jonawesomegreen

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by jonawesomegreen 8y ago
The ban hammer would be my concern posting this blog. He would probably get away with it if he didn't publicize it, but my understanding is Tesla has no problem banning cars that it deems unauthorized from receiving updates, using supe
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French courts rule on future autonomous driving fatalities(driving.ca)
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He said, she squirmed: The pickup artist game that is the talk of IndieCade(latimes.com)
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by jonawesomegreen 8y ago
So much this. Whenever I'm trying to pull an estimate out of someone that is reluctant I always try to reassure them that I know its an estimate, I know it might be wrong, I know conditions can change but its still helpful to have a gu
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by jonawesomegreen 8y ago
I disagree. Using a shit sandwich is a way to show empathy in a conversation and have your words heard by the other party. Contrast: I think the functionality of the application is very useful. The UI is really lacking, especially when do
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by jonawesomegreen 8y ago
> Second, you give the compliment sandwich. I've heard this called the shit sandwich . Good news, bad news, good news. Helps to break unpleasant news in all kinds of situations.
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Server crash takes out rich digital archive at Memorial University(cbc.ca)
2 points by jonawesomegreen 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonawesomegreen 8y ago
Typically the preservation copies are very large and unwieldy, as they are just a high resolution scan of every frame of the video. Whats on youtube is just a prevention copy. There are interesting software problems around how to store safe
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Self-driving car’s operator was streaming Hulu when it killed a pedestrian(business.financialpost.com)
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Police Drop Charges Against 19-Year-Old Who Downloaded Documents from FOI Portal(techdirt.com)
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by jonawesomegreen 8y ago
I'd also be interested in the article if you publish one, but I don't see any email in your profile. I believe only the `about` section is displayed publicly.
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Quebec Writers Group Calls for an End to Copyright Exceptions(michaelgeist.ca)
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by jonawesomegreen 8y ago
CVE: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-7602 Nothing interesting there yet.
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Bill Gates Fails to Guess the Price of Basic Household Items(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by jonawesomegreen 8y ago|1 comments
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‘Ren and Stimpy’ Creator Accused of Sexual Misconduct with Teenagers in the 90s(nytimes.com)
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
Shouldn't autopilot at least stop the car because of the barrier in front of it? Even if it can't figure out the lane configuration?
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In ‘Ready Player One’ Spielberg Regrets the Pop Culture He Created(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by jonawesomegreen 9y ago|1 comments
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Rise of the DIY Euthanasia Machines(motherboard.vice.com)
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
Some statistics [1] for travel in the US: Cars & trucks 5.75 deaths per billion miles Commercial airlines 0.06 deaths per billion miles So airlines are a couple orders of magnitude safer by miles traveled. In my own personal ca
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New Marijuana Laws Put Pot Producers at Risk(rollingstone.com)
2 points by jonawesomegreen 9y ago|0 comments
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
Taxes in California are very comparable to taxes in Canada, and like the US it does depend on the province one lives in.
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
Strict quoting procedures that don't allow incremental learning while building new things, warring factions continually changing requirements on the client side and unlimited money mean that the projects almost can't be delivered,
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Uber ex-CEO Travis Kalanick will officially be a billionaire Thursday(cnbc.com)
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Tragically Hip's Gord Downie Dead at 53(cbc.ca)
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
> Nobody fails CS101 because they can't remember the syntax of function definition, they fail because they can't figure out which functions they need to write to make a ball dance across the screen. In my experience that isn&#x
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
I would love to see some tagging for paywalled articles. It feels like I've been seeing more of them lately.
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
In case folks haven't been involved in the IETF RFC process before, even though this is hosted on IETF.org this is just a ID (Internet Draft). They can be submitted by literally anyone. The tool to do so is here: https://da
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
In Canada we don't have limits to consecutive terms in office for the Prime Minister either, voters usually take care of that :) I think the norm is not to have term limits, but I could be wrong.
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
I get that the point of this rant is that its only user experience that matters, and I agree with that, but I take issue with the idea of burning things to the ground and starting again. Thats not how these things work. Grand re-writes rare
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by jonawesomegreen 9y ago
In order to commute to offshore oil rigs via helicopter you need to do a training course to learn how to escape a helicopter should it need to be ditched in the water. A large reason for this is that if its ditched it will likely invert as

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