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by icc97 8y ago
I thought I'd be too cynical for gratitude journals but it turns out the a bit of ducking [0] brings up a couple of posts just for the likes of me: [1] [2] [0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cynic+gratitude+journal [1]: h
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Oh Look, More Evidence Humans Shouldn't Be Driving (2015)(wired.com)
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> As a result, for solar to balance out the variability of wind, European countries would have to install ten times the existing capacity. > The authors consider that level of expansion unlikely, which is why most of the analysis is f
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Vevo's post [0] about stopping their service is a priceless list of bullshit bingo: > At Vevo, our objective is to grow the commercial and promotional value of music videos, fostering deep connections between artists and fans. >
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> So here is a guy who grows up dreaming about robots. > He goes to GoogleX with essentially carte blank to make his dreams finally come true. The guy goes out and buys up every cool robotics startup out there, spends billions and sur
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Going up against major players typically starts with a massive cost, consider the losses that Tesla is taking on. As per my other comment [0] from the article it's more like $89M in revenue. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com
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More proving your point, but from the article: > The phone’s initial price was $699, the same as an iPhone viewed as a competitor. At that price, the company sold as few as 20,000 units across its website and third-party distribution par
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I was expecting this to actually describe what spacetime is, but from what I can tell it just talks about interesting things around spacetime. I was expecting more along the lines of this video [0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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GM's Super Cruise has eye tracking [0] [0]: http://www.cadillac.com/world-of-cadillac/innovation/super-c...
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> did not touch the steering wheel for 80 seconds before the crash From wikipedia [0]: > Above 45 mph free hands are allowed for three minutes if following another vehicle or one minute without following a car Wow I can't believe
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Relevant article from 2013: 'Don't use Hadoop - your data isn't that big' [0] and the most recent HN discussion [1]. [0]: https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html [1]: https:
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Yeah pilots don't use autopilot when taxiing in an airport. The equivalent environment of a plane's autopilot for a car is being on an empty race track. I'm sure Autopilot works well there.
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I loved his 'the Mom test' link to Rob Fitzpatrick's 'how to get feedback when your customers are lying' video [0]. It reminds me of an old Jakob Nielsen post about user testing. You need to watch users actually usi
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The frustrating part I find is that autopilot for pilots is actually a reasonably good description. Pilots are paid and trained to be alert all the time that autopilot is on. It's also well known that an autopilot in a plane is no AI,
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I don't see how you can learn Elm without knowing the basics of Haskell.
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I'd been hunting for this 'paint drip skills' for a while now. I finally found it again. It's from Kent Beck [0] (plus HN thread [1]) where as I kept on assuming it was from Paul Graham. [0]: https://www.faceb
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It would need 'staple' on the end: Earth moon firepole staple
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It seems that RSS just caught on as the name everyone remembers. Atom is indeed better [0]. [0]: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared
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Medium has them too [0]: medium.com/feed/@Medium Plus Blogger [1]: blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss [0]: https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214874118-RSS-feed..
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Very interesting. Were you implementing to a spec with the Windows version, or was it simply just 'make the Windows version do what the Mac version does'?
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> we unconsciously demand AI should be better than average human performance. Yeah I agree it's an unfair demand. Especially given how much more powerful human brains are than computers we should perhaps be having a go a humans for
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The difference in code bases is striking [0]: > The Windows version of Eudora is written in C++. The source tree consists of 8,651 files in 565 folders, taking up 458 MB. There are both production (“Eudora71”) and test (“Sandbox”) versi
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From the release post from CHM themselves [0]: > The source code we are distributing is what we received from Qualcomm, with only the following changes: > * addition of the CHM copyright notice and the BSD license > * sanitiz
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I can only think that their intention is that everything can be updated over the air, this includes all the buttons and controls. It's certainly a bad thing from a UX perspective. The number of controls in a car / aircraft is a
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> AI doesn't actually work all that well yet. (Neither Siri nor Alexa truly pass a conversational Turing test...) When we pass the Turing test it means we've got actual AI. But I'm not sure there'll ever be a clear
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The good bits are fairly closely aligned with GDPR so it will be hard for the next government to over turn.
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Second sentence: > Although it wasn't my intent, Python programers have told me this page has helped them learn Lisp
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It's worth noting that one of the main pain points mention of Python was that it was 2-100 times slower (vs 1-2x slower for Lisp). The slowest elements of Python compared to C++ were matrix multiplication (278x slower), array access (1
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One of the issues of working from home is that you track your hours more closely. So where as in an office if you're only productive for 5-6 hours it's not tracked and so people probably won't notice. If you work from home yo
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You're not completely forced, you can choose to move companies. So unless financially constrained, either you enjoy the company of the people you work with enough to stay there or you should move. Also sometimes it takes a while to get

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