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by piyh 8y ago
The sensation is somewhere between having my soul sucked out of my body and having a terrible ear infection that impacts balance.
512.
by piyh 8y ago
Thought I'd dig out a Walt Mossberg classic from '98.
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The Palm Pilot Has Rivals but No True Competition(wsj.com)
4 points by piyh 8y ago|1 comments
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by piyh 8y ago
What do you mean by pulled up the edges?
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by piyh 8y ago
Cry havoc and let loose the null pointer exceptions
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by piyh 8y ago
A lot of older people had stable retirement pulled out from underneath them with pension cuts
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by piyh 8y ago
Being able to open up and read the video transcript has saved me hours
518.
by piyh 8y ago
Your definition of "really addictive" is only yours. To find the broadly addictive apps, open up top grossing in an app store and count how many places down the slot machine games are.
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by piyh 8y ago
I found this youtube talk a while back. It's given by a consultant who's selling these skills and has slides titled "Use of coercive monitization". Some of the more disturbing parts are when he highlights forum posts ab
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by piyh 8y ago
I guess they like hiring more devs to do less work.
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by piyh 8y ago
Also see https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nuclear-bombs-made... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight Blindsight is an amazing phenomenon with its implications for intelligence without
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by piyh 8y ago
Difficulty != brain power requirement. Flipping heads on a coin 20 times in a row is difficult, but doesn't require thinking. Flipping a water bottle to land is difficult, but doesn't require critical/analytical thinking ski
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by piyh 8y ago
As a person who wants to move from analyst to data scientist, this makes me aware I should probably take some techno ethics as well as learning stuff like R and analytics
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by piyh 8y ago
Playing PUBG in a squad with strangers. Having to deal with the tens of people involved in my home buying process and deciding how well to treat them based on their impact to the process and personal bias. Playing Euchre/board games wi
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by piyh 8y ago
They could look to beat the i5-8400 in gaming perf. Don't really care though since gaming is an afterthought for the ryzen/threadripper plan to own the server market.
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by piyh 8y ago
The run of the mill iPhone 5C camera that people I know have is a pile of trash. Compare new $700 phones to $700 phones.
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by piyh 8y ago
Fracking is about 5000 ft down, aquifers are generally 500 to 2000. What's the mechanism for the contamination?
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by piyh 8y ago
This is the link I was looking for in the comments, thanks.
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by piyh 8y ago
It's a rational analysis of some of the worst experiences a person can go through. It wasn't written to wrench your soul like Sophie's Choice and gives a great look at the human psyche pushed to its limits.
530.
by piyh 8y ago
In game theory chicken the unpredictable one wins more often, as long as they don't self destruct.
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by piyh 8y ago
Rising cost of goods.
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by piyh 8y ago
The distractions don't go away once you step in an office.
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by piyh 8y ago
In 500 years we've gone from signalling towers to lasers, fiber and RF. If someone got a 10,000 year jump on us and has a technological improvement rate close to us, we don't know the scale, frequency, or means of communication.
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by piyh 8y ago
Sounds to me like driverless cars are easier than redesigning existing cities.
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by piyh 8y ago
How is building in a desert more difficult than building on a plain? Water is a municipal problem, not the builder's.
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by piyh 8y ago
First organ transplant was 64 years ago. I hope in another 64 years we look back on our current system like we do leeches now.
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by piyh 8y ago
Fake product reviews are insidious with the huge reliance on them when buying products you've never held.
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by piyh 8y ago
No level of voice activation can work well with Cherry Blues
539.
by piyh 8y ago
Zoom has to have focus which rules out using PTT while presenting or multitasking while meeting.
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by piyh 8y ago
I'm worried about the social ramifications and moving us one step closer to "post-truth". Not much we can to do stop it at some point, but if a certain pee tape came out in the next year, there'd always be a reasonable

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