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by polytely 5y ago
I did Communication and Multimedia Design at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, and they did a lot of stuff like that: having a dialogue with your teacher or exams where you could bring a couple of handwritten notes. The largest part of the grad
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Another important point to consider is that by having these big projects you maintain the ability to do them, capabilities need to be maintained by exercising them.
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If I remember correctly, Google Earth originally came from In-Q-Tel which is the investment arm of the CIA.
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The Marshall plan however did have a huge effect on the post war development which was really successful
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But there must always be a point where the oracle interacts with the real world, right? Which immediately becomes a point of centralization, which -seems to me- kinda defeats the purpose of having a decentralized system
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It seems to me like it would be prudent anyway just to keep track of the news everyone else is still consuming, if you don't know what other people base their views and decisions on it becomes pretty hard to predict their behaviour.
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It's not a capitalist conspiracy, it's just the path of least resistance, if you are in the morning meeting deciding what stories to cover, it's a slow newsday and you have a press release from the zoo announcing the birth of
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by polytely 5y ago
Wait, is putting fake jobs on your resume a common occurrence? I must say that that never even occurred to me.
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but hasn't the productivity per worker been steadily climbing for decades, you would think there would be a stable point where that balances out
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on Android: rif is fun (formerly known as reddit is fun but they had to change the name)
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Yeah it's actually the part of the pandemic the government handled the best as far as I can see, they got it up and running really quickly
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The are currently rumours going around that Valve is developing a switch like portable pc which will be able to play a selection of the steam library https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/05/exclusive-valve-is-m
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I mean, I feel like the main requirement of it needing to be secure is basically incompatible with pleasure. I think it is about as pleasurable it can be.
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I have honestly no complaints about digID. I don't use it much but when I do it just works.
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Thanks for your work on Guild Wars! That game meant a lot to me growing up, it's really something special.
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Open back headphones, Hifiman HE400i (2020). It's really cool to discover more details in my favourite songs. I think I paid ~€200 for it. My previous headphones were the Audio-Technica ATH-M40x ~€100, and you can definitely hear the d
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I promise this story about microwaves is interesting [video](youtube.com)
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by polytely 5y ago
note that you cannot trust the knowledge box, I can't recall a specific example but I've seen some wildly wrong things in those.
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Elixir's standard library is so pleasant to use. Coming from the JavaScript world it is such a breath of fresh air,
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Proud patron of Wildbow here, I admire his work ethic so much, he has been writing 10000+ words per week for at least 7(?) years without interruption and the stuff is high quality too, great world building all around. https://pal
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by polytely 5y ago
I'm not really a racket user (more of an admirer) but every time I see an online book created in Pollen it looks amazing. https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/
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Well content ID is bad for some cases like classical music where if you perform a piece that is in the public domain it will get claimed because the system apparently finds it really hard to distinguish different performances of the same p
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I mean if you want to prevent people from being scammed you should do it at the conference itself right? plus it is way more fun.
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I think it is improbable that there are currently aliens walking among us, but these sightings seem to keep happening and keep getting suppressed because people are afraid to look silly. The whole point of the article is that you shouldn&#x
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The distinction is a bit misguided anyway because of course all stress and and emotional problems also happen inside the body and thus have a physiological basis.
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The problem is that Youtube is pretending that their shoddy sonic fingerprinting system works and is fine with 3rd parties using their dumb system to defraud their users
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That is absolutely the case, but because most screens emit light and white is the brightest colour possible it also makes the eyes more tired (in my experience, not sure if this is actually the case). So you have to find a balance between r
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Just a sidenote, but I really like the yellow background, it makes (similarly to hackernews) reading the text more pleasant and it's kinda weird that on average white seems to be the default.
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Or just a centaur model where the ai generate courses of actions and the human picks from those and/or modifies them.
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Does the incantation itself do anything or is it just a ritualization of repeatedly pressing the power button to remove all the charge from the system

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