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by w0mbat 4y ago
These are called “sideshows”, and always have been. They started in Oakland a long time ago. The news media in Northern California has been reporting on them for years, always using the name “sideshow”. They most commonly happen at urban in
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by w0mbat 4y ago
All those thousands of engineers, millions of lines of code, and they couldn’t add an edit button. Burn that bloated mess to the ground and do version 2, a fraction of the code size, a fraction of the engineers required to write and maintai
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by w0mbat 4y ago
"He is reportedly the company's new vice president of engineering." LOL. Many people have that title at Google, there is not only one. [EDIT. Scrolling way down I see I was not the first to point this out. At least two of my
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Eigen not understand a word of this.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
When Scooby-Doo took the mask off the troll, he was just the old caretaker, Nathan Myhrvold.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
I'll just assume all my users live there then. That'll close some bugs.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Yes the nagging is annoying. I finally added this to my prefix header. #define GL_SILENCE_DEPRECATION 1
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by w0mbat 4y ago
The readme doesn't say if this works on iOS, which would be an upgrade from Apple's OpenGL ES implementation. OpenGL ES works great on curent iOS hardware/software but the Simulator support is broken with newer iOS images. In
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by w0mbat 4y ago
That's a weird article. The anecdote at the beginning has a big buildup then goes absolutely nowhere and the pattern keeps repeating.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
> Yeah, why would Toyota want to go all in on EV and lose the ICU/Hybrid market The same reason Apple went all in on the iPhone and dropped their lucrative iPod business. You drive your car on the road that takes you to the next lev
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by w0mbat 4y ago
One employee suggests doing X in an email is not the same as “company has secret plan to do X”.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
You mean typo in the title? This is getting silly, I hope I don't make any mistaks in muy comentt.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
When you make an actual record you cut an acetate of each side on a record cutting lathe, which this product is a toy miniature version of. Each acetate looks like a one-sided vinyl record only bigger (it's got margin around the edge).
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by w0mbat 4y ago
There would seem to be a lot of prior art that could be invoked to challenge these patents. For example, my friend Andrew Green released a Mac app he wrote called "NetPhone" in 1995. This is so long ago that the app had to worry a
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Repost from 2015
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by w0mbat 4y ago
How do you know that the album covers are not part of the corpus of images that DALL-E was trained on in the first place?
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by w0mbat 4y ago
I came here to mention Irish/Gaelic traditionally lacking "yes" and "no". This leads to replies that seem a bit verbose but are kind of charming, e.g. "Would you like a cup of tea?" "I would not&quo
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by w0mbat 4y ago
The people not working in the tech industry are everywhere, you just ignore them, then pretend they don't exist. The cool arts projects are things like the iPhone, and Google search, and Photoshop. Where do you think those things were
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by w0mbat 4y ago
The big thing recently was the Obon Festival in San Jose Japantown, we had a great time. The valley is very Asian, if you don't make any asian friends you are missing out. The fact you say "lack of diversity" when many parts
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by w0mbat 4y ago
It's very driveable, traffic is fine and parking is easy. Neighborhoods like downtown Mtn View and downtown Sunnyvale (where I live) are very walkable but you don't have to walk. Public transport is not the way to go in the valley
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by w0mbat 4y ago
The article drags in Sunnyvale, where I live, but can’t really find one negative thing to say about it. The population reduction is purely related to COVID WFH leading some people to work from elsewhere, and is temporary. It’s a very nice
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by w0mbat 4y ago
“He never mentioned that he was the inventor and listened patiently when the person selling it would ask if he had taken it before." Oh my god he was a saint. If I were in his shoes, the question, "Have you taken Ibuprofen before
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Fantastic!
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by w0mbat 4y ago
BIG_COMPANY will often start to buy MEDIUM_COMPANY and then find that the other company has looming problems, has been faking user numbers/reviews/accounts etc, and the deal falls through. I cannot legally name names but this happ
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Amazingly paranoid post about what is obviously a car alarm.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
This story never made any sense. If you know what meat is, you are also familiar with large animals with some degree of intelligence. Can’t have one without the other.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
I am thinking you could flip a switch, which lowers a skirt and runs the fan in reverse : instant hovercraft mode for crossing a river, or even just deep mud. You'd need a steerable outlet jet on the back for propulsion. Then once on f
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by w0mbat 4y ago
Jonathan Ive got rich and started designing luxury products for himself. Stuff like gold Apple Watches that were soon obsolete or ridiculous luxury bands for them. Even a regular leather Apple Watch strap ended costing hundreds of dollars.
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by w0mbat 4y ago
I would teach it like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782387
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by w0mbat 4y ago
I'm glad someone else thought of that and finally implemented it. I interviewed with an embedded tools company in the 90s and independently came up with the idea for this during the interview to try to impress them. It didn't wor

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