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by fredley 8y ago
I remember this from 2014: http://www.datapointed.net/2014/10/maps-of-street-grids-by-o... Where streets are coloured on the map by orientation. While most US cities are a wash of one colour, Europe is much more c
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by fredley 8y ago
Wait, in stealth mode it's listening for any text selected, even in other programs? This is a bit mind boggling - what's to prevent any program listening to any other (like a password manager for example)? Is this sort of access n
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by fredley 8y ago
> We pioneered categories like the 2:1 This is completely meaningless to me, and I'm more clued up than most people on this stuff. Why does Microsoft continue to sell—by the looks of it—pretty decent hardware with terrible marketing
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by fredley 8y ago
The famous experiment is the "Sally Anne task", which goes like this: The child is in a room with Sally and Anne. Sally has a basket and Anne has a box. Sally puts the marble in her basket and leaves the room. While she's out
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by fredley 8y ago
For the lowest-possible power wireless transmitter and camera (black and white, VGA), how big an area would you require then?
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by fredley 8y ago
JS is fine, as long as it has purpose. I think the original idea of progressive enhancement needs a renaissance: use little bits of JS to improve the lives of people who have it enabled (e.g., by autocompleting an input, filtering a large f
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by fredley 8y ago
Partly this is because the Barbican is exceptionally well kept (much brutalist architecture is associated with slum estates, whereas the Barbican is mostly inhabited by richer people). The concrete is clean, the ponds and fountains are work
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by fredley 8y ago
Wait, so the skeletons are moving?
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by fredley 8y ago
Like any school of archeticture, there are good examples and bad. Largely, over time, only the good examples survive. The older the school, the higher percentage of it will be good, surviving examples. I find the Barbican in London — which
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by fredley 8y ago
Using make up to defeat facial recognition has been a thing since at least 2010: https://cvdazzle.com/ Juggaloes make for a good headline though.
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Ask HN: Cross platform alternatives to Google Inbox client?
2 points by fredley 8y ago|1 comments
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by fredley 8y ago
I love writing python, but the lack of decent map/reduce/etc. (that are really good in Javascript - the other language I mainly write) hurts. Stuff like your example really feels burdensome and inelegant in comparison.
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by fredley 8y ago
I've switched to Firefox on Android (and elsewhere). It means I can install all the tracking/ad protection I'm used to on a 'full' browser.
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by fredley 8y ago
Because if you want a nice functional keyboard you can just buy one. Making this deliberately useless keyboard prevents it from ever being a primarily functional item. This allows you to treat the project entirely as a creative endeavor, an
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by fredley 8y ago
There is (at least one) example of this in Cambridge, UK. King's College built a new building in the 50's that has some windows that overhang the wall into neighboring Queens' College. When Queens' built a new (one of th
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by fredley 8y ago
I predict it won't be long before using non-biodegradeable plastic in any packaging or short-lived product will be banned. It's outrageous that everything is packaged in material that will almost certainly not be properly recycl
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by fredley 8y ago
Any opaque, non-black (or very dark) paint, yes. You can add other pigments to paint, but if you want that paint to be opaque rather than translucent, you need to add titanium dioxide (or something that'll have the same effect).
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by fredley 8y ago
What about those who do know their history and are trying to repeat it?
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by fredley 8y ago
Which just underlines the way that drug classification decisions are made in the UK: not because there was an uptick in harm, but because it became noticeable.
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by fredley 8y ago
Absolutely - this is an example case where the legal status of the drug I don't think would have made a difference, the drug clearly had a profound effect on this individual. Cannabis is by no means a safe drug (no drugs are 100% safe)
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by fredley 8y ago
I recently read David Nutt's Drugs Without the Hot Air , which turned out to be very timely. A fantastic book that really sets out the case for evidence-based classification (and legalisation) of drugs, based on the approach of minimi
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by fredley 8y ago
Would making it illegal have prevented this?
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by fredley 8y ago
Or just do it without robots, but with bits of twine occasionally. I wonder if it can build a bridge: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/root-bridges-cherrapunge...
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by fredley 8y ago
I missed that completely. Well that's just bizarre...
925.
by fredley 8y ago
One function of tariffs is to put political pressure on other countries. That's exactly what China is doing here. By only putting tariffs on uncompleted goods, it now makes even less sense to assemble in the US. This is in direct oppos
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by fredley 8y ago
Same camp. One of my thunderbolt ports just died, and the screen itself is glitching more and more frequently. I'm praying that it hangs in there long enough for Apple to produce a machine I actually want to upgrade to, and that feels
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by fredley 8y ago
Yes, but in a functional paradigm.
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by fredley 8y ago
The section titled Domestic Servitude in the United States .
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by fredley 8y ago
In many places in the World, we're not removed from it. Slavery is still an issue almost everywhere, even in the United States[1], it's just that it now takes the form mostly of domestic slavery and sex trafficking. Other parts of
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by fredley 8y ago
This is straight up Black Mirror (season 3, episode 1: Nosedive ) Obviously the whole point of that episode was to imagine Instagram in its darkest future, but it's scary how much of it is becoming real, and separately with the roll-o

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