sammyo

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by sammyo 14y ago
No one here has attended a wedding or bar mitzvah? That silly dance is far from dead, which is not all that important depending on your social set but does give some doubt on the analysis.
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by sammyo 14y ago
That may be partially accurate, the large park in the center (Boston Common) was originally a public grazing area. But Boston was originally a small round island at the end of a long isthmus and many streets are spokes or perimeter arcs aro
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by sammyo 14y ago
I clicked through looking for an auo-micro-composting mechanism. And auto-harvesting. Did you have ideas about handling blights, molds and other diseases?
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by sammyo 14y ago
Once we have a society that lives, works and builds in orbit there will likely be active recycling.
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by sammyo 14y ago
Animators have used motion control rigs for decades, they had the same range of motion but were optimized for extremely slow but the incredibly accurate registration required for repeated animation shots. The lightness of contemporary camer
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by sammyo 14y ago
Does a broker of services have an explicit legal responsibility to monitor tax issues of the clients? Wouldn't that put an absurd onus onto services like craigslist?
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by sammyo 14y ago
If you had been around that generation of systems and toggled in a 30 byte program in hex or octal that loaded a paper tape or card deck that then loaded the actual OS, bootstrap seemed a reasonable term.
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by sammyo 14y ago
Oh that's funny, I went and actually read the article and his conclusion is exactly this point.
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by sammyo 14y ago
Best entertainment value ever: When one of the big jackpots was making the news I bought one as much to head off the conversation of why not than anything, but it triggered these incredible technocolor daydreams! I was not bored on the subw
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by sammyo 14y ago
That is for what is essentially a 2D chip surface. Certainly layering chips has not been a viable option so far but look at the various "nano" machines that have been in science news, today a micron-sized modle truck, perhaps the next/next
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by sammyo 14y ago
Not an uncommon Science Fiction theme. And at the moment seems much more likely than a FTL drive.
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by sammyo 15y ago
I wonder if anyone is looking at a hydrogen balloon/drone hybrid. Small so it's not a Hindenburg bomb, lots of failsafe, but the power/lift ratios might give it a significant mission duration.
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by sammyo 15y ago
The sailors that cross oceans single-handed use some variant of this. The reports I've read is that the first two days are quite hard to handle but once in the quite issolated routine it works for certain folks.
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by sammyo 15y ago
For coding and even designing systems minimal college is probably sufficient. Now in your spare time review some of that serious math, not just basic calc but real differential equations or the subtler bits of stats. Doing math is really to
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by sammyo 15y ago
For reasonably curated quite wide ranging topics: http://www.metafilter.com http://thebrowser.com/
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by sammyo 15y ago
I think you'd find out most significant software has some kind of testing, but if you inherit a quarter mil lines of code, need to make one focused change, making the case to spend six months to write full coverage just does not get funded.
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by sammyo 15y ago
The guy that can negotiate a huge robot sales contract and use that to do a leveraged buyout that puts him in the CEO chair is at the top of the chain. (what a lovely reddit style chain of comments ; -)
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by sammyo 15y ago
I heard a recent song writers music playing at the grocery the other day, how much per play do you think the artist gets for that? It would make a more accurate metric than trying to compare CD sales.
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by sammyo 15y ago
Looking through the list of deletion candidates I saw merging as an alternative to a delete.
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by sammyo 15y ago
I only had to type "do a ba" in chrome before completion triggered the transform.
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by sammyo 15y ago
A hook into Google book library reference 'available at your local library' would be awsome.
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by sammyo 15y ago
From the outside it appears that Netflix is reacting late to market forces and business partners. Netflix had seemed to be growing in size and more importantly 'clout'. The 'media biz' is run on relationships, trading huge favors and contro
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by sammyo 15y ago
From the small cheese manufactures I've seen it requires a long term love of the process and a resource, something like a family farm without a significant mortgage. The markup on artisan cheese seems pretty incredible.
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by sammyo 15y ago
From the comments from folks here who were hellbaned that then subsequently modified their behavior, the banning options in the software should have some easily review periodic samples of the banned users posts so they can be unbanned if th
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by sammyo 15y ago
It just helped me a lot. Last night I'd drilled down reading about Support Vector machines and seeing that chart put a bunch of topics in focus.
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by sammyo 15y ago
Not directly but ignoring a request from a court of law can quickly annoy a judge.
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by sammyo 16y ago
Hacker News should consider a "best of" list of some sort. Consider the sidebar feature on Metafilter.
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by sammyo 16y ago
There's some ad where the announcer states "available 28 days before netflix". I mean Netflix should be paying for such good advertising.
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by sammyo 16y ago
strong-ai-mode
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by sammyo 16y ago
7) Just can't start that diet. I know it's a good idea, I certainly do it informally to some degree, but it's not part of the culture, building up the infrastructure is a bother, but basically just the inertia of day to day stuff holds me b

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