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by chairmanwow 7y ago
I had this feature turned on until I missed food delivery 2-3 times in a row.
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
A fantastic book by Vernon Vinge called “A Deepness in the Sky” toys around with this idea a lot actually. There is a virus that can release neurotoxins and it is flipped in very specific parts of the brain with a MRI-like device. This can
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
My guess would be that the videos processed in their work are quite small to limit computation time
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
These especially suck in China. It’s especially painful when you are finally free and clear of the great firewall only to be stopped by a mistuned fraud filter.
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
Scratches? My daily commute on the Caltrain quickly cured me of this concern. The bike racks on the Caltrain are simple and effective IMO, but essentially just cram bikes together with elastic straps. It’s a great way to unblock lots of peo
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
Sunrun has been doing this for a while. [1] https://www.sunrun.com/solar-plans-and-services/monthly-sola...
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
I have had the absolute joy of working with gRPC services recently. Static schemas and built in streaming mechanics are fantastic. It definitely removes a lot of my gripes with REST endpoints by design.
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
Thanks a lot for sharing this video! This is absolutely the kind of thing that I hope to find on HN. Plan to spend all of tomorrow on this.
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
I’m not sure about this. This kind of integration test would almost certainly be performed in a closed course (parking lot / garage).
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
This is absolutely happening at scale in Chinese malls and even those small 7/11 style corner stores. Correlating profiles with Alipay/facial recognition/WiFi/Bluetooth tracking.
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
Asian ==> Chinese
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
This is definitely a corner case and the amount of such corner cases balloon into numbers difficult to boggle quickly. I agree this is an egregious miss, but absolutely understandable from an engineers perspective. I’m sure no one is happy
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by chairmanwow 7y ago
I came here to say this. That one feature makes their site unreadable for me on mobile.
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
This generates pressure, driving up prices by constricting housing supply sure, but what is preventing SF from constructing lots and lots of new buildings? If there is pressure to increase the amount of available housing, then the governmen
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
My biggest frustration while browsing in China was reCAPTCHA. Most websites would load fine, but then they would detect that I was in a new location and this would trigger their account protection bullshit and ask me to complete a reCAPTCHA
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
Things like this are always tough to see on the micro, because individuals that didn’t do anything wrong are losing their jobs. On the macro, it’s tough to blame the business for doing the right thing for themselves. The market places immen
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
Any technical blog articles you have that explain how you were able to ascertain these incredible performance gains? Kudos on some incredible work! :)
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
Is the gas density gradient really so significant that it allows a balloon to move towards the front of the car? Any way we can add some calculations to this?
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
This was the scariest decision I ever made to be honest.
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
This is because Apple gave the party the keys to the kingdom.
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
This project has actually really matured in a fantastic way! I have been toying around with it in the past few weeks and have been incredibly impressed with their progress! I would definitely want to use Godot for a serious project. Althoug
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
This looks incredible! Heads up: the mobile version of the site (Safari/iPhoneX) could use some TLC.
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
This is actually a really good point. After reading your comment I can’t help but think that this is a purchased article from someone with an agenda.
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
This is somewhat tangential, but I really love how they published this research. This method has lots of interactive media visually explaining the result of their project. It was really easy to understand what they did, and fun to play arou
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
The pdf is 15 pages, but really only 6 pages of it is actual content. Is it common for there to be 3 full pages of authors on a paper like this? Seems a little bizarre to my untrained eye.
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
Growing up, my family relied on government aid to buy food. My father had a stroke when I was in 6th grade, and despite being able to recover, my mother realized that she would be unable to support my siblings and I without him. I am the se
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
I want to walk away from an article not with the pre-packaged opinion ofthe journalist/editor but with enough information to make my own decision. I don’t look to journalists for their commentary on the world we live in, but for update
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
I think the downvotes are coming from the lack of context accompanying the GP’s bold statements.
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
Well deserved! Congratulations! I rather disagree with the Dark Forrest Theory as a premise, but I found the books thought-provoking, which is the most you can ask of a sci-fi writer.
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by chairmanwow 8y ago
For those interested, here is a link to a Wolfram Alpha query that shows US vs China GPD PPP [1] Also, here is a Wikipedia link to what GDP PPP (Gross Domestic Product Purchasing Power Parity) actually is [2] [1] http://www.wolfr

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