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by blahedo 7y ago
Can confirm! I'm typing on a WASD keyboard right now that has a custom-printed layout that I designed myself (reflecting some assorted remappings that I'd been doing in software anyway—until I got this it had been almost two deca
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The Supreme Court, Domino's, and web accessibility for the visually impaired(slate.com)
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by blahedo 7y ago
Do they though? My friends that work IT in corporate settings seem to tear their hair out every time MS (or anyone ) tries to auto-push an update that they haven't had a chance to rigorously test for compatibility and security with t
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by blahedo 7y ago
Good read, but this part seemed interestingly backward from my own experience: "You know what else is exhausting? Pretending to care about people you don’t give a shit about." I've definitely been in situations where I had
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by blahedo 7y ago
To this day I deeply miss the ability to, when bored, wander down the hall and see whose door was open and what was going on, or to leave my own door open and get drawn into whatever interesting thing arose on the hallway. But aside from a
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What3words: Identify any location anywhere with just three words(bbc.com)
1 points by blahedo 7y ago|2 comments
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by blahedo 7y ago
Many parts of the US are the same. Even worse: there are areas in the Chicago suburbs (I presume other cities' suburbs too) where since a town boundary runs down the middle of the street, the numbering on opposite sides of the street
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by blahedo 7y ago
How odd. Nearly all of those pictures are not of begging, but rather of busking. Which you may also find distasteful but it's a completely different thing.
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by blahedo 7y ago
I think your middle paragraph is much more true for modern (last 100-150 years) buildings than older ones, though I'm not an architectural engineer. When you say "glass can actually be structural", what meaning of "struc
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by blahedo 7y ago
Ooh, I thought your post was a response to the binary-counting one but it's a sibling to yours—my comment was referencing that. In a binary-based arithmetic system of fixed number of bits, counting up from 000 to 111 is isomorphic wit
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by blahedo 7y ago
Counting up and counting down are the same thing, if 0 and 1 are arbitrarily assigned.
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by blahedo 7y ago
Most of the "entries" that people are making for designs for the roof/spire replacement, and many of the posts on here, suggest that many people think that when you were looking up in the pre-fire Notre Dame, or any other chu
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by blahedo 7y ago
Some of the vaulting did not survive (notably, the section that the spire crashed through, and I think one other). The vaulting is what pushes the walls out while the buttresses push them in . (To my understanding, the roof, by compari
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by blahedo 7y ago
As someone who was also on the internet already in the early 90s (I expect there are many of us here), I've long found it interesting how much of a social shift it's undergone. In the 90s I had online friends that I had never met
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by blahedo 7y ago
They have the passport photos from all US passports, plus all non-US people who have entered the country through a legal port of entry. That should cover everyone who's flying out of the country, right?
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JetBlue has started using facial recognition instead of boarding passes(iflscience.com)
175 points by blahedo 7y ago|166 comments
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by blahedo 7y ago
> I don't ever recall seeing a 2 handed bronze sword, and if the steel is worse than bronze, why didn't they go back to that? Bronze fell out of use not because iron/steel was better but because tin was rare and hard to
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by blahedo 7y ago
Keyword search, if it goes poorly, just feels like I need to work harder to find the right keyword, not an actual failure of the system. Whereas when semantic search goes bad, it is infuriating and entirely the fault of the computer (espec
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by blahedo 8y ago
The rule of thumb I teach my students is that it's a number if you plan to do math on it—whether that be incrementing it or multiplying it or making less-than comparisons (with number semantics). If the only thing you ever do with it
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by blahedo 8y ago
This seems like a folk etymology, and a dubious one at that. A quick investigation of support turns up a Wikipedia article that's cited to an about.com post that's cited back to the Wikipedia article (where they claim a Spanish e
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We Can Break Up Big Tech (Elizabeth Warren)(medium.com)
5 points by blahedo 8y ago|3 comments
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by blahedo 8y ago
This one? https://gizmodo.com/inside-san-francisos-fire-department-whe...
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by blahedo 8y ago
> ...turn signals should _not_ be used as "an indicator of opportunity". VA Code §46.2-848: Every driver who intends to back, stop, turn, or partly turn from a direct line ... shall give the signals required in this article,
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by blahedo 8y ago
> If there is a gapless traffic coming from the other direction, you will probably just creep in the intersection and turn at the end of the yellow, when the other cars have stopped. While this is illegal in some states, it is not in ot
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Robotic dildo barred from top tech showcase, prompting sexism claims(theguardian.com)
15 points by blahedo 8y ago|0 comments
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'We didn't respond fast enough': Seattle lawmakers warn New York over Amazon(theguardian.com)
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Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport(arstechnica.com)
339 points by blahedo 8y ago|237 comments
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by blahedo 8y ago
I'm not clear from the Wikipedia page whether those illustrations reflect actual "we found branching specimen fossils" knowledge, or speculation based on "we think it's tree-ish so it must branch". The illustr
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by blahedo 8y ago
𝒞ℯ𝒸𝒾 𝓃'ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝓅𝒶𝓈 𝓊𝓃 𝒻ℴ𝓃𝓉
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An open letter to social media companies regarding algorithms and my son's birth(twitter.com)
12 points by blahedo 8y ago|1 comments

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