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by jwalton 11y ago
1 isn't a problem; it's awesome. Most people are going to plug in their cars at about 5:30-7, but most people don't actually care when, overnight, their car charges, so some smart software can stage charging, and we can use
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by jwalton 11y ago
If you're interested in starting up an ELK stack on docker: http://www.thedreaming.org/2014/11/21/docker-logstash/
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by jwalton 11y ago
This is less about free speech, and more along the lines of an NDA. We're talking about researchers employed directly by the federal government. Canada has a public service whose role is to advise the current government and provide i
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by jwalton 11y ago
I'm in favor of changing it. Both for the sentiment involved, and because the title says it all: "Replace suicide as a verb". You shouldn't name boolean state variables after verbs. Verbs are for methods and functions
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by jwalton 11y ago
I just realized I typed "have" instead of "gave". Now everyone knows I'm a robot. -_-
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by jwalton 11y ago
Bad typing is definitely not enough to measure if an AI is really a human. As a teenager, I wrote a chatbot for an online text based game. I have it knowledge of a QWERTY keyboard layout, and when "typing" it had a small random
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by jwalton 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7455757
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by jwalton 11y ago
Awesome places to get DRM free ebooks: Baen has their entire catalog online, DRM free: http://www.webscription.net/ They also include CDs with some p-books that have the complete collection of a given series, which you can
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by jwalton 11y ago
As I noted here: http://www.thedreaming.org/201.. . you shuld also go to "Settings" -> "Accounts" -> "Sync your Settings" and turn off Password syncing, which is enabled by default. I woul
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by jwalton 11y ago
We actually have a couple of sales guys in San Francisco who work out of 795 Folsom Street. I think it's a big co-working space: https://www.google.ca/maps/@37.782368,-122.400771,3a,75y,136...
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Coffee-Coverage 0.5, now with Istanbul support(github.com)
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The autopilot on modern aircraft is more than capable of landing the plane. I have a friend who flies for Air Canada who tells me that Air Canada requires pilots to be in manual control of the aircraft from takeoff to 500 feet, but after t
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by jwalton 12y ago
This is not DRM, it's copy protection. DRM is about stopping you from using a product you paid money for - as Wikipedia puts it "[controling] the use of digital content and devices after sale." No matter how many years in t
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On the Construction of Murderous Robots(thedreaming.org)
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