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by epaulson 4y ago
"The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment." - Warren Bennis
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by epaulson 4y ago
An open source project I'm involved with is thinking about its communications future, since we're currently on Google Groups and have been nervous about it for a while. The leading contenders for us are either groups.io for a more
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by epaulson 4y ago
Every time I see these pay-for-verification schemes I can't help but think of Dr. Seuss and the Star-Bellied Sneetches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VohyMXB4FLo I must not be the target audience for this because I c
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by epaulson 4y ago
The article didn't really explain the original purpose of the now-missing capsule, other than it was part of a sensor used in a mine. Can anyone explain a bit more what the original purpose of the sensor it was part of was? What did th
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by epaulson 4y ago
Maybe it's because I don't know the workflow to do game character design, but it looks like the only AI used in the character creation here was the initial character design? Like, before in a normal process you'd get a human
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by epaulson 4y ago
I think this is spot-on. The models are trained from what they find on the Internet, as more of the Internet becomes AI-generated, the AI-generated content comes to dominate the training data for future AI models and we get stuck. It's
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by epaulson 4y ago
There are instructions in the readme to 'run locally' - are you saying that even that version (running on localhost:8787) is sending something back to y'all, either from the client in the browser or sending something back via
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by epaulson 4y ago
What I really hope someone invents is a way to 3D print something that feels like a street tree. I'm fine with it being a lot more expensive because we obviously wouldn't print forests full of them, but being able to put in an urb
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by epaulson 4y ago
At the beginning of the pandemic, as a cost-saving measure my company did furloughs, which for most of us were mandatory unpaid days off two days a week for 6 weeks. We could take off Sun/Mon, Mon/Tues, Thurs/Fri, Fri/Su
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by epaulson 4y ago
The book data that I wish was more accessible was bibliographic data. I wish there was a cheap ISBN API (cheap enough for an individual to afford) that I could use to look up all of the data for my book from just a barcode scan. I know ther
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by epaulson 4y ago
Can you share a pointer to setup information for this? I bought a Meta Quest Pro a little while ago (my first VR headset) and really have no idea what I'm doing with it yet.
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by epaulson 4y ago
I'm surprised they didn't also discontinue the iPad Air.
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by epaulson 4y ago
The Onion is ahead of the times - from 2007: https://www.theonion.com/activision-reports-sluggish-sales-f...
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by epaulson 4y ago
Is there a good way to host tiles for only a small part of the world? I have some apps that are only useful in my county - so I would like to have very detailed tiles for areas in my county, but there's no reason for me to generate or
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by epaulson 4y ago
I know that I should be skeptical of all fusion claims, so I'm not asking anyone to predict if this actually WILL happen from Helion, but this machine claims to be smaller than other designs. Does anyone know how small this approach to
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by epaulson 4y ago
I wish Uber transitioned into being something more like Sabre or the MLS and could be whitelabeled to multiple companies, and created an open marketplace for rides - traditional yellowcabs or independents in their own car or whatever is com
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by epaulson 4y ago
Refrigerants are really interesting - we phased out a bunch of them a few decades ago because they were destroying ozone, but what we replaced them with had high Global Warming Potential (GWP.) The new thing that all of the HVAC companies a
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by epaulson 4y ago
I can be onboard with this if Apple opens up an iCloud API for syncing, so I can sync a non-Apple device through iCloud, and if I leave Apple and iCloud behind, my non-Apple devices keep working, even if I never sync through iCloud again.
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by epaulson 4y ago
PBS SpaceTime is great. Another physics video series on Youtube that is also excellent (and maybe even a little better) are the videos by Don Lincoln of Fermilab. They don't break his videos out into his own channel, but he's a lo
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by epaulson 4y ago
How does this compare to DocFX? One thing I think Microsoft does very well is the Azure documentation. It's consistently structured across services, but even better, it's also all just a bunch of Markdown and for any page, you can
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by epaulson 4y ago
This is only sort-of related, but a while back there was a beautiful Twitter thread, I think about Google product managers or engineering leaders, who come into a product, revamp a bunch of features and come up with metrics to show that the
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by epaulson 5y ago
It's a newsletter about transit, for transit nerds. If you're subscribing to that newsletter, you know what BART stands for.
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by epaulson 5y ago
A MacArthur Fellowship would be a good award for him.
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by epaulson 5y ago
This is a level or two up the stack and I think it's more "meet in the cloud", but the Home Connectivity Alliance was just kicked off at CES to make appliances more interoperable: https://staceyoniot.com/will-
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by epaulson 5y ago
It's time for someone to make a Redhat, but for "safe" open source software libraries. My big enterprise would sign up for it in a heartbeat. We'd pay for access from an alternative NPM registry where everything is at le
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by epaulson 5y ago
I've always thought OSM's data license should be more BSD-ish than the current LGPLish license. If you were trying to privately build and edit data from OSM, there'd be a pretty strong incentive to get most of your updates an
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by epaulson 5y ago
My email is still the free/legacy version of Gsuite, from before it was called Gsuite and it was just a way to have your own domain but serviced by Gmail. It's kind of a pain, because it's both not really a Google account, bu
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by epaulson 5y ago
It would be awesome if there actually was a reliable, API-accessible (and reasonably cheap/free for small numbers of automated lookups) database of ISBNs. I want to build my own book inventory system and be able to look up ISBNs in my
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by epaulson 5y ago
As someone who lives in a colder climate, I want to keep daylight saving. In the summer, I want the extra daylight in the evening - sunrise in June is 5am, without daylight saving it'd be 4am and the sun would go down at 8pm instead of
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by epaulson 5y ago
A bit off-topic, but do people who host their own map tiles worry that other apps will use/abuse their tileserver? I would worry that I'd come in one Monday morning and discover that I've got a $20K bandwidth bill because som

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