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by cr0sh 8y ago
Disclaimer: I have never been in a real position of "having clients" as I have never done contract work or similar, so take what I say with that in mind... You have essentially a couple of options. You can be blunt: "Go away.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
If you haven't yet, be sure to check out Hofstadter's other two works in the same mould (it's kinda a series) as GEB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s_I https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by cr0sh 8y ago
This is pretty fun; as someone who played a lot of SmashTV as a kid in arcades (once, a friend and I managed to crash the video processor), this is great to see. I love the 8-bit chunky graphics. Will there be sound added later? Also - you
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Careful about relying on that, as while state law may not require you add safety equipment such as seat belts, county or city law might. We're talking Arizona. Here, you can get away with just about anything, and unless it's
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Regs also "go away" if you sell the car in parts that can be put together; it basically becomes a "kit car" at that point. Plus, there is some kind of loophole out there for some of the quads out there (well, at least he
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by cr0sh 8y ago
This is the vehicle that I wish could get funded, and then be purchasable in the United States - but I doubt that will ever happen: http://oxgvt.com/ The only vehicle I'd like to own more than that one is a re-release
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Sure, all that is possible, but you'd still be deprived of your vehicle when it showed up all funkified, while you then had to scramble to hail another vehicle - potentially making you late to your next destination. If it's your p
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> and the service was guaranteed to reimburse you fully for damages That will be of zero comfort the moment you get inside your car, and find out a drunk has puked into the foot well, or somebody was incontinent in the back seat. ...and
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by cr0sh 8y ago
The one way I can think it would get more expensive is that the pool of drivers with insurance would get smaller. That would naturally drive the rates and such up. The best analogy would be insurance for historical or classic vehicles; if y
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'm a hobbyist with a few domain names (under 10 total); of those, the majority are in "use" (that is, there is something of mine they resolve to - not to a blank page or a "for sale" page or anything like that). Bu
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by cr0sh 8y ago
About the only thing you can do is keep a copy of them, keep the copies updated and backed up, then wait 20-30 years, and assuming anyone is still using the hardware, let them out then. Likely, any principals or others with any interest abo
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> An old photoshop copy is more like an old almanac, it is a tool. Sometimes, though, the old tool is better than a new one. For instance, if I have a choice between a Craftsman wrench from say, 1970, vs a brand new one from today - gues
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I kinda wish I could run a copy of Winamp 3 on my *nix box at home - but that ain't gonna happen... /well - maybe with wine
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'm just going to throw in my recommendation of virtually -anything- by Moby: https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m... Damn - this player is awesome; I was never someone who could make track
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by cr0sh 8y ago
As someone who lives in Phoenix, I'm pretty certain it's too late for us as well...
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Be sure to check this out, too: http://www.oocities.org/ ...and no, it all wasn't able to be saved - but a massive amount was managed to be preserved (it used to be available as a torrent - assuming it is still being s
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by cr0sh 8y ago
What little is left of news servers can also be interesting to troll thru - but there's more noise than anything out there on those today, so it can be frustrating at best. There are also small pockets of gopherspace if you dare to loo
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by cr0sh 8y ago
What makes you think NAT prevents you from receiving connections on your home PC? You can "easily" set up a server: https://blog.mindorks.com/how-to-convert-your-laptop-desktop... Ok - it isn't something for
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I completely concur. Some of the weird stuff I have stumbled upon in my internet explorations have defied description; many of those places have evaporated into the ether since then. I think when that happens, humanity has lost a bit of its
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> you can't express yourself through code ...Bro, do you even code? Honestly, I can't fathom how you could make such a statement. Granted, most people can't express themselves through code - but that doesn't mean in g
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Perl could've been readable - nothing in the language prevents you from writing readable code. The problem was two-fold, imho: 1) regex was treated like the primary way to do things - even when it wasn't necessarily called for - a
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I have to say I've never really found a maze that was challenging enough to take more than a minute or so to solve. http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/maze/larger.gif Enjoy! Note: This is from the "Th
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Did you miss this part of the post you're responding to (I am modifying it to make it hopefully clearer)? > The two problems are clearly dual > A: since a maze's solution is a non-intersecting path, and > B: conversely ev
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> If my laptop doesn't have a GPU, can I still do all exercises? To answer this, while technically you could do the exercises, it is possible that it will take longer (perhaps much longer) to train models and whatnot without a GPU.
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I second the Andrew Ng Coursera course; I took it in 2011 when it was called "ML Class" (pre-Coursera) - yep, I was one of the beta testers!
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I don't have the time to immediately work on this course, but I might later this year. What I'd like to know, as someone who has completed (in the past) the following MOOCs: 1. ML Class (plus about half of AI Class) - 2011 2. Udac
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> or if they are incapable of finding one of the possible verdicts I hope you are aware of "jury nullification" and FIJA: https://fija.org/ Now that you are aware - and assuming you are in the United States - y
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Heh - my TRS-80 Model 100 has that feature: A small NiCad (though I'll be swapping it with a newer super capacitor soon) keeps the memory contents available when you swap out the four AA batteries if they run low (you get several days
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by cr0sh 8y ago
The oldest machine I own which theoretically works (I've never plugged it in, because I don't want to start a fire) is my Altair 8800. It has a linear power supply with huge caps (one is about the size of a small soda can) - which
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I once saved my bacon with an "old" (I don't really consider it old) 8 MB S3 PCI video card I had lying around. I had bought an AMD chipset motherboard that assumed (in the BIOS) that you were going to use a CPU with onboard

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