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by acobster 8y ago
This is one of the coolest web projects I've seen lately. Great job! > Increasingly, activities that could perfectly happen off-line – such as writing a document, filling in a spreadsheet, or storing data – are now requiring contin
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by acobster 8y ago
I strongly agree that design element makes it look broken. I checked my uMatrix to make sure it wasn't blocking any styles before realizing that it was part of the design. I had a similar thought about a vertical bar that doesn'
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by acobster 8y ago
It's not gone. I'll transfer my ~/.ssb stuff over one of these days.
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by acobster 8y ago
In theory, yes. I asked this exact question on the scuttleverse a while back and the answer was basically "that might work." This was back when I was still using my old iMac, which is still the only device my scuttler identity exi
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by acobster 8y ago
Anyone know what the Easter eggs in the Furby35 changelog entry are? > BURP ATTACK, SAY NAME, TWINKLE SONG, and ROOSTER LOVES YOU
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by acobster 8y ago
Why L2 and not L1? Isn't L1 supposed to be more stable?
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by acobster 8y ago
This is great. I bookmarked this and will be referring to it consistently as I roll out my first serious open-source project. Thanks!
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by acobster 8y ago
> In theory we could build a framework that makes it easy to write loophole-free contracts You mean similar to how, in theory, we could build a framework that makes it easy for us all to write readable, bug-free code? Edit: I was mostly
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by acobster 8y ago
That's not what it's doing. It's downloading Ruby code and then running it. The "$(...)" is evaluated first.
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by acobster 8y ago
I found Stephen Wolfram's talks about complexity and computation extremely rewarding. https://youtu.be/cbu_bCQ2Lkg https://youtu.be/_eC14GonZnU
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by acobster 8y ago
"Scientists rack up huge phone bill - your jaw will DROP when you learn why!"
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by acobster 8y ago
Yeah, I'm not surprised by DHS at all here. I do think it's less subtle as POTUS has made it very clear he has zero qualms with lying routinely about almost everything, and with strongarm tactics and intimidation. But the culture
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by acobster 8y ago
I live in the Pacific Northwest.
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by acobster 8y ago
> Nevertheless, the mobile device continuously takes location and acceleration sensor readings (e.g., once every 5 minutes) and sends the location and acceleration data to server 112. What is "server 112"? Is this some internet
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by acobster 8y ago
Listening to the audio, it's subtle but it definitely sounds unique to my ear. :)
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by acobster 8y ago
Yes, but as opposed to a traditional GUI SDK, it's manipulating those widgets with JS, within a Vue.js architecture.
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by acobster 8y ago
privsep? W^X? Can someone post a link or two? :)
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by acobster 8y ago
Applications they will not pursue include those "that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms." That's some fancy gymnastics there, Mr. Pichai. Well played. I was wondering how or i
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by acobster 8y ago
Thanks Aaron. You make a compelling case.
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by acobster 8y ago
Lying in public seems pretty relevant to an article about lying to Congress. He didn't call anyone a name, he mentioned specific actions: namely, lying. I obviously can't speak to whether he'd say these things face to face, b
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by acobster 8y ago
News to me. Thanks for clarifying. To quote Hunter S Thompson, "there is no way to describe the terror I felt." ;)
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by acobster 8y ago
I think what the author is trying to say is that expressiveness and "managing hard problems" are a level of abstraction above syntax and paradigms. I concede that it's a bit hyperbolic to say it's "not about" t
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by acobster 8y ago
> it's compiled to efficient native code When people say this, do they mean that it's compiled to assembly? So what's native about it is the instruction set, yes?
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by acobster 8y ago
To me this sounds like Org Mode in Emacs, except that it's editor-agnostic while still being runnable. I haven't used it, but I'm intrigued. Can someone who's familiar with Org Mode tell me if this is a fair comparison?
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by acobster 8y ago
This is really rad! It's fun just to refresh a couple times and see the randomness at work. Nice job!
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by acobster 8y ago
The difference is that if you start sending around a (purely hypothetical) memo unrelated to your work and unsanctioned by your employer, you might (hypothetically) get fired. This video has production value and ties into core corporate obj
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by acobster 8y ago
To say they see it as a misstep is, I think, simplistic. The article links to a headline that calls it "stunning," for instance. > The outcry over Duplex’s potential to deceive prompted Google to add the promise that its AI wi
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by acobster 8y ago
To me the best part of this is the Issues. "Change in business requirements" is probably my favorite
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by acobster 8y ago
I've faced a similar situation, where a team I came to work on mid-project had designed a microservice architecture where a WordPress front-end talked to some "middleware" (a total misnomer since it was actually a REST API) w
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by acobster 8y ago
The uncanny valley is really quite useful. I have long suspected I might prefer a recognizably robotic voice over a convincingly human robot voice. Now that this is a very real possibility, I'm more convinced than ever. This article i

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