chime

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   by chime 8y ago

   > I was fascinated and disturbed by the duplex conversation agent demo G posted on their blog this summer. Duplex gave me shivers. Enough that I ended up wondering what would happen if I logically extrapolated from that: http:/&#x2
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   by chime 8y ago

   I know what you mean but it wasn't funny when I was recording my kid at his first birthday party and got interrupted by a robocall just seconds before he cut the cake. From that day, I've learned to put the phone on DND mode befor
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   by chime 8y ago

   I've tried reading this release and this page https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/PublicHealthFocus/ucm421168.h... but still can't figure out if CBD oil is legal or illegal. Are CBD gummies suddenly illegal?
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   by chime 8y ago

   Even works with paintings! https://www.remove.bg/system/uploads/image/processed/c9ae8e5...
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   by chime 8y ago

   I wonder if this can explain the trick I learned on reddit on how to relieve the ringing-tone (tinnitus) by snapping your fingers on to your skull: https://np.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/3l3uri/these_guys_l
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   by chime 8y ago

   Just found these: [1] Original Fark thread: https://www.fark.com/comments/1826196/Draw-lines-to-alter-fl... [2] My attempt to show others how to run this offline: https://www.fark.com/comments&#x2F
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   by chime 8y ago

   CBS content is on CBS Access only. Disney is moving their content out of Netflix as they launch Disney+. HBO original content is only HBO only. Same with original content from Amazon, Netflix, and even YouTube Red. There is a lot of content
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   by chime 8y ago

   Wow! This thread brings back some fond memories. Long ago, I came across a tiny Java applet linked on Fark to a Japanese forum post. Everyone loved it but I found it annoyingly small. It was barely 300px x 400px. I had been coding my senior
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   by chime 8y ago

   While TurtleToy is way more advanced, few years ago I built a small webapp that uses nested CSS to make recursive images: https://zetabee.com/weave/ Click [Help] button to get an idea of how it works. It was heavily in
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    by chime 8y ago

    That was great. Wonder if he can shorten it slightly by combining the unextendable portmanteaus based on the shortest words needed to join them. And also avoid choosing 'q' to randomly start words and increase chances of 'y&#
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    by chime 8y ago

    Grooveshark was #4 on your list. Didn’t work out for them.
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    by chime 8y ago

    Doubt they will go away from per core pricing. Most SQL servers are VMs so you can assign as many cores as you want. I do expect them to give bulk pricing for more cores. So 4 core=$x, 16cores=$3x, 64cores=$10x.
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    by chime 8y ago

    I wrote something[1] in a similar vein recently. My take is that we as a species are just not ready for this. We weren’t ready for near-free sugar and we are not ready for instantaneous, global communication. As individuals we are very capa
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    by chime 8y ago

    For those interested in some background info, here's a Numberphile video explaining Superpermutations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJGE4aEWc28
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    by chime 8y ago

    You are spot on. We bought a large pre-foreclosure house in Florida that was once owned by a pretty famous old-Hollywood celebrity. When we bought it, it was utterly dilapidated. Over the years we have slowly fixed and polished everything a
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    by chime 8y ago

    Network effect. I already have a Patreon account hooked up with my payment info. I subscribe to 10-12 different people I like. Adding one more is trivial. Signing up for a whole new service with payment info for a single content creator is
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    by chime 8y ago

    Thank you. Not sure why I was downvoted above. I was asking a genuine question politely.
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    by chime 8y ago

    And if you disable Siri on lock screen, you won’t be affected.
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    by chime 8y ago

    How are lasers subject to inverse square law? > Laser light travels as a parallel beam spreading very little, so the inverse square law does not apply. https://www.reed.edu/ehs/laser-safety/1laser_basics.html I
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    by chime 8y ago

    > how many hours you spent optimizing some C++ function > You need a massive amount of top notch artwork, music, 3D modelling, shader effects, SFX, etc. to have a polished nice looking game. Top notch in any field requires optimizing
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    by chime 8y ago

    I watched the Most Unknown documentary on Netflix a week ago and liked the format. First couple of episodes it felt a bit like telephone for researchers, where scientist #2 discusses the field of scientist #1 with scientists #3. But after t
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    by chime 8y ago

    Scary about .pfx on Desktop. Working with an IT vendor for a recent Windows software deployment, I noticed their techs kept saving .pfx, .pem/.crt etc. files to the Desktop directly from browser. Until I read this, I thought I was just
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    by chime 8y ago

    That's my favorite part of learning anything. No matter what I pick up, initially the lingo makes no sense. Then over time, words and phrases get associated with meanings and my mental map of the subject gets rid of 'Here Be Drago
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    by chime 8y ago

    Thanks! That worked for me. This is such a great feature. Once standard, it would reduce the need for have multiple variants of the same font-family. I noticed only a few fonts allowed slant. Does this depend on the TTF/OTF we use?
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    by chime 8y ago

    I had disc replacement as well as fusion, since C5-6 is likely in next few years. I got lucky because C-spine is much easier to operate than lumbar. They go in from front (neck) and do not need to touch the spinal cord. For lumbar, they hav
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    by chime 8y ago

    I couldn't live with the pain so I got surgery right away. I'm pretty much healed now 4 months later and can lift 30-50lbs without any issue.
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    by chime 8y ago

    Absolutely agreed on radiology. Earlier this year 3 different radiologists read my c-spine MRI and said I have slight bulging on C5-6 and nothing more. 5 different neurosurgeons* said sure, the C5-6 is bad but the real issue is the C6-7 her
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    by chime 8y ago

    And good services also make it possible to put a subscription on hold for 6-12mo or even indefinitely. I did that with Hulu for a while before upgrading to their no-ad service. If they didn't have hold, I would have cancelled and proba
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    by chime 8y ago

    > From a search engine perspective I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo and I’m impressed with how good it has gotten. I switched to DDG over a year ago and it works great for things that are simple lookups to Wikipedia, IMDB etc. When I have an
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    by chime 8y ago

    Is there a moderate resistFingerprinting setting? I don't mind my date/tz/language being known. There are 150m+ people living in my timezone who use en-US. I don't want my fonts, plugins, user agent, or detailed HW/