spitfire

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by spitfire 9y ago
What? Please explain how a minor can become a registered sex offender. I'm not American, sometimes America just confuses us foreigners.
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by spitfire 9y ago
You don't have contact information for your account, and the PHP install is broken for your website. Do you have a way people can contact you?
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by spitfire 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_lD7iqG8nA About 2 minutes in there's an excellent realtime metaballs implementation that ran smoothly on a 486-66mhz. Metaballs were an extremely popular effect in the early 90's.
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by spitfire 9y ago
I really enjoyed Clifford Pickovers' Computers, Pattern, Chaos and Beauty. I read it in highschool and experimented with all the strange attractor techniques given in the book to render cool images on my old 486. Great fun, and the mat
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by spitfire 9y ago
Is there a non-paywalled link available? I'm not finding anything via the web link.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Wait, when did Google become a private equity firm? I'm liking tech less and less.
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by spitfire 9y ago
> Form a company that explores new markets in legal liabilities. It could bring lawsuits with little risk where the payoff could be billions of dollars. Sort of like a patent troll, but for good? I do like it.
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by spitfire 9y ago
This seems to strongly support Milton Friedman's basic income (along with sane interest rates). BI provides the boost, while sane interest rates reduces the drag. So the question left is how do you communicate this to the public.
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by spitfire 9y ago
That's already happened. Virtually. See the millennium challenge. So what it happens there'll be very clear documentation that they were aware of the vulnerabilities, but ignored them.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Unlikely. But see Ukraine (and isis) for how the drone thing is playing out. Drones are now integrated into the battlefield more and more. But they haven't replaced humans, and they won't until they're multi-purpose and able
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by spitfire 9y ago
Or just point roberts.
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by spitfire 9y ago
There's an embassy/consulate in Ottawa. Also the ambassador travels and you can pick them up when they travel. Check with your local embassy/consulate and ask about their travel schedule. NB: I too would like to see Stripe su
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by spitfire 9y ago
Not that I'm totally agreeing with him. But we saw how the "adults in the room" approach worked in the first dotcom bubble.
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by spitfire 9y ago
I believe it's a "luxury/enthusiast" strategy. I believe the auto market will play out something like the watch market did with the introduction of the quartz watch. Most people just want to tell the time, so they buy a
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by spitfire 9y ago
That's the sales pitch. "It's too hard, you couldn't do it." Same sales pitch as gym workout programs. "Are you man enough?" and many others. Create an artificial scarcity (a barrier to entry), weed out t
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by spitfire 9y ago
> tech people get weird about well-dressed people and think they're "fakes" or whatever. There's some historical precedence there. Up until ~10-15 years ago the fakers and know-nothings used to always wear suits. They
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by spitfire 9y ago
I know MIT grad lisp hacker types who couldn't pass the entrance points requirements. The trick is you have to learn French. No matter what - Learn French.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Victoria is nice and much cheaper. If you're actually building a business (rather than a get-rich-quick startup) people will welcome you with open arms. You'll find good QOL and great livability here. Though we are just starting t
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by spitfire 9y ago
HN won't let me respond to your comment. When I meant hardcoded I meant hardcoded or rule based system rather than a generalized dialog manager with Knowledgeable lookup. Sounds like you're not there yet.
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by spitfire 9y ago
How are you building out multi-turn/goal based approaches? hardcoding a rule engine, or something clever?
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by spitfire 9y ago
Are there plans to extend this to a multi-turn (goal based) agent? It's nice to have single turn interactions for turning the lights on. But not so nice for Eg: booking a complex flight, or navigating unknown options.
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by spitfire 9y ago
I wish I could up vote this several times. I feel like a nice interactive JS widget letting you play around with portfolio variables (duration, %win, company size distribution, etc) would dissuade so many fledgling company founders.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Could I purchase the movie rights to that? Could seriously make a good mini-series if done seriously. Ala John Le Carré.
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by spitfire 9y ago
SGI used to have super cool systems like this. You knew you were getting $40K worth of value because your workstation looked like it was worth $40K. Look up SGI O2, Octane, Indy, etc. Similar in the servers with the Onyx and Origin server
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by spitfire 9y ago
It’s hard to make a man understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.
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by spitfire 9y ago
half way through the article the writers let drop that the founder of BOAW's previous attempt was A small world. Which failed as it became commoditized.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Which is a shame. Because what he said was worth saying. Essentially, the day before he saw a company FooCo having open office hours with Sam Altman and Yuri Sagalo.. Sam and Yuri were talking with FooCo about their business and industry X.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Wealth signalling I presume. The bottle of juice wouldn't let you discard a capri-sun package full of squeeze fruit husks. This lets people know you're wealthy enough to not care about excess.
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by spitfire 9y ago
Unfortunately they only give references to their sources, rather than the actual original sources. This might be hard to recreate. Perhaps even impossible. I imagine Steve Balmer opens more doors and gets more cooperation than any of us her
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by spitfire 10y ago
Thanks but FX conversions and duties would kill any benefit there. I appreciate the thought though.

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