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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Those date due cards have fewer than 20 lines, if I recall correctly. Either way, it really depends on the book. People can put library books through the ringer sometimes, but books are pretty durable. I'd say our collection loses less
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
It feels underwhelming to me, but unfathomably bad? This writer seems to fathom it quite extensively.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Some of it has to do with existing experience. I suspect many people in this thread have not worn something other than a smart watch with regularity in at least 15 years, possible longer if they were below watch wearing age when cell phones
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I don't think these are apples to apples comparisons. Yes, watches had much longer batteries, but they didn't have smart features. So you're really comparing the Pebble to something with a comparable feature set, like another
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I'm not sure why that's relevant. You can buy a shirt that covers your body for $5, but most of us are wearing something more expensive for a variety of reasons. If you are wearing a pebble, you probably want the sort of smart fea
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
It feels like a problem of scale. One person shouting and getting carried away, whoever is right or wrong in that scenario, is still one person. Now extend that to everyone shouting at everyone in what has become the de facto public square
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
It's more geared towards organized lessons or competitions. In something like FLL, kids are given problems to solve on a board (move this from here to there, trigger this mechanism, etc) and they need to use the robot to solve it. So t
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Using sensors in the robotic competition was unreliable. A simple change in lighting from your development set to the competition board would screw everything up. I thought FLL was great, but as a robotics competition it's actually har
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Spike Prime is their new education branding. This article is kind of misleading since they've been sort of phasing out the Mindstorms branding in favor of a broader education initiative for a while. Spike Prime might not be for very yo
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I do wonder what it is about the technological blip that catches people attention. I have a strange fascination with old hardware that's still in production somewhere and I find I'm not the only one. I couldn't tell you why,
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Even on the Internet it's not hard to find people doing hobbies for nothing. I might go to reddit to talk about comic books or some specialized forums to talk about gardening or even find (or run) a small website for an area of niche i
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
It's the second biggest Linux company behind Redhat, so I think it's reasonably popular. It's also been a while since I used it, but I'll also point out that it's developed primarily in Germany, so it's entirel
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Serious question, would you recommend buying a refurb 2018 for modest usage over the new iPad 10.9"? It's about 100nits brighter, a bit lighter with a bit larger screen and supports pencil 2. Looks like they are about the same pri
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I've been a librarian for more than 15 years and I can only speak from personal experience when I say that I am the apex predator of nothing. Every once and a while I will get it in my head to systematize my personal knowledge base wit
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
It briefly discusses DALL-E and imagine models near the end, which seems to paper over a big part research in AI right now, but that also wasn't the point of the article, which is fair. What I find interesting is that this reminds me h
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
GPL does not include trademark permissions. I realize from a practical perspective it's difficult for a small organization to enforce trademarks on this scale, but trademarks are a rare area where business and consumer interests align.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
It would not at all surprise me it if it was revealed James Patterson or V.C. Andrews were NLP models all along.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Now straying far off the topic, how about when this goes the other way around? When authors attach their names to books they do not write (e.g. James Patterson with <name in much smaller type>) or who might not even be alive (V.C. And
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Slightly off topic, but is it shady? There highly respected magazines dedicated to reviewing books. This is just shifting it into a different medium. I suppose pretending they are all a person is on the shady side, but if that's the on
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I think this is quite common. Either money laundering or a legitimate front for something else. There was a very good Bosnian restaurant in my town about 15 to 20 years ago, but there was only one waiter, who may also have been the cook, an
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance comes to mind immediately. It works on several levels and is very accessible as a result. If you wanted to stray from the spirit of GEB into narrative prose, there are a number of books I could reco
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Surely the floppy disk is not more modern than the modem? They started to die around the same time, if I recall.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
> so I'd like to think that Tim Cook has also carried this torch too. You'd like to think that. I would too. But even if it's true, Tim Cook will not be there forever either. Publicly traded companies are owned by sharehol
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Because everyone knows this about Google already. With Apple there seems to be some associated belief that it's better, when there's nothing really special about Apple. It's a publicly traded company and just because no one l
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
They are on the fosstodon server, so I'm not sure it's entirely unreasonable to say "mastodon" here. Some of those followers may not be using Mastodon, but LibreOffice is.
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
I don't think "this is a problem for everyone" really precludes both informing people about the problem and hoping there is a solution to the problem. Just because Apple it "better", doesn't make it "good&
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
Our very definition of intelligence is part of the issue. There's no question that animals exceed our knowledge in specific domains, a bird who can fly must be vastly more knowledgeable about variable wind conditions than we are. There
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
In some ways they already are digitally generated in the sense that they rose to prominence on the backs of recommendation algorithms. Celebrity, at least since the 20th century, have always been an at least partially artificial construct
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
How do you keep it "indie"? Even fairly small sites probably link to Forbes or the Atlantic once in a while. Do you have a specific "block" list to keep large, commercial sites out of the results?
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by stinkytaco 4y ago
In the comments he mentions he has a mac mini m1 dedicated to music. I realize he's probably in the apple music ecosystem, so he can't just swap them, but it feels like he could be putting that hardware to better usage if he actua

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