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Rubber Suits and Tiny Tokyos Fade(nytimes.com)
2 points by austinz 13y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 13y ago
I'm quite surprised we don't have Elon Musk facts yet.
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by austinz 13y ago
I don't think so, because larger mobile operating system share (especially global, where you have to account for the Chinese and Indian markets) doesn't necessarily mean more people will actually be interested in your app, can fin
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by austinz 13y ago
I think I've counted at least six different variants of that obnoxious tout screen YouTube occasionally shows to convince you to convert your account over.
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by austinz 13y ago
"Sitting at desk considered harmful considered harmful"? To be fair, I haven't seen any standing desk articles claiming that standing is some sort of magical panacea that can fully substitute for conventional exercise and a h
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by austinz 13y ago
I'm in the same boat. Buying a cushioned mat made the difference between having to sit after a few hours and being able to comfortably stand all day long.
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by austinz 13y ago
Well, I'm glad the worst is over. It's chilling how many near misses there were. How many more near misses might we have endured, had the Cold War gone on, before the one not-any-kind-of-miss that would have destroyed human civili
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by austinz 13y ago
As a kid, my mom helped me do simple chemistry experiments and build electromagnets. I still ended up as a software developer, though.
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by austinz 13y ago
Thanks for the insightful article. On a tangential note, that link's home page is easily the weirdest thing I've seen all week.
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by austinz 13y ago
Forbes' web site has been for a while little more than a collection of badly-curated, badly-written blogs. This seems like a logical next step.
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by austinz 13y ago
This. On one hand, we hate credentialism and criticize those who arrogantly wave their diplomas around as a substitute for making good arguments. On the other hand, we're enamored enough with SpaceX and Tesla to give Musk the benefit o
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by austinz 13y ago
I always thought to some extent, that working at a large company (under very particular circumstances) could provide you with the resources and connections necessary to work on a side project/future startup at your leisure, without hav
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by austinz 13y ago
I don't think it would be a bad thing. It would definitely bring balance and another perspective, which would be in my opinion much more helpful to someone contemplating their life direction.
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by austinz 13y ago
I hope someone writes a "I've decided to move on from 'finding myself' and get a nice job at a big prestigious software company" article, as a way to close the loop.
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by austinz 13y ago
Part of the problem is that HSR is fast, technically feasible, heavily used, and economically viable in France, Germany, China, Japan, and other places. So, the most useful analysis would be: 1. What factors are preventing HSR from being fa
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by austinz 13y ago
The browser window has to be some minimum width, otherwise the page defaults to a static image of the guy editing some code in a generic text editor.
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by austinz 13y ago
This is really cool! Two minor bugs, which are probably two manifestations of the same underlying issue: 1: The screen is centered correctly but the lower left and lower right corners are slightly too far down compared to the screen graphic
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by austinz 13y ago
I don't know if this was the parent author's intent, but one could very plausibly be homeless by choice, being materially poor and living a life with intentionally few obligations, as opposed to being someone forced onto the stree
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by austinz 13y ago
It also seems like more advanced fly-by-wire/computerized flight assistance technology could make them less prone to pilot error (e.g. banking too sharply, pulling back on the stick too hard and causing the ground-effect to dissipate,
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by austinz 13y ago
From a robotics standpoint, there are lots of problems that humans find easy in the general case, but might still be hard for humans because of context (e.g. deep within a wrecked nuclear plant, on Mars, etc).
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by austinz 13y ago
Not for the second one; "car undergoing maintenance" will probably return more results than "factory undergoing maintenance", but one parsing of the sentence (the one where the factory is being maintained) makes far more
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by austinz 13y ago
I'm almost disappointed that he didn't stick North America in there with the rest of them.
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by austinz 13y ago
As someone who has both a liberal arts and a STEM degree, I resent the insinuation that STEM majors are drooling sociopaths who don't know how to relate to other people. Also, there's more to liberal arts than "empathy".
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by austinz 13y ago
I don't think a degree is necessary; certainly not necessary in the same sense that you would want your brain surgeon to have graduated from medical school. I think there are two separate problems here, though - one in which a particul
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by austinz 13y ago
I think for me being impressed may be more closely coupled to approval than most people. I wanted to express my disapproval but I didn't think I could do it in a way that wouldn't degenerate into a personal attack. So, my intent w
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by austinz 13y ago
What is "0xreadbook" in the context of a 32-bit int supposed to mean? Is the author just trying to be cute, or is this some sort of nonstandard representation of hexadecimal digits that I need to read up on?
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by austinz 13y ago
Technology can mitigate the risks, but not eliminate them altogether. I've nearly skidded off a road a few times when misjudging the curvature of unfamiliar onramps or offramps (and taking them far too fast). I've seen a couple of
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"Haystack" cryptography software 'worse than useless' (2010)(economist.com)
1 points by austinz 13y ago|0 comments
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by austinz 13y ago
This rubs me the wrong way. I guess I don't see why doing stuff that makes someone else wealthier, even incidentally, is intrinsically a bad thing. If someone happens to find their job challenging, meaningful, and enjoyable, learns a
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Plane leaves Russia for Cuba, but without Snowden(nytimes.com)
7 points by austinz 13y ago|0 comments

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