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by samplatt 5y ago
Anything bound by epoxy (or any polymer?) surely will have a comparably short lifespan...
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by samplatt 5y ago
They certainly don't when they have have otherwise intelligent people using strong emotive language telling them that they're not important. There's facing statistical facts, and then there's just being flat-out negative
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by samplatt 5y ago
It was a media sensation because it was Tesla doing it, not because of what was being done. Tesla and Musk are attention-sponges and it's a large part of how they're still operating.
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by samplatt 5y ago
I was conjecting. Personally I think he held and planned to buy again on the subsequent dip.
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by samplatt 5y ago
"... and not at all because Musk has already offloaded his crypto prior to a public appearance where he bagged out crypto."
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by samplatt 5y ago
There's a really good joke about Ferengi political situations here, but I'm no economist.
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by samplatt 5y ago
It doesn't have to be a reliable indication to be an unsurprising correlation.
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by samplatt 5y ago
The early UEFI days were just a headache for everyone involved, really.
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by samplatt 5y ago
What is the famous S500K problem? Your comment here is the first result on google for "S500K". Completely agree wrt the other points though...
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by samplatt 5y ago
Soylent Green is on Netflix, by the way.
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by samplatt 5y ago
>It's just code and art assets after all. Paintings are just oil and canvas, fibres and minerals. >And no artist has yet arguably manifested a visionary work from a "game engine". I can't imagine anyone comprehensi
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by samplatt 6y ago
Though they definitely share production methods and tone and meter, TripHop is traditionally used when the artist is being experimental with form and and tone, often within the confines of a single track. There might even be a structure res
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by samplatt 6y ago
Short version - both the camera angle and the angle of reflection from the mirror are producing forced-perspective illusions. The object topology is not accurately shown in the camera perspective OR the mirror. This took me way too long &gt
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by samplatt 6y ago
There's also PowerAmp which (iirc?) was a fork from the apk. It's not perfect, but it's better than most players.
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by samplatt 6y ago
>We were very aware that big projects, be they software or home construction, don't ever go perfectly Most large projects have some central features/processes that are by their very nature both very expensive and very complicat
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by samplatt 6y ago
If you want to hide the writing process, there's always email (and other solutions). I will always ALWAYS prefer the instantly-visible option. In a world devoid of vital visual contexts like vocal inflection and body language, a visi
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by samplatt 6y ago
Never seen that ad before... TBH I really like it. Though watching it on silent kinda made me feel like it was an ad for a new Star Wars movie.
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by samplatt 6y ago
Nice read. The easily-youtubeable documentary (4x 1hr eps) Century of the Self also goes into the psychology of how America (and by extension 'Western' culture) became obsessed with materialism.
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by samplatt 6y ago
Your bar is way too high if Dire Straits is the bar for poor taste. Even for the 90's. Mark Knopfler's americana-spirit might be a bit much for some people, but ALL those guys are A-class musicians and they've never done a
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by samplatt 6y ago
'Course ya do! That line is chiseled in stone on the surface of my brain.
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by samplatt 6y ago
I think most of his fans would be willing to say that he's more than good enough at both, but that's looking at a career 35+ years in the making.
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by samplatt 6y ago
Already has, mate. There's no turning back, just a matter of damage mitigation, now.
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by samplatt 6y ago
Just because they're not required-classic-pop-learning for kids these days doesn't mean much. Do It Again gets radio airtime to this day.
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by samplatt 6y ago
Yeeesss, let's just add an extra 25 characters to our user's root directory. Oh and also add capitals and spaces to it, within a system that typically hates those.
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by samplatt 6y ago
Also, here's a 1hr 20min podcast on it, which goes into a lot more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56N5wwu7BzE
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by samplatt 6y ago
They're easy and cheap to buy from arduino stores (or similar). The only part of their shopping list that I don't have in my general "unfinished projects" bin is the pan/tilt gimbal. I've built one manually bef
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by samplatt 6y ago
>Because of this, I normally work about one day trickle out my changes during the the week. Sounds like the Change tool chain is way, WAY more efficient than my "20k+ employees corp but not FAANG" general career experience... M
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by samplatt 6y ago
>Glad to see my technical debt has gone full circle, and become the bleeding edge This exact cycle is why I'm starting to feel serious burnout in this industry. Even when I look to other related branches of data analysis, everything
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by samplatt 6y ago
Rio Tinto runs some inhouse software that utilises (amongst other things) Google Earth Pro for analysis of open-pit minesite walls, constantly scanning for movement or changes that could lead to instability of a wall or road.
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by samplatt 6y ago
>I don’t think it’s costing them anything. It's almost certainly costing them LESS, since there'd be less of a focus on development AND it'll use less bandwidth due to smaller preview thumbnails and no preview video... tha

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