utexaspunk

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by utexaspunk 5y ago
Gotta get that steady income. We're quickly becoming a society split between rentier capitalists and renters
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
No, fully autonomous! https://www.nuro.ai/technology
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by utexaspunk 5y ago
I dunno, I've seen the Domino's [Nuro]( https://www.nuro.ai/ ) car roaming Houston and it seems to be doing okay and I haven't heard of any issues... If it's good enough for my pizza, it's good enough
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by utexaspunk 6y ago
Static-core 80C88 and an 40x8 mono LCD w/o a backlight. I can't imagine the energy consumption being much different than your average high school graphing calculator
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by utexaspunk 6y ago
Yeah, I have a friend from art school who has created fake posters and interfaces, etc for shows like Law and Order: SVU and I Am Legend (he created the Batman vs Superman poster in times square!). Cool job, but it sounds like it's fea
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by utexaspunk 6y ago
It's also interesting because they are using a wound as a signifier. Anyone could legitimately have an eye injury requiring such a dressing, but now an innocuous bandage is a show of support. The creativity and ingenuity that has come
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by utexaspunk 6y ago
Until you make a completely artificial persona that gets famous.
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by utexaspunk 6y ago
I think it's all fucked until we can get humans out of the loop entirely. The sooner we can develop benevolent AI overlords the better.
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by utexaspunk 6y ago
It looks like a permanent magnet: https://spectrum.ieee.org/image/MzcxMTU3OA.jpeg
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by utexaspunk 6y ago
That was my first thought- it's a shame all we have to interact with such a complex, richly rendered world is a couple of analog sticks and some buttons.
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by utexaspunk 7y ago
It really whips the llama's ass!
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by utexaspunk 7y ago
...but is that the only downside?
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by utexaspunk 7y ago
Sounds like a pretty good gig. How do I apply?
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by utexaspunk 7y ago
HyperCard was a great gateway to programming for me as a kid. I've seen Vipercard.net's faithful reproduction, which is pretty cool. What's the closest thing to HyperCard that is modern?
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by utexaspunk 7y ago
The book is better, IMHO. Dalton Trumbo. Younger people tend to be familiar with the movie via the video for Metallica's "One" https://youtu.be/WM8bTdBs-cw
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by utexaspunk 7y ago
I was thinking of the Bobiverse- have your head preserved for reanimation when future technology allows, only to have it declared a non-person and sold to a corporation which digitizes your brain and puts it in a satellite... https:/&
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
I would imagine it's stepper motors and rotary encoders turning the pulleys, with perhaps some solenoids or servos to push the tops of the cans.
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
Oh god, you just reminded me of this: http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0309/update-bloody-tragedy...
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
Could the grass be blown in? Leaf blowers move grass pretty easily...
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
Yeah... Salvia is not a party drug. Interesting, though. I wrote about my experience on Reddit a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/avrig...
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
Yeah, when people ask me what LSD is like, I tell them it's like those decals people put on large windows so that birds won't hit them. Your perception of reality is mediated by the lens of your senses and mind. The drug distorts
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
All those ligatures for <>, <=, >=, etc. annoy me to no end. Ew.
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
Couldn't they just run a big pipe out into the middle of the desert and pump it there? Maybe they could create giant salt flats and extract rare earth elements from them, even...
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
>He does too, just doesn't realize it He didn't say what time he went to bed or how many hours of sleep he got
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
To be honest I'm not all that familiar with his writing, actually- I just liked seeing the Dymaxion house at the Ford museum, and geodesic domes. Mostly I like that he had an hopeful vision of a global, sustainable, prosperous, futuri
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
I love Buckminster Fuller, but doesn't a lot of this sound like pseudointellectual bullshit? I mean "The entire regenerative hierarchy of major, intermediate, and minor constellations of component patterns-within-component-pattern
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
"Do you need to go potty? Maybe yes, maybe no; why don't you sit and try to go?" has been immensely helpful. There's a Daniel Tiger song for every situation!
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
...and how does the percentage of pot smokers who end up in asylums or the ER compare with that of the population as a whole?
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
Eh, addiction usually implies a physiological reaction to withdrawal. AFAIK it's pretty well established that there is no physical addiction to cannabis. One can very easily feel dependent upon it, though. Then again, if I were to cut
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
Absolutely- if I smoke, I will be awake all night with my mind racing with ideas (and not anxious or paranoid ones). It's a wonderful thing, and it saddens me that it doesn't have the same effect for everyone.

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