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by thevibesman 10y ago
This is a cool homage to Alvin Lucier's I'm Sitting in a Room [1][2]. I was lucky to get a chance to hear Lucier give a colloquium at Brandeis when I was an undergrad---earlier in his career Lucier had been faculty at Brandeis. [
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by thevibesman 10y ago
FAQ Linked in the YouTube video is unavailable, here it is from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20101018003811/http://www.ontolo...
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This Is What Happens When You Re-Upload a YouTube Video 1,000 Times (2010)(gizmodo.com)
1 points by thevibesman 10y ago|2 comments
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> Teach someone to do something, now one person can do it. Higher education is not necessarily the same as vocational education and has value beyond the teaching one to "do something" I see why you say this answer is obsolete,
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> 50 years ago, society operated just fine with (to a first approximation) 50% of society not working. Are you referring to the fewer women in the workforce 50 years ago? If so, with the increase of women in the workforce during and afte
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by thevibesman 10y ago
I think there is a high likelihood that machine creativity or thought will be different from human creativity or thought.
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by thevibesman 10y ago
I've seen a few women* list a programing language in addition to other languages on online dating profiles. * I'm sure there are some men that do it too, but I don't browse those profiles.
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> ARC was a bit of a "Hail Mary" and is problematic in its own right I'm just curious with your experience what you are pointing to as problematic. Other than potential extra release calls in tight loops, the main downs
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> oracle, they have been a great steward of MySQL I'm not so sure everyone will agree with reports of closed source regression tests and source histories[1][2] (I know these stories are old) [1]: http://techcrunch.com&#x2
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by thevibesman 10y ago
I may steal that quote; I think I like it better than calling Objective-C the "wild west of OOP".
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by thevibesman 10y ago
This was my first reaction as well, but then I realized I hadn't done much currying in Swift and half forgot it was a feature. Maybe you can bring it back when we get hygienic macros (Swift 4.0? fingers crossed )
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> The debug messages were confusing. I never used Obj-C so I'm not sure if that's iOS or Swift that causes confusing error messages. While it has gotten a little better, it is Swift. (EDIT:) But I've been loving Swift so f
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by thevibesman 10y ago
When I clicked the link, I was hoping this was going to be a story about a pinball wizard in "The Who" sense of the word, but this was a great read! I've always been into pinball since a young age (I imagine I was interested
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by thevibesman 10y ago
I imagine this is pretty cool, have you tried it? Not being able to look at the ball/table is a key part of pinball I find missing from the digital experience, and while VR takes care of this I think I would still miss the physical exp
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> Marcel Duchamp, the famous Cubist artist I always think it is interesting to observe which are movement is used to describe artists who did work in more than one (in this case Cubism and Dada). Not at all a nit-pick or a correction; Du
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> I would say he just changed his medium. I would agree with this. Another change like the change from Cubism to Dada to 'make your paint' in reaction to production of factory made paint. Cubism -> Dada -> Chess
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> Proposal: If you’re sitting courtside or behind home plate and get caught looking at your phone during game action, you must relinquish your seat to a kid. Sentences like this make me wish every site had a highlight feature like medium
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Who Is Ready for Baseball’s Robot Umpires?(wsj.com)
1 points by thevibesman 10y ago|1 comments
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> All I need is a download link. A download link is less useful if you want to find out about an editor vs just trying it (especially with Emacs when you first open the program, the killer features are not immediately apparent). The old
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Encryption Works: How to Protect Your Privacy in the Age of NSA Surveillance(freedom.press)
3 points by thevibesman 10y ago|1 comments
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by thevibesman 10y ago
I think this is an interesting compensation plan and agree that this seems like a more modern and practical compensation plan than the example from Ford. I'm curious what sort of milestones/requirements Musk would put in place as
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by thevibesman 10y ago
I'm not associated with this project, but have seen it appear a few times as a "Suggested Post" on my Facebook timeline. I was just taking a moment to take a look at there site and thought to search HN to see if there had bee
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Art in the Internet Age, an Introduction to LBRY(lbry.io)
1 points by thevibesman 10y ago|1 comments
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> Maybe someday they'll do it in house. I don't remember where I read it, so I can't provide a source, but I thought I read somewhere that after this issue with the doors it is a goal at Tesla to try to manufacture as many
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by thevibesman 10y ago
Yeah, that's one of many examples of how well Volvos stand up in crashes. Related: http://www.volvosavedmylife.com/
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> More interesting would be a crash against a tree or a concrete pillar - then one could argue if the crumble zone of a Tesla S is better compared to a traditional superior class Volvo or Mercedes with a front motor. It doesn't real
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by thevibesman 10y ago
x.crontab can live wherever you'd like; you can even delete it after you install the crontab. When you run the following command crontab x.crontab your crontab file is replaced by the contents of x.contrab; or if you want to in
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by thevibesman 10y ago
This article reminded me of a scene from "Flight of the Conchords" where they are discussion how many "the ones" you can have[1]---turns out it is 5. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZGc2sIajMM
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by thevibesman 10y ago
> The team also finds some evidence of an extra layer among some people. “This could, for example, mean introverts and extroverts have a different number of layers of friends,” they suggest. But interestingly, extroverts, while having mo
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Your Brain Limits You to Just Five BFFs(technologyreview.com)
54 points by thevibesman 10y ago|14 comments

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