purpled_haze

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by purpled_haze 11y ago
"For one thing people stop fucking with you when you're getting top of market comp" This may be true for some, but here is what I've seen and experienced personally + family members and friends I've talked with: 1.
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This Dumb Smart Fridge Shows Why the Internet of Things Will Break(ifixit.org)
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I thought this way for many years, but don't buy into it anymore. I still want to get paid as much as I can for the work I do, but I'm not any happier because of how much I make. Even today, I'm only happy when I've acco
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I'm an engineer. I'm not telling anyone to shut-up. I'm just making the point that before anyone takes stock options, they need to recognize what they are.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
"There's no guarantee that options will ever pay out" ^^^ this*1000 You can work for options, but if you can't guarantee their value, won't that be a let down? Why not work to do something good, that you believe in,
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
"And now, in part because of your success, it’s too expensive to own what you had worked hard to vest? Ridiculous." I think people expect too much. Companies don't owe their employees anything. They are businesses which aim t
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
It's got a better chance of falling down curbs and stairs more gracefully with two wheels? Getting back up is another problem, though. Also, it might be able to navigate spaces a bit easier. Finally, it looks slightly more human since
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Be careful what you wish for: try { // all your code... } catch (Throwable t) { } No Exceptions there!
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
I speculate that there is latent demand for it between older people that miss it and younger people that are tired of pure digital and want something more organic and different. Personally though, I would rather have something similar to an
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Description of crystal sync here: http://www.tobincinemasystems.com/index_files/Page269.htm "a camera's running speed is locked to the digitally divided oscillations of a quartz crystal, with an accuracy of a
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Was around at the time and "bare metal" was not a commonly used term.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
"The researchers had the deep learning machine and 200 human subjects at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing facility answer the same verbal questions. The result: their system performed better than the average human." Mechanic
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Scratch is the only thing I've gotten my kids interested in: https://scratch.mit.edu/ Unfortunately, it didn't last long.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
True, but I think if you made a video shareable by providing a straight up arrow icon that would then show a secondard submenu above it with the word sync as one of the options that would generate a hardlink that you could then email to the
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
The best part of CRTs: phosphorescence effects and vector monitors. When any other kind of monitor tries to imitate what vector games look like or how things looked on old television sets, they really can't do it justice. Stella (Atari
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Could you provide examples? I've not personally heard of the EFF backing anything worrying.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Referenced was the Freeman Etudes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ze845nRYc I consider myself a music lover, but people listening to 46 minutes of that while reading it to determine not one note was missed I don't u
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
https://www.batcon.org/pdfs/bathouses/MosquitoControl.pdf "Individuals of some bat species can capture from 500 to 1,000 mosquitoes in a single hour and large colonies can consume tremendous quantities. For
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Done: http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1671718-sli... + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m98agJUoCck
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
The world needs more bats. While bats will eat other more nutritious insects like moths, wasps, etc. before mosquitos, they can help control the mosquito population in areas where there are many mosquitos, and most of the insects they get r
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
Would Alpine be the best idea in-general to use as a replacement for Ubuntu even when not using Docker? What are you giving up by going with Alpine? Since I've never even heard of Alpine before today, I'd say you are at the very l
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
like gold
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
"Personally, I’m in favor of global adoption, but I don’t really care if it is used for more than just settlement." If you want global adoption, why not go all the way? Personally, I will never use bitcoin unless I have to, becaus
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> We do see new species evolve every day. We also see microevolution so commonly that it's a standard high-school biology task. Can you describe? My memory of high school genetics involved experiments with Drosophila eye color, etc.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> But yet, there isn't a crisis in physics at all since these theorists are so far removed from reality, I don't really care what they think. They don't really tell use anything useful or interesting so I tend to ignore th
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
This is neat, but I still wonder where people get the time to play games like this.
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
That's an occupation. Similarly, athletes in school may spend that much time or much more playing games of one sort or another, and there's nothing wrong with that. But, if a game or its marketing was created to be addictive and t
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
It isn't AI specifically. Any intelligence capable of taking over or shutting down a wide range of systems, or even just a few critical ones, needs to be closely monitored if there is more than a small chance of it causing massive harm
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> how would one even decide where the line between manipulative consumption and social signaling is? The mean amount of money spent and time played per week per user would be a good place to start. If any user is spending more than $40 U
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by purpled_haze 11y ago
> If your daily workflow includes a high volume of email, then it does. Not necessarily. For example, if you have monitoring software sending you all email notifications, you could change that to just write records to a database instead.

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