TipVFL

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by TipVFL 8y ago
My uncle is on the other side of the country, and is about as old school as the steam locomotive he's building. So unfortunately I'd have to call him, convince him to take photos (with film), develop them, and (snail) mail them to
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by TipVFL 8y ago
The neatest part of this article was the fact that these trains used to operate by sail. It's a strange image to imagine but it makes a lot of sense for an incredibly windy area with rails. My uncle is actually a tiny train enthusiast.
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by TipVFL 8y ago
Not joking. Single word domains under the .com tld are worth a lot, especially very common words. I don't know that kittens.com was ever turned into anything, they may have just bought it betting on it being worth even more in the futu
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by TipVFL 8y ago
I'm surprised the article didn't mention the value of the domain. I used to work for a domain name marketplace where we sold kittens.com for $6 million dollars. France.com has to be worth a few million. Painful.
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by TipVFL 8y ago
Interesting article, but I can't believe the writer said "pulchritude rating" instead of attractiveness. I have a pretty large vocabulary and I'm pretty well read, but I have never seen the word pulchritude before. If yo
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by TipVFL 8y ago
The current/near future of augmented reality is mainly about preparing for the future of AR, and the future of AR is full-FOV devices that you wear all the time to seamlessly integrate data with the world around you. As it is, a tiny F
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by TipVFL 8y ago
I'm talking about the pitfalls of human perception, and the low-hanging fruit of ways that self-driving systems can potentially outperform humans. I'm not claiming Tesla's system is currently better than a human, just that th
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by TipVFL 8y ago
I used to make ultra-low budget short films, and I feel like there's a lot of crossover between planning those projects and planning a product. One lesson I learned: make a list of your assets and consider them when deciding on a proje
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by TipVFL 8y ago
Humans can only look in one direction, and only from inside the car with their view obstructed, and they're only paying attention sometimes. Check out this article, it is easy to never see a bike you're on a collision course with.
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by TipVFL 9y ago
Remeron, also known as mirtazapine.
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by TipVFL 9y ago
Tangentially related, I just suffered hearing loss from a completely unexpected source. After discontinuing anti-depressants I developed fairly intense tinnitus in both ears, and after 3 months it hasn't gotten any better. It's ba
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by TipVFL 9y ago
I'm not crazy about the idea of artificially limiting your app to prevent "app addiction". In fact, the idea that I can only load one snippet every 30 minutes, prevented me from even trying it. It sounds needlessly frustratin
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by TipVFL 9y ago
You might be right, I was only going off what I could glean from the article, which may have been misleading. From the article: "McLemore was on a four-lane road called Liberty Avenue, heading Northeast, while the Uber vehicle was appr
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by TipVFL 9y ago
It was a self-driving car, do you really think Uber doesn't keep all the sensor data?
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by TipVFL 9y ago
According to the article this was a 4 lane road, and she was in the furthest lane to the left of the Uber driver. The Uber driver was in furthest right lane, with a left turn signal on, preparing to change lanes. So, she cut across two lane
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by TipVFL 9y ago
Current headsets, at least the Rift, already do "look into the future" to lower the motion-to-photon latency (the amount of time between you moving your head and the screen updating based on that). When you're dealing with a
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by TipVFL 9y ago
The scariest thing about false memories is that police interrogation techniques are great at planting them. Yet another reason to never talk to the police. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/people-
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by TipVFL 9y ago
The future of pizza is self-driving pizza ovens. It sounds ridiculous, but just imagine a pizza delivery place that has no physical store, no employees, and can deliver you a pizza in 15 minutes, fresh out of the oven. It seems inevitable.
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by TipVFL 9y ago
Here in Oregon they could.
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by TipVFL 9y ago
A good rule of thumb in storytelling is that coincidences that help your protagonists will feel like the writer just cheated to get out of a corner they wrote themselves into, whereas coincidences that hurt your protagonist are more easily
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by TipVFL 9y ago
Damn, I was hoping this would be about a tool that would let me equal Bach.
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by TipVFL 9y ago
I didn't say no simplification. I said, it can be useful, but at least admit what you're doing. So, I think we're in full agreement. I think part of the issue is teacher ego, some teachers feel like they only have authority i
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by TipVFL 9y ago
When I was in elementary school my dad constantly pointed out that they were teaching me nothing but lies. Sometimes he'd ask me what we were learning and then he'd give me questions to fluster the teacher. Teachers either loved i
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by TipVFL 9y ago
The parent of you wasn't confused; he was arguing that the reason for doing it is to have a thinner bezel, and that is a purely cosmetic reason. So, the iPhone and Essential notches are cosmetic. I agree with him, I found the use of th
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by TipVFL 9y ago
We had a weird relationship, you might call it friendly antagonism. He was one of my favorite teachers, and I think I was one of his favorite students. We regularly exchanged insults, and laughed about it. This idea grew out of that, and d
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by TipVFL 9y ago
Like I said, really dumb text.
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by TipVFL 9y ago
Hah, I remember this. My favorite thing about it is the fact that vital processes could end up killing each other and crash your system. To me, that takes this from stupid, to gloriously stupid.
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by TipVFL 9y ago
When I was in high school I created a website just to annoy my cranky teacher, Mr. Davis. The concept was simple, I got people to constantly ambush the teacher in the middle of classes and hug him while I took pictures. Then I posted them t
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by TipVFL 9y ago
It would be pretty cool if Musk was using Hyperloop as a proving ground for technologies to build Hyperlaunch.
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by TipVFL 9y ago
OpenStreetMap is amazing. Based on my research, most paid mapping services get expensive quickly with any serious load, even if you're just geocoding addresses. Also, if you want to do anything interesting with the data you're pro

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