terrence_giggy

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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
This brings up some good (and bad) memories from past hobbies. Back in the day when 1080p was the new rage, I remember getting immersed in one of these DIY projector projects. For anyone looking into it - this was the site to get parts fr
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
> Our future robots may be very good at passing information via some programming code... but will they love? Will they be sad? Will they read literature to empathize with the experience of other beings? That sentence gave me a flashback
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
Context matters. I can yell FIRE in my own home, but I can't go into a crowded theatre and yell it. The hash as you post it here is meaningless. But elsewhere it could be the key to another's property.
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
Visual Studio had always been what I perceive to be the most polished work environment (IDE) i've used. Despite that I have moved away from Microsoft and into Linux based environments over the past couple years. The thought of working
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
Republicans are about "relatively" less government control then the only other party I could rationally choose from in an election - the Democrats. The choice here is not between good and bad. It is between two less than optimal
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
The ideological divide is between those who want relatively more government control, and those who want relatively less government control. I can tell you I'm personally a suburban, technical person who votes Republican and it really i
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
Hyperion and the follow-up The Fall of Hyperion are great novels. I was however disappointed with the 3rd and 4th novels in the series - Endymion and Rise of Endymion. It seemed to me that the characters went through too many near-death e
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
I would bet it is the cycling of GPS that the app is doing. If GPS is just left on, a battery can get burned through in a couple hours (for one of the newer iPhones, much less an older one). Those wacky readings are some of the initial re
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
Context matters. I see a lot of talk on this thread about the motives of Congressmen who are going to attack a company so they can make their big donors happy. How about we flip the script and put the same argument to the author: What gets
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by terrence_giggy 12y ago
Ah yes, an obviously left leaning author accuses several of is local representatives of wrong-doing. Lets take it as cannon and use the opportunity to pile on an bash them Republicans. After all, it is the severity of the accusation that m