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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> you would be significantly slower without an IDE, compiler or debugger than you would be without a pen/paper. Slower at creating what? With just great tooling there is still a real risk of creating the wrong thing just very fast.
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> in the real world today, of things that are not conscious becoming things that are conscious. Gametes. This kind of goes into the whole research field of António Damásio on consciousness. We can easily assess if a human is conscious f
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
I think that is just a convenient way to do it with markdown. Theoretically you could embed images in markdown with 'data:' scheme. But I am unless it is very small images it will probably not be very efficient to embedded the dat
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
Off topic but I am now old enough that more than once Calvinball references were lost with my co-workers. I was surprised (and then sad) at the realization that Bill Watterson is fading from the cultural ethos as I age.
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
Fair my issue is not that there are no Joseph Heller's in the world, my issue is that due to the inherent power and influence, we as a society, have a huge reluctance in considering people like Bezos, Musk, Buffet, Slim, Arnault, as ju
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
Can you share what vehicle you used for funding? My experience is that we had to hire consultants from big corp consultancy firms just to guide us through the documentation needed and the application process.
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
This is arguably not very scientific but if we didn't have the media fascination around the power and influence that billionaires carry, we would like come to accept that rationally it is a mental disease no different from Plyushkin&#x
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
I hope not to sound like some sort of birth evangelist but could we not flip that statement? That portraits a child as someone that you need to protect from suffering at all costs. If your parents were to make the same argument towards you,
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> This discussion comes up a lot on HN, and it seems to be one where there are answers, but people don't like the answers, so they go back to feigning ignorance. A real interesting data point that made reconsider some of my assumpti
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> Just say what you mean This greatly depends on work culture and ARL's - adulthood readiness levels. Many people are not graceful with open criticism even if done privately and constructively. Without falling into stereotypes cultu
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
I am not working directly on this but as far as I understand phantom breaking was mostly a calibration issue with earlier versions of front radar AEB.
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
I can't access the actually paper, perhaps a more naive question but is there a physical 3d noozle of sorts to deposit these liposomes in a 3d space?
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
I would argue that the software quality of ADAS systems is very different from Infotainment. Infotainment systems are a race to the bottom on BOM+SW price point. ADAS OEM's understand that there is a human cost, liability, and reputati
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> It’s just that the wealthiest industrialized nations are all living very wasteful lifestyles. ourworldindata.org Has a really good infograph on this: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita Wha
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
Very cool to learn about other areas of knowledge. Astrometry.net really made this quite visual thanks. For the curious wanting to go down this rabbit hole here seems to be an ESA archive dataset of 'GAIA Data Release 3' (released
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
In astronomy how is image registration done? Is there some sort of astronomic dead reckoning system? Or is it just image based with some kind of Homography technique?
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
Tecsun PL series is pretty much the modern version the old Grundig Yachtboy series. I have a PL 330 as my 'is there anybody out there' armaggedon world radio receiver. I also sometimes use it just for kicks to hear radio from some
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
To each their own but as someone with a terrible long term memory I find that pictures and journaling absolutely help me look back into the years and not have terrible voids of mind. Also do take pictures of the mundane and everyday life, I
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
The Internet Archive is massive force for good and a huge not-for profit effort. However in certain aspects of preservation of History (for example if deemed high value at a national level) we should also expect national archives to duplica
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
I think it would be 90% of the way there if you swapped the e-ink for a transflective panel with some form of RLCD.
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
If rule of law and due process are arbitrarily ignored then the only real difference is time. Given enough time all can degenerate.
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
As a European I feel like I have a lot of safety and guarantees. I also have children and I obviously worry a great deal about what the world will look like when they grow up. Whatever is happening at the moment has been set in motion in th
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> So what do you propose? That your king posts a comment and a troll brigade floods the thread? Twitter is a broken model you are trying to fix with draconian surveillance. Politicians/Statesman/ Corporations should not be on m
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> In Europe, apart from TGI Fridays, they were never a thing. And they were seen as just simply fast food. The discussion and the article is US specific, but as general point 'Europe' is a big generalization akin to 'Afric
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
Not really high tech but worth mentioning that some shortwave portable radios (a world radio receiver is an item you should have in your earthquake emergency supplies) have a portable blare out alarm horn function to signal your presence to
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
I remember Steven Spielberg's Extant series kind of made a realistic effort in this direction. Rather then pretend that the future is the Jetson's they made houses still look like houses, with house interiors that you would recogn
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> it's fine that some things just disappear The thing about History in general is that we as present time people have a poor intuition of what is valuable historic data for people in a future (long time from now) time. Today we draw
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
The biggest benefit is in bringing legitimacy to preservation efforts and curation of historic records (photos, videos, data, binaries, sources) on the history of the Demoscene. There is a large chunk of software history prior to pre-cloud
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
Your appealing to authority with a lancet article but the article just concludes that kids don't spend less time on their phones because of the school bans. Irrespective of brain feedback mechanisms after school it is still a better te
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by DoingIsLearning 1y ago
> The key difference is that Europe has actual pensions backed by some sort of government scheme where the current working generation pays into a pool that gets then distributed to the current pensioner generation. That means we don&#x27

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