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A university is requiring students to install an app that tracks them 24/7(twitter.com)
3 points by jpindar 6y ago|0 comments
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by jpindar 6y ago
You mean the things that fall from the sky in the game? You don't pay for them, and the stuff in them only lasts for that one game.
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by jpindar 6y ago
Fortnite doesn't have loot boxes.
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by jpindar 6y ago
Sinespace is trying to sell companies on this, I don't know how successful they've been. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1nBlm2HKKY&feature=youtu.be
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by jpindar 6y ago
Same with electronic part datasheets. I need to be able to mark up and save datasheets along with the other documents which make up the design of a product.
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by jpindar 6y ago
Plastic bags of water are even better because they leave no spaces between them.
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by jpindar 6y ago
Video game designers often draw the sun as white (except when the scene is intended to be near sunrise or sunset). I just doublechecked all the skybox textures I have.
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by jpindar 6y ago
For those who use Tweetdeck, you should know that there is a browser add-on called Better TweetDeck that makes it, well, better.
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by jpindar 6y ago
> It tries to pour raw sewage into your nice clean stream and you can't stop it. You see what other people have liked, or what's popular or lots of other things I don't want to see. Not if you use Tweetdeck. https:/&
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by jpindar 6y ago
I'm in favor of UBI, but I agree, it's not likely to stay universal for long. It won't start with protestors though, but with people who owe child support, or who are convicted of drunk driving or drug offenses.
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by jpindar 6y ago
And zip codes.
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by jpindar 6y ago
Because their manager wants the data in Excel, because their managers used Excel, because THEIR managers used Excel. It's managers all the way down.
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by jpindar 6y ago
I'm sure there is, which is great for one's own use but you can't make everyone else use it.
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by jpindar 6y ago
Excel excells at being already installed on most computers. That's it.
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by jpindar 6y ago
I'm surprised people don't use other words for digits, as they do for letters (alpha, bravo, charlie...).
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by jpindar 6y ago
Same here, but with part numbers in electronics manufacturing. Excel also removes leading zeros from package names such as 0402.
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by jpindar 6y ago
>hunger would potentially become a problem for people blowing their money early in the month (or getting robbed?) How is the likelihood of this connected to the source of their money? Is hunger not a problem for people who work for a li
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by jpindar 6y ago
You can't buy food with a piece of paper that says you're supposed to get a tax deduction next year.
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by jpindar 6y ago
I would really love to see the links collected or curated by certain people I follow on Twitter.
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by jpindar 6y ago
I get a ton of false positives. Probably more false positives than actual spam.
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by jpindar 6y ago
In at least some states it is - here in NH we can bring absentee ballots to our town clerk's office - but apparently many people don't know about it.
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by jpindar 6y ago
It doesn't understand English. It knows how to make up text that looks a lot like the text that it read. It read a lot of examples of code, so it know how to make up code that looks a lot like what it read. Some of this code works, s
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by jpindar 6y ago
"if name == “__main__” isn't magic, it serves a purpose. Sometimes name == “__main__” and sometimes it doesn't, and I want to specify different behavior in different cases. Here, name is the name of the module. When the modu
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by jpindar 6y ago
Temperature profiles are drastically different in different parts of the country. In low humidity areas, it does cool down in the evening. I've lived in San Jose and I remember noting how different that was from the humid east coast. W
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by jpindar 6y ago
Yeah, in practice the advantage of the auto-shut off is longer tip life.
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by jpindar 6y ago
>The sensors in the iron lets it shut off and not burn your house down. The old Wellers did that 30 years ago.
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by jpindar 6y ago
I follow a number of repositories on Github, their notifications come from noreply.github.com. I also like knowing when there are new versions of various assets I've gotten from the Unity asset store, these notifications come from no-r
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by jpindar 6y ago
A large part of my job is purchasing newly released products. I highly value marketing emails, that's why I subscribed to them.
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by jpindar 6y ago
So you're not going to allow explicit no-reply addresses. Then they'll just ignore all incoming mail to the sending address. Or are you going to require that all businesses respond to all emails they receive? Will an automated re
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by jpindar 6y ago
The value of a Turing test is highly dependent on the quality of the judge (or how hard they are trying).

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