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by pgt 6y ago
This is becoming true in South Africa due to the unreliable power supply from state-owned Eskom.
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by pgt 6y ago
Datomic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cym4TZwTCNU
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by pgt 6y ago
Neural macros? :)
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by pgt 6y ago
I loved the setting of Strike Commander! It had a far more complex game mechanic, especially for an 8 year-old: you had to budget to buy your missiles as a mercenary, outfit your craft and then go out on complex missions with waypoints and
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by pgt 6y ago
The term "positive association" makes it hard to parse. The results state: "most of the positive associations observed for meat consumption and health risks were substantially attenuated after adjustment for body mass index (
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by pgt 6y ago
Augmented Audio?
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by pgt 6y ago
I have four messaging clients running on my desktop: Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp & Slack. It's not dead.
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by pgt 6y ago
I am South African and I can corroborate all of the above.
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by pgt 6y ago
“We do not tolerate racist language regardless of intent.” – Baquet and Kahn
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by pgt 6y ago
We did this in 2009, called it “The High Test”: http://petrustheron.com/posts/the-high-usability-test.html What is the high test? 1. Find a stoner buddy who is high and drunk. 2. Instruct them to use your service. 3. S
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by pgt 6y ago
/me searches changelog for "`brew update` now runs asynchronously and doesn't block the process to install a 3 year-old package." Dismayed, I do not find it. Asynchronous formula updates would IMO save the most Mac man-y
312.
by pgt 6y ago
As a Colemak user, where do I submit a PR to rename this project to Arst? For usability sake.
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by pgt 6y ago
I work in payments and I suspect that real reason we don't have real-time settlement has more to do with legacy batching systems than any political reasons. It's incredibly expensive to certify these systems, so once they work, no
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by pgt 6y ago
They are working on their own hardware.
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by pgt 6y ago
Spotify being tonedeaf, or: how to ensure nobody buys your hardware...ever. They are pulling a Samsung Smart TV. Customers don’t like having their speech recorded to be recommended “relevant content”. What is Daniel Ek doing? Who files surv
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by pgt 6y ago
Thanks for confirming! What happens if this kind of thing happens due to an unintentional bug? Do execs go to jail for market manipulation?
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by pgt 6y ago
Could someone please confirm this, but as I understand they blocked buys but not sells, or the other way around? Instead of freezing the stock, it drives the price in one direction.
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by pgt 6y ago
I believe David can. If there is one industry in which a challenger can overthrow the incumbent, it is software.
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by pgt 6y ago
Genuinely curious - why do these drugs cost so much? Can we make it cheaper? I know there’s a lot of hit & miss and that the cost of the drug also covers the misses, but it feels like we should be able to do this for millions, not billi
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by pgt 6y ago
Curious if that tongue-palate trick would also reduce bruxism during stimulant use.
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by pgt 6y ago
It sets a good precedent for long-term dissent if consumers are suing companies for surveilling them. I am curious how the CCP will react to the potential long-term threat.
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by pgt 6y ago
Honourable mention for Petri Nets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri_net
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by pgt 6y ago
Hmm. My Dropbox Pro subscription renewal is coming up. Is there an alternative to Dropbox that isn't iCloud or Google Drive? I would like to pay for Tarsnap but I don't understand 250 picodollars / byte-month.
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by pgt 6y ago
I'm curious about how the Landauer limit relates to Bremermann's Limit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit Admittedely, I haven't done much reading, but I see it is a linked page from Bre
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by pgt 6y ago
The opening intro to Full Throttle: https://youtu.be/rf9xqsmO9m4
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by pgt 6y ago
Differential Dataflow and McSherry’s commercial SQL Driver implementation at Materialize: - https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/ - https://materialize.com/
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by pgt 6y ago
15 years ago I made a simple alpha-beta minimax chess engine for a high school Java project. 10 years later it was used in a Minecraft mod called MineChess: https://github.com/theronic/chessmate The Internet is wild.
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by pgt 6y ago
Share an electronica playlist and prove it ;).
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by pgt 6y ago
I suspect bipolarity is a feature, not a bug. It probably helped humans survive hard winters north of the equator by keeping us "depressed" and indoors during the harsh winter months and hyperactive during the more temperate month
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by pgt 6y ago
This feels like a Reverse Streisand Effect. I've heard more about this game than any other game launch because of the bugs + people on HN and Twitter saying it's cool, and now I want to play it.

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