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by marstall 5y ago
Do people comment more than I do? I comment only intermittently, usually if I think the code is going to be hard to read ... and it's not usually on the small details of the code I'm writing ... it does seem magic what they'r
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by marstall 5y ago
How does Codex make the connection between natural language and code? Comments? variable names? file names? docs?
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by marstall 5y ago
Also, the psychology of most people's internet browsing is that of a casual, enjoyable activity undertaken to escape from whatever else they're doing, with only a few moments spent reading a typical article. Insert a purchase deci
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by marstall 5y ago
It was part of the book, Arrival of the Fittest. The author somehow quantified the scale of the space of all possible chemical reactions and it was just so huge that the chance of the citric acid cycle emerging was just infinitesimal, like
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by marstall 5y ago
Doesn't hurt that FNF is a game with considerable polish, swagger and fun, even compared to platform rhythm games!
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by marstall 5y ago
I remember reading someone doing the math on these and finding that statistics-wise, it was essentially impossible for these metabolic pathways to have evolved through randomness given the age of our planet.
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by marstall 5y ago
interesting perspective on the "what are we going to do about drone attacks" question - I guess LeMay would say they're unstoppable and proffer the deterrence of having an even sharper and/or more massive drone force, ba
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by marstall 5y ago
agreed. it's so in tune with the developer/web ecosystem of 2021. the fact that my React SEO landing pages are pre-cached and served by a CDN with so little config required is slightly magical.
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by marstall 5y ago
what's your company?
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by marstall 5y ago
dubbing, yech
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by marstall 5y ago
And then there's Absolut, which offered a large sum to Tim & Eric to produce a video that mentioned Absolut in any way. This was the out-there result. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p0QtJMKt1s
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by marstall 6y ago
so would that be the <sassy voice> BYE-E!! </sassy voice>
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by marstall 6y ago
good lord.
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by marstall 6y ago
PSA: I made an alternative Apple Music client that has huuuuge album art - flush to the edges regardless of screen size https://shelf.fm
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by marstall 6y ago
Will wikipedia pass any of that $ onto the original sources for any of the knowledge its comprised of? Much of it of course public domain, but a lot not: news stories, published books etc. In the case of of professionally reported news stor
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by marstall 6y ago
how about this tool in realtime, a kind of biofeedback mechanism that trains you to look conservative, liberal, sexy, dangerous, harmless etc.?
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by marstall 6y ago
still leaves the micro- and macro-expressions, small grooming cues (makeup, no makeup, eyebrows trimmed or not), hairline, head angle vs. camera, lighting etc. These are all things that humans very specifically deploy to define themselves a
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by marstall 6y ago
theory: seeing as these are pictures that were very specifically "taken" in a given context - with a camera, by someone, for something (dating, facebook, etc.), would it be possible that the algorithm is picking up differences mor
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by marstall 6y ago
agreed! the pioneer kuro line was considered the high-end during this era. owned one myself. skin tones were blotchy compared to the Sony Trinitron I also had at the time but otherwise pretty good, far superior to LCD.
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by marstall 6y ago
kind of crazy that on this map japan and california seem to be on the same side of the Pacific!
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by marstall 6y ago
In the US, national TV news is on around 6 or 7, before prime time, and doesn't cover sports. That's left to the local news broadcasts, which devote 5 minutes to it at the end of their early and late 30 minute broadcasts. Local TV
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by marstall 6y ago
I just came here to say ... monosnap. https://monosnap.com
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by marstall 6y ago
gorgeous! feel like i was there. you can feel it was a special time and place - love the dot-matrix department office map, then the names in it come to life in the photos!
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by marstall 6y ago
would this be expected to have a (temporary) detectable impact on atmospheric carbon concentration (ie ppm)?
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by marstall 6y ago
very cool view on my checkered history of failed and abandoned personal projects lol. nice to have it confirmed they're not still costing me money though! one question. I have a couple projects on Amplify that don't pop up on my V
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by marstall 6y ago
so was the FDA?
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by marstall 6y ago
> platforms are oceans, no, galaxies, of lies, misinformation and manipulation. well said! depressing. i was so hopeful in 2006.
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by marstall 6y ago
might not cease to exist, but at least it wouldn't be spread so widely?
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by marstall 6y ago
I watched the piece. Here are the basic points it made (which I agree with): - Pre-internet, generally speaking the only entities capable of widely spreading facts about private individuals were things you could sue for defamation or libel:
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by marstall 6y ago
yes, same here. my first SWE job was at 26, now 52 and my career has never felt more stable in terms of my ability to get another good job if my current one fell through. i love what i do and have a strong motivation to earn, so I have alwa

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