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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Knowing nothing about 3D printing, this was among the more awesome things I've read this week. Thanks so much for the detailed write-up, particularly focusing on the unknown-unknowns.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Willingness to sext (and candor to discuss it) is probably just standing in for open and positive views on sex, and/or the presence of a vigorous and passionate sex life. Although I appreciate the evidence that the sexting isn't
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
My neighbor in the dorms one year in College was learning the theremin. It's a neat instrument, but his first few weeks learning made it sound like there was a dolphin orgy next door.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I came in to say the same thing. Two column is great on a single page, but when part of the reading process is "scroll all the way back to the top of the page and start over", something's wrong.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Very much this. My favorite teacher in Middle School was a Spanish teacher who would actually give me information and printouts about "things we haven't learned yet" when I asked about something we hadn't covered yet. S
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I had a similar experience. I was really excited, told I could have one, but at my parents' advice, we rented one from Blockbuster with its full host of games before we bought. I had it for 2 or 3 days, invited a friend over to play,
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Hypothetical here, but I can very easily picture a world in which the Marketing VP decides whether the programming team spends [amount of time] hardening/reducing customer data storage, or implementing some new whiz-bang feature they c
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Yeah, it's a real crowd pleaser, particularly if you play the individual components of the signal one-at-a-time first, so they hear nothing linguistic, and then combined, language! It so nicely captures one of the key takeaways from my
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Maybe I'm naive, but I'm hoping that the lawsuits from this will be the start of a push for data-breach insurance, and that the insurers, as Bruce Schneier has been advocating for many years, will force the security that the marke
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Sine wave speech is an example I use in my early Linguistics classes to reinforce the position that speech perception is basically magic. Absolutely incredible that it works.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
That was a really nicely done piece, and captures the ethos nicely with that closing line ("For better ads tomorrow, block ads today"). So much of adblocker usage is because ads are ugly, intrusive, creepy (or conversely, pointles
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I've been having similar experiences with several "rock solid" Apple products and services lately, iOS most notably. It really seems like the "do few things, but do them flawlessly" ethos is gone, particularly for