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by wtracy 6y ago
Just thinking out loud: Wouldn't it be possible to get much more accurate temperature readings by having people open wide and imaging the backs of their throats? This could still be done at a reasonable distance. Of course, that would
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by wtracy 6y ago
> I also wonder if you'd even bother writing code to do it on the GPU in the first place. Some of your customers have large datasets that are only manageable with hardware acceleration, and others don't? Maybe you don't wa
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Being able to run two images per second through a post-processing and/or computer vision pipeline still sounds pretty useful to me. Shoot, Blender still supports users without accelerated graphics. (Or did five years ago, things may ha
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by wtracy 6y ago
> These guys can scale up by hiring 100s If you live in the third world, that immediately puts you on the radar of corrupt government officials and organized criminal organizations that want to extort you . The ransomware gig allows you
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by wtracy 6y ago
I'd say that the author missed the chance to add sales copy and/or message the trial users with "Our prices are going up on [date], act now to lock in this rate!" It seems like you could squeeze at least a temporary bump
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by wtracy 6y ago
The 400 ms threshold cited for the Doherty threshold is from a 1982 research paper. I imagine that in 1982, 400 ms response times felt pretty darn good. Also, the nature of the tasks that users performed in 1982 may have meant that there wa
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by wtracy 6y ago
For anyone not on top of internet culture, or not a native English speaker: I'm pretty certain that Musk was being sarcastic. I've never seen "obv" as a shorthand for obvious used at the end of a sentence in a serious co
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by wtracy 6y ago
So, there federal government will not be allowed to use TikTok? That's not much of a "ban".
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by wtracy 6y ago
Seems like you're asking for a CMS. Drupal or Joomla would probably meet your needs.
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I can't actually argue numbers with you, but an awful lot of owner-operated small businesses use Gmail. (And Yahoo email, for that matter!)
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by wtracy 6y ago
One of the arguments for thorium-based nuclear power is that we're already digging up tons of thorium as a byproduct of rare earth mining. This is radioactive material that currently we're just dumping.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Any word on whether the equivalent update on Debian has similar issues?
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I don't care whether my peers feel any stigma. I care about what the hiring manager feels. I'm convinced that the mid/upper management at the B2B companies I've worked at (and the one defense contractor I've worked
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by wtracy 6y ago
I imagine that it has rangefinding capability, and throttles the output based on distance to the target. It probably doesn't know and doesn't need to know whether the target is human.
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Obligatory: https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-ke...
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Show HN: Fabulizer(fabulize.me)
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by wtracy 6y ago
Most projects that get serious traction are written by employees of companies who treat OSS as a strategic asset. That doesn't say anything about the number of people who write OSS.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Not that this addresses your core complaints, but both GitHub and GitLab offer free website hosting through the Pages feature.
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by wtracy 6y ago
If the attacker can write to the DB, then they can add entries to every table with the string "Hey your database is unsecured!"
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by wtracy 6y ago
This seems to be a common and expected way of getting promoted within Google: Their performance review system allows engineers to provide feedback on people from unrelated teams. I don't know if any other company where this strategy is
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That means a desktop platform, not a desktop form factor. OS X is considered a desktop operating system in this context. (As opposed to a mobile platform like iOS or Android.)
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I've thought for a while that if I was a decision maker at a major studio, I'd set up a unit where up-and-coming directors are given pretty free reign to crank out five minute short films. The only real requirement would be for ea
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by wtracy 6y ago
How does it stack up to Wings3D?
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> Lecture delivery is not anywhere close to 100% of teaching a university class. Absolutely true. > Lectures have to change over time, both because you can do better with practice and because the material and real world change. This i
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by wtracy 6y ago
Yeah, my first thought was that retaining someone qualified to fly one of these things is going to be significantly harder than affording the vehicle itself. There's such a thing as weekend airplane pilots, but no such thing as weeke
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That will be interesting to see. I could see kids being cooped up and bouncing off the walls generating additional demand that could offset some of the overall economic slowdown. There's also reduced competition from secondhand toys wi
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I'm going to say that the business of selling card games is very different from the business of selling injection-molded plastic toys. A mold can cost thousands of dollars, and is useless once you have to make something different for
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by wtracy 6y ago
The "Lego sets are worse now" meme seems to be a combination of people having overly rosey memories of how good Lego used to be (80s Lego was not as amazing as people make it out to be) and people checking in during one of Lego&#x
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For certain categories, the adult is definitely the customer. For toys aimed at children under three, the ads regularly talk about training hand-eye coordination and other basic skills. For other categories, you could argue that the toy c
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I thought that the article argued that Lego is an exception to the rule in that it does inspire brand loyalty. Also, what investors mean by brand loyalty is fairly specific: A customer who buys into one brand continues to buy it for years

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