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by zyxley 11y ago
Looking at the graph of comment text, it's remarkable how many people are convinced that Mark Zuckerberg should be giving them money for some reason.
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by zyxley 11y ago
And here's another reason not to buy any Nest devices now that they're owned by Google. How long until Nest itself gets shut down?
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by zyxley 11y ago
My thoughts on this kind of thing have always been more like "put a tablet in a waterproof container and suction cup it to the outside of a glass shower". Apparently you can get shower curtains that have a transparent tablet pouch
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by zyxley 11y ago
This seems like it could have been prime territory for a bit of surrealist/meta fiction, with gradually stranger descriptions of operators turning into a short story of some kind.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Legal Name = Name on your birth certificate Wrong, at least in the US. Common law precedent allows you to use whatever name you like, regardless of what's on official documents, as long as you're not doing it for fraudulent p
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by zyxley 11y ago
This is literally exactly what Numbers.app on OS X does.
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by zyxley 11y ago
EE?! shudder
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by zyxley 11y ago
Exactly. If this isn't changed... bye-bye AngelList account.
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by zyxley 11y ago
As somebody who got a first software job before even having a degree, companies that focus on GPA over demonstrable skills weird me out.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Given the obvious downsides of Tinder-like apps, particularly the stereotypical-but-true "women are choosier than men" factor that distorts the use of them, I keep wondering how long until some company popularizes an "e-match
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by zyxley 11y ago
Remember the speed differentials involved here. Landing speed for large passenger jets is fast . Picture a 5-pound drone hitting a stationary plane at 250 miles per hour and ask if the damage would be "negligible".
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by zyxley 11y ago
Direct control isn't even really needed with the right social engineering. Look up "Xbox turn off trolling" on Youtube. Or imagine a voice-controlled self-driving car, and a radio commercial loudly saying "Siri, drive me
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by zyxley 11y ago
What general region or city is this? Cost of living can be a major effect on pay, comparing, say, the insanity of the SF Bay area to anywhere else.
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by zyxley 11y ago
For people looking to do interesting things with MQTT messages passing between devices, take a look at Home Assistant. https://home-assistant.io You can use it to integrate various 'smart home' devices, generic MQTT me
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Standing up is really about having the freedom to move around as you're reading things on the computer, or taking micro-breaks to stretch your arm, etc. This is why I really like a standing desk combined with a barstool-height cha
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by zyxley 11y ago
Making it 'earned' is missing a major point of basic income: that just giving the money away can ultimately be much cheaper and more efficient than verifying if people 'deserve' it.
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by zyxley 11y ago
A while back there was some random blog (alas, I can't remember the details) that, due to some quirk of Google rankings, ended up first in Google search results for "facebook" for a couple of days. It ended up deluged by thou
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by zyxley 11y ago
"Try it for free" - but what's the actual pricing?
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by zyxley 11y ago
One thing I'm curious about is if there's any VPN services out there that will do virtual LAN functionality, a la Hamachi but with the same focus on privacy mentioned in the threads here.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Imagine being able to 'road trip' by going to sleep in your car at home, waking up in a different city, spending the day there, and being home against the next morning.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Why not make most of it go towards good purposes? Because doing so costs more than the amount of cash wasted in the first place.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Well, the biggest difference is that Inform is by default built in a way that describes a world, while Ink is built in a way that describes the flow of a narrative. It's like the difference between Inform and Twine.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> Imagine the mayhem if someone were to do this on, say, the Super Bowl. Imagine a pop star paying Apple to give their newest single free to everyone (a la Songs of Innocence), and then a 10-second Super Bowl ad that's just "He
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by zyxley 11y ago
It's a joke in one of the old Dilbert strips, too. "I hope you don't accidentally DELETE a FILE!"
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by zyxley 11y ago
> I learned that before that clause had been part of the standard contract, there had been a manufacturer who decided unilaterally that half of the noise suppression capacitors in the schematic were "unneeded." I don't und
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by zyxley 11y ago
And a sniper is far less likely to end up Youtube than a random swarm of little drones.
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by zyxley 11y ago
> It's beyond me how the 'thought' element of a hate crime isn't protected political speech The courts of the US have literally always that freedom of speech is not unlimited.
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by zyxley 11y ago
"They punished him by remotely downgrading his firmware" is a frankly absurd claim... and incorrect, too. The guy's own post [1] said it was "pending" (e.g. downloaded and ready for an automatic update), not install
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by zyxley 11y ago
Homebrew uses Github in roughly the same way.
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by zyxley 11y ago
Same here. I do regularly eat breakfast... but only because my preferred tea is strong enough that drinking it on an empty stomach is a very bad idea.

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