cproctor

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by cproctor 5y ago
I keep dreaming about rigging up some robot arms terminating in large mirrors, which would use inverse kinematics to follow the sun and reflect more light into my office window.
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by cproctor 5y ago
It was carelessness. I know Sen. Wyden has been good on this issue and other issues of digital governance. My comment came originally out of the frustrating irony that id.me was getting heat for commercializing what should be a government s
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by cproctor 5y ago
If the IRS (or Sen. Wyden) is looking for a "core government service" which has been inappropriately commercialized, they might start with tax preparation.
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by cproctor 5y ago
That's a good counter-example, and I agree with your suggestion that the value of the analytics probably explains the difference. (The value of smoke detector analytics is probably even lower than that of dishwashers!) So maybe we coul
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by cproctor 5y ago
I think in the end it's not abut utility--adding "smart" lets you dramatically bump the price. Look at smoke detectors (as an example I was thinking about this morning): the best-rated (Consumer Reports) wired smoke detector
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by cproctor 5y ago
Hmm, I'm actually not sure. It hasn't happened a ton so I usually just filter out spam after it arrives.
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by cproctor 5y ago
This has mostly been my experience as well. I moved my email and calendaring to Fastmail, keeping my vestigal gmail address. I use this google account for Docs and nothing else. (For academics, do not keep your writing/cv/syllab
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by cproctor 5y ago
Where do you go now for "graphic / web design / typography"?
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by cproctor 5y ago
And Henry James!
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by cproctor 5y ago
Well this thread finally convinced me to set showdead=no in my profile. It's scary to see how much damage a few accounts can do to the erosion of discourse on this site, and especially to think I'm reasonable in worrying that some
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by cproctor 5y ago
Thanks! Academic here, also thinking about using this for notes and lots of reading research papers with not too much annotation.
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by cproctor 5y ago
Can anyone recommend for or against buying a used reMarkable2 on ebay? I'm interested in this for daily work, happy to spend some time in SSH, and have a reasonably high risk tolerance for no-warranty. But I don't want to throw my
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by cproctor 5y ago
Also no eating or drinking during the exam, just because.
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by cproctor 5y ago
I have been thinking about the difference between human users and computational agents. There is a widespread pattern of enforcing that only human users may interact with a service, not computational agents. Running a user-installed extensi
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by cproctor 5y ago
thank you.
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by cproctor 5y ago
I've been using Hugo as well. I used Pelican (Python port of Jekyll) for a long time, but Hugo is so much more performant and has a larger ecosystem at this point. The main downside is that the Hugo documentation is sometimes terse and
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by cproctor 5y ago
It's a concern, unfortunately. We read quite a bit about specific local issues before buying our house; our water is pretty good though I also installed a filter. Love Canal, where the Superfund program was born, is in Niagara Falls.
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by cproctor 5y ago
Can anyone recommend a good framework or analysis of the barriers to open-source, general-purpose computing on mobile devices? I have read with interest the various open-source mobile operating systems posted to HN, but don't feel like
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by cproctor 5y ago
Actually, Niagara County is surprisingly temperate--warmer and much less snowy than Buffalo and the south towns. It's been famous for apples, pears, and stone fruit since the 19th century; we even have some vineyards. But yeah, maybe w
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by cproctor 5y ago
Climate resiliency was a primary factor in our decision to move last year to western New York. Farmland, fresh water, and not too hot. Check out Figure 10 in the linked report... http://uploads.oneregionforward.org/content&#
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by cproctor 5y ago
What if a company actively encouraged its employees to interview at competitors, and to welcome, even expect, external offers as part of discussions around professional growth, roles, and compensation? They could call it "peer review.&
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by cproctor 5y ago
Thanks! This looks like a really useful contribution to the open community of research tools. One feature which would be a prerequisite for me is a structured export of data I produced through interaction with PDFs.
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by cproctor 5y ago
I recently translated the original 1971 Oregon Trail BASIC source code into Ink ( https://unfold.studio/stories/10782/ ). It was my first time working with GOTO statements and hopefully my last.
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by cproctor 5y ago
This is inspiring to hear. I'm a recent transplant to a small city in Western NY (20k residents). Are there any studies or documents available from your village's deployment? I'm interested in getting involved in this issue i
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by cproctor 5y ago
We just need to accelerate the planet a bit and gradually expand our orbit.
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by cproctor 5y ago
Now that there are (finally) services like Plaid providing API access to financial accounts, it feels like there is an opportunity to separate the front-end (UI, budgeting and reporting tools) from the back-end (interest payments, wire tran
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by cproctor 5y ago
The NPS preservation briefs (ex. historic masonry [1]) are fantastic, and like the grandparent, document knowledge that is largely lost in practice. [1] https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/2-repoint
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by cproctor 5y ago
> If you're not sure [which equality operator] to use, prefer strict equality using ====. Super-strict!
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by cproctor 6y ago
Can anyone provide an update on the state of open-source transcription packages, with language models? I'd love to have the equivalent of spaCy, gensim, Stanford NLP, or NLTK, but for transcription. That is, packages that will just wor
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by cproctor 6y ago
This could really bite you: > It is currently not possible to use ssh to login between systems on MCT and any earth time zone

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