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by slingnow 5y ago
So to mean it literally, it changed some literal game you were playing. What game did it change and how?
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by slingnow 5y ago
I have yet to meet or read about a single person who has ever said "I really enjoy scrolling through twenty paragraphs of backstory and embedded auto-play videos and advertisements while I browse for recipes." So while I'm su
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by slingnow 5y ago
I don't understand people. I don't understand why anyone would ask this question. Would this equally naive question get upvoted on HN? > There's a restaurant right next to my house that is very, very convenient for me to e
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by slingnow 5y ago
I find it incredibly dubious that you've personally witnessed thousands of children transform into "lie-cheat-steal" machines firsthand. An anecdote with no other context about a 7-11 that had to close because it was next to
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by slingnow 5y ago
There's water here on Earth, too. But we don't keep "discovering" it.
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by slingnow 5y ago
OP never once stated that they started with those problems. What makes you think the engineering challenges weren't tackled first?
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by slingnow 5y ago
These statements don't follow from anything anyone has said. You would need to compare the benefits of driving to the benefits of living a normal life, and compare that to the risks of dying from each. Why would getting infected with C
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by slingnow 5y ago
You didn't know there was a pandemic going on and that countries were reacting by restricting travel? I find that hard to believe.
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by slingnow 5y ago
OK, I did that. I'm back. Now what?
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by slingnow 5y ago
Yeah, you're right. One counterexample definitely invalidates the entire argument.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Seems like a healthy, well-adjusted response! Something didn't work out one time? NEVER DO IT AGAIN!
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by slingnow 5y ago
I'd be curious to see why you're so confident that OP's time is better spent getting out of this organization where they can work 2 hours a day for what I assume is a decent living.
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by slingnow 5y ago
You have a fixed 3D grid, which appears to only need to store either a color or 'null' in every spot. You can encode this entire grid in any number of ways such that it creates a valid URL. Base64 most likely. https://e
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by slingnow 5y ago
And how exactly would you represent these hypothetical stored towns? Probably with a simple encoding.
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by slingnow 5y ago
I finished high school and college, and my friends and I routinely communicate with each other in this way. I also never went to Caltech. Any other odd blanket statements?
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by slingnow 5y ago
So can you explain exactly what the "that" in "That's stupid" is referring to?
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by slingnow 5y ago
No, we don't.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Maybe you don't understand how scales work. His description allows _everything between the endpoints_ he stated. How do you arrive at only a binary choice?
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by slingnow 5y ago
What were you trying to say? You realize a Boeing 747 weighs over 400,000 lbs. And a tiny Cessna 172 weighs ~1500 lbs. If the planes have the same wingspan, it's likely they're in the same class, and weight is a perfectly reasonab
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by slingnow 5y ago
It sounds like you're very much predisposed to believing that all press releases are 100% truthful -- and you would never consider that they might be intentionally misleading.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Yeah, that was hilarious the first 100 times I saw it. It seems now every "funny" comment is a template like the one you describe, and everyone is racing to be the first one to plug in the right values. Low quality garbage.
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by slingnow 5y ago
As someone who does computer vision for a living, you're going to need to explain how this is: 1. The most valuable take from computer vision 2. The simplest take from computer vision Not to mention this is rarely useful unless you&#x2
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by slingnow 5y ago
Which begs the question: if the link isn't even to the original article, why is this being upvoted to the front page?
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by slingnow 5y ago
Here's a tip: You should never have a button suddenly change functions underneath a user's cursor without any warning -- ESPECIALLY while doing a repetitive task.
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by slingnow 5y ago
Interesting that you decided that the OP: 1. Is upset 2. Interpreted the parent comment as being smarter than OP Serious question: where did you infer these things from?
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by slingnow 5y ago
It sounds like the OPs method not only allows people to shine by diving into what they've built, but it would also filter out people like yourself, who are so unbelievably sensitive that it would be a nightmare to work around all of yo
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by slingnow 5y ago
This seems almost too obvious to study. Have you never tilted your head when you hear (or even just think about) a piece of interesting / surprising / confusing information? Now, I don't know why _humans_ tilt our heads, but
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by slingnow 5y ago
What does the conclusion of your comment have to do with supporting your argument?
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by slingnow 5y ago
All of it isn't important, in an absolute sense. Shift your view up a couple levels of abstraction and everything on the planet is ultimately meaningless. People always seem to argue about "saving the planet" as though it has
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by slingnow 5y ago
If I'm running an excavator at a construction site and I dig up a relic like this, do I get to keep it? Do all items of a certain historical significance immediately get confiscated by a government body?

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