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by wcarss 6y ago
When YouTube added little banner ads, I didn't really mind. They had to make the service profitable, after all! When YouTube first allowed creators to monetize their videos using ads, to support themselves, and youtube would pay them a
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by wcarss 6y ago
I'll watch the whole video later (as standup maths is generally quite good!) but in quite a lot of skipping around just now, I'm a bit shocked not to have seen a rotating cube drawn on the surface of the tree. That's the one
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by wcarss 6y ago
+1, one of many transcripts of a version of this talk: https://wcarss.ca/reading/you_and_your_research
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by wcarss 6y ago
As the article very briefly notes, that Dr. [REDACTED] may well be Hal Puthoff, whose book Pais likely read, and who then would appear to have perhaps directly inspired Pais' ideas. Said more disparagingly: it may only show that some k
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by wcarss 6y ago
There is a pretty big misunderstanding in your third point, and the article kind of laid the trap for an uncautious reader to fall into it: room-temperature superconductors, as an idea, are not a new or unusual concept. The breakthroughs fr
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by wcarss 6y ago
Not trying to justify it, but one could read it defensively in the same light that all employer-patent-grabs share: If you invent something directly in the course of your assigned tasks as an employee, i.e. they instruct you to invent X and
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This feels a little bit like reading some parts of the Silmarillion -- back story details expanding on old things we already knew. At the least though, the degree and the tonality of banal detail here, with some public records corroboration
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This is a bit of a cop out answer, but Google probably sorts them based on something derived from PageRank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank In other words: according to some approximation of the authority of the
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I almost bought this just now on impulse as a gift, but I couldn't see anything on your site's product, tutorial, or resource pages about whether I can attach them to an iPhone, which is what the person I'm buying for has. If
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by wcarss 6y ago
Serious question: how does an article like this get written without mentioning SPARC[1] once? They're hardly secretive, they're MIT's people, they're moving on a plan to get results in ~5 years, and they're talking
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I think this is exactly the crux of the issue, but I see a big difference: Bluetooth being "open" doesn't mean much when the kernel and device drivers and electronics are all closed. What would them being "open" mea
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but the use is massively frustrating. Swipe controls don't work, the app sucks, pairing with multiple devices is a nightmare. This is a great expression of one of the primary issues facing the software (and technolo
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by wcarss 6y ago
I'm trying to find the HN thread from a few months ago, where an HN-user's spouse (who is a physician focused on treating patients suffering Vitamin D toxicity) gave a stark warning that she has personally seen many (hundreds of)
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by wcarss 6y ago
As someone working har on a scrappy alternative to slack, this feels like a major win for us, too. For every competitor, really.
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by wcarss 6y ago
Ah, interesting! I'm intrigued that it didn't come across, so thank you for the feedback. My app is fundamentally a text chat client like slack -- with markdown support, reactions, channels, DMs, and at some point threads and bots
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by wcarss 6y ago
I've been building an alternative around asynchronous audio, called heysync[0]. I can't stand being in long video meetings where everyone waits around smiling and one person talks forever. I also deeply miss the easy chats we used
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Ringworld goes into this topic quite a bit, so it was interesting to me to see that the author is an astrobiologist who wrote "The Knowledge", about restarting civilization from scratch. Niven (who wrote Ringworld) also co-wrote &
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by wcarss 6y ago
Wild market manipulation / tinfoil hat thoughts: I wonder if that billion dollar wallet movement in the last few days could have any relation to this? A lot of retrospective analysis of the 2018 run found price painting and similar sha
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by wcarss 6y ago
Similar advice filtered through my own experiences: You're at $company for interviews, and the HR person says, "So let's talk salary. What are your expectations?" Your "A" strategy: "Oh, I just want to lea
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by wcarss 6y ago
With many books, I'm not sure how to verify that I'm actually doing the exercises properly. In the (simple!) maths I took, my misunderstandings often led me to do exercises incorrectly, but to think I'd done them right, or to
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> I really want to retain the sense of human contact of voice & often video, but in a way that we can thread, reply to async, & come back to latter, none of which would be easy & convenient with our current predominantly sync
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> doesn't Telegram have a satisfactory push-to-talk button that sends audio clips asynchronously? Telegram does let you send audio! When I first started building heysync I was quite surprised to find out that WhatsApp/Signal&#x
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by wcarss 6y ago
Thanks for asking -- we've played around with it a bit! Mostly as tests as features get implemented, e.g. live-playing incoming audio, or playing forward through multiple messages at a time, but it's kind of addictive so we'v
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This was a great read, and impressively dense with graphs and historical survey information about all media markets. I happen to have been wondering just today what led to the rise of a phenomenon like the Beatles at just that point in time
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I think a good middle ground here is audio, with transcriptions. I'm making a chat application for this called heysync, which is similar to slack or IRC, but with embeddable auto-transcribed audio messages as a primary feature. You can
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by wcarss 6y ago
YMMV but IIUC it's EAFP when giving TMI on TLAs, especially technical jargon, rather than just quoting LMGTFY or insisting folks RTFA. (... and I can't help but add IANAL, IANYL, TINLA, etc.)
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When my eyes first alit upon it, I thought it was something to do with extended backus-naur form[1]. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_f...
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by wcarss 6y ago
It's interesting that you note it only takes one person to undo the progress -- by the reverse token, every person who works in this way adds value to the practice and the history, which is why (and how) I've advocated for and to
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by wcarss 6y ago
That's an interesting point, but it seems like one among many very good arguments for "right-sized" or "logical" commits, i.e. not 10 similar-shaped bugfixes and also not one-line no-context diffs -- how big should
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I admit that it takes a small bit of skill and experience to get to a place with a version control system where doing what you suggest is easy and does not consume meaningful time, but I very strongly feel that it is worth the investment.

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