bloodnok

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by bloodnok 15y ago
"What happens when you touch the monkey?"
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by bloodnok 15y ago
Comic-Sans Physics cannot be taken seriously.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
I'm sure this would be do-able at a lower resolution... You'd have to be careful with cameras trying to auto-wind your "film" though.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
While it's painful when the bubble pops, it does serve to clean out all the shit that shouldn't have been funded in the first place.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
RIP Rumelhart. His 1986 book got me into programming neural networks.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
Aren't all LCDs transparent? Are they demoing anything more than an LCD without a backlight?
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by bloodnok 16y ago
Fuck you I would.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
I don't want a green energy solution that requires lots and lots of new high-paying jobs. Why not? Think about where the money will come from to pay for them. Money that will not be going into productive industry.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
Almost this. $2870.00 * 1.15 = $3300.50 $3300.50 < $3799 (We have a 15% sales tax that also applies to items ordered from overseas over a certain threshold)
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by bloodnok 16y ago
My GeoNet RSS feed has been going nuts with all the aftershocks.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
Argh... all this makes my head hurt. Nowadays it seems silly to have to have 3rd party plugins for simple audio/video. HTML5 is good for that. Then we have a markup language for rendering content for screen/print/whatever, a fluffy interpre
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by bloodnok 16y ago
We did it with our rail network.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
I don't think you understand how things work down here. - The current government will build this at a cost to the taxpayer of (say) $300m. - The next government will sell it for $100m to raise some cash and create an effective monopoly owne
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by bloodnok 16y ago
My boss is one of the people behind the Pacific Fibre project. I can't wait, but it's still a few years away. NZ is stuck in the position of having a fair amount of international bandwidth and plenty within the country, but usage is hamstr
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by bloodnok 16y ago
It scares me when people with power over things have very little understanding of those things.
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by bloodnok 16y ago
When I talk to people about it, there seems to be a general apathy around the privacy aspects. Most are of the opinion "why would someone other than my friends be interested in me and what I did on Saturday night?". I think the first wake-u
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by bloodnok 16y ago
True, but also consider how those two sites evolved. When I post a tweet, I know that it is essentially the same as me taking out an ad in the paper or shouting it at people in the pub. I'm fairly careful with regards to what I post. When I