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by shawn 8y ago
This is ordinarily when hard-core criminals are taken into custody. It's basically like being free, but you have to stay out of trouble and report all contacts with law enforcement. There's a small chance they'll have to
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by shawn 8y ago
Not a chance. If someone wants to hire me, they do not own my work outside of business hours. It's the new serfdom.
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by shawn 8y ago
It's interesting that the only ones speaking up are those that seem to have a problem with the article. As a counterpoint, I find the article apt. Like men who worry when they start to go bald, you're more likely to notice when yo
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by shawn 8y ago
The hacker category is described almost perfectly, in my experience. It fits the truly high level people I've been fortunate enough to know. It's probably important to realize that most devs aren't hackers. Not in the traditi
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by shawn 8y ago
Training us to do that is exactly how they maintain their control over the community. And it is about control. We’re not allowed to ask for or say anything about HN on HN. I used to feel how you feel, but after examining the reasons why it’
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by shawn 8y ago
Does it matter that App Maker is only available with a G Suite business subscription? I'm skeptical too, but at least this is (indirectly) a paid product.
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by shawn 8y ago
I would be interested in a double blind experiment confirming that their specific implementation of chroma subsampling is even detectable. The eye is much less sensitive to colors than intensity, as you point out. If it were perceptible,
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by shawn 8y ago
It was a stab at irony. True, but the video is already subsampled. That's how it was able to be uploaded at 1080p at all, since the source video is 8k. So 8k vs 1080p shouldn't make any difference on monitors less than M-by-1080 r
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by shawn 8y ago
Wow! Even at my monitor's 1024x768, the 8k video looks amazing! So much better than 1080p! Something something nyquist something
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by shawn 8y ago
If that’s true, that’s pretty unfortunate. YouTube does 1440p@60fps now.
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by shawn 8y ago
Torrenting too. Getting all the adobe products I need for $35/mo is a perfect fit.
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by shawn 8y ago
It has always seemed arrogant to think that aliens exist anywhere within our galaxy. Look at how many galaxies are out there. Now realize that the universe extends far beyond our Hubble sphere. We can’t hope to colonize even a fraction of 1
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by shawn 8y ago
For everyone having trouble accessing the article, here's a paste: https://pastebin.com/raw/S229NyJW Actually, it's interesting reading an article with just text and nothing else. It kind of makes me want a t
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by shawn 8y ago
If a current employee is willing to vouch for it, that carries some weight. It's a useful data point.
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by shawn 8y ago
Among other reasons, capital allows you not to worry about turning a profit until later. See Github, for example, which was never profitable.
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by shawn 8y ago
No, not alone. But if you're not masking your IP address, it probably will. Weirdly, I tried to measure how unique my window.innerWidth/Height was, but panopticlick no longer seems to measure this. It only uses my full screen reso
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by shawn 8y ago
Fair enough, though that would require me to sign in. Does that actually prevent the data from being stored on Google's servers? I'd like to believe that the data isn't being vacuumed up regardless of what the user says, so i
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by shawn 8y ago
Google has what I think is the most transparent and user friendly controls for visualizing what personal data is collected, and disabling it (most often per product, for ex. disable location history and YouTube viewing history, but enable
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by shawn 8y ago
Those can uniquely identify me So does your resolution. And that's hard to mask because JS usually needs to know it. If you're not using the browser fullscreen, chances are that you're using a unique innerWidth+innerHeight.
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by shawn 8y ago
A healthy, thriving democracy is defined by rigorous debates, in the public arena, in public venues, on public platforms. Sometimes it feels like you’re one opinion away from being labeled and excluded. Whatever happened to people letting
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by shawn 8y ago
Almost a direct quote from the presentation: ML is an additive device, meaning the darker an image is, the more transparent it is. But in practice it probably isn't a problem. All that matters is that they deliver killer apps. What you
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by shawn 8y ago
Yeah... The most worrisome aspect of the presentation for me was that it's not designed to work outdoors. They said explicitly that the initial product is aimed at indoor use. Which makes me wonder what it has that my Vive doesn't
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by shawn 8y ago
Here's a clip of the intro. Decide for yourself: https://clips.twitch.tv/BreakableTentativePassionfruitPipeHy...
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by shawn 8y ago
https://books.google.com/books?id=LkDUKMv3yp0C&pg=PA11&lpg=P... Homotopy Type Theory: Univalent Foundations of Mathematics
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by shawn 8y ago
It works both ways. If you're too lazy to learn a service I chose to host my code, you don't deserve my code. (Sorry to put it harshly, but it's felt like we're all getting a bit spoiled. Especially compared to the old d
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by shawn 8y ago
Eh. It would be better not to make people feel afraid for expressing those views. I held them once, before NSA’s bad behavior came to light. In many ways I still do. The argument goes like this: any student of war will tell you that the mos
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by shawn 8y ago
The most ironic part is that employees are convinced — totally convinced — that they aren’t building that infrastructure. It would be different if people had the self awareness to admit it and that they were ok with it. But it’s either cowa
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by shawn 8y ago
Do you think Microsoft ordered them to remove this repo, or that their existing moderation team did?
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by shawn 8y ago
I don't think that counts as abuse or discrimination. That would diminish the power of those terms.
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by shawn 8y ago
Credit where credit's due: http://developersdevelopersdevelopersdevelopers.ytmnd.com/ I still remember when this was made.

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