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by saulrh 7y ago
Ah, sorry, I didn't know what kind of wheelchair or control scheme you were using so I didn't know whether you'd be able to align yourself precisely enough to get the thing to charge. > If I understand you correctly, it m
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by saulrh 7y ago
I cannot plug my phone in to charge it up myself obviously Do you mind if I ask how much precision your conveyance of choice has? I've built docking stations for small mobile robots by mounting qi receiver pads [1] on the robot and c
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by saulrh 7y ago
The question isn't whether or not there's a dispute. The question is whether or not there's a meaningful dispute, and whoever's showing the map still has to make that determination. For example, I still hear people cal
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by saulrh 7y ago
Every model I know about is retained from scratch on the raw data as often as possible. There are several reasons for this: Anything derived from PII is also PII unless it is anonymized by aggregation. Everything that is PII is aggressively
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by saulrh 7y ago
F1 very purposely constrains technological innovation — again since the 80s — specifically to avoid technology being a bigger victory factor than driver skills. I'm not sure that that's a reasonable analysis. The res
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by saulrh 7y ago
Using a tor hidden service for emergency ssh access is pretty sweet and I'm going to have to go set that up for myself now. Maybe with an extra bit to auto-publish the hostname so I don't have to write it down every time something
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by saulrh 7y ago
I've been missing my Nexus 7 since it finished dying and have been wishing for a device with this form factor for years... but with a heavily-skinned custom android distro I'm not touching it with a ten-foot pole. MS isn't a
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by saulrh 7y ago
Unfortunately, people bitch about unreliability and brokenness when things forget about you. "Stop showing me that, I've searched for <name> thirty times today and I've clicked on the documentation instead of the porn e
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by saulrh 7y ago
I was going to say, this looks a lot like GCL. Dynamic scope, recursive lookup in parent scopes, templates [1], everything. GCL is neat and all, but I'd almost rather write my job configs by building thin python or lisp scripts to emit
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by saulrh 7y ago
Wild-ass guess: Some enterprise user determined that quietly funding it would cost less than rebuilding some bit of internal tooling that depended on it. (cunningham, cunningham, cunningham, come forth and correct me!)
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by saulrh 7y ago
Agreed. Cute, but often annoying. I suspect I'd end up pronouncing this library's name as "Jay eee aye sonn".
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by saulrh 7y ago
Am I the only person that consistently has trouble with trackpoints? Every time I try to make a large movement I get halfway across the screen before the thing decides it's drifting, tries to correct, and sets its new zero at the edge
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by saulrh 7y ago
I do think there's a difference between researching and holding an opinion and researching and holding an opinion that can be used to form accurate predictions about the future. I think that one of the things that's happening to u
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by saulrh 7y ago
> In a KV system you would have something like key and value as bytes fields. Isn't that kind of custom interchange format what they're complaining about when they say that remote stores just push the complexity to the client?
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by saulrh 7y ago
For me, the most interesting part of this article was the casual mention of "the Black Sea spoofing attack of 2017". Apparently an unknown attacker pretty thoroughly messed up traffic in the area by making everyone's navigati
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by saulrh 7y ago
> They don't get told "Mr Copper trace, you are going to do i2c and send XYZ data! and you are going to be a pci express and send ABC!" at the fab. Jeez. I do only very basic electronics, so I'm asking here in honest
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by saulrh 7y ago
> controlled by people with no ulterior motives. Everyone used to think that was Google. Anyway, if by some miracle you do find anyone that matches that description but knows where the lever is to kick everything over to a new paradigm,
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by saulrh 7y ago
Yep. Although, as I pointed out, IMEI randomization doesn't do anything if your payment and use authorization isn't also anonymous.
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by saulrh 7y ago
For the same reason your Ethernet card and wifi chip have MAC addresses, except the cell network is a single giant address space spanning literally the entire planet. Even better, it's paid-access you wouldn't gain anything by per
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by saulrh 7y ago
Getting the friction down far enough that they could get the thing rolling would also mean low enough friction to store a ton of momentum and roll it over someone's foot. This thing probably masses ten times as much as any manually-act
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by saulrh 7y ago
The sensitivity of our tools for detecting radiation never ceases to amaze me. In some ways it's a problem because most people don't understand just how good we are at detecting radiation. Like, not only can we find it in old bi
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by saulrh 7y ago
Why is it 'premature' brain development? This seems to have picked a particular lens to interpret the results. From TFA: The researchers found specific associations of SES and TSE with psychiatric symptoms, cogniti
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by saulrh 7y ago
> I wasn't even concerned about ecological impact. I spat out a post in ten minutes that looked further out than you did. I wasn't even trying. The people that actually do this stuff are trained, credentialed biologists and eco
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by saulrh 7y ago
This is like arguing that the Model T demonstrates that cars will never be safe enough to drive. Yes, there are ways to do this wrong. We have a much better idea what they are and our standards for precision and reliability are much higher.
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by saulrh 7y ago
Perhaps, as technology improves, it will one day be cost effective to take a whole body scan into account. That's the really funny thing about this: A colossal library of full-body imaging studies over time is exactly the k
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by saulrh 7y ago
> Alas in my particular world (Accounting/auditing) it is. 3 months of soul crushing stress and rest of year is more relaxed. Rinse & repeat. Cripes. And I bet that the soul-crushing stress even after you've gotten the lice
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by saulrh 7y ago
> The professional exam (country's CPA equivalent) is structured like this so yeah we structured your exams to intentionally & artificially create stress. Even on second and third thought this seems insane. I can understand doin
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by saulrh 7y ago
> imprisonment modestly reduced the probability of violence if comparisons included the effects of incapacitation during imprisonment. I'd have to read the article to confirm, but at first glance that reads like it might be "Pr
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by saulrh 7y ago
I think that I've almost used a right join before, but not for anything like a legitimate use case. I was attempting to out-think an in-house DB's optimizer that was doing a hash join in the wrong direction. There may have been
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by saulrh 7y ago
Not even that. Half of the people want heavy-handed moderation to save the children. The other half are yelling about censorship. Every decision ends with the messenger getting shot.

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