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by dwd 7y ago
Join the dots... Who had a beef with Bezos and was friendly with MBS?
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by dwd 7y ago
Yes, I thought we'd had this discussion before... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19353352
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by dwd 7y ago
Hmm, never saw either of those. I grew up watching this classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_(TV_series)
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by dwd 7y ago
The Journey to the West - Wu Cheng'en Abridged English translation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/100237.Monkey In its book form this story is basically unknown in the English-speaking world despite bei
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by dwd 7y ago
It was a very different time with serious limits on graphics, memory and disk space. Going back even further some of the early 8bit games were engineering marvels where the only hacks were to squeeze out every last bit of memory.
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by dwd 7y ago
Same, 90% of my knowledge about the Roman occupation of Gaul came from Asterix books.
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by dwd 7y ago
You will see a lot less people dying from respiratory issues. For coal mine workers, stopping further damage to their lungs may reduce the chance of tumors developing in those damaged areas.
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by dwd 7y ago
Great work, and the adversarial aspect is an interesting twist. One quick suggestion on the scoring. Currently scoring favours quantity over quality so the best strategy is to just find the big empty areas rather than thoroughly clearing ar
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by dwd 7y ago
This is a good point. Dropping a program for no apparent reason can be a give away that there is something else... The Boeing X-45 program is a good example: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3889/the-alarming-
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by dwd 7y ago
Needs a different size grid for mobile so you don't fat finger mines, otherwise pretty cool. Do not trust other people's flags though as they can be wrong - possibly intentionally.
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by dwd 7y ago
This other article linked here, discusses it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21847583 Interesting that the eyes on every TPDNE image have a specific position that could (for now) be used to detect them.
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by dwd 7y ago
The problem is it's not directly in their interest. Fake accounts are just as billable for boosting reach as real accounts. It will only be when companies stop advertising that they will be forced fix it. In the meantime they take the
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by dwd 7y ago
At the end of the day, they are all individuals with their own biases, ambitions or plain irrationality. You just have to take that into account in all you read and hear.
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by dwd 7y ago
He was also in Vietnam. This was a fascinating story about the "Napalm Girl" photo. He was also there and struggling to load film into a camera when Nick Ut took that iconic image. https://doculinks.wordpress.com/2
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by dwd 7y ago
There's an interesting podcast with Tobi here, where he also mentioned StarCraft. https://fs.blog/tobi-lutke/
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by dwd 7y ago
There's a little bit of Kibo in everyone. You were probably an influence and working on the same magazine I would presume a sounding board for his own humour.
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by dwd 7y ago
Are the first two panels new or the last ones he previously ever did? Certainly self referential.
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by dwd 7y ago
Internet Oracle and alt.religion.kibology were fantastic in the day, but just wouldn't work these days if they became even moderately popular. Kibo for President!
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by dwd 7y ago
Very popular. Even they look small next to a F250 - like you shrunk one down to 3/4 size.
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by dwd 7y ago
The first film (pre-apocalypse) was actually filmed mostly in and around Melbourne. I grew up in Warrnambool and Horsham so any trip to Melbourne would take you through some of the filming locations along the old Western Hwy. The first film
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by dwd 7y ago
There are also plans to go the other way and connect WA to Indonesia with the potential to tap into the electricity market of a population 10x larger than Australia's. https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2017/11&
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by dwd 7y ago
This issue has been known for quite some time, so it sounds like they basically failed to plan ahead sufficiently. It would have been 5-10 years ago that GE put out research warning that electricity retailers needed to shift their fee model
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by dwd 7y ago
Back in the early 2000s I built a web app for a big pharma that was used to compile doctor's responses to questions on survey cards that were mailed out. These could be anything from multi-choice questions about awareness of drug produ
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by dwd 7y ago
I don't get how "let your developers do whatever they want" equates to playing with some "shiny new thing". Most companies have a training budget that should allow for learning new technologies, even ones not direct
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by dwd 7y ago
I came here wondering if someone had finally created a ML version so you could choose your answer from AI or meat popcicle responses.
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by dwd 7y ago
It's interesting how over time standard riffs and memes developed for message responses, "the you owe Oracle x" which I'm always reminded of when I see "the ol' switcharoo" on Reddit. I always thought Zado
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by dwd 7y ago
I was in Maroochydore, Australia this morning (I don't normally go near the shops there) and the number of big American trucks in the carpark surprised me. In just the section of parking I as in there was a Dodge Ram and two F250s, all
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by dwd 7y ago
I've mentioned this previously as a dark pattern that trips most people up. It's probably fair to assume setting a target location is it, not that you additionally have to exclude the rest of the world. And it's buried in the
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by dwd 7y ago
There were a lot of other brick toys around, but it's hard to find dates as to who was first. As a 70s kid I played with my father's Bayko sets and what I think may have been American Plastic Bricks (maybe with a different name) t
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by dwd 7y ago
I used to own a Honda Jazz (Fit) and it could fit an amazing amount of things because of the flat floor, seats that folded flat and squarish rear hatch. I used it to move a queen size bed, refrigerator, washing machine: stuff you'd nor

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