iamaelephant

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by iamaelephant 7y ago
The article addresses the reason it was made non-reversible (cost) but does not address why the plug was made rectangular, which gives it no visual or tactile feedback for orientation. HDMI for example is non-reversible but it's obviou
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
You need to work for better organisations with better people. Which you definitely will not be hired into without a major attitude adjustment.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
This comment comes across as wishful thinking and not thoughtful analysis.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Hooks.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Almost rhymes with "mud". Like "Pahd" but even more "uh".
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> The dish is foreign in Thailand too. It's always available where westerners might be expected to ask for it but I've never, ever, ever seen anyone Thai order it. I'm sorry but what on Earth are you talking about? I can o
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Love to trap my students in the 90s and pretend no progress has been made on editors since.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
What makes you pretty sure of that?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
I don't think any of these things, no. I think content, tracking and engagement restrictions should be performed on the Youtube Kids app, and that parents should be responsible for ensuring their kids are using the appropriate apps&#x2
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Ok but the post you replied to was speculating on Google's motivations, and therefore talking about legal liability. It was my own post and it had nothing to do with legal liability. As I said (clearly, I thought), I think Google
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Determining ROI in marketing is a famously hard problem. As the old saying goes, "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half".
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
I'm not talking about Google's legal team. We already know which way their going due to the article. I'm talking about reality.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Do you believe that relying on their creators to be honest about the content is a better bet?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
I suspect Google doesn't want to tip their hand and show just how unreliable their demographic data is. There's a perception among the public that these companies siphoning up so much data must be able to know everything about ind
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
That horrible neighbour growing native plants and attracting pollinators? The horror of it.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> News > r/news - Includes both USA and International. > r/worldnews - International news. Typically excludes news specific to the USA. > Most country/state/provine subreddit's act as local news hubs as
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
You're holding it wrong.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> blockchain is most likely a far more interesting technology. Why? Really, I would like to know why you think this. Append-only data structures have existed almost since the dawn of computing. Making it distributed and trustless doesn&#
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> A holder of Dai can earn 4% APY through a Dai Savings Account, and a vote is currently in place to raise the rate to 6%. Why not just vote to make it a million percent?
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Great tips, thanks mate I'll look into that.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
I very strongly disagree with #3. Machine learning has not yet proved its value outside of a handful of key areas (image recognition, voice recognition/synthesizing, etc). I think it's entirely possible we'll look back on tod
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
> Shouldn't we be a little more worried about introducing this kind of extra complexity into our lives? Yes, we should. I'm currently building and I wouldn't touch this stuff with a 10 foot pole. The only thing I'm co
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
Australia is the biggest climate denying nation in the developed world. They will never take action because that would require then to acknowledge the climate reality.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
If you buy a LAN or WAN connected speaker you're a dumb guy. No exceptions.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
It is confusing, as evidenced by people frequently being confused by it.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
They're all Ponzi schemes.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
So gcp is costing Google a lot more than Reader, that only bolsters cynicism.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
LastPass has taken a huge dip in quality since the Logmein acquisition and I expect this will only make it worse.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
I can't get past this guy's Nazi aesthetic. I know gamers love Nazis but damn at least be subtle about it.
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by iamaelephant 7y ago
In common parlance it absolutely is.

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