StevenRayOrr

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by StevenRayOrr 9y ago
Here's the Archive.org link for anyone else having trouble getting to the site: https://web.archive.org/web/20171130210154/https://blog.elco...
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by StevenRayOrr 9y ago
It only appears to pull data for UK/US services right now. So while it does seem to separate out the content according to region, us Canadians will have to make due without.
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by StevenRayOrr 9y ago
The game is a bit of a wild ride. More depth to this clicker than you'd expect.
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Universal Paperclips – A Paperclip Production Simulator(decisionproblem.com)
11 points by StevenRayOrr 9y ago|3 comments
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by StevenRayOrr 10y ago
As with many investigations. See, for example, the 9/11 investigation: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/25/911-fbi...
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by StevenRayOrr 10y ago
> I often have thoughts that can't be phrased in language Is it that they can't be phrased or that you can't phrase them? I often have thoughts that I can't express through drawing, but that doesn't mean it is an
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by StevenRayOrr 10y ago
Haven't been on reddit much lately, have you? If that's an example of controlling the conversation in a Hillary-favorable manner, their operation is... astoundingly incompetent.
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by StevenRayOrr 11y ago
> Happiness in slavery? That's an absurd statement. Maybe your argument has merit, maybe it doesn't, but let's not suggest that our smartphones browsers are anything akin to slavery.
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The Tell-Time Heart: Updating Edgar Allan Poe with the Apple Watch(medium.com)
1 points by StevenRayOrr 11y ago|0 comments
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by StevenRayOrr 12y ago
> unless moderators take serious action And even then, when moderators do take serious action, there is often an accompanying backlash against them. As if the very degradation of quality is a feature rather than a bug.
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by StevenRayOrr 12y ago
I don't particular disagree, but I also don't think Apple is going after either "billionaires" or "watch collectors". Not that they would turn away sales from either category, but the Apple Watch Edition seems
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by StevenRayOrr 12y ago
> Insultingly low. Oy. Not that I am going to pretend that I know what the dollar value of Sclafani's time/effort should be, but I have a hard time believing that $20,000 is an insult. Just because he could get more money by
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
Nobody ever means that, but some days I wonder what the hell I'm doing. I'm not a genius, by any standard, and I likely wouldn't be the one to come up with the cure for cancer, but why the hell am I not dedicating my life to
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
This is one of those use cases that I'd be interested in seeing some research on. Personally, it depends a great deal on what I am doing, but I often use my thumbs to do minor navigations when within a document. Particularly because I
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
I'd disagree with the notion that McJobs necessarily prepare people for future employment. Particularly when there is little in the way of responsibility or consequences. This is not to say that there is nothing to be learned from the
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
I am dangerously close to writing an MA thesis on just that question...
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
We _know_ of one instance and that instance alone is bad enough that we should be alarmed, but "smart money" doesn't legitimize the claim that it has happened on multiple occasions.
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
As someone who played far too much emulator Harvest Moon, I think you are selling short the prospect of such a game + occasional killer fish.
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
Sadly, no. While there are numerous different attempts at LPs and stories within DF, nothing manages to both capture the game itself while being laugh out loud funny. It really is one of those rarely replicated gems. Edit: Although I will
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
For those interested, the Dribbble pages linked in the post contain actual conversations about what works and what does not (as well as justifications for both that go beyond "because I said so"). I tend to favour that over the st
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
You seem earnest, so I am going to try not to be frustrated, but depression is not a gift that results in creative genius. People who manage to struggle through it and create art are doing it despite their disease and not because of it. T
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
Edit: doh. Posted this without realizing that you'd made an edit, dobbsbob. Oh well. I think the point is still valid, just not as a response to you :) --- While I tend to agree about overzealous prosecutions when it comes to computer crime
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by StevenRayOrr 13y ago
I think that Tim Cook's response is more akin to "respect the complexity of what we're doing here". And could further be taken to speak to the complexity of what any tech company is doing. It's probably hard enough for someone in Tim Cook's
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by StevenRayOrr 14y ago
Care to elaborate? I think that's a misrepresentation of critical gender and race studies, because I happen to be in one of those very programs. I won't deny that it's a "mushy social science", but I think you're radically simplifying the f
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by StevenRayOrr 14y ago
Not having the necessary background in physics, I'm not quite sure what this means. I'm sure some pop-science site will break it down later, but is the gist that this has implications on our understanding of the way that black holes expand?
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by StevenRayOrr 14y ago
The problem, of course, is convincing us "old hat" Scrabble fanatics to change our minds on the point values. "Only 5 points for an 'X'? Nonsense!". Then again, competitive Scrabble and the original foundation of the game have little in com
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by StevenRayOrr 14y ago
Thank you for your translation -- the project of personal translations of great words is one of my favourites, despite the risks of misrepresenting. It is not enough to be accurate, one should seek also to be a poet.
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by StevenRayOrr 14y ago
Those of us that got heavily into EverQuest "back in the day" recall raids that involved these kinds of numbers (50+) and took place over 8-10 hour periods. It was possible to achieve with sufficient planning, a dedicated guild, and a compu
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by StevenRayOrr 14y ago
TL;DR: one of your favorite twitter clients doesn't see most of this being a problem for a couple years --- and even then, they imagine there will possible routes for them to take when that time comes. Granted, they may be misunderstanding
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by StevenRayOrr 14y ago
Out of sheer curiousity, does anyone know the options available to Canadians? I know that we have a Privacy Act that is designed to get information out of governmental institutions, but how would a Canadian citizen go about finding what Fac

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