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by rboyd 9y ago
Is there any potential for AUVs in treasure hunting/finding shipwrecks? I've always wondered.
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by rboyd 9y ago
Great point. Also worthwhile is to consider the overall likelihood of success for projects you take on (and what it implies for future work, quality of life while working with the client, etc). I wasted a lot of time early in my career on p
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by rboyd 9y ago
I've only ever heard the term "coastal elites" from people the live near the coast and wish they were elites.
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by rboyd 9y ago
I'm having a hard time imagining how this hustle works. With the luminous ink or daub the idea is to see the markings from a distance. Here you would think you'd need to be fairly close with a geiger counter to detect the marking.
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by rboyd 9y ago
see also The Gervais Principle
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by rboyd 9y ago
I do an exercise where I'll visualize geometries. Starting with a point, then a line, then a triangle, a square, a tetrahedron, and so on. At each stage once you really have control over it (you're able to translate/scale&#x2
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by rboyd 9y ago
maybe the blog post is a clever way to get people to offer to help pack and load the truck
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by rboyd 9y ago
I think the community needs to develop a process ahead of time for determining how to deal with these issues. A good start might be: Can the protocol be made more robust against this class of error? Is the proposed protocol change victimles
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by rboyd 9y ago
how so? just from his posts?
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by rboyd 9y ago
I'm with you here, they usually come out in the repl. There's always spec too, if it really turns into a problem. Seems like we could have some tooling that raises a flag if keywords with a short Levenshtein distance were detected
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by rboyd 9y ago
this looks great. is the graph editor implementation that you used in botmock custom homegrown stuff, or is that an opensource component? something like this would be useful for a workflow modeling tool I've been thinking about for one
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by rboyd 9y ago
I had a similar experience about 2 years ago. I joined a team and my first pull request had more comments than my commit had LOC. There was a comment each for two libs I pulled in asking what the licenses were. Opinionated but forceful sugg
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by rboyd 9y ago
it's interesting to see the react-native detractors in this thread vs an Ask HN thread we had about react-native a couple of weeks ago. I wonder how many people could really determine an app's usage of RN in a blind taste test. co
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by rboyd 9y ago
this used to be me. constantly sick with sinus infection (like out of action for ~10 days every 2 months). I started dating someone who ate a vegan diet, and after adopting that diet I've been sick twice in 4 years and both times were
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by rboyd 9y ago
how long ago was this? our experience with expo has been pretty great so far.
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by rboyd 9y ago
you can see that this is also effecting tokens. check the whitehat effort (Token Transfers / View Token Balances) on this wallet https://etherscan.io/address/0x1dba1131000664b884a1ba2384641... . $30M worth of BAT,
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by rboyd 9y ago
let's think deeper. trustless processes can be hugely beneficial. ever buy a domain name on aftermarket? you either have to trust the seller or a counterparty/escrow service. ENS is live today and a deed can be sold under smart co
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by rboyd 9y ago
bullish. whenever the average HN comment is negative for new tech you know it's going to be huge. great guide here too.
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by rboyd 9y ago
Looking at this it appears the github large avatar for the-laughing-monkey user doesn't match the thumbnail image. Maybe it was recently changed. The large version is an illustration, but the small version gets hits on TinEye for Dan J
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by rboyd 9y ago
The paper linked on github mentions that people are limited to only run a single miner. I haven't parsed it all yet but I think they intend to use the biometrics/HUID to enforce this. Among other concerns, I'm not sure where
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by rboyd 10y ago
Easy to say, and I mostly agree, but it can be tough. I've seen a few of these cases of bully management and what you notice is that the team under the manager (and the teams around the manager) all already realize and communicate (som
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by rboyd 10y ago
I mean, he has a point. I'm all for fighting for privacy but what good does it do to pretend we're winning? We're losing / already lost.
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by rboyd 10y ago
For some value of "easily", these [0] [1] would suffice, in my opinion. Explaining something easily must also assume that both the instructor and the student have a level of mastery over a common means of communication and relevan
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by rboyd 10y ago
I'm with you. TAC was one of the first books I encountered that described out-of-the-box thinking, tool-building, and the hacker ethos of using a thing beyond its intended purpose (not to mention a healthy distrust of authority). I man
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by rboyd 10y ago
I'm with you on the cheese. I've only found one vegan cheese that I like, it's Follow Your Heart Provolone. If you haven't tried it yet, give it a shot! Great replacement on pizza, burgers.
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by rboyd 10y ago
Thanks for the writeup! I was on the payments team at Groupon and have fond memories of the same challenges.
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by rboyd 10y ago
That looks like awesome tech, but it also looks like your only major customers would be drone manufacturers or hardcore hobbyists/racers? Maybe perceived market size is the problem with your raise?
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by rboyd 10y ago
Which keys? I didn't find that to be the case -- but even if it were, one of the features of this keyboard is you can remap any of the keys to your liking. I had to train on it with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th
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by rboyd 10y ago
It's quite literally written.
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by rboyd 10y ago
Why would a 250 trendline to still hold relevance after the introduction of the transistor and the network? I don't think modern society is in any way ready to reoptimize for the accelerating displacement that robotics and ai bring.

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