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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Would it be possible to repurpose it for future infrastructure? Ie a delivery drone highway?
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Save Cantonese at Stanford – Petition(docs.google.com)
15 points by brianjunyinchan 6y ago|7 comments
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
I expect Google wants to "organize the world's information" with drones too, a la Google Maps did with roads/cars. Drones offer the latest coveted bridge to extend the Internet's instantaneous energy and awareness t
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Ask HN: What devtools will drones need?
3 points by brianjunyinchan 6y ago|1 comments
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Ah, missed that, thanks. Even more interesting then!
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
> The daily smokers rate amongst COVID-19 patients was at 5.3%, whilst amongst the general population, the daily smokers rate was at 25.4%. Not to be macabre, but could it potentially be that more smokers die before reaching the older ag
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Wish this existed for Brave in particular. I believe Activity Monitor does this for Safari.
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Love the beautifully haunting perspective.
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Agreed. Inter net gives it away, they likely want control akin to Google Maps:roads. Their example of “nearby observer” is a hilarious decoy from the real problem of a big data panopticon and monopoly. Wi-Fi is a power hog and its range al
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Could somebody explain how Internet based tracking, as Wing describes, might be implemented? How exactly would privacy be increased? As far as I’m aware, RF based reduces power requirements which lowers barriers.
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
The intended meaning might rely on remaining vague. The book Rendezvous with Rama gives the reader a similar feeling—experiencing something so alien that our brains can’t quite appreciate fundamental dynamics or concepts (separate from tech
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
I often remember the dream right when I wake up, but if I don't immediately focus on remembering it (e.g. while writing it down), later in the day I almost magically won't remember even what the general topic was.
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
As another anecdote, on mornings when I can sleep in, I wake up momentarily before my final doze (another 30m-1hr). That wake always interrupts my most vivid dreams of the night (whose events feel like several hours of real life, but unsure
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Happy New Year everyone! Cheers to curiosity, sharing, and creation.
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
But is this rare item something people are interested in “collecting”? From my understanding, if there are future collectibles popular to the level of Beanie Babies or Funko Pops, money will go there instead, where the asset is more interes
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Yes, I also think first intelligent contact will be life forms with different physiology than us somehow
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Not involved in this area myself, but maybe some application of wildlife monitoring?
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
“Search while writing” reminds me of an idea I’ve had passing fanciful interest in: a device that universally ingests all the content I’ve read, words I’ve typed or said, and topics I’ve heard. If there was some agreed-upon standard for “hi
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
> If we have a bunch of de-personalized frameworks to help explain the course of our own lives, it only moves us farther away from seeing our lives for what they really are Very well put. I feel most popular content about {categorized me
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
The Pattern on the Stone is also excellent, especially for audiences less familiar with computers. It has always struck me as a paramount example of "education" in that it shares relative illumination in a very digestible format.
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
Mount Analogue by Rene Daumal (the Shattuck translation) It’s a surreal allegory about journeys and one’s experience when “seeking” (however defined) This book almost electrically invigorated my sense of existence and appreciation for life’
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Ask HN: Looking for post about SRE visiting another company, comparing practices
1 points by brianjunyinchan 6y ago|0 comments
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
I used to use Pocket for a few years but eventually wanted a solution with better categorization I was also learning web dev at the time, so I put together a web app using React/AWS + open sourced everything: https://github.
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by brianjunyinchan 6y ago
It was quite interesting to see product copy on checkout pages evolve overnight in hospitality and delivery apps when COVID took hold in mid March.