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by richmarr 11y ago
Kinda misleading title. Actual article title refers to "A Material That Can Heal Itself" rather than Terminator. The actual material is more like a glue sandwich than a T1000.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> OK, as apparently .js is the defacto thing to build cool sites, I for one will be left out here. I doubt they're building it in JS for giggles. In order to make changes like this stick my guess would be that you need to reach a ti
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The signal/noise ratio bothers me too... exacerbated by promoted tweets, unconvincingly implemented 'while you were away' boxes, and similar, diluting the signal even further. I'm still stupidly holding out hope that one
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by richmarr 11y ago
How would you enforce that? Genuine question. Is there a reliable-enough-to-be-useful way to distinguish between types of API client?
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by richmarr 11y ago
child + startup = zzzzzz... huh? did you say something?
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by richmarr 11y ago
Interestingly according to this some of the species farthest from the line of best fit (in both directions) are bats. Pteropus Giganteus (Indian Flying Fox) appears to have an extraordinatorily slow metabolic rate per kg, scoring 0.044, yet
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by richmarr 11y ago
I agree, the article's assumptions are lined up to stretch to an attention grabbing headline, but... "99.999999% certainty that no human will ever live to the age of 130" is not the same as "99.999999% chance of an indiv
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There are two conflated points here. > ... things fall apart ... a wrecking ball... This one is FUD. I doubt there are many left on HN or anywhere else that hasn't heard this argument, and a similar proportion who don't know th
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by richmarr 11y ago
Have you been sleeping like a baby recently, but occasionally waking up and Helena Bonham Carter is in your house?
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by richmarr 11y ago
For a frictionless pendulum in a vacuum this is certainly true. The article repeatedly says they add weights to the pendulum though, which makes me wonder whether either (a) it's some connected mechanism they add weights to, or (b) thi
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by richmarr 11y ago
I'm sure you're right, but what domain of knowledge is religion expert in?
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Sure, I'd split this into two questions then... Firstly, what happens before all these automations happen. In that world there's no efficiency advantage over restaurants so a delivery service set up today has no reason to make i
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> Who cares, no one... why launch something like this without first curating some starter profiles? Kinda harsh. This is clearly a project rather than a product launch. If you ever post a project of yours on HN I hope you get a better re
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by richmarr 11y ago
There seem to be a few different models, maybe worth iterating them (UK examples). 1) An ordering mechanism for existing delivery services (e.g. JustEat, HungryHouse). The problem here is the delivery experience is opaque, non-standard, and
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This title is literally true for me. During the 70s my dad & his team built a programming language & runtime environment for realtime control systems in power stations. It was called Cutlass , and it's still in (dwindling) use
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by richmarr 11y ago
> android support for apple music Is that a thing? I thought Apple Music existed only to push iDevices.
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by richmarr 11y ago
> So Apple hacked... Think you misunderstood that aspect of jamesblonde's comment. He's suggesting the journalist is pushing Apple's PR for them. It does happen, journalists often use content PR firms send them. I have no
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When my four-year-old says "why?" I always prompt him to ask a full question. It helps me understand his thought process and give better answers.
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> I see you standing here as a person who is always polite and correct... Nope. I've had more than my fair share of disagreements, personal failures, and shameful moments. I've lost friends. I massively fumbled my first managem
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> I once got fired because I told some bitch... In that one line I think there's two issues you might want to think about. First of all, you're passing judgement apparently without empathising with where she's coming from.
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History and implementation status of Opportunistic Encryption for IPsec (2013)(nohats.ca)
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> That is, human beings are both things that are valued and things that value. I'm not convinced there's enough evidence to support the claim that humans are the only species that assign value to things. Maybe I'm missing
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Sure but, as redblacktree points out, you usually don't leave it behind in conjunction with your passport data. Also, with RFID you give an attacker more options for gathering more data without anyone noticing. For example at the entra
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This is actually a good point. Rather than putting your ID card or passport in a microwave (and breaking the law), you could just use an RFID-blocking wallet or passport holder.
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To be fair, allowing the arbitrary and (practically) undetectable leaking of fingerprints is also a no-no.
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> The money has always been into technology being a big lever for > profit, but it has never been accountable for the social cost Totally. A good start might be large companies paying equitable taxes.
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My interpretation of his comment was that it's not just 'capitalists' who are incentivised to keep labour costs as low as possible. Could be wrong though, was pretty vague.
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Huh, interesting. To look at that from the other direction... what are the implications if DNA is already optimally compressed? TBH I'd be surprised if DNA were optimised for size rather than ease of access, but admit that I know next-
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by richmarr 11y ago
This Github issue was news in May. If you're looking for a status update there's nothing to see here
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by richmarr 11y ago
> ... then they hire bottom-feeders... I don't work for Microsoft, but I'm kinda disgusted by that comment. By all means criticise their work, but calling them derogatory names is deeply deeply uncool.

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