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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I've been using duckduckgo and bing for a while now. Google is just a fallback.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I’ve dealt with this as well, particularly with programming. At least with programming, what I usually wind up doing is raising an issue on Github about the feature I’m trying to implement or the bug I’m trying to solve. It helps me actua
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
The verbal voice in your head is rationalizing. Don’t think. Just do. (If you want a good resource that synthesizes a bunch of modern psychology research relating to that suggestion into a single, entertaining non-fiction book, see “Subli
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
It’s so amazing how making it easy to get started is basically priming your brain to complete the task. I’ve gotten fit by hanging up a chin-up bar on a spare door frame. When I had a trainer, I was always amazed at what I could accomplish
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
The Financial Times article provides a little more depth. It mentioned that Google has already decided to delay the rollout of any general-purpose facial recognition tools, in anticipation of malicious use. The FT article also calls his c
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
You're exactly right. It's even in the article: > Postmates told the team at Hardena that the only way to change the prices would be to become a member, which meant accepting delivery orders and paying the company a percent of
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
But the article states that the delivery drivers are paying $nothing and driving off, leaving the restaurants with a loss of $CorrectPrice and leaving the service with a marginal loss. Which is why the restaurants are pissed, and why these
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
At that point, the restaurant is left with 100% liability for the cost of the raw ingredients and of making the food. The courier can leave (wasting their own gas money), but the 3rd-party delivery service is entirely removed from the situ
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I am not sure where I heard it, but I keep coming back to the quote "There is no algorithm for absolute truth". People who aren't in-the-know about AI tend to lend it much more credit, when it comes to its ability to accurat
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
While it is a cycle, it isn’t necessarily a bad cycle. With this cycle there is constant innovation to meet changing needs; there is always some new product addressing the shortcomings of the incumbent competitor.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I don’t like this. I’m okay with dying in a cold river or a burning car after a crash if it means I don’t have to be worried about being tracked every second of my life. At some point, its going to cost extra to buy cars without GPS tracke
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
A lot of the article seems to be based on liberal ideals, which include a less prominent America, the promotion of Veganism, and embracing the fall of the West. For the most part, the author’s expectations about crypto are mistaken in that
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
This is full of weird examples. I take it it’s more useful for emulations than for use in any production environment. > Calling methods on a JavaScript class from Python code... This feels like an incomplete solution to a nonexistent pr
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
You should look into “A Curious Expedition”, which is a commercially successful Steam game based on web tech [0]. You will most likely have to use JavaScript, on the front end. You can do a lot of neat graphical tricks these days - whether
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
C++ is not as tricky as people make it out to be. There is a lot of elitism among programmers, and a lot of people seem to claim it’s hard solely to make themselves look smarter for being able to write it. If you know the basics of progr
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Just realized that my current state (Kansas) doesn't really have much in the way of roadside billboards. Never thought about it before. But it does help take in the views, a lot more so than, say, the highways of Florida.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I do not! (Sorry to disappoint - I’m a run of the mill atheist). My name was inspired by a Gilfoyle line in Silicon Valley, which references Magick: https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/9481dd82-17de-4791-b110-0e58434... (Sin
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Constraints make things easier sometimes, and it isn't a bad thing. A lot of times, it's easier to write something like a narrative when you're working within certain rules. Or to design a powerpoint when you're given a
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
"Narcotic" has shifted, at least in American vernacular, from meaning drugs that induce sleep to meaning any illegal or Schedule-I drug. Merriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/narcotic C
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
> For the senior citizens viewing this they might relate the term "AngelDust" with the dissociative PCP, let me assure them though, it hasn't been called AngelDust since the 70s. I don't see that connection as an issu
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
It’s possible and likely. A lot of financial news outlets use software to automatically describe market movements and the intra-day movements of single stocks.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I usually just press F12 and delete it with the DOM tree inspector. Is "DOM Delete" automated?
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Yeah, this made my whole browser lag (buttons-shading-five-seconds-after-hover-level lag). FireFox Quantum on Windows 10 with a pretty badass CPU. Also slow in Opera. Also slow in Vivaldi. And it crashed Chrome Canary. For a web-tech post
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Those look badass! Reminds me of some of the ergo keyboards that I looked at in the past... only a lot more stylish. The first one [0] reminds me of an old Learjet or Falcon 10 cockpit with the lights lit up (see [1]). I really love the l
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
Fair point. For the record, though, if you ever do decide to pay for news, FT is one of a few that are actually worth the money.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I’m still amazed by the sheer amount of money there is in this. $30,000 a month for reuploaders? $100,000 in a day for ad deals? Makes me wonder if I chose the wrong career.
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I think a number of US news sites (e.g. LA Times) still block EU traffic. Furthermore, GDPR has caused a massive decrease in the number of newly registered domains that are successfully recognized as spam: > Prior to the implementation o
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
... that's exactly what I use R for. At work, I use it to filter data from the FAA database of registered aircraft. Or to poke around whatever CSV data I need some specific details from that day. I thought that was what everyone was
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
> Willingness to pay more also tells you a lot about the person's need and if the person is willing to pay more it is a signal that the person needs to more. Servicing those needs first is often beneficial for the whole society. How
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by LeftHandPath 7y ago
I remember wishing for something like this when I started working in Illustrator after using things like rainmeter and hand-writing SVG code for ages. Of course, I don't have the patience or dedication to implement that sort of thing.

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