newobj

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by newobj 5y ago
Nope, still the uncanny valley
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by newobj 5y ago
Start here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00XN8UG3C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?... The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
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by newobj 5y ago
No
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by newobj 5y ago
Wow. Did not see that coming. I love Bandcamp, tho strangely stagnant as a product, but I loved its chill communal vibe and lack of tryhard tech for techs sake. Wonder what the future holds with this acquisition.
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Ask HN: Operational Peter Principle?
5 points by newobj 5y ago|4 comments
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by newobj 5y ago
Mischaracterizing CHOP while critiquing a mischaracterization of CHOP. The head truly spins
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by newobj 5y ago
LOL only took them ... forever ... I left Amazon ~7 years ago to go to FB because my base FB pay was higher than my Amazon total comp. Nevermind FB RSUs ... LOL
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by newobj 5y ago
My manual average is 3.28. Smaller sample count than these solvers of course.
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by newobj 5y ago
Anime has a pretty severe "representation of blackness" problem ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi2_S6kBgIg is one video discussing this). I'm afraid to imagine what a model trained on that source content wo
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by newobj 5y ago
Unlike all the other questions which are subjective or philosophical, it’s gif with a J for f*s sake. It’s what we called it in the 80s, it’s what the creator called it, it’s Jif goddamnit.
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by newobj 5y ago
Probably the best web3 article I’ve read. Brava
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by newobj 5y ago
Sorry, when was this? Please provide a citation.
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by newobj 5y ago
Why does it top out there?
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by newobj 5y ago
I think you're projecting.
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by newobj 5y ago
Subsampling and dithering the shit out of something does not pixel art make. It's called "art" for a reason
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by newobj 5y ago
At last count there are 5 major operating systems with >100M users, how many are required in order for there to be "competition"?
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by newobj 5y ago
They also charge CRAZY fast.
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by newobj 5y ago
It’s an actually a platform and ecosystem in which some people make their entire living.
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by newobj 5y ago
The only person I've ever heard of being fired for an operational error was a principal networking engineer at Amazon who end-ran DNS policies and hand-edited a zone file. Somehow, the file got truncated. It brought down everything inc
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by newobj 5y ago
How is it even a quip? S3 already has "one less than S3", which is called Reduced Redundancy (R2). Just for whatever dumbass reason they branded it RRS :P https://aws.amazon.com/s3/reduced-redundancy/
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by newobj 5y ago
I feel like I remember something called “Super High Res” graphics back in my Apple 2 days. Is this the same thing as what’s called Double High Res here?
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by newobj 5y ago
Here's some prior art from 2002: https://neil3d.github.io/reading/assets/slides/data-driven-g... Seminal talk btw IMHO
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by newobj 5y ago
that much? [as in: i would have expected less. NOT as in: they deserve less]
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by newobj 5y ago
Wut? Phoenix metro area is not the bay or Seattle or NY. Everyone out there has cars. It’s hot as hell and things are spread out. Spend any time there: there are only cars. Anyone on a bus is down on their luck. Same with bicyclists, either
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by newobj 5y ago
Very astute comment
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by newobj 5y ago
Is there a more worthless degree than a CS MS? No offense to anyone who has one, only my condolences.
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by newobj 5y ago
Well, for starters, the arrays are 0-based, so ...
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by newobj 5y ago
It’s actually possible for walkability to have nothing to do with environmentalism.
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by newobj 5y ago
i think Kingdom Rush on Switch used love2d. might be wrong.
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by newobj 5y ago
don't you suspect that in practice they are self-assailing because a known-to-be-taken-over network will immediately go into hyper deflation?

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