jcoffland

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by jcoffland 8y ago
Welcome to the reality of today's "AI".
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Shadows can move faster than light.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
This is also called an aptronym. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
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by jcoffland 8y ago
I had one of these as a kid. It was awesome!! I believe it was my first exposure to programing. I even have a picture of me with it. Plaid shirts and programming. Not much has changed in ~40 years. https://blog.buildbotics.c
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Hardly, our population is still growing at an exorbitant rate.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
How is it worse than if Tesla was aggressively perusing their patents? It's the patent system itself that you have a problem with. Tesla's patent sharing scheme only makes things potentially better for other inventors.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Right, because if we hide the information then bad people won't have access to it. One of the first uses of the public Internet was to distribute text files with bomb recipes. That and porn. Cat pictures came later.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Here's the Wikipedia on St. Lawrence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lawrence
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by jcoffland 8y ago
That's what I think when I hear people say, "save the planet." The planet will be fine. It's humans that need saving.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
>> Waiting 4 months for a minimal response from a vendor with such a large percentage of the market is unacceptable. > Umm... expecting any kind of response from a vendor with such a large percentage of the market is... kinda arrog
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Smelling Sickness – Body Odor May Be Sign of Disease (2018)(newsinhealth.nih.gov)
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by jcoffland 8y ago
And taste their pee.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
I've had Airbnb simply ghost my negative review. It shows up on my account but not on the rental page. I called Airbnb for an explanation they said it could take some time for the review to show up. It never did.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
This topic reminds me of Conway's law: Organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations. — M. Conway Microservices probably make sense for
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Since airlines have an oligopoly, fares are not based on the cost to the airline but on the price on the supply and demand curve that yields maximum profit. In other words, the maximum price that enough people are willing to pay. If there
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by jcoffland 8y ago
I've been using Debian for over 10 years and I still love it as a user. But as a developer, I find it extremely frustrating. I've several times attempted to figure out how to package my open-source projects [1] [2] for Debian bu
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by jcoffland 8y ago
This hypertrending feature is very similar to how Google Maps tracks traffic. Everyone using Google Maps is constantly uploading position information which makes it possible for Google to infer traffic jams, among other things. Of course,
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Why software? Seems like a pretty dumb and fragile platform for a quasi-immortal being.
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But unlike time travel or flux capacitors aliens do have a real life counter part, us. We know life exists, it's not a stretch to imagine there is more of it.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Wait until you go back again. Then you'll really be enlightened.
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> This doesn't say what the author wants it to say. The way I read it, the author was perfectly aware of this interpretation.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Bay Area power is hardly cheap. In the highest tier I'm paying $0.50/kWh base rate is about $0.20/kWh. The US average is $0.12/kWh. So I don't think the problem is PG&E offering electricity that is too cheap.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
I must say, as an American reading this, I've got a bit of infrastructure envy. In the mid 20th century, the US was building out massive infrastructure. Now it seems we are no longer capable of such projects. It may be an oversimpli
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Sounds like you started reading prepared to defend Buddhism but failed to find a well defined attack against it.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Nonsense.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
> More than a fractal, it is better to imagine it as a pile of recently fallen snow But snow flakes are fractals.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
I think a lot of people come to exactly that conclusion.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
A small percentage of bad actors using automaton can produce a lot of traffic. So although it may be true that a large portion of the requests coming from TOR exit nodes is malicious, it would be unwise to conclude that most users of TOR h
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by jcoffland 8y ago
Currently I use FBReader TTS on Android. I'm not sure what the wpm is. I should test it with a stopwatch.
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by jcoffland 8y ago
It's not that it's impossible to deliver ads without referring to a thirds party site's code. It's that advertisers don't trust content sites to just tell them how many views they got.

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