amarka

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by amarka 8y ago
If you're loosing $20 worth of coins out of your pocket somewhere on the street on a yearly basis you're either dealing with a hell of a lot more coins than the average person or you're one clumsy individual.
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by amarka 8y ago
I'm in the same boat, I really like touchid. I have CAPS LOCK mapped to ESC and have rarely if ever use anything but the function keys on the touchbar. I wanted to like it and use it, but it just doesn't work well for me.
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by amarka 8y ago
My guess is that your joking, if not then you must be one of the few touchbar fans ("there are dozen's of us...dozens!").
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by amarka 8y ago
Goodbye Larry, see you in 5-10 years when OOP is back in style!
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by amarka 9y ago
I don't have a list that I can easily share, but you can curate your own off of https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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by amarka 9y ago
Well, the spreadsheet is for "hackers".
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by amarka 9y ago
Which monopolistic city laws were hurting your personally before Uber came to the rescue?
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by amarka 10y ago
I don't get it, is this hiring like a PR stunt? I would thinking creating your own maps and autonomous driving platforms is already fairly ambitious, but flying cars?
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by amarka 10y ago
I'm sorry but I just can't agree; brake performance is not binary, brake fade from continual use is only one factor to consider. How the brakes perform in different weather/temperature/riding conditions is also criticall
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by amarka 10y ago
You lost me at `If you’re going to cheap out, brakes are the first place to cut corners.` Cheap brakes + 30mph = a bad time
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by amarka 10y ago
To be more specific, "BlackBerry owns the next autonomous driving platform". https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-06/blackberr...
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by amarka 10y ago
I agree with your assessment, based on my limited experience. I'm a fan of Alexa, I even bought a couple as gifts within the last year, but last weekend I saw a bilingual 30 year-old (with a PhD from UChicago) struggling to get it to p
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by amarka 10y ago
Maybe they're not shills, just folks trying to expose themselves to new ideas and possibly caught out by some that upturn their current views. Sometimes they might not understand, so they reach out and converse with others: "I don
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by amarka 10y ago
I hate to admit that I sympathize with the slightly critical comments, I was left with a feeling of "really, that's it?" from the demo. I think it's just a case of managing expectations though, I would have been impresse
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by amarka 10y ago
>Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity I thought most researched suggested the opposite (ex http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071721/ )
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by amarka 10y ago
Yea well, that's like, your opinion, man.
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by amarka 10y ago
Can confirm that doing a search from the homepage search bar (before 9AM EST) threw a 500, seems to be back up.
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by amarka 11y ago
At best it's an ok working class job; for Amazon, it's more of a stop-gap until delivery vehicles with auto-pilot are more widely available.
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by amarka 11y ago
I like ReachMail - they have a free tier and easy to use API https://services.reachmail.net/