halfdan

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   by halfdan 7y ago

   Ah yes, the Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324 Back in the day I really wanted to build an ethernet ready and HTCPCP compliant coffee machine. Never got around to it, but in the
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   by halfdan 7y ago

   I have a hard time believing an app is more beneficial to cognitive health or motor skills, especially for kids, than actively exploring the world outside.
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   by halfdan 7y ago

   Apostrophe-s marks possession. Plurals of regular nouns are always formed without apostrophes. Plural of Airbnb is Airbnbs. Compare this to "Airbnb's fifth year was terrific" where the apostrophe marks possession. Whose fifth
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   by halfdan 7y ago

   People can easily spend their entire money on a new PC and then not have the money to buy games. You'd be surprised how many people with iPhones shoplift clothes worth much less than $60
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   by halfdan 7y ago

   While the comment may be extreme it's somewhat amusing you're comparing SF to third world countries - which speaks to itself I guess.
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   by halfdan 7y ago

   I've been thinking about this for some time. What if: - we vote on topics instead of for parties - party affiliation ceases to exist at the national level (might still be useful for city counsils) - we vote for representatives standing
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   by halfdan 7y ago

   I read the after 10 as referring to the number of classes. 400h seems a little more reasonable, albeit a lot lower than the usual estimate which has it over 1000h
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   by halfdan 7y ago

   https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/archaeologists-find-...
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   by halfdan 7y ago

   While a freeway may have increased throughput it doesn't tackle the main issue: Public transport is lacking and could reduce traffic drastically if planned well.
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    by halfdan 7y ago

    ..while multiple Mars and other planetary missions are ongoing and a new launch vehicle to bring humans into space is being developed. All on that 1% budget.
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    by halfdan 7y ago

    Those billions of dollars need to be an upfront investment to make the colony self sustainable with backups.
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    by halfdan 7y ago

    Isn't the bigger problem that the developer then choses for the user whether to leak information or not?
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    by halfdan 7y ago

    Does https://json-schema.org/ not work for you?
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    by halfdan 7y ago

    I have no background on Mercurial but I'm curious whether it was considered to rewrite the entire thing from scratch in another language?
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    by halfdan 7y ago

    July 1st though, so basically just 11 days ago.. This post needs a [2011]
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    by halfdan 7y ago

    They were only off by a couple orders of magnitude.. 10 vs 1000000000 is easy to confuse.
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    by halfdan 7y ago

    Presumably because we have 23 chromosomes.
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    I don't know where you are going with this or how the first sentence is connected to the second paragraph at all. Care to elaborate?
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    My guess is you can just use EXIF metadata and/or picture resolution/sharpness to easily sort old Vs. new. Cameras have come a long way in ten years..
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    "Move fast and break things" sounds more like humanity's approach to global warming than a wise and sustainable business approach.
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    > I wonder if it would be possible to breed for lifespan by breeding only the 'elders' among them You wouldn't want to breed the 'elders' but the offspring of 'elderly' naked mole rats.
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    It's what makes mice fat. Can we stop pretending that things that work in mice have the exact same effect in humans?
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    It's interesting - yet eating a single apple cast us out of paradise. Maybe the symbolism here is: Don't take what wasn't yours for the taking (i.e. earth's resources). For the religiously inclined, consider that this pl
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    > We’re enabling people to reach their full potential by bring them Internet access and that’s really inspiring for me. On the other hand, they also get access to Twitter –- you win some, you lose some. Haha, brilliant. What I always won
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    There's also 4) Use company savings to survive an economical "draught" and build up saving once you're making a profit again.
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    Given their de facto monopoly I'm not sure "There is no legal right to Facebook" is correct anymore. It's sort of like the internet where if you were denied access you'd have a significant disadvantage in society -
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    by halfdan 8y ago

    Also, why report 250k and 0.0004% and not just "~100 people". Makes it much easier to digest.
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    by halfdan 9y ago

    This is awesome! I've been meaning to get into NLP / Computer Linguistics for a while now. Can anybody share what kind of projects you're doing that benefit from SpaCy? Do you use it as-is or do you build on top of it?
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    by halfdan 9y ago

    They didn't really get past the Germanic tribes and stopped expansion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Teutoburg_Forest Presumably also because there wasn't much there at the time that would'
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    by halfdan 9y ago

    That does not legitimise anything you said or anything Erdogan is doing.