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by mrexroad 9y ago
HUGE Babylon 5 fan here, but any sort of B5 film adaptation would have been a complete crap. Different stories need different mediums?
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Assume you mean the 20GB limitation being iCloud storage? Both iOS and macOS Photos can “optimize photos storage” and will build index of full library without needing to keep photos on device after they’re analyzed / indexed.
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by mrexroad 9y ago
INTP/J here. I’ve found most strong friendships created over over past decade we’re with very, very similar Myers-Briggs types. Wanna be friends?
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Clearly the answer is to upgrade several million cameras to 4K, 60fps, IR at night models. Then all can do facial recognition, APNR, etc.
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Again, why? FWIW I have a fancy degree in computer science and spent my childhood rebuilding and scraping together old 2/3/486 boxes. Yet I think it’s terrific that someone would be interested enough to enroll in a CS program with
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Haven’t read the novels yet, but have watched half of Altered Carbon series on Netflix. This was the first thing that came to and a resounding ‘hell no.’
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Sorry, confused here on why the pothole variant is more objective? If anything, the manhole cover one seems pretty clear cut?
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by mrexroad 9y ago
I ask this out of genuine interest... why does it matter? Why’d it piss you off?
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Can’t help but wonder if in another 40 years, if this sentiment be viewed as being absurd, similar to how we’d find hypothetical comments from 35-40 years ago as absurd: personal computers being nothing more than calculator or hobby, and “n
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by mrexroad 9y ago
I lost my daughter 6 years ago this month to a very, very similar scenario. Multiple visits to doctor over the week, small improvements, then on Sunday a decline. Went to ER, where she fought the nurse enough such the nurse wasn’t too conce
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by mrexroad 9y ago
No, of course not, because people likely think, “wow I gotta get this on YouTube and see what happens when I touch it.”
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Bummed about that. Enjoyed the premise. However, definitely not cheap to shoot on location across 5 continents (although i very much enjoyed the detail and contrast it provided)
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Could also view it as... more usage == more data == more value
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Not only the catalog is rotting, but The physical discs have as well. We resubscribed to disc service last year, but have had a surprising number of cracked or heavily scratched discs compared to years ago.
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by mrexroad 9y ago
> There simply does not exist another sustainable model to finance a complex product like an internet browser and provide it for free to consumers for decades. At least it also funds Chromium and WebKit...
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by mrexroad 9y ago
How so? I modded my espresso machine. Basic wiring changes, new temp probes and controller unit. put it on par with machines 1.5x-2x more expensive. Rice cooker mods likely similar.
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by mrexroad 9y ago
This one was off by a tremendous amount for me. From any user expectations POV, the NYT calculator didn’t allow as many inputs, which forced me to accept that it would be ballpark approximation at best. However, the visuals gave me a good i
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Same. My actual federal tax bill is at least 1.5x what the calculator showed for current tax code. Other things seemed off by huge margin as well.
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by mrexroad 9y ago
What about the role that private / investment banks have been increasingly playing in fundraising over past 5-10 years? Things seemed a lot different 10 years ago. I mean, some of us even had to take pay cuts to join pre-series A start
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by mrexroad 9y ago
I’ve been trying for 10 years and still haven’t made any meaningful progress; I’ve always struggled with language, even in immersive environments for several months. TBH I do prioritize spending the few hours I have during evenings/wee
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Fellow INTP here. The conflation of introvert and shy is a continual source of frustration. Even my immediate family was dismissive when I casually mentioned I’m pretty deeply introverted.
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by mrexroad 9y ago
another thing you may find inspiration from are algorithm visualizations referenced or created by Edward Tufte [1] "Excellent sparkline-like graphics from Robert Sedgewick, Algorithms in C (1998) Sparklines and sparkline-like graphs ca
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by mrexroad 9y ago
“click through rate from Google search went from 5.9% (Regular) to 10.3% (AMP), and average search position went from 5.9 (Regular) to 1.7 (AMP).” So ranking #2 in search results on average correlated with an increase in click through rate.
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by mrexroad 9y ago
To be fair, Netflix is less interested in that you liked the thing itself, and more interested in the attributes of the films you liked or watched to the end. Note, this is based on an article from 2014 [1], but a good read nonetheless. [1]
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by mrexroad 9y ago
IIRC, there was a Reddit thread where they asked elderly (or elderly relatives of redditers) what the greatest technological advancement was during their lifetime, and indoor plumbing was more of a leap than the Saturn V taking humans to th
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by mrexroad 9y ago
Goodheart's Law [1]: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by mrexroad 9y ago
exactly. in 2003 people wanted "phones." in 2017 people want computers in their pockets, without thinking of them as "computers" my question: how long until we abandon the mental modal and service contract model of these
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by mrexroad 9y ago
IIRC Sandy then started a popular cosmetics company (Urban Decay) in the late 90's
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by mrexroad 9y ago
For “real coding” sure, that holds true. But as for what got me hooked, and what made me study CS, it was LOGO and seeing the turtle do really neat images with surprisingly few instructions—I still have a vivid memory of that day and that f
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by mrexroad 9y ago
This. Over and over and over. Really enjoy seeing them gain new insights of same film every dozen viewings or so (light sarcasm, mostly truth).

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