thrownthatway

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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Twenty years ago I took a level 1 tech support call from a visually impairment guy and it took about 3.2 seconds to realise his condition was no impediment for using a computer because of the screen reader tech he was using.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
This one month old video did a reasonable job of getting my entirely ignorant self relatively up to day on NERFs and Gaussian Splats: https://youtu.be/X8yRlA7jqEQ
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
I watched this 1 month old video two days ago: https://youtu.be/X8yRlA7jqEQ It kinda splatted my mind. As I understand it, Gussian Splats aren’t a method of constructing missing data in the sense you’re asking here. But the
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
It’s an issue affecting the nation.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Needs more recursion. NPM - NPM Packaged Malware
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
So long as we insist on everything from a light switch, the vacuum cleaner, security camera, clothes dryer, TV, car, and mobile phone being an always on, always online, Universal Turing Machine we’re not going to find a solution.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
We can’t even prevent shop lifting.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Everything any Western government says is a lie. And yet you expect us to believe Iran had agreed to not build nuclear weapons?
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Camphor Laurel ( Camphora officinarum ) in ideal conditions, and for a patient individual, can be observed to grow. I don’t only if it’s suitable for this particular application, and it’s considered a noxious weed in Australia.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Well that’s flabbergasting.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Would you like me to reveal my Angolia-fu?
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23956504 46 comments 2015
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
What is this supposed to mean? Is it not self evident that the vulnerable tend toward being that subset of the population that, on average, suffer the most. This usually means the very young, the elderly / frail aged, and those with co
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
You know what would help fix this. Tapeworms.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
In my defence, it was the top search result using one of the common search providers, and at least it goes to the WHO website rather than the New York Times. Why would a search engine turn up a 7 year old reference as the top hit. Seems lik
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Ooops. Yeah that was not intentional.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
The headline from the WHO reads: Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern https://www.who.int/news/item/17-07-2019-ebola-outbreak-in-t...
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Yeah true. I did intentionally not count the Gaza Strip. If that offends anyone, I’m good with that.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Something like 25% of people who “try it once” will go on to be problem users. So don’t. I had to call an ambulance for one friend cos he stopped breathing in front of me. I woke up on my kitchen floor 45 minutes after a shot. I had time to
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
I’ve used heroin maybe 80 times. I can understand why methadone is ineffective as a treatment.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Why the down votes? There aren’t 300 countries.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
> a small number of people. Around 1500 in a country of 9 million. What is this supposed to mean? That’s a completely nonsense statement to make because you’ve provided no data on problem opioid use in Switzerland. Is 1500 a lot? Not man
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
There are 193 countries, plus the Holy See.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
I should have said “a well crafted malicious email” or SMS etc.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
That has no bearing on the points made in the comment you replied to.
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
I tend to agree. But how does that prevent one from receiving and opening a malicious message?
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Out of curiosity, did the startup you used to work for survive?
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
I didn’t know there was one of these in Australia, the Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Ha...
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by thrownthatway 5mo ago
Thanks for the detailed response.

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