taylorlapeyre

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by taylorlapeyre 3y ago
There is no contradiction - it is reasonable to feel more than we do.
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by taylorlapeyre 3y ago
Helen Toner funded OpenAI with $30M, which was enough to get a board seat at the time.
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by taylorlapeyre 3y ago
They aren't stars, they're galaxies!
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by taylorlapeyre 3y ago
Figma bought [Diagram]( https://diagram.com ) this year, so this is inevitable and unsurprising
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by taylorlapeyre 3y ago
It's free for all paid plans even after 2023. The only pricing change is that you can add "developer" role users who have access only to dev mode for a cheaper price than an editor.
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by taylorlapeyre 3y ago
> A full regenerative process and outcome, along with reformed canopies, will likely take 200 years according to the Sempervirens Fund, an organization that helped create the park and is exclusively dedicated to protecting to redwood for
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
Apple makes a iCloud Passwords chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/p...
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
I will point out that human Hacker News commenters also commonly spout "facts" that are complete nonsense; in fact, it is us that trained it to do so.
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
It seems silly to claim that we should all just stop publishing our thoughts simply because some process could come along and combine them with others in order to produce something unique. That is, of course, the story of all human history.
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
The physics of Onewheels are actually super interesting, and Future Motion published an extremely well-made video recently which explains the issue that the CPSC is referring to. It goes into detail about why "nosedives" happen, a
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
What happens when USB-D comes out? Will legislation decide if the port is acceptable for consumers?
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
Confusing piece. By its logic, Aristotle also “influenced” quantum physics. We all of course stand on the shoulders of giants, but given the rate of development of computing in the last 100 years, claiming that its ideas originated 2,300 ye
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
We’ll run, small, efficient startups that raised significant capital right before the crash.
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
Yeah, totally get that. > I think there's a chance that emulating Heroku that closely is a path to failure in the 2020s. I'm not sure I agree, considering that a different platform emulating this exact setup with ~zero configur
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
Any plans for a chatops extension for Slack? The best think about Heroku is being able to say "/deploy [app]/[branch] to [environment]", and have it Just Work, all with inline threads that convey status updates about the
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by taylorlapeyre 4y ago
The main thing I want is pipelines - review apps, staging apps, and promotion to production, all integrated closely with GitHub, along with a slack integration that lets me do all of it in a public chatroom. Until another service has all of
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
Here is a more nuanced, data-oriented analysis which concludes that Walgreens probably left SF for normal corporate planning reasons: https://applieddivinitystudies.com/sf-crime-2/ > Overall, it doesn’t look like Wa
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/03/apple-delays-controversial-p...
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
>> Apple’s stated intents to actively incriminate you by scanning your photos on a personal device You do realize that Google also scans your images for CP, and furthermore that Google's current business model is literally survei
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
Additionally, the while the publicity of that announcement was terrible PR for apple, it was really a request for comment. They got comments from security professionals, and then they acknowledged the problems, retracted the announcement, a
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
Depends on what the tweets are. For a photographer, the tweets could be your entire work. For some scientists, their tweets are some of the most influential things that they write. And for an indie game developer, the tweets might be the me
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
Your comment implies that paying money to hear the thoughts & opinions of smart people is some sort of new concept that should be considered with skepticism. And yes, Twitter does contain more than just political shouting matches by ran
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
There's also a really active community of really smart people posting takes and interesting viewpoints on Twitter. Most of them seem to have Substacks these days, so this makes sense from my perspective. If Substack is monetized long-f
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
I lived in New Orleans for 24 years and personally went through Katrina - so I actually consider one of the people in the know. I still think New Orleans has done its share of preparation. Enough? Not sure. But it's not like New Orlean
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
I think this is a little bit unfair. New Orleans has an incredible amount of infrastructure to prevent flooding compared to pretty much any other coastal city. Spillways, levees, giant pumps, etc. Even if it fails, you can't really cla
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
What some might not know is that New Orleans is currently extremely unprepared for a major hurricane. Some water pumps are offline, and the city is currently in the middle of a huge amount of road and infrastructure work. Flooding will like
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
https://www.wren.co Postgres Redis Express + knexjs (TS on backend) Heroku Create React App front end. Simple, boring technologies.
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
I see them in my neighborhood at least twice a day. They don't bother me, to be honest. Just like any other car.
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
This doesn't mention long covid, which is still a huge open question with worrying results: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5... > People who had recovered from COVID-19, in
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by taylorlapeyre 5y ago
Imgix is a cdn!

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