TOMDM

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by TOMDM 6y ago
I've found myself enjoying these less since Lex rebranded the podcast. I can't quite put my finger on why and I haven't watched the previous few. Is it worth jumping back in for another try?
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by TOMDM 6y ago
Because he doesn't have the experience yet? He's been running the podcast for two and a half years, and this episode makes 160. How much experience do you reckon it takes to get "good" at interviewing?
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by TOMDM 6y ago
I'm ignorant of the specific physics, but what if you got it cold before you sent it into a vacuum, and then shielded it from external radiation? Surely due to the massively reduced power usage it would be easier to keep it cool relati
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by TOMDM 6y ago
As someone who has suffered from depression in the past, I'd like to borrow Steven Fry's words on depression: “You don’t get depressed because bad things happen to you. . .depression is something that happens like weather to you,
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by TOMDM 6y ago
I feel like a horrible analogy is itself the perfect analogy for XML.
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by TOMDM 6y ago
Let's not pretend the liberal party is some bastion of LGBT rights, gay marriage was only passed after the politicians in Australia dragged each other through the mud for so long that the question was eventually put to a non binding pl
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by TOMDM 7y ago
Thinking over this I have to agree. Not to mention, half the utility of the gestures is the ability to interact with messy/wet hands. Snapping my fingers near my phone in that situation isn't attractive. Maybe teaching a gesture t
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by TOMDM 7y ago
Snapping my fingers would be a nice trigger, like "ok Google" or "Alexa". Synchronising the sound with the gesture would cut down on the false positive rate, and it's something I'm unlikely to do unless I want
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by TOMDM 7y ago
I'm not sure if the complexity of the codes is significantly higher in the pro teams, but I found this video on baseball code decoding pretty fun. https://youtu.be/PmlRbfSavbI Combined with this, it certainly seems lik
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by TOMDM 8y ago
There is another compelling usecase. I feel there is no reason to expect Facebook would be content with data hosted on just their platform. With camera fingerprinting, they could be relatively sure who you are on other platforms like Twitte
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by TOMDM 8y ago
If you wanted to take user privacy super seriously, I wonder how feasible it would be to set up a TOR style network to allow users to pass their update back to your server? That way, you don't know who each update came from, and if you
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by TOMDM 9y ago
In the off chance you're not making a point/being funny, they're most likely referring to the diversity manifesto
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by TOMDM 9y ago
No Who's on first
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by TOMDM 10y ago
So, ISP's can sell your data now. The few who use VPN's or other methods to obfuscate/hide their data are a rounding error, big ISP won't care at all because the barrier to entry is at the moment much more complex than i
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by TOMDM 10y ago
Let's be honest, switching your cert is a far cheaper option than the lost business of telling 50% of your users that they need to switch browsers. Whith ecommerce sites being so hyper focused on abandoned cart stats, this is the easi
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by TOMDM 10y ago
Racist, sexist and bigoted people exist in all communities. You have a demographic represented by mostly people who are highly active in online communities, it's entirely unsurprising that a lot of unsavory opinions are seen. The LGBTQ
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by TOMDM 10y ago
I think you underestimate peoples abilities to comprehend what a game is. I think Princess Zelda's flirtatious tendencies are about as formative to real relationships with women as call of duties role in informing me on gun violence is
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by TOMDM 10y ago
Interesting conclusion you have come to. Is this because you believe people playing these games are not able to separate the fantasy of the game from real life? If so, what differentiates them from pornography?
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by TOMDM 10y ago
Don't get me wrong, I certainly understand that power is anything but binary in it's function, however, as far as how consumers interact with it, very very few care as to what the copper in their walls is doing, only that it turns
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by TOMDM 10y ago
To phrase it another way, there are infinitely many sizes of Infinity. Just because you have one infinite sequence, does not mean it is the same size as another Infinity and as such may include or exclude elements of the other Infinity.
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by TOMDM 10y ago
In a way, I'd say what your describing as far as power utilities is already in effect. There are a good number of people that charge their batteries off peak when the power is cheaper such that they can either use it later on peak when
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by TOMDM 10y ago
I would argue that the value provided by hackernews and reddit (and possibly stumbleupon? I'm not familiar with it) are content discovery AND comments, a huge value provided by both sites is in the comments, but being able to annotate
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by TOMDM 10y ago
For anyone out of the loop, lots of references are being made to the https://www.reddit.com/r/trebuchetmemes/ sub. The culture change on hackernews is certainly speeding up, references like this used to be attacke
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by TOMDM 10y ago
The niche audiophile market will pay large sums for questionably effective hardware. For anyone doing serious audio work, being able to change your DAC might be nice. I agree though, the justifications seem shaky
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by TOMDM 11y ago
I can't help but liken this sort of attitude to a statement like "why bother crafting beautiful game environments, the player could just stare at their own feet" Sure, you no longer have control of where the viewer is looking
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by TOMDM 11y ago
If you haven't seen it already, you might be interested in subreddit simulator https://www.reddit.com/r/subredditsimulator which is pretty much that but for upvotes on reddit. It's at most kind of amusing at
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by TOMDM 11y ago
Closest you can get is keep.google.com, not a desktop app, but something you can use on the desktop...
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by TOMDM 11y ago
I don't mean to imply anything about you in particular, but I think encouraging self medication through recreational drugs may form harmful opinions towards drugs as far as struggles with addiction goes. What makes you normal may be so
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by TOMDM 11y ago
Mesh networking + crypto seems to be an incredibly disruptive technology that I'm surprised hasn't seen wide market adoption. The technology obviously exists and works, as it has been shown being used by protesters or in disaster
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by TOMDM 11y ago
So who's working on the AI that will punish anyone for creating Roko's basilisk, removing the motivation for creating Roko's basilisk in the first place?

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