noizejoy

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by noizejoy 6y ago
At least in the more remote parts of Canada, hitting a moose at high speed has a very good probability of taking you out along with the moose. So driving respectfully at night is a really good idea.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Maybe the first few chapters of “Sapiens”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Hu...
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I'm very sorry to have offended you.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
lol - everything you say is right and eloquently stated! My over-simplified version would just say “precise communication of even moderately complex facts is incredibly hard”. And that’s human to human communication, of which system to syst
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Playing guitar is good for the fingers, but even better for the soul!
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Legal title isn’t the end-all depending on how the entire contract is structured. e.g. A home owner may hold legal title to a home, but the mortgage is a side contract that may show that the bank may hold more than half of the entire home v
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by noizejoy 6y ago
This kind if rebadging has been happening in many industries for a very long time. I bumped into this first, way back in the heyday of CD burners, deep diving on all the info and comparisons I could find. The high end Sony and some bargain
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by noizejoy 6y ago
You should have added a “trigger warning” to your submission - as a courtesy to those of us, who’ve experienced and then escaped that world. :-)
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> What factors make you want to get out? One of the most remarkable differences between most of Europe to most of North America is average physical space per person. That difference manifests itself in myriads of ways, from less regulati
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Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine(techcrunch.com)
19 points by noizejoy 6y ago|4 comments
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by noizejoy 6y ago
The Amiga was far ahead on several fronts including digital audio and video, but the Atari ST was the platform of choice for midi using musicians. A couple of today’s biggest DAWs (Steinberg Cubase & Apple Logic) have their roots on the
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by noizejoy 6y ago
+1 for Lattice C (I had the Atari version). Wrote my first little Midi monitoring program with that one!
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Not always islands, if you had a modem and a phone line. Pre-Internet were increasingly numerous BBS systems, from big one’s like AOL and CompuServ to medium sized one’s like GEnie and many tiny independents. Instead of remembering URLs you
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Paying for things in more detail has many advantages, including penalizing waste and rewarding better ideas. An exception is insurance, where you try to generalize the costs of “bad luck”.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> Updates to things I trust my family's life and health to should be classified like recalls But modern luxury cars also feature many components that have little to do with safety.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I agree with you - for tools I use on a daily basis. However, since my interests vary considerably, and therefore I dabble with lots of different tools, the difficult-to-learn tools never get enough traction in my limited human memory to ge
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Over the years I've frequently seen Google search results showing things that require login to the indexed site. Has that changed?
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I don't think this is targeting human views - but it's targeting Google for SERP (Search Engine Results Pages) boost.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
You’d be surprised how often this works - especially when there’s a wide discrepancy of expertise between the person doing the work and the person approving and/or paying for the work and the latter feel compelled to put their stamp on
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> the geometry is too big I agree, and find it even more difficult to understand this design direction in our age of ever increasing screen resolutions.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
The problem with winter tires is in regions where you get fewer than 10 days of snowy roads per year. That’s where AWD plus traction control are really helpful. And that technology is also useful on wet or dusty roads, not just on snow.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Do source ips still help at all? These days it seems to be rather easy to visit a website from numerous different source ips.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
An upvote doesn’t necessarily imply lack of knowledge of this existing.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
to be fair, it took a couple of millennia to get to the current numbers ...
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I find it deeply fascinating that a certain percentage of Internet commenters feel compelled to make unprompted public predictions, rather than waiting for reality to unfold.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
... and potentially anti-virus software also slows things down on the way to a file becoming fully usable
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Still clutching his puck mouse[0] ... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_USB_Mouse#Design_and_cri...
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Interesting - but that hasn’t been my experience. I removed that U2 album shortly after it was included in my library, and it hasn’t shown up on any of my devices since then.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
It’s also common to say stars are dying.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I’m sure, these people[0] don’t mind: [0] http://www.nic.one/

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