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by pronoiac 9y ago
Another name for serverless is function as a service, which might help clarify. No to both of your questions.
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by pronoiac 9y ago
That feels kinda familiar. My experience might or might not be helpful. I read about Getting Things Done, and I worked to track everything in one place, but I find that task tracking in two places work best for me: 1. Something like Evernot
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Aw, that reminds me of a story about the future Mars rover: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/jon-rogers-a-martian-goes-hunt...
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Usually, when you compress, it's with, say, gzip, rather than something custom for the data. The compression dictionary is kinda implicitly built and encoded along with the data. If you have, like, some standard data (handwave), you ca
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by pronoiac 9y ago
I agree. I can think of reasons for urgent updates - kernel security, software bugs, etc. - and this feels like it would lead their engineers to possibly support weeks-old versions of their systems. And they're running a multiple of th
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Heh, and that was a user reposting their previous comment: https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/_ARCHIVED_THREAD____What...
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by pronoiac 9y ago
On re-reading, I finally get it: it's Google Maps 1.0, not iOS 1.0.
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by pronoiac 9y ago
I forgot how much the APIs changed, but yeah, Google Maps used to be 2d image tiles, huh? It's vector-based now, which I think saves bandwidth. How else has it changed?
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Huh, a factcheck: there was a built-in Google Maps app on iOS until iOS 6, when Apple Maps became the default: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps
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by pronoiac 9y ago
I had to look it up: > "You only look once (YOLO) is a state-of-the-art, real-time object detection system." https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ I'd also include the "image classifier" k
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Here are some rough summaries: * Physics Barbie, a toy that talks physics * Meme-Making DVR, which would let you edit and remix video * Rein N Train, letting you selectively block private data, like loyalty cards or GPS for auto insurance *
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by pronoiac 9y ago
I use maps.me for offline use. Is there an official OSM app?
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Previously on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861136
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by pronoiac 9y ago
I think the tracking server is flaking out under load. I got "You will not be able to see the satellite within the next 2087 hours. Please check again later." for multiple places - San Francisco, Toronto, and St. Louis. Upon retry
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Hmm. Is it $0.60/min for the automated solution?
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Click the "Episode ___" link in the first paragraph, then search for "Direct mp3 download" on that page. I'd love to see more details on what you do. I haven't found a good automated solution yet. It seems like
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by pronoiac 9y ago
I tried to use this, but it looks like they have to review me for access. I've tried the IBM and Google transcription APIs on a podcast with overlapping speakers, and they turned out dadaist poetry. I've been meaning to check out
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by pronoiac 9y ago
There's a site for large prime numbers, and I wondered Mersenne primes have been the largest primes known - since 1992, and since 1952 with an exception for 1989 to 1992. GIMPS - https://www.mersenne.org - has topped the li
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Here's a page on the distribution of prime numbers. http://primes.utm.edu/howmany.html I tried to estimate how many prime numbers there were below this number, and Wolfram Alpha timed out, though I got the density esti
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by pronoiac 9y ago
1. Mersenne numbers (of the form 2^n - 1) are far easier to prove primality than other similarly sized numbers. It looks like there is a registry! Details for adding an item are at https://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/
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by pronoiac 9y ago
huh, Gigadiff strikes me as a terrible name, because it's actively misleading. Without reading the description, I'd think it's about diff that can run on really big files.
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by pronoiac 9y ago
This reminds me of None Pizza with Left Beef, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary: * original: http://www.thesneeze.com/2007/the-great-pizza-orientation-te... * anniversary stories: https://gizmodo.c
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by pronoiac 9y ago
> And then you have the people that pop up out of the woodworks in each and every single iPhone battery life thread to say "it's not that the battery dies faster, it's that the phone suddenly shuts off at 60% [or whatever]
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Go with iFixit. I've been happy with them, but I tried a cheap no-name from Amazon, and it refused to hold a charge at all within 48 hours. (I've mentioned iFixit lately; I'm just a happy repeat customer.)
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Note that says an employer, not a (potential) employee.
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by pronoiac 9y ago
For both of those: see ifixit.com . I trust their batteries and their directions.
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by pronoiac 9y ago
It's like Kickstarter's version of Patreon. More info: https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/introducing-the-new-drip https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704169
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Oh, they attached cameras to the back of the whales. Nifty! Edit: Blue Planet 2 apparently did something similar; this article has more details: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/how-blue-planet-ii-team-1...
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Huh, it's late enough that you probably won't see this, but I don't see an easy way to contact you. The wrong link is in your Medium post: "7) I won’t comment about the recent AWS/VMware partnership... Yaron Haviv,
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by pronoiac 9y ago
Tastes vary. With Ghosted, the lack of a mythology or arc was refreshing.

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