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Oculus VR Is Now Meta Quest VR(xda-developers.com)
1 points by bemmu 5y ago|0 comments
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by bemmu 5y ago
Turning off all phone notifications except for messages from close people. Having several in-progress books I’m reading at once. Didn’t read much before, now about two books a month. Moving from an apartment where my desk had a view of a pa
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by bemmu 5y ago
Same, I was told my predecessor used his girlfriend’s name for temp variables.
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by bemmu 5y ago
I’ve made a living online from a bunch of different things, and there’s always something in the world that changes in a way that forces you to change your thing as well. Sometimes quickly, when an API changes, sometimes more slowly as you g
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by bemmu 5y ago
Maybe there are questions where the value of learning a thing about the user for future ad targeting is higher than just showing them another ad? Reminds me of the time a dating company did research (maybe okcupid?) on the best question to
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by bemmu 5y ago
Usually read something to learn for 15 mins while eating breakfast, and about half an hour of fiction before falling asleep. In addition a few pages here and there on my phone if I need to wait for something.
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by bemmu 5y ago
At the large Finnish LAN party / demoscene event Assembly, there are people who go around all the desks collecting the cans and bottles people leave on them. I wonder how much they make doing this, considering there are thousands of de
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A free, multiplatform SDK for real time facial motion capture(facemoji.co)
2 points by bemmu 5y ago|0 comments
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by bemmu 5y ago
The nonsense thoughts sound very familiar. It takes me forever to fall asleep, so I have plenty of time to observe it happening. I go from actively worrying about/solving stuff, to slight relaxation with my inner voice being a bit less
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by bemmu 5y ago
I've had this a few times. It's like listening to a good album on your headphones, except you are in control of the music. Being able to do that was a wonderful experience, especially since I've never actually played an instr
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by bemmu 5y ago
In 2030 I'll type in "movie about XYZ", GPT-7 comes up with the script, it crunches in the Disney+ cloud for a few hours, and later I sign on to watch the full generated movie?
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by bemmu 5y ago
When travel opens up again and you find yourself taking a trip to Japan, come visit Wakayama's Toretore Village: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.6797444,135.3761989,3a,75y,8... You can stay in one of the dome room
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Privacy and uniqueness of neighborhoods in social networks(nature.com)
24 points by bemmu 5y ago|0 comments
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I made a joke webgame about the Roblox downtime(fixblox.com)
4 points by bemmu 5y ago|0 comments
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by bemmu 5y ago
I'm curious where the traffic is now going that isn't going to Roblox? Steam player count doesn't seem to be jumping much. Maybe just mobile games?
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by bemmu 5y ago
If you can speak several languages, then you can also notice that in the moment before choosing which language to express something in, you already “just know“ what you mean. At that point even if you don’t turn it into words, you know the
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Privacy and uniqueness of neighborhoods in social networks(nature.com)
1 points by bemmu 5y ago|0 comments
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by bemmu 5y ago
What should we search for to see some example results?
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State of Digital Nomads(nomadlist.com)
48 points by bemmu 5y ago|58 comments
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Scientists find evidence of humans making clothes 120k years ago(theguardian.com)
2 points by bemmu 5y ago|0 comments
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TikTok changed the shape of some people’s faces without asking(technologyreview.com)
2 points by bemmu 5y ago|0 comments
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by bemmu 5y ago
> They’re actually automating the process of replying saying you completed this activity so they can bump up your point balance and get your gift card. What they're doing is terrible, but I felt a bit of respect for how clever this
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by bemmu 5y ago
If you wanted to trade on the growing likelihood that they'll be forced to cut fees, which companies will benefit the most? For example Match Inc. gets most of their revenue from Tinder, so any savings would go directly to their bottom
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Labscam(bell-labs.com)
2 points by bemmu 5y ago|0 comments
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by bemmu 5y ago
They don't combine like that, because the 75% already takes into account the double dip. User spends $100 USD to buy 10000 robux. User buys item for 10000 robux in a game. Developer of game gets 7000 robux (dip #1). Developer of game w
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by bemmu 5y ago
I still can’t quite believe there are people who can see clear images in their minds. Maybe it’s more a matter of how you report your experience? I’m very conscious of how poor my mental images are, but maybe with a little less introspectio
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‘Horizon Workrooms’: remote collaboration reimagined(oculus.com)
107 points by bemmu 5y ago|123 comments
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by bemmu 5y ago
Did exactly the same. Instantiated a few servers for a one-off task, week and $1-2k or so later remembered. Didn’t occur to me to ask for a refund.
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by bemmu 5y ago
Waitbutwhy put it well: “ 18,000 years ago, global temperatures were about 5ºC lower than the 20th century average. That was enough to put Canada, Scandinavia, and half of England and the US under a half a mile of ice”
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Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%(phoronix.com)
401 points by bemmu 5y ago|354 comments

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