damon_c

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by damon_c 7y ago
Time is long. I predict this comment will age badly.
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by damon_c 7y ago
That's not really true anymore. In the last few years adaptive optics has closed the gap. source: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a22240382/neptune-gro...
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by damon_c 7y ago
>Yes but you don't end up with the few hundred bucks, you end up with Ethereum. If you need to pay for something using euro, dollar, ... you going to need to convert it which will include fees. I one has dollars and wants to pay for
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by damon_c 7y ago
I prefer to divide climates into two categories. 1. Places where during certain times of year, sitting on a bench for a few hours will cause you to die from exposure to the elements. 2. Other places where you can sit on a bench all day on a
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by damon_c 7y ago
It's not that complicated. Drive one and you will see that they are pretty different from any other car in a number of ways.
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by damon_c 7y ago
Every time every human exhales, they exhale carbon. That carbon comes from the food they eat. If a person doesn't eat enough food, the carbon comes from stored fat cells.
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by damon_c 7y ago
Get something started ASAP. I left a job when I was 28 with a depressing $21k in 401k. After sitting there for 16 years, it's now... big enough where it lost almost that much this last week. Compounding... really... works...
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by damon_c 7y ago
Yeah. This is so amazingly unintuitive but kind of cool... And it worked! -edit: In Mojave, I found it in prefs/keyboard/Customize Touch bar
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by damon_c 7y ago
I tried this and now if my pinky accidentally grazes past the Siri button with .0001 micrograms of force, it pops up a box asking me if I want to enable Siri. I guess this is worse.
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by damon_c 7y ago
Wait... I mean... he was kind of a jerk calling that guy a pedofile or whatever but, it was in the context of trying to save children wasn't it? Saving children is not normal sociopath territory?
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by damon_c 7y ago
Yes, exactly this. As someone who had a prior career in VFX using mostly Autodesk and Adobe software, there are people who spend their whole career in one of these packages and have a lot of difficulty becoming fluent in a second one. They
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by damon_c 8y ago
I switched to full time software development when I was 35. I started by making websites that were useful to me in my previous field. When I got good enough at it, I quit that job. That strategy worked out really well.
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by damon_c 8y ago
I got Lasiks done last April. It was a very scary procedure but it worked. It cost $3000. I have saved about $300 in glasses so far... assuming I wouldn't have lost/crushed a pair. My vision is now so good people say "wow
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by damon_c 8y ago
Put it in big leaky boats that drive around in 1000km radius circles?
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by damon_c 8y ago
We have a lot of this sort of thing in LA (yes, in Japanese restaurants). You order by iPad, pay, and then when you get a table after waiting 3-15 minutes, your food comes pretty quickly. When you're done, you leave. It seems to work
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by damon_c 8y ago
I have used Tesla autopilot on twisty cliffside roads (my hands hovering an inch away). The question in my mind was, when there is "nothing" there, is that a place it thinks is okay to go? Or is it a place a place where it shoul
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by damon_c 8y ago
Actually it correlates to the exit of Steve Ballmer. I bought shares that day ;)
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by damon_c 8y ago
Seems like an outcome the authors of antitrust laws would have been happy about right?
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by damon_c 8y ago
Whoa. The #1 state in this report is Iowa. Hmm. Maybe time to... check out Iowa.
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by damon_c 8y ago
You'd think "Quality of Life" would have a little more weight... I mean... what else is there?!
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by damon_c 8y ago
You have been waiting all week for this occasion. You made a reservation at this great restaurant with someone you are really excited to make a closer connection with. Finally, the moment comes, and you are led to your table. Unfortunatel
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by damon_c 8y ago
You should reconsider this stance before you miss out on too much deliciousness.
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by damon_c 8y ago
Yes and it was much more difficult to write mocks and unit tests back then!
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by damon_c 8y ago
> cookie consent (10x worse since GDPR) Traveling to different countries makes cookie consent an amazingly broken thing. Every website needs an "ok" button clicked every time you arrive in a new place. How did we get here? D
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by damon_c 8y ago
Intuitively, isn't the volume of a pyramid going to be 1/3 of that of a prism with the same width/length/height?
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by damon_c 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman >No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect a universal generalization from counterexamples by changing the definition
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by damon_c 8y ago
Well isn't the problem at hand that the 51% of the "larger" bitcoin network can actually, at this moment be controlled by only 4 pools? https://www.blockchain.com/en/pools
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by damon_c 8y ago
If it isn't happening already, this will happen. You should patent it! edit: The more I think about it, I wouldn't be surprised if someday in the not distant enough future this is the way 90% of all commerce happens.
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by damon_c 8y ago
I am thinking a buy on hover would increase sales much better.
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by damon_c 8y ago
Whoa. Now that’s a shed!

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