digi_owl

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by digi_owl 8y ago
IMO there is a particular kind of left that one find in and around the tech world, "Vally left" if you will. It is a kind of "left" that maybe front some social issues (in particular gender as of late) but that can'
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Maybe i have just not paid attention, but i get the sense that Doctorow has throttled back his activities since moving to LA...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> - the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless Not quite sure what that is a dig at. Unless you are dealing in fresh produce or something, everything can be considered fake and worthless... As for the political educ
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The fuck???
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by digi_owl 8y ago
With the added irony that Marx envisioned the fall of capitalism to start with workers taking over control of the factories they worked in, not by some vanguard taking over government by force.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I wonder if there is a corollary to rule 34: that someone, somewhere, will find anything objectionable.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
IMO /. got right, more or less. Limited amounts of votes, can't vote and comment on the same topic, and both ups and down are hardcapped (-1 to +5, starting at 0 for anonymous, 1 for registered). I just wish they never had tried t
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Looking into things it seems the guy represent Huston and surrounding areas... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Culberson
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Because: A, constituents are not interested. B, the politicians that OK it would be long out of office before the results are in. What you get when you base your politics on marketing and homo economicus...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> I think HN is generally anti-Brexit As best i can tell, you can draw clear EU sentiments based on age and education. Younger and better educated are largely pro-EU as they are in a position to seek employment within the euro-sphere vir
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Best i can tell, copyright is a topic that allows up and comping politicians to virtue signal and/or for the economic powers that be to test the allegiance of rising political stars. It is also a dry subject that most people don't
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by digi_owl 8y ago
While it is an impressive feat, it should give pause to thought about how complicated the modern "BIOS" has become...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Something like a full site cache combined with a full text search through said cache?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Reminds me of how compact motors and wireless telegraphs were combined so that small, fast, motorboats could meet cargo vessels outside New York and telegraph back their cargo to some trader on Wall Street...
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by digi_owl 8y ago
A blockchain for trading in AI derived weather pattern futures?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
It depends on the frequency, higher frequencies gets affected more by water and like. Best one i have heard of was a wet dog acting as a very good wifi signal blocker.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Speculating here, but i suspect there was no pin or similar so that people in the field could just power it on, attach it to a bird, and let the bird go. Never mind that i suspect that the data amount was not much more than a sms with a GPS
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by digi_owl 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stephenson_von_Tetzchner If that's the guy you are thinking of, he was no longer at Opera when they did the switchover. He stepped down as CEO in 2010, left in 2011, and the switc
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Two things comes to mind: First of all, Max Headroom. I think there it was a felony to turn your TV off or some such. Second, Ghost In the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It is a anime tv series that involves an undercover security force in fut
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by digi_owl 8y ago
The device would show a "radio play" notice for the duration of the performance?
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I find myself thinking of how for a few years the local TV channels offered night time SMS driven chat services. The thing was that said chat had a 30 second delay, because every message was read by channel staff before being allowed on the
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Kids will try anything, just to see what happens (i think i issued the format c: command within days of the first PC arriving in our home back in the day). They are possibly the worst indicator of "intuitive" out there.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I often wonder how much the environment the designers have to live in affect their designs. With the nordics being very dark and cold for half a year or more, being able to operate the vehicle in limited visibility would be paramount. Simil
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by digi_owl 8y ago
An older solution there is soft buttons around the edges. Older ATMs used them to allow you to make context sensitive choices, while also having the numeric pad. And now i find myself pondering a "smartphone" with rows of buttons
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by digi_owl 8y ago
> Touchscreens are pretty natural and intuitive Try to watch someone in their 60s operate them and you will learn that the are anything but. My dad find them endlessly frustrating, as his first instinct when talking about something in an
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by digi_owl 8y ago
I think one reason store chains etc are moving to touch screns is that they can push various changes centrally. I recall seeing older systems that used transparent keycaps, and invariably they would be covered in stickers and whiteout as th
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Read about similar where doctors would keep using older DOS based software because they could operate the keyboard by touch, and thus bring up test results etc while maintaining the conversation with the patient.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
They seem to (still) be headquartered in Germany, so they may carry the same weight in Europe as RH does in the US.
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Yeah i guess we have to break it down by nation to get a clearer image. On that note, it may well be that the Nordic Nintendo distributor was more "energetic" than some of its colleagues on the continent. https://www.ni
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by digi_owl 8y ago
Best i can tell, when it was introduced it massively outpaced any of the "consumer" hardware out there. End result was the whole issue of Lisp machines that was tailored to accelerate the language, possibly souring academia on the

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