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by abruzzi 12y ago
To be honest, I don't really get what this is for. Everybody I buy things from, and everybody that buys things from me, has no idea who I am. I don't know who they are either. I'm not "famous" so no stranger is g
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Its technically called the "Maidenhead Locater" and the specific format can be seen on the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System
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by abruzzi 12y ago
This isn't even the drug war. It's middle aged men buying Viagra from pharmacies in India. I'm probably a minority, but I would prefer to sign a waiver and then buy my own drugs. Rather than have to pay a doctor to prescrib
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I don't delete, and don't file to other folders. I trust Apple mail's search feature to find emails when I need to dredge them up. I don't find it's distracting, because I've trained myself to only pay attent
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I've frequently heard the idea bounced around that self driving cars will eliminate the need for ownership. I'm glad you mentioned taxis, because it brings up something that has bugged me about this idea for a while. I live in a
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by abruzzi 12y ago
For me, batch log and capture from tape. FCPX no longer has any tape support.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
However they radically changed the way the workflow works in ways that some (many?) users cant adapt to. I don't do much any more since I shuttered my production side business, but I can't use the current FCP. It's still (a
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I would love to have better peer to peer syncing, so my home desktop could hold all my images, but my laptop could connect and sync a subset for mobile editing. However, you I'm not at 500gb, but I'm large enough (230gb) that I d
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by abruzzi 12y ago
And when I'm looking for a nice dinner, I'm definitely considering the value the restaurant provide to its shareholders in my decision.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Good to know. I haven't used it, since I like Aperture, but I'll keep that in mind if Apple delivers something that doesn't do what I need/want. (FinalCut is still useless for my workflow.)
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by abruzzi 12y ago
My only hope is this doesn't turn into a FinalCut-type fiasco where what they consider the new "pro" isn't all that useful for pro. (Yes, I know more pros are on adobe lightroom, but I really hate renting software so I&
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Definitions can absolutely be a priori. Think of the definition of a triangle, some thing like "a closed geometrical shape with three sides." There is nothing about observation of the world that will tell you that this is or isn
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by abruzzi 12y ago
An the answer to a rhetorical question in case anyone is interested: Philosophy of Science. Specifically read Hume (Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding) who demonstrated that inductive reasoning to universal laws (empiricism) was fundam
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Yup. Modern philosophy is usually divided into Analytic and Continental. Analytic is by far the most common in England (its birthplace) and the US. Continental (as the name implies) is most common in France and Germany. It can be much m
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by abruzzi 12y ago
The a-priori/a-posteriori distinction is essentially: is its truth subject to observation of the world. Most mathematicians will argue that even complex ideas like imaginary numbers are the result of the system of mathematics, and can
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Maybe, I'm not that well versed on the mathematics side (and only moderately well read on the philosophy side) It is also my understanding that most of the work on logic occurs on the philosophy side. See Frege, Kripke, Hintikka, and
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Ok, the only Deleuze I've read were his cinema books. Kant definitely sees mathematics as synthetic a priori.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
There are similarities, but in analytic philosophy you find a much greater focus on foundational issues. So Frege tries (and fails) to derive all mathematics from logic. Later Bertrand Russell tries to derive mathematics from set theory.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Care to elaborate? A-priori is generally used to mean that it does not rely on experience or observation. So while the words and symbols we use to explain 2+2=4 (i.e. Two, plus, four, equals) are leaned concepts, the truth and the ability
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Most people have a very mistaken view of modern philosophy, and unfortunately this article does little to clarify. Today, analytic philosophy (as opposed to the continental philosophers) is fairly rigorous and usually narrow focused. It c
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I think its the other way. Taking the plunge to 100% self driving is going to take a very long time. Google's systems seems to require elaborate 3d mapping of the entire road. In the poor states like where I live and where many peop
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by abruzzi 12y ago
It's interesting how these quote with no clear attribution can take a life of their own. It's like the quote attributed to Burke that "all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." You see t
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by abruzzi 12y ago
However in the USA there have been ongoing attempts to sell automatic transmission motorcycles (Honda being the strongest proponent, but others too including Aprilia) All of these attempts have seem very limited success. If I had to guess
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Perhaps, but I fear that even if you build a $18k electric car, you will still have a hard time getting a lot of people on board due to the limited lifespan and high replacement cost of batteries (at the moment at least). I've never p
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by abruzzi 12y ago
what I don't like about the explosion of share menus us that email has been subordinated to the share menu. I may be a constituency of one, but email is the only way I share. So instead of tapping or clicking "email", I hav
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Interesting. It would be nice if it has csound .sco export.
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I had the same question. What about one cert makes it better than the other?
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by abruzzi 12y ago
I'm stuck doing most of my work in php, so this is kind of neat. (I also like that the example in the text resurrects the famous 30 year old dogcow joke.)
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by abruzzi 12y ago
Unicode variables, I love it: let 🐶🐮 = "dogcow" Moof!
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by abruzzi 12y ago
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/swift-programming-language/...

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