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by thenomad 10y ago
Drones are particularly good on the "bringing joy" front, and you can get very fun ones for a lot less than a VR headset. If you have the cash available, a Vive plus a computer powerful enough to run it is an incredible gift. But
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by thenomad 10y ago
Fantastic! Having been developing with the Vive for most of the last year for Left-Hand Path ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760 ), and given I've got a lot of mocap experience before that, I can confirm that
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And what's the definition of "work" here? Sorry, we seem to have missed that.
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I was talking about self-improvement, which is similar. OK, further question - what if they want to watch The Wire and write a series critique for public consumption as their communal work? That's definitely something tangible. Does th
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by thenomad 10y ago
I use a Samson C01U condenser mic for calls. Not cheap but it also gets used for professional voice recording, and it's also not that expensive. I tend to use speakers and rely on echo cancellation. It appears to work pretty well as I
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by thenomad 10y ago
That's a really interesting proposal, and one of the few I've heard that actually could improve on a UBI in some ways. The obvious leak point - who would determine what was "worthy" work? If someone said "my project
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by thenomad 10y ago
If the bots could pass a Turing Test, fair enough, yes, that would be appealing. Something of a high bar though.
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by thenomad 10y ago
I haven't played unfair bots. Graduated to humans after hard bots. I'd play against bots, probably, if they exhibited much more human-like behaviour. I don't really care what's on the backend. Having said that, I enjoy P
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by thenomad 10y ago
Yup, just started playing DOTA2 six months ago and I'm very much enjoying it. The enormously deep gameplay and learning curve are tremendous fun. I've also got some datamining projects I want to do with it at some point - the visi
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FYI, I highlighted the sentence on the first page and nothing happened. Firefox, Win7.
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That's marvelous, and more or less the perfect solution.
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I've seen a few Trump supporters posting. They weren't popular but in comparison to most other sites I visit opposing views were more tolerated.
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Yes, agreed. If I'm watching a video tutorial from someone who understands the medium and is using it to its full advantage (including understanding editing and visualisation) that's a different story. But - speaking as a former f
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Can't speak for everyone, but personally I absolutely hate having to trawl through audiovisual format for learning anything, and coding is particularly bad. It's just so damn slow. I can read and absorb information about 5x faster
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I'd recommend, as first port of call, Examine.com . It's not perfect but they have assembled information on quite a variety of substances and scientific trials therof.
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Great idea, but the design would have to be significantly more attractive for me to use it for most of the things that would immediately spring to mind. That's a solvable problem, though - grab some top-flight themes with appropriate l
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Not always. Having done this a fair bit, I've often found that if I have a somewhat minimal template (perhaps haven't gotten to the design stage of a talk and I'm just fleshing out the content of the slides), it's far sl
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Heh, well put!
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I'm not a big fan of social media, but the argument here seems specious. Here's another way to put it - "If the first thing a person does when they get up is eat, you'd say they're a glutton". True? (Or indeed
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by thenomad 10y ago
"Force Yourself To Work Imperfectly" is amongst the best bits of productivity advice I know. Work expands to fit the time available, and all that. Sometimes you've gotta get things just right, but a lot of the time getting it
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by thenomad 10y ago
I've just been trying this out. It's absolutely amazing. Awesome in the truest sense of the word.
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Very cool indeed! I sadly have no Mac to run it on - will you be porting to other OSes (I'm primarily Windows), or is this the same code as you shared on Github with a UI?
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by thenomad 10y ago
It's a very, very simple thing, and needs updating, but my filter bubble busting Twitter bot is something I'm quite proud of. http://www.strangecompany.org/how-to-fight-the-filter-bubble...
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by thenomad 10y ago
Would you be willing to articulate your argument for Trump here? I promise not to argue against you, and certainly not to slur you. Can't speak for anyone else, though. We now HAVE Trump coming in as US president, so frankly I'd w
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by thenomad 10y ago
I run one such thing on Twitter: http://www.strangecompany.org/how-to-fight-the-filter-bubble... I need to update it a bit with a few of the newer subreddits that have sprung up for alt-right types, but it's still ther
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by thenomad 10y ago
There have been enough calls for violence and incidents of violence in this US election cycle - and Brexit - recently. Please don't add to the former. This is not a war. It is a fundemental disagreement, but we are hopefully a long lon
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As someone who has changed career to work in VR ( http://store.steampowered.com/app/488760 and more to come), I'd disagree with this one. Is it early days? Damn straight. Are some of the headsets a bit crap? Yep. T
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Speaking as an ex-film producer - nope. It's tremendously difficult to share the problems inherent in most showbiz professions. That's partially because they tend to be very complex and counterintuitive. If we wanted to have a c
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Marco Polo is $9m per episode . http://uk.businessinsider.com/netflix-marco-polo-tv-show-bud...
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They're generally (according to producers I know who have done such deals) not as much of the production budget as you'd expect. Up to 10% or so at most.

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