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by mdonahoe 5y ago
https://youtu.be/hbLiehrC2DQ?t=1443
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by mdonahoe 5y ago
You know this isn’t the live audio app, right?
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by mdonahoe 5y ago
They probably lowered the max bitrate for 360p videos.
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by mdonahoe 5y ago
If Apple started demanding 30% of Snap’s ad revenue, I’m sure Evan would change his tune.
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by mdonahoe 5y ago
Numberphile has a bunch of fun videos starring Neil Sloane, the creator of the OEIS. He gets really excited about graphs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAMgUB51XZA
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
Very cool. I was imagining a recursive pendulum where the second link was another recursive pendulum... but this was cooler
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
Descript is an excellent product. Congrats!
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
The fatality rate stats are interesting. Has anyone down an independent analysis? If all the risky tesla owners use Autopilot, then you’d expect the remaining human piloted miles would be safer. Tesla accidents are already better than the a
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I’m so glad this post is still around. I cite it a lot when discussing creative tools with people who think that visual is the only way to go. Obviously the best computer tools offer both visual and textual ways of working. But if you have
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
The original Deus Ex is excellent, so he’s right
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
thanks for the link!
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I'm wondering if I'm the only one who found that book too weird to read... and I'm hoping there is more approachable material available
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
Doesn’t webrtc use UDP?
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I struggled to read Spaceship Earth this past summer. Are his lectures better?
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
How is this damning? Seems consistent with public messaging
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
Where do they go next? DigitalOcean? Linode?
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
They are simplifying the presentation for educating a wider audience of non-ECEs. This is not a new phenomenon in human communication. But we’re all just blobs of meat, that’s true. Maybe one day Apple will better tailor their marketing to
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
Should have called it Tight
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
HN isn’t exactly a bastion of free speech either
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I got a tv with built-in Roku, and its actually pretty nice. I can change volume, select hdmi inputs and power on/off the tv with the Roku remote (and app) now.
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I doubt the author even got a direct line with Buffett. Really really successful people have handlers that say no to everything.
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I like this article better, which argues that we are potentially entering a new eon, rather than just a new epoch https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/12/18/506036420/a-pla... This quote was
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
Do you recommend that book?
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
Maybe I misinterpreted what the author is trying to say by using Conway as an example, but I don’t think Conway discovered the Monster group. He credits Fischer and Griess. Conway just referred to it as a monster while corresponding with Fi
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
Yeah but I don’t like it
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I was thinking redwoods are like rich people. Their scale gives them unfair advantages compared to other plants. Also metaphors make weak arguments.
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
He’s trolling you
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I prefer the urbandictionary definition: “Trolling on-line forums as described above is actually analogous to the fishing technique of “trolling”, where colorful baits and lures are pulled behind a slow moving boat.”
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
He’s a benevolent troll, like 3YearLetterman.
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by mdonahoe 6y ago
I’ll post in 25 years in the future once I brute force this hash.

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