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by nitrogen 5y ago
Drawing these fine lines is exactly what regulation is for. You can have air travel without having random people flying over and photographing your kids' backyard water fight party.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Can you link to specific timestamps where there were stumbles? I watched the first 8 minutes and it seemed like he was on top of things and answering well.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I bet if you searched for "CBP 100 mile arizona" or something similar you would find out.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This really needs to change with the mass availability of camera drones.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Moreover, just as you can stitch images together in space, you can stitch them together in time if you have multiple satellites, drones, dirigibles, etc. covering the same area at different times.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
This gets repeated so often I've come to believe it's not the right call. We need to think both bigger and smaller, and put the innovation first. We should also be looking at mitigations and adaptations, not just prevention. Is
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by nitrogen 5y ago
The OP has probably managed to eliminate Adobe and MS from their lives, so they didn't come to mind.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I've noticed an even more disturbing trend of learned helplessness and misanthropic Malthusianism in these threads over the years. Not a single comment, at time of writing, has had a positive tone, and there are very few actionable su
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I'm sure the folks at unreal don't want people to think "the engine isn't for shooters". Especially considering the engine originated from shooters -- Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Our perceptions are like an adversarial network -- we are always getting better at spotting the simulation, so simulations have to keep improving to try to fool our perceptions.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Possible reason: batteries need more raw materials than reactors, and at the necessary scale the mining might not be practical.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I bought a small wastebasket years ago that was the perfect shape, size, material, and finish. Lots of people agreed and it had really high ratings. Recently I wanted to find the official size to buy tighter fitting bags, maybe buy anothe
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by nitrogen 5y ago
it is expected to be all parents money or loans It's really problematic for large families, where schools expect parents of six kids to pay tuition as if they only had one kid.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It depends on what kind of problems you're solving. System integrations and ETL-type stuff where it's mostly data transformation and not too much logic are great for visual dataflow programming. It's a lot easier if you can
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by nitrogen 5y ago
whereas nuclear will not Why not? Why wasn't there a nuclear module (SMR) 20 years ago that can be installed in banks of multiple modules, just like a solar array made of multiple solar cells? Why should every single nuclear plant
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by nitrogen 5y ago
I guess movie soundtracks are the closest to that in widely distributed music, or artists like Aphex Twin. There's an infinitely vast space of potential sounds, and an infinitely long fractal knife edge of interesting sounds, and it ki
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Humor is one of the ways humans process tragedy. Our modern culture's hostility to humor makes the emotional aftermath of tragedy worse by removing this coping mechanism.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
It's perfectly reasonable to expect a developer to be able to recognize patterns and repeat them.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
A profiler will tell you whether a O(n log n) algorithm with a very high constant factor is better or worse for your situation than an O(n²) algorithm with a very low constant.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
At some point, languages and frameworks become as interchangeable as different brands of tools. Sure, you can have a favorite brand with strengths and weaknesses, but someone who's used one powered screwdriver or handheld sander can p
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by nitrogen 5y ago
those early Yamaha FM synths has a sound all on to themselves For sure, though the parent comment's video link was presumably rendered by software on a PDP-10. I've spent the last week of my spare time trying to write code to m
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Moray was my favorite 3D app back in the day, and then I fell out of 3D. Then recently I wanted to model a project I wanted to build out of glass, and tried to do so in Blender but couldn't figure out how to get refractive surfaces no
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by nitrogen 5y ago
On the subject of favorite FM pieces, this 1992 track from Jill of the Jungle (rendered by one of Yamaha's OPL2 chips on a Sound Blaster) burned its way into my brain as a kid. Still a fan: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by nitrogen 5y ago
You could easily synthesize something like this in real time now. But not many people do, which I think is a shame. I've kind of been following very loosely along with this DX7 series with some (not DX7) FM and phase modulation in my
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by nitrogen 5y ago
> > If you wanted to get access to what you had legal title to, well, that's an upcharge. > As for "legal title," you have "legal title" to whatever the sales contract promised. You own the car. You own
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by nitrogen 5y ago
(Not a lawyer) Generally, at least in the US, when you own a physical object, you can do whatever you want with it that isn't explicitly illegal. This is at least partially represented in the first sale doctrine. For a car, you have
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by nitrogen 5y ago
As for "legal title," you have "legal title" to whatever the sales contract promised. If access to full battery capacity at the expense of service life wasn't in the contract, then you're not entitled to it.
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Also agreed. I've had days where I was in a really productive mood and wanted some really high tempo music to go with it, and end up searching for 30 minutes and only finding things that slow me down. And other moods and modes have t
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by nitrogen 5y ago
Every recommendation engine I've encountered appear to be based on the idea that I care about artists or genres, rather than the sound profile of individual tracks. Spotify has the tech to do this, they've demonstrated it with a
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by nitrogen 5y ago
But people that choose to live in them really ought not complain about the facts of life of living in a city, specifically, that people are packed together like sardines. What happens in most of these HN threads is that people who live in

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