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by patwolf 3y ago
The problem with offering car tech is that manufacturers won't want it. They hate the thought of automotive technology being commoditized. If they all use the same underlying technology, then there's less opportunity to differenti
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by patwolf 3y ago
11 p.m. also seems oddly specific given how different 11 p.m. can be depending on what extremity of a timezone you're in or whether it's DST. When I was a teenager the TV shows I wanted to watch usually dictated when I went to bed
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by patwolf 3y ago
Ever see the episode where Donald makes his nephews smoke cigars until they're sick?
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by patwolf 3y ago
I asked it a question and unrelatedly it started talking about 500 errors. I'm guessing under the covers it made a failed request and thought the error code was the answer.
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by patwolf 3y ago
Same. That to me felt more shocking than losing Pluto as a planet.
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In the case of the Panthers "Carolina" refers to both states, which is why the logo is the combined outline of North Carolina and South Carolina. Seems like a smart way to lay a claim to a bigger market rather than being tied to a
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by patwolf 3y ago
> Why didn't Masimo counter Apple's offers and pay their employees what they are worth? Was Apple paying them what they were worth, or did they pay them more than they were worth in order to damage Masimo? I don't think we
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by patwolf 3y ago
Duplo seems much more in the spirit of Lego sets from the '80s. Builds used fewer, but larger pieces. I enjoyed playing with the older sets because you could tear them apart and put them back together much more easily. Newer sets look
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by patwolf 3y ago
From a developer standpoint, I enjoy being able to look at the JWT and reason about its meaning without having direct access to the underlying session database, e.g. what user is this and when was it issued. I understand that it's not
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by patwolf 3y ago
Very nice. Guitar tuner apps are one of those things that should be really basic, but popular ones tend to get more bloated over time as they try to monetize it. You can buy a hardware tuner for what some apps charge.
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by patwolf 3y ago
I don't think driving a truck means that you're necessarily against EVs. The Rivian is proof that truck buyers do want EVs. Ultimately a truck has to provide utility. The Lightning just doesn't offer enough utility for the pr
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by patwolf 3y ago
This is fantastic. There must be some variation of Zawinski's Law that explains the flaming dumpster that apps/sites like UG turn into. I feel like MuseScore is going in that direction too. I was hoping by now we would have solved
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by patwolf 3y ago
I had the Maxis game El-fish, and the part of the game where you'd breed fish was almost unplayable on a 486SX because the SX lacked a math coprocessor. I wanted a math coprocessor, but as a kid in pre-internet times, I had no clue how
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by patwolf 3y ago
I do wonder if the problem lies with the banks or with the amount of federal regulation that makes certain customers unattractive. I had a small business bank account, and one day I got a call from the bank asking to go through my transacti
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by patwolf 3y ago
That last one seems like a pretty big deal though. It's not just how you tested, but "other critical information" about the model. I imagine the government can deem any AI to be a "serious risk" and prevent it from
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by patwolf 3y ago
I used to share that sentiment about GCP until they shut down a service I was using (Cloud IoT). Now I try to avoid GCP even though I really do like a lot of their products more than AWS.
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by patwolf 3y ago
I was wondering about that too, but the articles says they make networking equipment, like 5G-related things.
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by patwolf 3y ago
I remember trying to play the game as a kid and being too young to understand the answers to any of the questions. I'd just relaunch the game and try again until I got the questions correct through random guessing.
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by patwolf 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember back in 2005 when terrorist in Iraq claimed to be holding a US soldier hostage, and it turned out the whole thing was staged using photos of a doll: Original story: https://www.nytimes.com/200
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by patwolf 3y ago
It's crazy that 2 of the top 4 mentioned retailers no longer exist. If I look at a list of top retailers today, I have a hard time imagining any of them not existing in 20 years.
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by patwolf 3y ago
I used to purchase mp3s from Amazon, and there was one song that had a glitch in it, like it was a bad rip. I always wondered if they were using pirated copies as well. I just re-downloaded for fun and the glitch is still there.
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by patwolf 3y ago
A long time ago I made a needlepoint for my mother out of one of her favorite photos. I thought needlepoint was interesting because it's basically pixel art except much more laborious since each pixel requires a physical stitch. I ende
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by patwolf 3y ago
My dad had a penchant for repairing things using plastic handles off of disposable razors. This was back when razors had straight plastic handles, not the ergonomic, overmolded grips of today. We had one in place of the missing knob on our
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by patwolf 3y ago
I remember a growing frustration before the v4 launch. Early on it seemed to be an aggregator for fun stuff on the internet, but over time it become more and more political. The v4 launch was the last straw that convinced me to switch to Re
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by patwolf 3y ago
I'm usually a fan of shiny new things, but this might be the first time I'll make an intentional effort to not buy something. I expect it's going to be fantastic, and using it for my development workstation would be amazing.
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by patwolf 3y ago
I did a web app project with SSEs a while back. They worked well in the browser, but when it came time to build a mobile app (React Native), I had trouble finding a good library to use. I'm sure I could have rolled my own, but being in
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by patwolf 3y ago
Boomerang Fu occasionally goes on sale for $2 on the eShop. Even at full price it's one of the better cost/fun ratios of any game I've played with the kids.
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by patwolf 3y ago
Perhaps they're trying to create FUD around AI destroying jobs with the hopes that governments will restrict AI development.
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by patwolf 3y ago
I miss the days when I'd see a HN post to a Google project and be excited to check it out. I don't necessarily fault Google--they have to do what makes sense for their business. But I wish, at the very least from a PR perspective,
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by patwolf 3y ago
My kids go to a school that teaches phonics. Some of my teacher friends have told me that phonics is antiquated, so it does make me happy to see that perhaps it is the best method of learning to read. It has worked well for kids so far. I w

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