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by zyxley 11y ago
Well, you can go back to at least the Middle Ages in Europe, when valuable books were sometimes chained in place in monasteries or libraries to keep people from running off with them.
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With those you still have to talk at more-or-less normal volume, it just eliminates outside interference and noise.
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> I hate talking to a thing and it makes me look ridiculous both in public and in private (the social awkwardness might improve though in time, humans can get used to anything). The answer to this in scifi is a subvocal microphone. Unfor
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by zyxley 11y ago
At least the last time I flew with them, JetBlue had wider seats and more legroom than any other airline I've recently flown on... but the seats had this incredibly uncomfortable lumbar support that felt like a huge wedge poking into m
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by zyxley 11y ago
Solar panels on the sort of scale being discussed here would, once you consider the logistics of maintenance, basically be a small (or large) town that also has a huge number of solar panels. Running a company town devoted to solar panel ma
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by zyxley 11y ago
> My objection to the universal application of the Oxford comma (whether it adds clarity or not) is that a comma in written English essentially always take the place of a short pause in spoken English. But exactly that's how I parse
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by zyxley 11y ago
This trick is used by a number of game mods, by way of providing a fake DirectX dll that monkeys with the internal game code and then calls the actual DirectX library. ENBoost is probably the most prominent at the moment, and is considered
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by zyxley 11y ago
There's a substantial difference between sleeping at work because you work 17-hour days, and taking a quick nap in the middle of an otherwise normal work day as a simple way to 'reset' between morning and afternoon.
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by zyxley 11y ago
What about a Costanza desk? Have a wide desk enclosed on three sides, with fold-down cot underneath attached to the backing.
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by zyxley 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECgQjZYAGqs#t=9m49s
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by zyxley 11y ago
> I once had a roommate who literally could not drive 2 miles to work every day without her GPS. She turned it on every day and had been working there for over a year. You might be confusing correlation and causation here. Did she have n
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by zyxley 11y ago
> I mean, who the heck justifies a smartphone controlled grill? Someone never properly taught to cook who panics at soft terms like "medium heat" and doesn't know what a given kind of steak should look like. > Who'
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by zyxley 11y ago
Exactly. The lack of actual information is a reason to disbelieve Yudkowsky on this topic, not to assume that it's true for Secret Technophile Mystery Cult Reasons.
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by zyxley 11y ago
I'm a fan of the Siskel & Ebert system instead of five stars: two thumbs down (bad), one thumb up/one thumb down (okay), two thumbs up (good).
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by zyxley 11y ago
> If you have an external drive that you don't plug in every 30 days, Backblaze deletes your backup. If you have any file that doesn't exist for 30 days, Backblaze deletes all backups of it.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Get rid of the need to turn your head (e.g. turn it into an extended map with the active screen still centered), and you could do some interesting things with this and adventure games like Metroid or Zelda. Imagine playing the original Metr
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by zyxley 11y ago
If you can fit the technology into contact lenses, you can presumably fit it into a normal-looking pair of glasses anyway.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Incidentally, the logo is called "Jumpman", and it's actually based on Jordan doing a ballet grand jeté to make it look like a more prodigious jump than his usual style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump
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by zyxley 11y ago
My benchmarks of speed at this point are basically: - fast enough to run Netflix and have a work VPN going at the same time - fast enough to run Netflix, download something on Steam, and have a work VPN going at the same time - fast enough
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by zyxley 11y ago
Does it have a "snooze email" feature, though? The page suggests it doesn't, and that's (IMO) the important part of Mailbox, not just the general interface of it.
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by zyxley 11y ago
The "delay for later" feature is tremendously useful compared to traditional inbox handling. Of course, to trust that feature, it also has to be tremendously reliable, and that's the biggest thing that Mailbox got right in th
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Spark Do you know if they're going to do a desktop version too? (Or, to be more pessimistic: "How long until that gets acquihired and killed off too?")
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by zyxley 11y ago
At the moment, it seems like it would be really nifty to use in hobbyist or small data-crunching projects to get C-like performance [1] with a saner syntax, less memory management issues, etc. I wouldn't want to use it for anything sub
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by zyxley 11y ago
Unlinked footnotes in a webpage? With all that unused margin space on a desktop, it seems like they would have made more sense as Tufte-style marginal notes anyway.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Wow. I'd definitely play it with that UI. You may want to take a look at Gnomoria ( http://gnomoria.com ), which is basically "DF clone with sensible voxel graphics". For example: http://images.akama
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by zyxley 11y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much it. For a comparison, Gnomoria ( http://gnomoria.com ), which is an unapologetic DF clone but with basic graphics and first-party modding support, sells for $8 a pop on Steam and has 2,000 reviews des
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by zyxley 11y ago
> For example, if ships were named something like "Peacekeeper" or "Ambassador" rather than "Torturer" or "Thug", it would lead to a perception of peace-keeping as their intended role. I'm rem
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by zyxley 11y ago
Huh. Mapnificent is exactly what I've been looking for recently after a change-up in local transit routes. It would certainly make it easier to eyeball "short trips" when considering the intersection of multiple transit modes
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by zyxley 11y ago
As somebody who's never worn a suit in my adult lifetime, even that $1300 figure feels like staring into some absurdist alternate universe.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Honestly, most review apps would do better to just use the Siskel and Ebert system: two thumbs down (avoid), one thumb/up one thumb down (it's okay but nothing special), two thumbs up (it's worth seeking out).

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