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by aharrison 7y ago
Assuming your question is in good faith, the answer is: when you rent something on AWS, you are paying for total cost of ownership sliced out. When you run something on your gaming rig GPU, you already paid for the machine/GPU - now yo
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by aharrison 7y ago
Can corroborate, same problem of OOMs. Regardless, this is excellent work. Thank you for sharing.
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by aharrison 8y ago
You will note that I did not say "scam" anonymous call. I said "anonymous call" which includes both real and anonymous calls. Police officers should respond with force dictated by the circumstances of their situation, tr
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by aharrison 8y ago
I'm a little surprised you didn't mention anything about police being held accountable when responding with unreasonable force to anonymous tips. If we are going to start talking about fixing this issue, I'm not sure getting
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by aharrison 9y ago
I'm not sure how much better their quality control is (they are another SV startup), but I have been eating Mealsquares ( http://www.mealsquares.com/ ) for about half of my caloric load for over a year now and couldn&#x2
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by aharrison 11y ago
That is an excellent essay and it scares the crap out of me, because I see it play out every day in both directions and it often does feel exactly like epistemic learned helplessness. There are so many biases that affect individuals (hindsi
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by aharrison 11y ago
We knew what he meant, which was the point of the communication. He is making a general observation about data, not a formal proof.
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by aharrison 11y ago
I remembered there was an antitrust lawsuit between AMD and Intel, but hadn't heard how it resolved. Turns out Intel paid 1.25 billion to settle it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Micro_Devices,_Inc._v.... .
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by aharrison 11y ago
I will second this and say that in my opinion it gets better as you go along, although it gets tedious in parts. Be prepared, it is a long story.
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by aharrison 13y ago
That is actual one of the creator's goals: “I’d like this to be something that is like coffee — a commodity something that’s available everywhere. Maybe a utility like water and power. Something that is ubiquitous and easy to consume,”
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by aharrison 13y ago
I don't have a citation either way, so I will just say that I noticed a reaction to oats just like a reaction to gluten. Could be that mine were contaminated, could potentially be that I am allergic to oats as well.
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by aharrison 13y ago
One of my favorite things about Soylent is that it provides a "reasonable" but consistent baseline for doing these sorts of tests. Until Soylent there wasn't a non-medical meal replacement that at least theoretically tried
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by aharrison 13y ago
I tried this, and here was my experience: 1. I am gluten intolerant, so swap out oat flour for almond flour. Swap out B complex supplement for marmite. Also, calling marmite "real food" is a bit of a stetch in my estimation. 2. Af
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by aharrison 13y ago
I agree and have run into that problem myself. Unfortunately, fixing that impression takes time and to my knowledge there isn't any real way to explain the problem with "Platonic truth" as a tangent off of a discussion around
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by aharrison 13y ago
In my experience, when most engineering-oriented people use the word truth, they (wittingly or unwittling) mean the pragmatic definition of "allows us to make stronger-than-previous predictive models about something". Most of the
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by aharrison 13y ago
Not necessarily like screenflow, but I have used Open Broadcaster ( http://obsproject.com/ ) for this purpose. All it does is recover various screen buffers to an mp4, but that is more than sufficient for this purpose in my
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How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think (2003)(speakeasy.org)
90 points by aharrison 13y ago|38 comments
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by aharrison 13y ago
I have looked at the DIYBio groups on a number of occasions, and while they are fascinating it their own right, they aren't quite what I am interested in. DIYBio (as far as I can tell) is considerably more interested in DNA sequencing
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by aharrison 13y ago
You appear to be interested and aware of the current state of clinical chemistry. Are you aware of any HN/Slashdot-esque sites for this pursuit? One of my main areas of hobbyist interest this year is biochemical assays and health diagn
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by aharrison 13y ago
One thing I don't see people talk about enough in the context of home or car repair is liability. Not only do I not want to mess with a broken toilet, but if I screw up and flood my bathroom, it is my fault. If the plumber does it (less lik
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Code Bubbles Now Open Source(cs.brown.edu)
2 points by aharrison 14y ago|0 comments
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by aharrison 14y ago
I was not trying to imply that this data should be generally available, just that he should have access to it as definitive proof, at least to his superiors.
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by aharrison 14y ago
This is what blows my mind in both directions: 1) A reporter not recording everything he does in the age of GoPro and a 2 TB harddrives at Best Buy. 2) Tesla did record damn near everything: GPS, battery, display, temperature (internal and
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by aharrison 14y ago
You might be interested in this concept: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly All economic discussions of free markets that I have ever heard have implicitly or explicitly stated that one of the necessary oversights of government
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by aharrison 14y ago
It is my goal to support the most desirable company in any market. Don't think that I would hesitate for a second to change carriers if T-Mobile stopped being nice, competent, and helpful and AT&T stopped being jerks and offering reason
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by aharrison 14y ago
I love T-Mobile, and not just for their sane plans and prices. They are also, you know, nice to me. Every time I have called their support they have been friendly, competent, and helpful. I have never gotten even 1 of 3 from any of the othe
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by aharrison 14y ago
That is an excellent comment and I am particularly amused at the legal definition of science, which I had not heard of before. Keep in mind that my definition is a simplification of the framework. Everything you said is necessary for genera
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by aharrison 14y ago
In science, there are really two states of being: "false", and "not false yet." Truth implies a definitiveness that science lacks. Unfortunately, this is a hotly debated topic. Many philosophers of science would argue that science is the se
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by aharrison 14y ago
But that is the problem. There should be SOMETHING to do even when you aren't in a hotspot. In my town there are only 3 portals, and only (apparently) one person in the opposing faction. Why would I bother playing?
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by aharrison 14y ago
Slightly off-topic: I managed to snag an invite and play around with ingress a bit and I have to say, as a game, it is pretty terrible. You have to find portals, get within a few dozen meters, and then interact with them on a cool down. If

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