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by edraferi 9y ago
> this piece did not begin by conveying that the original study's authors specifically state their goal "was to develop a temporary feeling of closeness, not an actual ongoing relationship". The post does say this in the s
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by edraferi 9y ago
Cool to see that most of the toys are actually geared to supporting the visual element of his live show. The Lan party / render farm in particular.
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by edraferi 9y ago
Cool, which module? Thanks for the link. It's fascinating to me that the name has been an issue since at least 2013 (when the post was written). There’s no denying they’re childish. What they are not, however, is sexist. [...] it’s
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by edraferi 9y ago
The technology and concept are interesting, but the branding is a non-starter. Even if you forgive the overall project name, the individual applications are worse. They include: - QFlatBoob - QHandjoob - Boobcoming - Boobsize - Flatboob - W
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by edraferi 9y ago
That's pretty cool, thanks!
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by edraferi 9y ago
Yeah, it'd be nice to have the archive available.
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by edraferi 9y ago
Very cool. Can I get RSS / Atom for specific topics?
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by edraferi 9y ago
That doesn't make sense. The client needs the passcode to read the file, and that passcode is sent out of band. The Relay server can't simply "play the role of the client" and steal the file.
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by edraferi 9y ago
Seems like you get to skip a lot of network configuration pain with magic-wormhole.
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by edraferi 9y ago
>Amazon is doing pretty much everything, I expect/predict this in another two years they will launch a music streaming site a la Google Music/Spotify. They've been selling music for almost a decade! They started selling DR
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by edraferi 9y ago
> What's the actual difference? I believe Intellisense is VScode's best differentiator. It provides very good autocomplete.
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by edraferi 9y ago
> progressives rail against "abstinence only" sex ed and then turn around and promote the same thing for firearms. Yes! This is a great point, that hadn't occurred to me before. The current proliferation of firearms in the
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by edraferi 9y ago
> Out of curiosity, which books? There were two great discussions about this on HN last week: Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14486657 Ask HN: Books yo
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by edraferi 9y ago
> If Chicago cares about the cabbies, individual owners should be paid dollar for dollar the value of those medallions, even if no one else will buy them in the future. These kinds of markets have some interesting dynamics - carbon cred
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by edraferi 9y ago
How is this different from about.me? The user still doesn't own a domain, they just have a hosted page to link to their other profiles. Is that the full point of the product? What am I missing?
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by edraferi 9y ago
How about terms related to tending a garden? "nurture" "Attend to" "Mind to" "Tend to" "Cultivate" "Nourish"
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by edraferi 9y ago
I think it needs to be opt out. Most users AREN'T power users. They want their computer to work consistently, like an appliance. That requires that the vendor has information about the status of the device. As long as you're clear
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by edraferi 9y ago
> U.S. costs are high due to general inefficiency -- inefficient project management, an inefficient government contracting process, and inefficient regulation. It suggests that construction, like health care or asset management or educat
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by edraferi 9y ago
Isn't that what Sandstorm[1] was trying to do? It was a very cool project, but got hung up on enterprise sales and ran out of steam. [1] https://sandstorm.io/
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by edraferi 9y ago
Yeah I also noticed that. No idea why.
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by edraferi 9y ago
This sounds awesome > Undaunted is a terrible boat, but he is a great storm shelter. A sailing capsule ready for the worst and also able to do the easy part, sailing in a straight line. So basically it's about surviving indefinitely
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by edraferi 9y ago
Looks like this project made similar trade offs: > Because the WaveNet decoder is computationally expensive, we had to do some clever tricks to make this experience run in real-time on a laptop. Rather than generating sounds on demand, w
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by edraferi 9y ago
This is an interesting solution, thanks for sharing. This would be a cool feature to build into open source ORMs.
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by edraferi 9y ago
> Letting a 7 year old walk themselves to school is no longer okay, for example. This is the worst. Kids need to accrue independent skills early or you wind up with pathetically helpless college students. Self-sufficient kids is the whol
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by edraferi 9y ago
If you really care about matching existing paint, you want specialized equipment. Professional colorimeters call handle this task with ease, but I don't think smartphone cameras are quite up to the task. If I wanted to do this, I'
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by edraferi 10y ago
Excellent book on this topic is "So Good They Can't Ignore You" by Cal Newport https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0076DDBJ6
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by edraferi 10y ago
Personally, I'm always happy to hear from people who are genuinely looking to learn about my industry, get advice, etc. I'm busy, but coffee is easy, especially when they're willing to come to my location. I'd say it&#x2
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by edraferi 10y ago
If you're using S3, are you really self-hosting? Where is the key philosophical distinction? Can I use a VPS? A co-lo? Or is the only true self-hosting owning physical hardware and being your own ISP with tier 1 peering agreements? Per
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by edraferi 10y ago
Your freedom to spread filth is precisely equal to my freedom not to repeat it. Also, please remember that the American First Amendment limits Government speech restrictions. Private communities and individuals can make any rules they want
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by edraferi 10y ago
Sure, but why pay the apple tax if you're not going to use the whole package?

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