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by ahartman00 5y ago
This was a good blog post and discussion of someone working full time in VR. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28678041
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by ahartman00 6y ago
Is this what you mean by groups? "The <g> SVG element is a container used to group other SVG elements. Transformations applied to the <g> element are performed on its child elements, and its attributes are inherited by its
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by ahartman00 6y ago
Calories per acre. "That means corn averages roughly 15 million calories per acre" "wheat comes in at about 4 million calories per acre, soy at 6 million" "Other vegetables, while much more nutritious than corn, w
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by ahartman00 6y ago
I thought this was pretty good. It's a series. IIRC, the author talked to a pharmacist who was involved, discussed his role in TrueCrypt, and so much more. "He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a p
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by ahartman00 6y ago
You can! Click the link for the post(X hours ago), and hit favorite.
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by ahartman00 7y ago
It has been done. It's not as simple as it seems, the link explains furthur. "Libel is a method of defamation expressed by print, writing, pictures, signs, effigies, or any communication embodied in physical form that is injuriou
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by ahartman00 7y ago
"donations are made purely for PR purposes, not out of any desire to do good" I dont understand this sentiment(not saying you agree with it). Let's express this as a contract: in exchange for 3 compliments, 4 pats on the bac
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by ahartman00 7y ago
>irrigating them for 20 years And there is an assumption that there is enough freshwater to do this. "A third of the world’s biggest groundwater systems are already in distress" "Water scarcity already affects every contin
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by ahartman00 7y ago
To be specific, arable land. Not all land is fertile. And as the old saying goes, they arent making any more :) Then there is the time aspect. They dont grow as fast as one would like. "The need for arable land to feed human populat
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by ahartman00 7y ago
"mineral processing approach using carbon dioxide to promote mineral alterations that lead to improved extractability of nickel from olivine ((Mg,Fe)2SiO4)" "main products of the carbonation reaction include quasi-amorphous c
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by ahartman00 7y ago
The first paragraph in the introduction of this study lists more factors: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25897956
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by ahartman00 7y ago
Far longer in fact. Before the internet was popular. "We find that despite short-term fluctuations, partisanship or non-cooperation in the U.S. Congress has been increasing exponentially for over 60 years with no sign of abating or re
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by ahartman00 7y ago
"likely that many of the EV-to-grid arrangements will be for fleet vehicles" Wont these be out and about during the day when the sun is shining and need to be charged during the night? Seems like these are the opposite of storage
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by ahartman00 8y ago
It's commonly stated around here that VCs expect 9/10 of their companies to fail. So yeah, theres a good chance they are worthless. I think lottery tickets are a better metaphor, as they can be worth something. Wastepaper is hy
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by ahartman00 8y ago
My question was meant to be: why is talking to people on voice chat/text/whatever internet technology not considered socializing? What is it if not socializing?
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by ahartman00 8y ago
"using voice chat" ... "almost no desire to socialize" What is your definition of socialize? What makes voice chat different from voice, other than lack of body language/non verbal cues?
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by ahartman00 8y ago
Here is a very long article by Neal Stephenson about how the internet is connected around the world. He travels along the actual wire. https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by ahartman00 8y ago
How about a charter, or compact :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes%E2%80%93Saint_Lawr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by ahartman00 8y ago
"I'm even doubtful AI is on the horizon" Agreed. I dont think this paper was the one I was looking for, but it will do. [1] The authors are working on handling negation in sentiment analysis. Ie, this movie is good, this m
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by ahartman00 8y ago
"they're almost never program requirements" Wrong. We had two courses at my school. From the ABET Criteria for Accrediting Engineering Technology Programs: "(e)Include topics related to professional and ethical respon
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by ahartman00 8y ago
deliberate intent https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lie
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by ahartman00 8y ago
"keep in mind you might want to move some of those to a "nice to have" category" I would add be more general if possible. Someone with 5 years of postgres sql will pick up sql server pretty quickly. So maybe just: Rela
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by ahartman00 8y ago
Cool! Can we use this from javascript? The example shows python, but this would be helpful if I can use javascript.
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by ahartman00 8y ago
"We're not creating any more carbon" Exactly. "The law implies that mass can neither be created nor destroyed, although it may be rearranged in space, or the entities associated with it may be changed in form" htt
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by ahartman00 8y ago
"Would you consider contracting an outsourced CISO or a pentest with a security researcher that has reported vulnerabilities to you through your bug bounty program?" Budget permitting, this seems like a no brainer. I mean, they a
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by ahartman00 8y ago
Theoretically is the key word here :) Here is an article from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17486376 If you look at the charts, their 3 techniques couldn't accurately disambiguate between two authors
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by ahartman00 8y ago
I'm really fascinated to see how the next 5-10 years play out for the news industry. They seem really focused on google and facebook, who have a great deal of control over the flow of traffic to the news sites. The EU in 2014, has eve
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by ahartman00 8y ago
"people will have been outside of the "real world"" This. I met a woman who was a nurse practitioner or something like that. She had a young boy and girl. Her plan was for them to be a pro football player and actress.
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by ahartman00 8y ago
There are a few reasons: "Partisanship has been attributed to a number of causes, including the stratifying wealth distribution of Americans [2]; boundary redistricting [3]; activist activity at primary elections [4]; changes in Congre
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by ahartman00 8y ago
"software development lifecycle always something that would take a long time to come to a completed state?" Depends on the scale of the project, but yes. In fact, something like 70% of projects are over budget and late. FTA: &qu

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