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by ponker 6y ago
Well that is how Gmail works if it finds a contact in your address book... type the name and it autocompletes. You could be on the receiving end of autocomplete failures that go unnoticed by the sender.
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by ponker 6y ago
Sure, there are a lot of things that anyone can do. The fact is that the harder you make things, the fewer people will do them, the easier you make things, the more people will do them. You can avoid processed junk food and stay healthy b
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by ponker 6y ago
Why would I let my bookmarks get trapped inside the site owner’s database?
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by ponker 6y ago
This is a tricky one. The majority of worldwide software revenue comes from companies in the North Hemisphere who read left-to-right, so most globes are oriented this way.
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by ponker 6y ago
Effective CEOs very often micromanage details of their company's core product. The most famous was of course Steve Jobs. Here is a quote from former Disney CEO Bob Iger showing that he gives creative feedback on their flagship properti
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by ponker 6y ago
I don't know about "immoral", but based on my younger acquaintances' experiences on Tinder, I believe that in the long-term it and its peer services will be seen as equally destructive to Facebook -- what Facebook did to
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by ponker 6y ago
I hope that you get her, when you do, don't tell her what a piece of shit her mother is. Don't burden your daughter with that, shoulder it yourself.
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by ponker 6y ago
I hope you’re lawyered up and ready for a fight for your daughter. Good luck, god knows you’ll need it.
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by ponker 6y ago
Jensen’s stovetop is the billionaire’a equivalent of a tricked-out RGB setup.
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by ponker 6y ago
> Once you realize that we do not understand how to make graphics look real, the pattern appears everywhere. Yet no one will acknowledge it. Making graphics that look real is almost equivalent to the Turing Test, I think plenty of peopl
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by ponker 6y ago
> It's far more important than wide gamut or 8K. This is just a matter of opinion. Wide gamut is more important to me, latency is more important to you.
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by ponker 6y ago
The drivers are sitting 10 feet away, they’re not just abandoning them.
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by ponker 6y ago
Without any of the founders and Elon Musk there would be no Tesla Model Y. Doubt there are very many engineers about whom the same could be said. In totality the individual contributors are more important but Elon Musk is the person without
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by ponker 6y ago
What you’re saying is that the more you know the more you can learn from the world’s best. That is in fact what a masterclass is — a class for experts by a master.
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by ponker 6y ago
The graph means very little without a comparison line of “all programming jobs” and/or “all jobs.”
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by ponker 6y ago
I have criticized Trump in internal messages at work, that doesn’t mean my employer is structurally biased against the Trump administration. Not sure this would even be the case if I was CEO. The CEO of any company votes one way or the othe
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by ponker 6y ago
I mean it's obvious that I can't convince you that a generic 10 year old shouldn't be left to roam the Internet freely, so I'll refrain from trying further.
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by ponker 6y ago
There's a Pacific Ocean between "they're stupid little humans" and "they can have free roam of the Internet and make their own decisions about content." Look how effectively antivaxxers, flat-earthers, and QAno
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by ponker 6y ago
A 10 year old isn't even nearly old enough to be able to make accurate judgments about their own limits, or more broadly, their inner selves. There certainly are some 10 years olds who can, and maybe you were one such 10 year old, but
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by ponker 6y ago
There’s a great Jazz club+Ethiopian restaurant in SF called Sheba that has “penne pasta” on their menu for people who want the Jazz but are too numpty to eat Ethiopian.
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by ponker 6y ago
It probably is in Musk's interest too. Musk has earned the benefit of the doubt in trusting his decision as to "should Very Smart Person X be employed by Neuralink" or not. There's a lot more to making a company successf
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by ponker 6y ago
Elon Musk leaves a trail of destruction with the early employees of his companies but the results are tremendous and have huge implications for humanity. I'll give Musk the benefit of the doubt at this point.
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by ponker 6y ago
Those 94% are never going to generate revenue for “image-sensors-world”... why waste bandwidth on them?
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by ponker 6y ago
Gary Numan is an expert on lease hacking... now I've REALLY seen everything.
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by ponker 6y ago
So now advertisers will need to use “people who like Fetty Wap” and “people who like sailing” as proxies.
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by ponker 6y ago
Gary Numan on HN? Now I’ve seen everything.
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by ponker 6y ago
A lot of the people here clamoring for permanent Daylight Time get to set their own hours and often wake up at 10am. But is a less powerful socioeconomic class that has to wake up at 3am to take two hours of public transit to open a coffees
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by ponker 6y ago
Whether these stories are true or false I love them.
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by ponker 6y ago
Why not give them enough storage? 32 GB of flash is more than enough and now you get to sell a whole new generation of boxes.
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by ponker 6y ago
100 transistors might be enough for a “triangulation” circuit. Hold three RF emitters around the tumor outside the patient’s body and the robot will navigate to the point equidistant from all three emitters and start destroying tissue. You

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