Tloewald

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by Tloewald 10y ago
"These five heuristics might help you prove the existence of God!"
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by Tloewald 10y ago
You're right, I forgot. But it's much less organic and dangerous in general. In EQ for example enemy healers would help allies without actually joining the fight.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
What people really want is "artificial stupidity" (and FEAR is a good example). If the enemy had true AI you'd just die, and in fact most unconstrained AI bots are pretty lethal (and boring). What makes for a good game is ent
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by Tloewald 10y ago
This isn't counting apps that are stealing people's data with their "permission" thanks to shitty UI design and google not caring.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
> I think there are a lot of pretty good reasons why the vehicle market is going to change significantly in the next 15 years But not necessarily shrinking the market. The cost of mobility goes down, consumption will go up. How high? I&#
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Actually I think Grover Norquist's position is that making the tax easier to pay would make it less easy to notice it rising and less unpopular. It's a horrible position but not quite so bizarre.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It's just another way of framing the same phenomenon (albeit one that makes much more sense to me than high school fluid dynamics). What gets left out of the pressure explanation is what pressure is, which is a statistical representati
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Actually both. When you reduce the pressure of a fluid its temperature goes down (you've used aerosol cans, right? Also that's how fridges work.)
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I don't think it's uglier than the sedan but I wouldn't call it beautiful. VW makes really nice wagon versions of its golf (or Jetta depending on the year) and I don't see why Tesla couldn't have done something simi
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Except in most cases disruption doesn't work. The canonical examples from "The Innovator's Dilemma" all fall apart under scrutiny (as in the "disrupted" companies end up eating their disrupters for breakfast).
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I was a very early adopter of java in the browser and we compared shockwave (Macromedia/Adobe Director) with java and despite java being so allegedly ahead of its time, shockwave was far better in all respects (speed, functionality, si
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Maybe the smart money is on a market shock in the next several months and IPOs are leery of something terrible happening during the window between announcement and implementation. We do, after all, have a very strange political situation.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The whole system of review curation that infests online markets is a problem waiting to be solved. Right now we basically have to parse reviews on the 4.4-5.0 scale because anything outside that is meaningless. It's amazing to go read
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The problem isn't being for profit. The problem is deriving your income from advertising. Selling the customer.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
I don't think I'm being unfair. Newton's handwriting recognition worked "100%" of the time by that measure. I assume we are comparing quality of outcomes not whether the API accepts the arguments it says it does and
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by Tloewald 10y ago
30% in a year is "solid"? If Apple released something that failed 70% of the time on launch day they would never hear the end of it. The original Newton's handwriting recognition was way better than that.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The main article it references is from The Information which is subscription-only, so there's that.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
It supports closures and higher order functions. The sample code doesn't show any of it. It basically looks a lot like a subset of Swift designed to allow someone familiar with Swift to get going faster with Creo. Creo looks interestin
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Smart phones typically run lower than 3.7V so it's still not a big deal. The weight is a possible show stopper for cars but probably not smart phones (where size trumps weight) and of course they may be able to get the weight down by s
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by Tloewald 10y ago
If it's fundamentally sodium vs. lithium then it's going to have huge price advantages at scale.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Wouldn't kJ/kg be J/g? In mks units it would be J/kg.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Voltage is irrelevant. You can put batteries in series.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Be mobile friendly rather than saying you aren't.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
By that token, taxi companies aren't taxi companies. Uber is a taxi company. Actually it's a taxi middleman because it doesn't want to treat drivers as employees.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Click bait from the BBC. 2/3 of scientists have failed to replicAte a study is not a statement that reinforces the headline. If 2/3 of people have had trouble sleeping that does not mean most people can't sleep. If you'v
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by Tloewald 10y ago
This is bonkers. The idea that someone hearing you and being required to testify against you violates the first amendment is ridiculous, so why should a device be different from a person?
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by Tloewald 10y ago
Mother Jones is nowhere near is leftist as Fox News is rightist.
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by Tloewald 10y ago
"Leftist" by American standards in 2017 is, again, not leftist by world standards or even US standards in 1970-1990, except on a few social issues (e.g. Gay rights) or things that aren't even political in other countries (bas
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by Tloewald 10y ago
The 1990s management fad of "core competencies" addresses this, so long as your correctly identify core competencies.

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