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by wcarss 5y ago
Just a note on a reason you likely got so many downvotes, beyond the tone: the parent was likely referring to McAfee with that remark, not to Thompson.
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by wcarss 5y ago
I do the same. I write tweets, or facebook notes to family or friends -- argumentative or loving. Or hacker news comments, or blog posts, or whatever. I often spend a surprising amount of time in editing, re-reading, and honing them out. Th
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by wcarss 5y ago
may also be english as a second+ language or just a frequent brainfart around pluralization, see the intro: > This post explains what 1NF actually means and is useful for, and debunk a number of the misunderstandings.
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by wcarss 5y ago
Some potential things to watch for: - try not to obtain and initialize the audio context until the triggering event has occurred - make sure the audio context + playback occurs directly as a result of the triggering event. If the event just
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by wcarss 5y ago
That's reasonable. :) Those things should already require authorization to access their streams, and your creds for e.g. meet.google.com shouldn't be available in other tabs/windows at other domains to send along, but it stil
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by wcarss 5y ago
I really wish you could access audio data from across an origin. Preventing that access seems to me like it's mostly just nice for YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud et al to not have others do things with their audio/video data. Why sh
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by wcarss 5y ago
I played the whole game before opening the credits, and while playing, I couldn't help but think of some of the other things of his I've seen over the years -- for example, I remember a different one where you just wandered in var
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by wcarss 5y ago
Maybe a lot of effort for little reward here, but you could always try contacting someone like LGR[1] and offer to send some for the purposes of making a video to show some of them off being unboxed and then used on their original hardware.
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by wcarss 5y ago
I think the idea is the array of phones is so comparatively vast, and their release schedule is so frequent, that it's just much harder to reach any really reasonable market coverage for things like good drivers. (I'm not sure I a
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by wcarss 5y ago
This is really interesting! Do you know anything about the tools/methodologies of the teams that went part WFH and the adjustments they made when changing up their workstyle? For example, do you know things like whether meetings were h
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by wcarss 5y ago
That's an interesting idea about a type of AI that we do not have yet. Attributing magical pattern-finding expert-beating behaviour to AI is common among those who do not know much about it or how it works, or who haven't used it
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by wcarss 5y ago
I don't understand at all who is downvoting you here! I appreciate the thoughtful and wonderful response you've put in, so thank you. I wish so much that people wouldn't use votes to express mild disagreement. I thought you w
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by wcarss 5y ago
This is interesting but it is not in the least bit philosophically satisfying as an attempt to answer the question of whether beings are "automatons" or "conscious". To begin with, it is not at all clear that those form
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by wcarss 5y ago
I'm also guessing, but I think it's something like their plan for how much capacity (i.e. network bandwidth) to have available at particular times and places, and their strategy for updating the plan.
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by wcarss 5y ago
lots of image results that include "tank man", many of the photo, turn up for "tank ma", "tankman", etc. Shows clearly that it is not a lack of indexed content, but a search filter.
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by wcarss 5y ago
We admittedly splurged on the grinder and got another breville product, the Dose Control Pro I think, which was as much as the darn espresso machine. It has a timer and a good grind setting dial, and you can put the portafilter right into i
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by wcarss 5y ago
I remember listening to the podcast where they announced Stack Overflow, and cited exactly the problem of walled communities like Experts Exchange as who they wanted to drive out of business. Stack Overflow ain't perfect, but it's
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by wcarss 5y ago
oof, good callout! I received it as a christmas present and must have lowered the cost in my memory: it's a breville café roma, which isn't listed on their site in the US these days, but is still in Canada? Which is where we order
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by wcarss 5y ago
I grind up some beans and put them into a portafilter on a small scale, to a rough ~16-17g weight, then tamp it down and run a no-fuss ~$100USD breville espresso machine on it until it's about 34-40g pulled, then pour in ~140g of water
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by wcarss 5y ago
Mine hasn't completely failed, yet, but it is where it is because of not shipping. I have a thing and it mostly works, but it's not good enough for people to use, let alone to buy, and I'm not sure how to get it there. The mo
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by wcarss 5y ago
I was thinking of Twitter as a social/comment/news webapp company using the word "plus" to market a new product in a space where a cash-rich competitor with a decade-old product with broadly similar functionality already
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by wcarss 5y ago
I also immediately thought of 'plus' -- I wonder if there would be a trademark issue because of "Google Plus"?
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by wcarss 5y ago
sometimes you do work right in a terminal. I use Sublime for almost everything, but sometimes I edit code I have on some servers where I don't want to manage a whole git repo and do pushes/pulls. I have vim and a .vimrc on those -
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by wcarss 5y ago
What I've heard from some friends in the installation industry is that their work is dominated by large installation projects that will become huge money-makers for the owners in a reasonably short time frame, so it's worth the bi
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by wcarss 5y ago
awesome! I started working on some visualizations in that vein for fun just in the last few weeks, and had very similar ideas about making a 'scriptable' version and letting others build what they want with it. I've been runn
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by wcarss 5y ago
> Also, in our current system the people with actual power are not at all anonymous. I can name all the elected officials. There are some people with influence whom I don't know, but the power is ultimately in the hands of voters an
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by wcarss 5y ago
I have seen posts and comments about new Carrington events or similar with such frequency, over such a period of time, and with such uniform distribution along the spectrum from "no problem!" to "everyone will die!" that
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by wcarss 5y ago
I've used the deepspeech project a fair amount and it is good. It's not perfect , certainly, and it honestly isn't good enough yet for an accurate transcription in my mind, but it's good. Easy to work with, pretty good
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by wcarss 5y ago
It almost definitely has nothing to do with David Frum[1], but that's where my own odd mind went first. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum
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by wcarss 5y ago
my read on the two has always been: nerd: intellectually inclined geek: unusually interested in some hobby And of course being one, or both, or none, and liking math, or liking star wars, or both, or disliking math, or disliking star wars

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