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by kvonhorn 3y ago
In California, they hover helicopters over avocado groves in the winter to keep the fruit from freezing overnight. https://www.fairlifts.com/helicopter-services/agricultural/f...
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
Because it's running in a $4/month instance w/512MB memory and is rendering its Chrome window in Xvfb, which has been allocated a 640x480 frame buffer.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> "I don't get why people like the Mona Lisa, the painting is neither original nor particularly well done" And it's so small, too.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
I wouldn't have guessed Australia to be at the top of this list. What am I missing?
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> How does this stuff pass QA?????? Microsoft notoriously fired all their QA engineers back in 2014. I would assume that QA is no longer a core competency at Microsoft. I'm guessing that they have testing tasks that are now performe
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> resurrect everyone that ever died I don't like the idea of Mormons baptizing the dead without their consent, full on resurrection without consent seems even more intrusive. Followup question: would immortality be forced, or could
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
Do you mean something like a Toyota Hilux? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Hilux
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> The US at least wants a human pressing the button and is not willing to let AI make a lethal order. I'm old enough to remember exactly how crazy the US went after 9/11. It's going to take exactly one surprise attack on t
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
I certainly did
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
Won't be long now before we're reading a post about a robot dog with a suicide vest taking out a target softer than an armored vehicle. The article neglects to mention that shipping is $1000, according to the Unitree website.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
You know what's an accessibility problem for a lot of people over 40? White text on a dark background. I don't think I'll ever get tired of hearing people advocate for making web pages readable for people my age. Yeah, openin
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
This seems like the sort of thing Philip K. Dick should have warned us about.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> good oversight of police departments Where I'm from, the police actively resist oversight, and have not responsibly used many of the systems they already possess.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
Lol, I hadn't heard that before. Thanks for sharing.
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
> It's somewhat ironic to me that some folks arguing passionately for the openness of the web (something I and many of the proposal contributors are also passionate about) are relying on physical threats and other forms of abuse For
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by kvonhorn 3y ago
Thanks, I've been looking for an article like this for over a year. Whenever I've requested this perspective in the past, the only reply I've received is that I'm an ignorant, brainwashed American.
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by kvonhorn 4y ago
Elon Musk reportedly wants to be his employees' landlord: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-reported...
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by kvonhorn 4y ago
Another way I've heard it put is that any class ending in -er or -or is an antipattern.
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by kvonhorn 4y ago
> A chess player who wants to improve will not assume that winning a game means he played well -- he will analyze the game later, perhaps with a chess engine. You could say the same about poker. A player looking to improve their game wil
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by kvonhorn 4y ago
How often are you telling the organization above you that you're not comfortable continuing on in your management role? If it's not very often, they may have forgotten about you. You may consider making this a talking point the ne
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by kvonhorn 5y ago
Canada. I suspect that most Americans don't know that bag is an option.
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by kvonhorn 5y ago
Ontario.
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by kvonhorn 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law
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by kvonhorn 5y ago
> IMO farms and home gardens are a likely place for such pathogens to be exchanged I'm more concerned about wastewater treatment plants
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by kvonhorn 5y ago
> smartphone hacks of high-profile journalists and world leaders As someone who relies on my head of state to not be compromised by foreign actors and journalists to help me hold my politicians accountable, I do, in fact, need to be afra
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by kvonhorn 5y ago
I think his angle is "I can shut down the entire business if I leave."
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by kvonhorn 5y ago
I suspect that Microsoft is more interested in roping you into their development ecosystem.
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by kvonhorn 6y ago
The way I program, I'm actually an arsonist.
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by kvonhorn 6y ago
What field are you in?
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by kvonhorn 6y ago
Mostly links here on HN, links at /r/genetic_algorithms hitting my feed a little more often, and I'm seeing GAs referenced with designing neural nets in random articles. I'm guessing that it's the last one that woul

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