lukasb

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   by lukasb 7y ago

   ARPU of $667? I guess there must be other revenue sources ...
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   by lukasb 7y ago

   The "never phone home" UI should make it clear that it will still phone home to check for updates. But I'm sympathetic to Github here. Having users on unpatched software is a bigger risk to them than not having 100% perfect i
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   by lukasb 7y ago

   "Due to the poor performance of Lingo on the VAX, a subsidiary company, Linn Smart Computing Ltd., was formed to develop a new processor to efficiently run Lingo." y tho
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   by lukasb 7y ago

   Seconded!
5. 245.▲
   by lukasb 7y ago

   I wouldn't have known about them if you hadn't posted. Kind of a bummer Chrome doesn't show alt text on hover any more.
6. 246.▲
   by lukasb 7y ago

   SF shouldn't be associated with SJ in my opinion. He lived and worked in the peninsula and just came up here to give talks.
7. 247.▲
   by lukasb 7y ago

   Ah I didn't realize that's what he meant by five months old
8. 248.▲
   by lukasb 7y ago

   I have a first-generation Pixel, so a couple years old now, and it accessed the test site fine.
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   by lukasb 8y ago

   BigQuery is usually intended for data warehouse use cases, where missing the most recent 23 hours of data is less of a big deal. It's intended to feed things like exec dashboards, not production systems.
10. 250.▲
    by lukasb 8y ago

    Had to scroll three-quarters of the way down the page to find the first person who read the article. Hi!
11. 251.▲
    by lukasb 8y ago

    "Autechre are my Phish." Haha, so accurate. I don't usually play Autechre when my roommates are home.
12. 252.▲
    by lukasb 8y ago

    Is it possible to operate a lightweight forwarding service, so my address is portable across servers?
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    by lukasb 8y ago

    I wouldn't care if it was 100 feet closer. I think it's going to be easier to build housing than to make network effects in industries not matter. You can just smear the companies across the country like they're butter.
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    by lukasb 8y ago

    I live in a Victorian in the Castro. There's a four (?) story housing project down the block. It's 100% fine. I understand not everyone feels that way, but we have a housing crisis, and housing people is more important than views.
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    by lukasb 8y ago

    I can't find anything on metatalk that looks like sniping at cortex - but then, I'm way out of the MeFi loop at this point. Link?
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    by lukasb 8y ago

    Fantastic comment. Love the chess example. Thanks.
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    by lukasb 8y ago

    Standard economic theory predicts that the market will underfund public goods - goods where one person's consumption doesn't diminish another person's capacity to consume. R&D is a public good: https://www.asm.
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    by lukasb 8y ago

    Ahhhh thanks for RTFA for me
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    by lukasb 8y ago

    It looks like they limit the radius of wilderness to the US border. The circle for Boundary Waters would be bigger otherwise, since the Quetico (on Canada's side) is wilderness as well.
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    by lukasb 8y ago

    This is SO COOL
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    While the general point is true, she actually publicly changed her mind about Strava in particular (which is amazing, all respect to her, no one does this in heated public debate.) https://twitter.com/zeynep/status&#x2F
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    I agree in general, but this is a service whose sole purpose is collecting route and time information about your workouts. It's a map-centric UI if you've ever used it. Strava just wouldn't exist if they didn't collect t
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    I thought this was going to be a way to translate arbitrary text into a universal "voice", so you could post online without your writing style giving you away.
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    WHICH blockchain, though?
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    Thanks for RTFA for me >.<
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    Volvo is very, very serious about safety. I'm amazed they're this confident.
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    Not just psychology, look up the linguistic turn in philosophy in the 20th century. There is support for a weak version of Sapir-Whorf, but in general any time someone says "the limits of your language determine the limits of your thou
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    The paper is available (in HTML even) and much better: https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/58/5/5.39/4159289/...
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    Except San Francisco is paying the price for Mountain View and Palo Alto being willing to add jobs but not housing. Arguing "well then those cities should build housing" is true, but misses the point: given that people can commute
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    by lukasb 9y ago

    You say "yet" but "and" would be more appropriate. The fertility rate is a symptom of, among other things, high child mortality and low access to birth control.