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by brlewis 8y ago
> They also had to use a gravity offload system in the form of a motorized lanyard that tugged at the helicopter as it hovered above the ground This sounds like something that could make the helicopter more stable. Could a physicist plea
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>Maybe it is just me, but how would I go if I wanted to harvest large numbers of "real" photos of "real" persons? Use APIs or scraping to collect profile photos from facebook, twitter, google, gravatar, etc. You'
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by brlewis 8y ago
I'm 51, and I'm downvoting mainly because the "the young folks that don't know how things work" is a sweeping age-related judgement. It's the same bad thing that this article is about.
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by brlewis 8y ago
To be clear, you're transitioning to a related topic, not arguing for "The classifier can't get better with only one or two contacts", right?
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"The cardiologist took one look at the EKG strip from the watch and was able to identify the abnormalities as PVCs rather than afib" Sounds like the data is there.
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This despite a long history of violence related to tax policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_acts_of_tax...
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> Are you saying that hate speech comes off of a vacuum? These two concepts do overlap. In general, that logic calls for deplatforming every topic that people get outraged over.
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Yes, you can . To ever see the credit card number you'd have to be trying. But I don't see a way to implement stripe in such a way that the credit card entry happens on a separate page on stripe's site where the customer can
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by brlewis 8y ago
If you already have a credit card with Stripe then definitely yes, you know the merchant doesn't have your card number. IIRC, when you first enter a credit card you remain on a web page controlled by the merchant, so it would be hard f
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by brlewis 8y ago
From the article: Most countries have a “freedom of panorama” law, which allows you to photograph a skyline and include copyrighted buildings in your shot. So while you’d be perfectly okay capturing a photo of Big Ben in London, you just c
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by brlewis 8y ago
> individual users wishing to see what servers are behind a domain Since most servers are web servers these days, you can get pretty close to this goal from certificate transparency logs.
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by brlewis 8y ago
The information I was looking for, what kind of interpreter they mean, was in an Ignition article linked from the main article: https://v8.dev/blog/ignition-interpreter "With Ignition, V8 compiles JavaScript funct
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by brlewis 8y ago
Mercury has less average distance but higher percentage of time blocked by the sun.
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You'll win points if you can put this into practice in daily scrum. Extra points if the first word out of your mouth isn't "So..."
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by brlewis 8y ago
"They’re all wrong. NASA literature even tells us Venus is “our closest planetary neighbor,” which is true if we are talking about which planet has the closest approach to Earth but not if we want to know which planet is closest on ave
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by brlewis 8y ago
I like this article, but the title is misleading. "I did actually use some JavaScript on the new Slimvoice, but only when an interaction could not be replicated in any other way." Overall, the article does point in a good directio
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by brlewis 8y ago
IANAL and I am not Canadian, but I think in the US one could argue the contract unconscionable: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/unenforceable-contra...
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by brlewis 8y ago
>holdover from an earlier age People have stopped using Java and Go?
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by brlewis 8y ago
Surely there's a server linux distro that ships without X11. Or you could uninstall X11 from another distro. Today's warty mainstream beginner language, JavaScript, is 100x better than BASIC, IMO.
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by brlewis 8y ago
Not sure what toolchain you're using. I'm using the typescript compiler with Mithril and whitespace is preserved for this code: <pre class="debug">{JSON.stringify(store, null, 4)}</pre>
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by brlewis 8y ago
>I wonder to how much an extent this "outrage culture" is a natural result of click-based revenue models. What's that quote about bots noticing that people look at highway accidents and thinking people need to be shown mor
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by brlewis 8y ago
What's a good translucent thing to apply in case the brightness is auto-adjusting based on camera light?
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by brlewis 8y ago
Fitbit UI, weirdly, explains what its doing but refuses to provide the actual numeric result. Look under "How do I change my stride length?" on the page below. The same place you change it you can also see it. https:/&#x2F
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by brlewis 8y ago
You can get the answer to that question by reading the section of the article headed with "Cause #2", or from this page: https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2134 Disclosure: #fitbite
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by brlewis 8y ago
They sure can. They removed a video of mine for copyright because of background music in the environment where I was shooting.
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by brlewis 8y ago
It's hard to do reproducible experiments measuring productivity, but my personal opinion is it's still relevant. I say that as someone doing mostly JavaScript and TypeScript development day by day. I often miss the clean syntax an
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I know women who feel the same way as the writer you cite. They want to just do their thing without being singled out as different, and don't feel the same need for solidarity that the "women in tech" women do. That's a
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by brlewis 8y ago
Even people who love Perl don't love 1991 Perl.
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I think it's single-threaded synchronous. https://github.com/urlysses/1991/blob/1991/1991.fs#L469 https://github.com/forthy42/gforth/blob/master/unix/socket.
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> convincing people I thought you didn't want to be burdened with selling ideas, but just wanted authority to implement them without convincing people.

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