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by jaredandrews 6y ago
Slightly related, Google is also tightening up Android 11 location permissions (with good reason). In this blog post[0] they outline a process for getting approval that was supposed to be underway by the start of May. So far I have not been
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by jaredandrews 7y ago
I have been hoping to find a multiplayer coding game to play with my FIRST students during this time. Googling "multiplayer coding game" yields many results, but none of the ones I have tried so far have been satisfactory. Ideally
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by jaredandrews 7y ago
Fascinating, anyone here ever experience problems due to this phenomenon?
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by jaredandrews 7y ago
The problem is they would have to agree on that one issue. The philosophy does not lend itself well to any kind of organization.
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by jaredandrews 7y ago
Good interview with a lawyer working on this case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM-4ZoM2rv8
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by jaredandrews 7y ago
From the source of the clowns mouth: - What is the average age of a McDonald's employee? - The average age of an 'hourly-paid' employee is 20. You might like to know that we employ 120,000 people of all ages, from school leav
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by jaredandrews 8y ago
Just to add another anecdote... Back in 2008 or so, my relatives did the really nice thing of buying my Grandma the cheapest possible Walmart computer they could find. You know the sort of Windows eMachine that comes preinstalled with spy
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by jaredandrews 8y ago
Back in college I had the great fortune of going to Thailand for 3 months and working for Mechai's non-profit. The man is a legend for real and this article barely scratches the surface. While it started with condoms his organization h
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by jaredandrews 8y ago
I take it you never worked in a customer facing position?
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by jaredandrews 8y ago
> Would be interesting to see if there any hip hop masterpieces that have been arranged for classical music. Nas with National Symphony Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei_l3h4J-Ck Deltron 3030: https:/&#
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by jaredandrews 8y ago
Very cool seeing this here! Hope things are good out in Nashville!
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by jaredandrews 8y ago
27 single male, been working remotely for around 3 years. I would say it affected me slightly at first. I realized after leaving my office job that a fair amount of my social interaction was off-the-cuff activities with coworkers. Which I o
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by jaredandrews 8y ago
And his wooden pipe organ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5baNcgIA8o
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
While I generally agree, a note I would add about guitars: you don't need to buy a super expensive guitar to start but you do want to make sure it's properly setup (usually costs < $50 at a guitar store). Action that is too hig
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
Reading this article I was thinking, "I really hope someone from Boston who participated in this is on HN". Check the comments and there it is :D Care to share any additional thoughts/experiences on this whole thing?
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
Not sure if OP is the developer behind this but... As a happy user of Pelican[0], a different Python based static site generator. Why would I want to switch over to Ivy? [0] https://blog.getpelican.com/
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
Hah. I have only achieved lucidity in a dream once, after a period of trying to induce it. I can't really remember what was happening prior but when I realized I was in a dream I thought: "I am in a dream, I want to fly." Tur
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
I guess it's a little cutesy at times but I would recommend everyone in this thread check out /r/likeus[0] for examples of these things. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/likeus/
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
> I'm not aware of any reliably documented case of animals communicating abstract concepts. I guess this is difficult to prove. I'm not sure if it matches with the definition of "abstract concepts" but I was reading e
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
Elephants? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition#Art_and_mus...
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
Dude, wtf? If you are going to provide a "reference" at least make sure it's about a real person and not an imaginary African a "former pentagon analyst and blockchain advocate" wrote about. Also to a certain extent
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
Love this one and I am going to start using it in real life, peace!
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
I would be interested in hearing more about this technology being used in practice. Are these codes primarily "hand written" by an individual listener or are they encoded by computers?
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
The body count in this article is unreal.
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
> "Hey they should have sold the cell phone thats not a prerequisite to communication in 2017, their priorities are way too off for them to deserve any support" Not to get too off topic here but during my college years I worked
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
Indeed! I have recently been trying to come up with a new term to use instead of "identity theft" (open to suggestions). As the term itself seems almost Orwellian to me. My identity wasn't stolen! You gave a loan/credit
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
From the article: > "Even if you could excite the cup, that doesn't guarantee it would break. Fracture depends on the size of the initial defects." I have to wonder if Jaime tapping the glass with a spoon in that video not
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
If you are driving thru New England and pull over to any forest you can start walking and eventually you will find a short stone wall. These stone walls used to mark the borders of farm land but now they are in the middle of the forest. The
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
Wow, whenever I am reminded that a human hasn't been on the moon since 1972 it just blows my mind. I mean.. I guess it's probably easier and cheaper and safer to send a robot, but I would think that at least one nation would deci
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by jaredandrews 9y ago
It has nothing to do with programming but I find myself rereading Smedley Butler's essay, "War is a Racket", quite often: https://archive.org/stream/WarIsARacket/WarIsARacket_djvu.tx...

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