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by saulrh 11y ago
Given how many non-obvious but easily-solvable problems there are with package management... this might actually not be a terrible idea. The biggest issue would be making it sufficiently flexible to integrate with anything that wants pack
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by saulrh 11y ago
American public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poliomyelitis_in_Pakistan#Repe... I do not want that shit going on in any country, but I especially don't want it going on in my country. Fuck that, fuck them,
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by saulrh 11y ago
They are indeed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_shi...
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by saulrh 11y ago
Convenience is a big seller. Instead of having to sift through the range of available options, pick them all out, get them in the mail, open them, read the instructions, run them and hope you don't mess up, interpret the results and ho
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by saulrh 11y ago
There are widely available search engines indexing magnet links; it's just that they're all other torrent sites. Each individual site isn't integral to making that content available, but the class "torrent site", ta
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by saulrh 11y ago
Independent of the original article, I would like to disagree with you. Forcefully. > Blech. I disagree that schools are responsible for any student's ability or inability to find him or herself. Schools are one of many gateways tha
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by saulrh 11y ago
Same thing happened to me, though in my case it was less of naturally bad technique and more that I have naturally weak joints that I tried using without sufficient other supporting muscles for stabilization. Missing a few http:/&#x2F
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by saulrh 11y ago
Poe's Law strikes again.
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by saulrh 11y ago
There's an even easier solution to that: IIRC elementary school kids are way more resistant to sleep deprivation than teenagers, so you can just flip the schedules around and start elementary school kids before teenagers. Downside is p
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by saulrh 11y ago
Different guidelines for different writing. I will readily agree that this list would result in awful poetry, but then again, uniqueness and individuality would result in equally awful technical writing. So it's not that this list is o
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by saulrh 11y ago
On the other hand, if you don't have the resources or skills to implement, but do have the (different, and often rare!) skills necessary to ideate, it'd be just as clear an injustice if you couldn't get anything for your inve
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by saulrh 11y ago
I agree with what you've said here: inventing things that are actually new is difficult and the people that don't invent things that are actually new shouldn't be rewarded. Patent trolls are a thing, and people patenting
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by saulrh 11y ago
> The idea is worthless without execution. As someone who's spent a ton of time in research labs and has gone halfway through the patent process a couple times - no, no it isn't. A lot of people think this and fail to recognize
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by saulrh 11y ago
This would be ridiculously useful for apartments, if you can find the space for it curbside. Large packages right now are delivered in one of two ways: 1) They leave it at the door. Risk of theft. 2) They leave it with the rent office, whic
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by saulrh 11y ago
Printing overnight is probably the intended use case, yes.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Backlight won't be an issue. LEDs like that have service lifetimes longer than your own. The switching elements in the screen burning in is another issue, but it seems like burn-in on modern displays (AMOLED) is a reversible hysteresis
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by saulrh 11y ago
Photosensitive resin printing using a cell phone with a grate above it for the pattern rather than a projector. Simple and ingenious. I am impressed.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Target a well-defined sub-market that Slack currently serves and serve it better by targeting it more precisely [1]. As demonstrated by the comments on this thread, there are a lot of people that all think that Slack needs to go in differe
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by saulrh 11y ago
Quite possible. I will say that I'd much prefer structured text that I can massage to my liking over an actual object model. Having things print and read JSON streams is just as good as having cmdlets push and pull .net object, except
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by saulrh 11y ago
If you like PowerShell, try using jq in your Unix shell pipelines. Ingesting data into json is still a bit finicky, but once you know the patterns you need to use with cut and a csv-to-json tool things become much faster.
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by saulrh 11y ago
Here's a case that I have published under before: Their software is ready for their own use for research by them personally. However, it has no help, documentation, automation, magic, or even small amounts of assistance. It doesn&#x2
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by saulrh 11y ago
Having been in this kind of situation before: because the software isn't ready for any kind of release. They probably spent a week gathering and tuning the parameters on the DSP for each individual phone they ran it on, and without t
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by saulrh 11y ago
I know, I know, the idea is incomplete, it needs some tweaks and refinement. It's just there to demonstrate the kind of power, freedom, and creativity we should be expecting to be pointed at crypto-capable open-source projects in the f
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by saulrh 11y ago
Like this: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/tp-lin... If they can't quite do that, then they bring back the whole "export-grade cryptography" thing, except they call it &qu
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by saulrh 11y ago
> I don't think we would live in a forced back door world for too long. After another 2, 4, or 8 years, we will eventually realize that giving the government a back door to the iPhone did not give it a back door to the myriad of oth
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by saulrh 11y ago
You know, cyberpunk fiction always theorized that corporations would buy their own sovereignty for economic advantage or removing pesky laws against child labor, the first amendment, or slavery. I never expected them to do it in pure, hones
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by saulrh 11y ago
> Seems a little like saying, you burn some gas and your car goes, and if it goes 80mph, that's just physics. So, if you want to try to use this metaphor, the situation is actually a little bit different. Try this: "Seat belts
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by saulrh 11y ago
Maybe they're extrapolating from relaxed instances that they've solved? If you know that humans can play pretty much optimally on, say, 11x11, and you know how much performance drops off with each expansion of the board?
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by saulrh 11y ago
> There seems to be in fact a very small difference between the aptitudes of the average players and those of the top players This is an interesting observation across many domains that involve "intelligence". It's actuall
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by saulrh 11y ago
I don't know why airbags aren't opto-isolated digital devices activated by simple challenge and response over canbus (read a single byte off address 0, write the same byte back to address 1 to trigger). I'd have expected pyro

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