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by wanderingstan 2y ago
I’ve enjoyed this story over several decades, but what stands out to me now is the fact that Bill Atkinson was working from home during the creation of the Macintosh.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
In my experience they are very strict about finding a “safe” place to pick up and drop off, which often means turning onto a small side street or looking for a gap in parked cars. They won’t block traffic like a Lyft/Uber driver might.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Seconding adding a camera to the lander. Then have “expert mode” where you play using only the video feed!
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
I’ve noticed this phenomena all over. Same with our old home movies: they usually are of something like a high school graduation ceremony, but the really good parts are the times when the camera catches people talking normally, discussing p
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Yes, a screenshot would do wonders. From the readme theres no telling if it’s a CLI tool, a Qt thing, or whatever.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
The problem is that the face is critical to “normal” interactions. Thus the ChatGPT demo of using the camera to determine if you are speaking to it (or to someone else) to choose whether to respond. If talking with AI becomes more mainstrea
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
First encountered this idea in an old Black Mirror episode: https://youtu.be/Fj8-r30sSn0?si=FKr4OUTezm6YACqQ Seems like something there’d be a lot of resistance to, but on the other hand inevitable. Is there a site to place
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
This is a key factor: businesses have learned to “optimize” by cutting corners wherever people can’t perceive the deficit. The product just has to last long enough.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Also covered in the more contemporary book Moonwalking with Einstein with its discussion of building one’s own “memory palace.”
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
> ...restaurant and public space designers have stopped thinking about sound. Theory: The bars and restaurants want young patrons, so the poor acoustics are a selection mechanism. Only young people can converse there, so older folks stay
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
That’s an excellent point. I’ve realized that I sometimes read code in more of a “story” mode, where I’m just looking for the gist of what’s happening and what it is “about” rather than the nuts and bolts of how it actually works.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
The unusual ‘r’ glyphs in the text led me to reading about “R rotunda”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_rotunda
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
And I’m still mourning the loss of the Online Guitar Archives (OLGA); I still have printouts of all the songs I attempted to learn on guitar.
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
The IceCube observatory is incredible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory Incredible to image a square kilometer of pure ice transformed into a sensor to detect rare subatomic particles!
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
Where can I learn more about this?
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by wanderingstan 2y ago
> What if you get injured? What if something comes up and you won’t have time to achieve a goal? The list goes on and on and on… This is between friends (maximum 5) so I’m sure the answer is: work it out with your friends. If I was using
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
> I think mass incarceration is probably the main reason for crime going down. This hypothesis is strongly challenged by the fact that crime has also dropped in other developed countries that do not have mass incarceration.
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
And at a wider level, I and many others on the internet have a renewed appreciation for human kindness and the depths of feeling that people can have for each other, for the value we can place on having lived. It’s a beautiful project.
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
As mentioned in another comment, these cables are designed to handle orders of magnitude more stress than a drone. (Think wind storms, entire flocks of birds, blown debris, etc) For example, See this video of how wires are inspected by huma
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
As others have pointed out, the energy consumed would literally be “too cheap to meter.” More realistic would be that, If fully realized, this becomes a great secondary income stream for the power line owners. Not only do they get to monito
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
The lines are far more robust than that. Right now human inspectors are used to crawl the lines for inspection! https://youtu.be/oBJyyEAw-6g?si=wW71x2tPyDxMuZA0 The weight of a drone, which is already designed to be light f
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
In the late 90s at my first job I would invite all my housemates to my office after hours for LAN parties using my co-workers computers. There were no logins and it didn’t even bother my co-workers unless a newly installed game took up too
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
I’m a ways out of that world now, but my colleagues still in it say that twitter and discord (and getting invited to the “right” private servers) are where jobs are found for blockchain.
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
Imagine going back to Susan Kare's shoes in 1983, having to design icons in black and white in only 32x32 pixels. Made even harder by the fact that people had never encountered icons on a screen before. https://archive.org&#
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
It’s been a long time since I wrote this, but I think the issue with that approach is the possibility of one character being confusable with more than one letter. I.e. there may not be a single correct form to reduce to.
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
I wrote such a library for Python here: https://github.com/wanderingstan/Confusables My use case was to thwart spammers in our company’s channels, but I suppose it could be used to also normalize accent encoding issues
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
As a sometimes semi-professional calligrapher, I can also add that the mark of good calligraphy is also to move beyond mere motions of an oblique pen held at a constant angle. Really beautiful and pleasing shapes demand precise control of a
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
Seconded. One glance around coffee shops, buses, or the like is enough to show that screens dominate “out in the world” too. And looking at the trend lines for the past decade, it seems set to continue.
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
FWIW, I’ve observed in high schoolers that many leave their earbuds in all the time. At this point it’s a fashion statement too.
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by wanderingstan 3y ago
Google sheets actually has a pretty robust data validation setup (up to regular expressesions), and most business users are fairly good at handling detailed instructions. But yes, for the inevitable times when they get it wrong, you just ne

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