stevetrewick

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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Actually-and perhaps surprisingly-a sizeable swathe of doctors are directly in the firing line for automation and have been for some time[0]. Medical and legal expert systems have been an AI research goal from the very beginning. Economical
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
"Publishers hate it!"
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Another, I'm about to start listening to Phantom of The Opera with friends. Opening chord sounds, pop a bunch of candles. Awesome.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> Name one situation where you would really benefit from a remote-controlled candle. I'm sitting down and cuddling and a candle is more than arms length away. I want to light it, but I don't want to stop cuddling or get up. Wh
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
OT, this concept was explored by British author Robert Westall in his 1983 SF dystopia Futuretrack 5 : " Was it just coincidence that computerspeak, which we'd learned with such throat wrenching difficulty, was also a complainin
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I am not surprised and believe your anecdote without hesitation. XCode is better along multiple dimensions than it was a few versions back, but is still a crawling horror. Even so, the workflow (weird bugs and all) around provisioning is no
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Quite. It's not even a huge amount considering all the other stuff you get along with it (and it was less then) but it still felt weird as I'd just come off a stint of Windows Mobile stuff (shudder) which was pretty much plug in a
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I actually did, that spend was part of an NRE package for an R&D contract and the cost was borne by the client. How it works. If the point you're making is that the additional developer fee is marginal, you are of course quite corr
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
ISTR - and ICBW because it has indeed been a while - that back in the iPhoneOS days the free account got you XCode and the simulator but you needed a paid account to be able to get an actual provisioning profile to load code on a device. Bu
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
No, you're right, iPad mini 2 appears to be the hardware floor for Playgrounds - I can never keep the iPad SKUs straight. IIRC (and I may not, see above) that the 2 was the last 32 bit big shiny rectangle. But the point is there are
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> Will they include a lesson on how to make No. Because it's not relevant to working with code in swift playgrounds on an iPad. It's not even relevant to working with XCode and hasn't been for some time now. I'd neve
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
iOS 10 will run on the shiny iPad you already have. All the way back to the iPad 2, IIRC.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
My intuition for what was going on here was close on a conceptual level but off by a mile in terms of the implementation detail, which turns out to be something I was dimly aware of but should have known much more about. Very enlightening.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
That 'hit' is equivalent to reducing the carrying capacity of the planet by ~5 billion humans or using 50% of the ice free land mass for agriculture to support them.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Not that I'm aware of. RNIB groups have been known to campaign for the addition of pedestrian controlled crossings in specific locations or regions, but part of that is banging on the DfT regs which actually stipulate this design.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> Can you not read? Actually I find it profoundly challenging but usually rewarding enough to justify the effort. Usually. One day I shall write a short guide titled 'Rhetorical Questions : how might we answer them?'. 'Can
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
The GP to which you are replying is about UK specific signalling.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
The current trend in the UK is towards removing the green/red signal from the opposite pole and sticking them on the switch box. This is supposed to help people like me who have a severe visual impairment. Unfortunately, whoever came u
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
They don't all (in the UK) make a sound. In particular, crossings where there are multiple light controlled traffic streams near to each other will have no audible signal to prevent the problem - mentioned up thread - of zombie pedestr
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
That would be an actual example of the parent's point. You think the utility of satellite TV and a phone are are lower than the utility of not living in a shack. The beneficiaries disagree. Only one of you can be right, and unless yo
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I pick Python up maybe 3 or 4 times a year - usually to automate something or to explore some algorithm in a notebook - so I'm pretty much an eternal beginner (in respect of the language, rather than the development process). This mean
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Possibly the argument from personal incredulity?[0] Or maybe the Anthropic Principle? [1] Little column A, little column B? [0] http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity#Perso... [1] https://en.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
But maybe they'll share it with you if you book on their training course. Only EUR 4000!
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
It's an easy enough read, quite leisurely. Suitable for the beach or a rail commute. At least I thought so, but YMMV depending on what you'd normally read under those circumstances.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
> Or as many female speakers as speakers called Steve? Three is enough for a coven. After that, things get hairy very quickly. Disappointed this turned out to be a parody, it would be a marvellous and amusing thing to do.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Aren't amongst peers? I mean I get the concern about gender imbalance, really I do, but to feel that someone is a 'peer' in a professional context really shouldn't require identical genital configurations, surely?
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
From my cold, dead hands.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Indeed, just 100 small warheads would (maybe) do it. See Mills' Multidecadal global cooling and unprecedented ozone loss following a regional nuclear conflict [0] which models the effects of a limited nuclear conflict between India a
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
I cannot believe this is getting down voted. What the hell HN? Would anyone care to explain their reasoning? What the OP said is not even remotely controversial.
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by stevetrewick 10y ago
Extremely unlikely since a new framework was agreed by the Commission in February 2016 http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-216_en.htm

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