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by iamtedd 5y ago
I love hearing these stories too! Here's a video of someone finally cracking into the Sega Saturn well after the console was current commodity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyfZex7B3E&t=202s
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Scrollable poster. That's how every 'modern web' site feels to me. Case-in-point: lovefrom.com. Makes me want to maximise the browser window on my 30" monitor and still doesn't seem enough.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
I read the title as "most precise measurement of Newton's lifetime". I expected an almost comical consideration of relativity and the locations he lived. I'm a little disappointed that wasn't the case.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
So, replacement toner costs the same as a new printer?
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by iamtedd 5y ago
God, what's with all this silent judgement? Have you ever heard of a 'conversation-starter'? How about you ask before you assume? Having a picture of von Neumann is in no way a red flag as much as having a picture of, or the
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by iamtedd 5y ago
I remember this article about deposit box safety was posted on HN a couple of years ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator
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by iamtedd 5y ago
"However, the German government is understood to have not yet written to British people living there, asking them to consider driving an HGV when they have never done so before." What an irrelevant statement. Unless Germany is als
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by iamtedd 5y ago
I wanted to find an example from Kath & Kim, but couldn't find any on Youtube that wasn't just the "Look at moi" set-up to the actual joke. I'm sorry.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
I like this idea from a purely environmental perspective (ignoring the strategic reasons, which I leave for others). It's about time we stopped that ridiculous plan to modify an already nuclear design for diesel-electric. Not to mentio
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Who are you, Kath Day-Night?
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by iamtedd 5y ago
As a non-US person, how many positions? Has it been enumerated somewhere?
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Esprantly Technify.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
> Except that right now thy don't have a plausible reason to be scanning things, and any indication of something like that happening without prior expectation would be an even bigger deal than this is. Setting the expectation that t
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Glad you enjoyed it and that it inspired you to read the book! This passage had been banging around in my head since I read it 10-15 years ago. Probably because it was also me. :)
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Your comment reminded me about a passage from Red Dwarf: In fact, it was now possible for Rimmer to revise solidly for three months and not learn anything at all. The first week of study, he would always devote to the construction of a revi
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by iamtedd 5y ago
We have been bereft of leaders with vision for a long time. With the possible exception of Kevin Rudd, who wanted to build a clean-slate, nationwide telecommunications network for the next 100 years, and Julia Gillard, who despite having pr
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Oh, those are the killers. Thankfully they seem to only go for tourists. A very brave ITV News Asia correspondent: https://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/11864058-16x9-xlarge.jpg
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Who are you talking about? The submitter - ingve - has many comments going back at least a year, including as a sister comment to yours.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
A better description is non-interactive .
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by iamtedd 5y ago
> goinv to Did you succumb to the exact same problem GP comment described?
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Hey, fellow connoisseur! Points fingers at my and your noses.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
A more pleasant method could be: http://kmkeen.com/awk-music/
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Presumably because PLCN wanted to land in LA as well. That's the implication in the text AIUI.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Seems it's just a troll account. Spoonerise their username.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Let me guess, comments turned off on the video? checks Yep.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Man with one clock knows what time it is. Man with two clocks is never sure.
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by iamtedd 5y ago
> You can't really expect the general public to use the command line (anymore). Yes, good point. I started reading the linked OSM wiki page, and the more I scrolled, the more I understood why Ben had this service. However the energy
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by iamtedd 5y ago
Does this need to be a service? If it's simply repackaging OpenStreetMaps for Garmin GPS devices, wouldn't a downloadable application be better? Edit: Looking at https://www.openmapchest.org/about/ it seems h
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by iamtedd 5y ago
It's not the cone, it's what the cone represents. Are there workers nearby? Is there a downed tree or powerline? Is the road unfinished? Is there a big sinkhole ahead?
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by iamtedd 5y ago
> A programmer added jitter to work around that situation, A random sleep to avoid a race condition. If a bunch of randoms on the Internet can think of using the other vehicles as guides for the right way to go, why hasn't Waymo? Al

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