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by dwd 5y ago
Nice
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by dwd 5y ago
Closer to a post-mortem. They apparently do a threat assessment so this particular cause of death can be avoided in future - though standing in a group on the road is maybe not the brightest idea.
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by dwd 5y ago
From the illustrations FLW's concept of a super-tall skyscraper looks very much like the Burj Khalifa.
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by dwd 5y ago
That is such an empowering statement. I've said before on HN that fear of what may happen stops many people from experimenting with computers, coupled with locking everything down and hiding the non-consumer-friendly aspects out of sit
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by dwd 5y ago
Likely they would have captured or killed Bin Laden at Tora Bora in the early part of the Afghan war, and wound it all up soon after that. Instead they created a power vacuum in Iraq, and engendered ISIS as a result.
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by dwd 5y ago
Privateer was a fantastic looking game. I loved New Detroit with it's Corescant/Blade Runner visuals. I did prefer Monkey Island 2 over DOTT. I'd add Syndicate and Lemmings to the list of great VGA games.
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by dwd 5y ago
It was innovative 13 years ago, but never really caught on. Kiln was also a great product and allowed for using both Git and Mercurial. It was way better than anything else at the time, but lost out to Github. I always liked Spolsky's
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by dwd 5y ago
Pepsi Russia apparently considered using a Cubesat constellation, but the idea was shot down by head office. Drone swarms displaying logos and messages would be a more feasible option.
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by dwd 5y ago
For anyone living on Earth the result would be mindfizzlingly spectacular. One hundred and twenty-eight stars would appear to go supernova simultaneously, burning with such ferocity they would be visible even in daylight. And the hundred an
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by dwd 5y ago
Wearing a felt hat these days unfortunately makes you stand out (consider Notch or GRRM and their trademark hats) but after having a carcinoma cut out of my balding scalp I'm all for wearing one. Not worth going bare these days, even i
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by dwd 5y ago
So, we all end up with a blend of celebrity features if that is a large proportion of their training data. I would be interested to see what it does with Doom guy, as mentioned in the OP comments.
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by dwd 5y ago
Australia has a massive hydro system - the Snowy. But it's over 50 years old at least and wouldn't have the control systems. Hornsdale has some pretty impressive software allowing it to go from charging to jumping in so fast.
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by dwd 5y ago
And it's not during the actual election either, the donors wield their influence way earlier in deciding who gets as far as the primaries. If you can't self fund, you have to sell your soul to donors who will put up the money. Not
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by dwd 5y ago
This wasn't a good look the other week at the Geelong battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPkYoE8IYh8 But the Hornsdale unit has paid for itself multiple times, and shown how a battery at this scale can support ev
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by dwd 5y ago
Since he moved to Spotify the number of guests that interest me has dropped. Not sure if his move to Houston precipitated that. One of the few recent times I've tuned in was the other day with Lex who I tend to listen to more often as
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by dwd 5y ago
The day I needed to install anything on my phone for my mega-corp employer I went out and bought the cheapest Android phone I could find. What was an interesting discovery was that PingID doesn't require a cellular data connection to w
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by dwd 5y ago
Reminds of the Anne McCaffrey Crystal Singer series where crystals were mined for use in their space-faring technology. Each crystal was unique and would be tuned to a particular use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryst
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by dwd 5y ago
The upside to doing your own thing is that you set your own schedule and define your own "office hours". This could mean that you can be there at the times you need to "be there" and work around that: like in the evening
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by dwd 5y ago
I happened to be going through some boxes in the garage tonight and found an old manual for a Commodore floppy drive. It kind-of explains a lot about how different a personal computer was back then. The back of the manual has the schematic
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by dwd 5y ago
As someone who grew up with computers (and has owned many over the last 36 years), the key is ownership. Right from my first computer I had free reign to do what I wanted with it. When my 1541 disk drive stopped ejecting disks I pulled it a
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by dwd 5y ago
Memory and learning is additive - we don't have a delete key, except for where a model can be completely replaced with something new, which is usually at that simple fact level - but it's then assimilated into the rest of what we
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by dwd 5y ago
You will likely also find Lex Fridman's conversation with Matt Walker "Why we Sleep" last week interesting. About 65 minutes in (just after a great discussion on coffee and caffeine) they go into how sleep (and dreaming) faci
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by dwd 5y ago
In comparison around 2000 people are bitten by redback spiders in Australia each year. Bites were historically even more common when everyone had a dunny out the back.
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by dwd 5y ago
“I only remember things I like.” sounds very much like ADHD (inattentive type). > I'd love to be able to read a book while daydreaming and then reread it in my head later for processing. I always wonder whether audiobooks can facili
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by dwd 5y ago
Currently , I find myself trying to place anything about the brain in the context of Jeff Hawkin's 1000 brain theory. We supposedly have 150,000 computing units that we allocate to modelling things in our world. I believe those on the
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by dwd 5y ago
Manufactured is probably less important than where it is consumed and disposed of. We know the Philippines take in recycling from the rest of the world as they had a diplomatic spat with Canada over being send household waste rather than re
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by dwd 5y ago
He also appeared recently on Sam Harris's podcast to a bit more more skepticism. I thought he didn't break much new ground from his previous appearance on Lex's podcast in 2019, which I went back and listened to before listen
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by dwd 5y ago
Except for Australia... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Australian_bus...
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by dwd 5y ago
RAGE was a great way to discover new music - basically a mix of JJJ Unearthed (video edition) along with new US and UK indie videos.
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by dwd 5y ago
The cats got shitty with us being in their territory all the time! We figure into their time-sharing as well, whether we know it or not. They're not likely to care for us to not be there unless you change their meal time, reduce attent

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