then it's highly reasonable to assume it's also reported on high quality sites. I'd rather see low quality sites banned and miss the very infrequent quality article rather than give them a

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