jdmichal

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by jdmichal 6y ago
My father worked IT with a medical record imaging system that is very similar to what you're describing. They called them platters, and they were like CDs except the size of a dinner plate or so if I remember correctly. And there was
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> ... the security benefit is precisely that nobody can access your account without 2FA. Except they can access it with any of the multiple 2FA registrations that grandposter can't delete. I don't think it would weaken any secu
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I'm sorry, but I have to do it... Clearly it's calculating the ultimate question to the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Most of this is a rant against Google Maps UI. I'd like to do a shout out to Bing Maps, which does keep a list items as you look them up. You can swap between them, and see all of them on the map. Also, I find the Windows 10 app (
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> It's quite possible that the ride share firms will move to a subscription-based model (closer to Netflix) rather than a consumption-bsaed model (closer to Blockbuster) in the future. Paying per-ride has its hassles. A monthly fixe
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> New research suggests that bird ancestors shrank fast, indicating that the diminutive size was an important and advantageous trait, quite possibly an essential component in bird evolution. This is making the common mistake regarding ev
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I don't know if Walmart promotes their own brands over others on their website. If they do, then yes I would consider that under the same hazard. Do note that this is all speculative anyway... There's been no ruling. Just some
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by jdmichal 6y ago
It's not about being scaled. It's about using your scale in one place to force scaling in another. If Amazon provides a marketplace, where people pay them to list and sell products, then using the strong position of that marketp
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by jdmichal 6y ago
If you're happy with Bing's direct results, you can !b instead of !g also.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
But earnings was only $34 billion. A ~15% hit to earnings would probably not fare very well on the market, even if it is only one-time.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Is it really being a dick when someone explicitly, through choice of a license, allows it? What is this post from Microsoft except an explicit and public thank you? Which seems like it should certainly appease the "not a dick" c
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by jdmichal 6y ago
All decentralization would do is force people even harder into their bubbles. Facebook et al do a pretty good job of that already, but at least with everyone on one platform there's a chance to see another view. Decentralized platfor
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by jdmichal 6y ago
This seems like the very definition of play stupid games, win stupid prizes... Obviously I have zero capability to make a morality judgement here. But I do know that the 2-ton hunk of metal with hundreds of horsepower and foot-pounds of t
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I worked at SRI, though not on Siri. (Wish I had; they got a nice payday when it was bought.) Siri was weaker before Apple bought it, because there was only so much they could do with the public APIs. Apple buying it was the best outcome
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I'm personally a fan of attention schema theory. It's based on the idea that consciousness emerges from an advancing capability to create models of both the external and internal world. For me, it scratches a couple itches. Fir
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by jdmichal 6y ago
Ah I knew that but didn't run the implications right in my head. Thanks for the correction.
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by jdmichal 6y ago
They're N95 masks, meaning that they're 95% effective... How do you sue against something that's specifically advertised as 95% effective? You would need to do a class-action with enough sample size to power statistics...
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by jdmichal 6y ago
You're grinding an axe that has little to do with what I said. Your defined split of "structure" and "presentation" is orthogonal to my choice of "layout" and "content". Currently both HTML and
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by jdmichal 6y ago
I have a hypothesis about a different way to organize responsibilities within webpages. I think the split of "content" to HTML and "presentation" to CSS was a mistake. To me, those are both describing content. That is
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by jdmichal 6y ago
> More light != more information. It could just be a bunch of noise. You do realize that, in a camera sensor, light is the signal, right? So the more light, the higher the signal-to-noise ratio, which means that yes it does have more
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by jdmichal 7y ago
It was taboo from a political perspective. You can't tell parents they are failing their children, and still expect them to vote for you next election...
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by jdmichal 7y ago
The wife of one of my good friends was on the county school board for 12 years. According to her, it was an unspoken secret was that parental involvement was the biggest predictor of / contributor to student success. The reason it wa
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by jdmichal 7y ago
TARP in the US worked exactly the same way with the banks, BTW. Banks which took TARP money had their dividends reduced to a penny per share maximum until the money was repaid. Here you can see that for Bank of America, it took until 2014
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by jdmichal 7y ago
My point was that it whitewashed exactly those areas which had the most information . However, this is inline with their stated goal of mimicking a long exposure. It's not inline with "seeing in the dark", but that'
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by jdmichal 7y ago
I guess I might have misinterpreted the goal. If the goal was to make the image look like it was daylight, then maybe whitewashing that light reflection was the correct choice. If the goal was to "see in the dark", then it seems
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by jdmichal 7y ago
There's a difference between applying known priors, and making things up based on statistics. Conflating the two isn't helping anyone.
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by jdmichal 7y ago
Also other senses, including proprioception. In a completely dark environment, you could swear that you see your hand waving in front of your face. That's because your brain actually does know it's there, and it's trying
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by jdmichal 7y ago
I'm also not a fan of how the only part actually readable in the (a) original, which is part of the title in the front book, becomes completely whitewashed in (c). Where the model actually had the most information, it completely rem
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by jdmichal 7y ago
> you play yes man with your boss and please them You need to be able to read this one. I've gotten a lot of props for being someone by bosses can rely on to challenge them. But I also don't do it for stupid things, and if th
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by jdmichal 7y ago
(1) and (3) also apply to Egyptian hieroglyphics... They're pretty generic design decisions for languages with composing characters. And (2) is just a syllabary, which is certainly not unique. Any composed syllabary that is meant to

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