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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/01/25/
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
This kind of speaks to a premise discussed later on in the article regarding the manner in which the gist of interesting trivia tends to drift as time passes, the longer trivia is in play and the greater currency it gains among laymen and n
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
For example, there’s no truth to the idea that the brain is half android and half artist, with a left hemisphere dedicated to logic and analytical thinking and a right hemisphere for intuition and creativity. But! Each h
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
Wow, horrible title. Save Indians the blushes? I have no idea what that is supposed to mean. A sensible title would be more like: Shortage of dermatologists in India could be remedied with AI .
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
Hush! Don't speak of such things, or before you know it there will be DRM enforced IoT dongles with 4G cellular radios, requiring a subscription plan and annual fee before the guitar pick-ups will serialize their signal to a 1/4 i
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
WPM is an archaic metric, and as my top speed I target only a reasonable conversational pace in chat windows, comparable to verbal conversation. Anything more is kind of a waste. As long as people don't feel like my pace of typing is l
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
What a terrible idea. The ~15 year-old trilogy remains awesome, and needs no competitor. This is just going to needlessly mutate a familiar and well-received thing. If Amazon wants to do something new, then Amazon should do something new un
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
These days, though, there's an odd mix of typists, because everyone is self taught, and most people have begun typing as soon as they learn how to read and write. Both touch typing and hunt and peck typing are in severe decline. Mobile
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
Since when is voluntary experimentation on a test rig, under controlled circumstances, criminally stupid? It’s not like this was a passenger flight. It would warrant criticism if the pilot tried it without informing the crew prior to takeof
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
If you read the parts where they mention “buffeting” that’s the dangerous part, where uneven airflow introduces instability, causing the airframe to rattle. Buffeting occurs when the soundwaves of the noise of the craft and its motion direc
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
tricking business Is that supposed to be " trucking business" or is there some other business like souping up automobiles, referred to in a regional dialect I'm unfamiliar with? EDIT: ...probably one of the anticipat
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
I was with you until you mentioned Seinfeld.
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
It's really weird to me that you've caught some downvotes for this benign and not innaccurate remark. I've upvoted you to compensate, but to no avail.
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
Most commodity ballpoint pens didn't have rubbery grips prior to the mid 1990's. I remember back-to-school shopping at the end of one summer, and most of the bags of pens were upgraded to have built-in grips. Prior to that, you&#x
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
It means the whole server-side JDK API, including the servlet spec, jsp libs and JDBC SQL framework under the javax.* packages, whether actually distributed as part of the JDK or not. [0,1,2] [0] http://docs.oracle.com/javae
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
This is the most "out there" thread, involving emerging technology, that I've seen on HN in a while.
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by qwerty_asdf 9y ago
This person holds a number of similar patents from the looks of it: https://www.google.com/patents/US8434019 https://www.google.com/search?q="Daniel+Paul+Nelson"
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by qwerty_asdf 10y ago
Probably was supposed to be steganography, since stenography is what courtroom reporters do.
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by qwerty_asdf 10y ago
I still fail to see why having a single neuron that circumnavigates the brain should lead to consciousness. Me too, but what an experiment it could lead to, and the questions it would answer. Reasons it makes sense include the
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by qwerty_asdf 10y ago
Well, there are a couple of angles on these machines: 1. An overload of Big Macs eventually becomes bad for you. 2. There's no real barrier to people helping the homeless by donating their Twitter handle to this minor
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
We're going to have to get the ball rolling somehow, when it comes to space fashion. When some of us get re-orged to that remote mining outpost and are forced to share quarters with some cheap, rubbery-skinned, impolite replicants, we&
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
Question: How secure is LinkNYC Wi-Fi? Answer: The LinkNYC Private network is one of the first free municipal Wi-Fi services in the country to offer an encrypted network connection between your device and the hotspot,
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
Uh, so... how will we know it's not being spoofed? And uh... how many people will know enough to be mindful on the total lack of encryption? You know, just like at Starbucks and the like?
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
Ugh! Jesus christ, I knew they tasted bad, but aside from tasting just like 9 volt batteries, I figured that was the limit of their unpleasantness. Also, the clickbait advertising on that site is just plain weird.
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
You can't stop us from snarking, Dang.
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
I was hoping someone would post this, because I had lost the bookmark! Thanks!
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
GUIs are there to distribute choices and permissible actions across a Cartesian plane, so that you can glance at a field of view, and quickly pick the thing you'd like to do right now, from a memorable/legible spatial arrangement.
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
The scientist, David L. Parnas, a professor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Parnas
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by qwerty_asdf 11y ago
Related: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/man-found-dead-tent-er...
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by qwerty_asdf 12y ago
I'm upvoting this because coffee should cost fifty cents a cup.

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