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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
I just wrapped up Skunkworks and put the book down pretty impressed at what the DoD and Lockheed were able to keep secret. The author described Skunkworks' mission "again and again" as creating aircraft that were technologi
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
True, but like my gigantic unsorted bookmarks folder, I'm not really sure what I want to find. I like the idea of an AI tool that could help me not so much search specifically within my screenshots, but rediscover what I was recording
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Can this retroactively retrieve screenshots I've taken of Safari over the past? I've made a habit of screenshotting interesting bits of articles and discussions online, and now have the photographic equivalent of a gigantic unsort
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Extraordinarily claims require extraordinary evidence and reasonably demand healthy skepticism, but HackerNews requires engaging and thoughtful discussion. These threads are constantly full of the same flippantly dismissive remarks, as if i
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
On that note, even here in SF the Fillmore Pool Hall is a very fun place to spend some time, and BYO B or pizza is cheap. One thing I miss about life in upstate NY was hitting the old-school bowling alley with score displays that looked lik
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
I wonder how alike that is to how people felt when their local bowling alleys, pool halls, etc became less populated and closed down.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
If the treatment needs to be administrated by a doctor, it demands the resources of the hospital and connected system, for a novel process. It does introduce a real risk factor for the rest of the healthcare provider’s system and the other
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Unfortunately, only a minority of state OSHA codes include heat safety. Federal OSHA is working on rules, but they seem to be a long way off. https://www.constructiondive.com/news/osha-heat-standard-con...
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
I actually go out of my way to say “oh my golly” etc at work just because I figure invoking any specific deity might upset some people, but I can curse like a sailor in an appropriate setting with friends. Being respectful of others with yo
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
If you start putting cones on the hoods of human driven taxis at red lights, that will also cause traffic diversions. The tendency of humans to pester the driverless taxis more than the drivered ones doesn’t seem like any metric related to
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
You are the first commenter to relate anything like even a secondhand real life experience with oral birth control. This thread (edit: at the time I am posting this) is full of men with little real knowledge of this drug insisting on why it
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
And their gigantic IP portfolio includes Arcanum, creator of which Tim Cain is now under MS' employ. Tim has recently said he has the full source code to the original and the design doc to the planned sequel...
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
YouTube has its own internal micro economy of channels, networks of channels, etc that is thriving from ad revenue. Binging with Babish was “a guy cooking food from tv” a few years ago and is now an entire platform of channels. I think thos
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
>First, it is visually and statistically (p=.84) indistinguishable from a uniform distribution ranging from 0 miles to 50,000 miles [5]. Think about what that means. Between Time 1 and Time 2, just as many people drove 40,000 miles as dr
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Definitely great examples. Those games are fantastic, so unique, so full of heart, and just gone.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Just last weekend I wanted to play Cryostasis after seeing a playthrough on YouTube. It's a pretty unique mid 00s shooter that is relatively light on the shooting and heavy on atmosphere - you're a researcher meeting an icebreaker
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
To say your experience living in sf has been very different than mine would be an understatement, so please educate me why given your experience you think this would improve the safety of the city.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
The people complained about living on the streets of SF are generally doing and dealing drugs, not attacking random passerby. I don’t know what boogeymen this post is about, it’s completely orthogonal to the problems in downtown SF. Edit: a
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Your point that the franchise wasn't in a great spot at acquisition is noted, and I'd agree with it. I'm not the same commenter who originally voiced the broad anti-Disney polemic, I'm mostly just chiming in my general d
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
>Musk ships & changes things on the fly I don't think it's biased to be a lot less impressed by "things" like dragging your engineers in over the weekend over the threat of termination if they can't make your
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Indiana Jones, as a franchise, mostly exists to present-day audiences as a series of Harrison Ford movies. Which, to sidecar a bit, seems like a shame when the point and click titles made by the Monkey Island folks were absolutely fantastic
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Have you tried using the recently releases function calling API? That’s reliable at returning json in my experience, although I’ve just tinkered with it, not used it for anything “real.”
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Interesting note on Katerra, if you visit DPR’s headquarters in Sacramento, there is a vision statement on the wall from around 99 stating their intent to become to construction what HP had been to computers - winning by driving the cutting
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
I've seen the belief that Google Plus failed because of the long invite-only limited access period repeated here many times - if that theory is correct, Bluesky seems to be making the exact same mistake with their launch.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Aha, I misread “Norwegian” to be in Norway, not Norwegians whaling in Australia. Certainly makes a lot more sense geographically, I was thinking that seemed like a long way to swim.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
Died in 1930 when a whaler tried to bring the carcass in early, before Tom had his share (there was a storm approaching). Tom lost teeth grabbing the tow rope and washed up deceased with oral abscesses some time later. This was after most o
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
My windows computer has instantly suspended gameplay for me many times, often as a surprise. It’s the resuming that’s challenging.
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
It’s more like a tilt - I use it in conjunction with the regular analog stick movement. Together, it adds an extra degree of control, and gyro is a much more sensitive and precise input than an analog stick. It takes a little getting used t
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
If you start playing shooting games with gyro aim, you'll definitely feel the difference - because it's not even an option on Xbox. As far as the haptics go, the degree to which cross-platform games use them really varies. Cold Wa
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by mustacheemperor 3y ago
>The XBox controller also still lacks a gyroscope This is the big one for me. For me it is such an improvement in both "feel" and in my real performance that I cannot go back to a system without one. When MW2 released without g

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