OscarTheGrinch

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by OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
I, for one, welcome our new canvas based overlords.
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by OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
These trucks will be super useful in transporting all the necessary hydrogen around!
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by OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
Yeah, the big hydrogen guys should really not let hydrogen and boom appear in the same headline.
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by OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
I follow a bunch of journalists that linked to stories they liked, then used nuzzle as a news aggregator, 9+ likes might be worth a read, 20+ likes something big going on etc. Fannying around with Twitters advanced filters to replicate this
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by OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
Yes, not to mention the inevitable downtime when some cloud service can't authenticate. Not an improvement on working with local software.
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by OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
A chair will last many years, lets say 5, so amortised we are talking about a $830 x 5 = $4150 chair for every user. That's massive in my book. Subscription software is a scam.
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by OscarTheGrinch 5y ago
I respectfully disagree. $600 USD per worker, per year is a massive expense for a small to medium firm, and those rates will only rise in the future. In my country at today’s exchange it's more like $830 per user per year! I much prefe
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Just a technical question about NFTs and physical ownership. Are NFTs just a cryptographic key that points to digital goods or do they somehow encode them? If the former then the image is "on the cloud" and therefore actually on s
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
And possible (not practical) uses for crypto.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
The film & recorded music industries were built in an era of information scarcity, maintained by tightly controlled distribution. We now live in an era where information is infinite and everywhere. Criminalising people isn't going
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
This form of surveillance is out of the bag now. The burden now is on us as employees to say no, to insist that our contracts explicitly prohibit being surveilled.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Ha. Reminds me of the use of mirrors in elevators, basically they give us gullible humans something to do while the machine wastes our time. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-lifts-elevators-have-mirrors
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Cities struggle to build better public transport because car owners complain en masse about any impingement on their freedoms. Car supremacy is a big wedge issue in Norway, which is paradoxically a big oil exporter, and the worlds leader in
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
It would be really interesting if this resulted in a natural A/B experiment, i.e. by comparing the Solomon's with another pacific island group, we could tease apart social phenomena like cohesion, polarisation, distracted parenti
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
I've had so many endless discussions about what is viable, I've come to regard that word as deeply unhelpful to the development process. My benchmark of MVP readiness is: can we expect useful feedback from a customer by demoing th
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
I dont understand your objection. This is a lightweight starting framework aimed at rapid prototyping, there is nothing stopping you from adding your own classes to refine or override as necessary. I agree that semantic only would be a big
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
OK cool, will give it a shot, thanks for the recommendation! I tested every application I could find a couple of years ago. Lots of pretty prototyping apps, but generally the end code is somehow garbled or proprietary.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Yes, there is nothing like the flash IDE available today. I had a manager in the late 2000's who was giddy with the possibilities of HTML5 "It can do everything we do with flash!" Whilst that may be technically true, in pract
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
The government should legislate that all tracking is off by default. If it is such a good deal we could opt into it. Facebook and Google would have to innovate instead of rent seek.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Here is another approach: Back in the bad old days before git I was in a 20-30 person company that used Microsoft's SourceSafe. For anyone unfamiliar it had a basic library type structure where only one person could get out (lock) a fi
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Yes, exactly. I'm the father of an at risk child, there is absolutely no way we can totally isolate ourselves from society at large. I could go into depth about our situation, but what I came here to say is: don't believe any hand
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
The google AI will think cats rule the earth.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Just continue this thread of contrarianism, I doubt we could eradicate human knowledge from the planet if we tried at this point. It is encoded in our minds, our books and our silicon chips. We may lose the know-how / capacity to produ
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Yeah, remasters, no thanks. Bowie apparently hated how Lets Dance (the song) turned out, I had a remastered album where it was replaced with some dire 1990's techno version. And let's not forget probably the most common streaming
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
I keep anything remotely rare as mp3s. Streaming services are prone to sudden acts of mass extinction such as: api changes, licensing snafus, unprofitability of business model, Yoko Ono being in a huff that day. My only problem is backups,
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
It wasn't going to solve the problem, so there was no point doing it. That is not how steps in the right direction work.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
I'm willing to make an exception in this case.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Yeah the big data comparison is apt, and a few years ago was The Block-Chain that got middle managers frothing like Pavlov's dog. It is clear that for most of the companies who are investing in deep learning are tangible results are al
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Hey thanks for that. I had no idea that this insight, obvious to any low level curmudgeon, had been codified into a law. Now kindly stop playing your music so loud and get off my lawn.
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by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
Yes, and therefore the retailer is incentivised not to sell junk in the first place. The problem with being an "everything store" is that everything also includes an overwhelming majority of crap, looking at you crappy "genui

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