damon_c

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by damon_c 7mo ago
I love this. Thanks. In case anyone hasn't visited the Sol LeWitt installation at MASS MoCA in North Adams MA, do check it out. They usually have some other good stuff there too.
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by damon_c 1y ago
One thing that has changed for me personally is that these days if I’m parsing XML, I might just tell AI to write a parser that can handle these 5 XML files. It might load up a library or it might just roll its own, but one thing that is
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by damon_c 1y ago
You are not the only one. "Revert the changes to <file>..." 4 zillion tokens... 10 seconds... Instead of > git checkout <file> just to keep Cursor in the loop. I assume I have probably eaten up my $20/month in
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by damon_c 2y ago
The word recall sort of implies that the vehicle is recalled to the manufacturer. Calling a software update that happens in your garage at night and takes 20 minutes a “recall” definitely is worthy of quotes.
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by damon_c 2y ago
Hello. I just want to start by saying I appreciate this post as every other post on this article is: "this is politically motivated because I think it is". That being said... on the linked page it says: > Outflow water has bee
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by damon_c 2y ago
I know this is unpopular to say and people love to pile on, but I have been using it for the last few weeks and I am optimistic about it. I pay $100/month. Right now, it works just about flawlessly on the freeway. If you turn it on w
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by damon_c 2y ago
I think if I was getting off a red eye flight and stumbled into a Tesla at 6:30am having never been inside one before I would probably spend 5 minutes fumbling around in the parking space and then go back inside the Hertz office complaining
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by damon_c 2y ago
I just wanted to say that anecdotally since I cannot see this perspective being shared here, that since Hertz started renting Telsas, I have only rented from Hertz, and only rented Teslas, and I have had nothing but positive experiences
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by damon_c 2y ago
> That was the last straw. Oh now you want a straw?
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by damon_c 3y ago
I was self employed for about 10 years until one of the startups I did along the way turned into something and now I have to work there.
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by damon_c 3y ago
> all the exchanges Not really. There are plenty of decentralized exchanges which are proven, reliable, auditable, generally used by many without issues. see: https://uniswap.org https://curve.fi/ https:&#x
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by damon_c 3y ago
Hugely helpful, thanks! I really did give it a few minutes and look for docs/examples before asking. I promise!
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by damon_c 3y ago
How do I add WASD controls to the camera?
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by damon_c 3y ago
One concrete thing that is better about the Tesla connector is that there are no moving parts that user needs to manipulate. Tesla/NACs connector is just stick it in and it works... the car holds onto it until it is done or you tell it
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by damon_c 4y ago
Every website accessible to the public has some responsibility to accommodate the disabled. https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/ There are a lot of opportunistic/good hearted compassionate lawyers mak
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by damon_c 4y ago
from that page listing the owners of Yamaha Motor Company: > The Master Trust Bank of Japan (11.82%) > Yamaha Corporation (9.91%) > Toyota (3.58%) I guess that ownership stake smooths some things out.
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by damon_c 4y ago
Imagine someone told you in 1989 when all the internet did was email and ftp, that the internet was going to do a lot of other things but they didn't really know what yet.
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by damon_c 4y ago
Jeez... Google isn't perfect but... I feel like a lot of people really benefit from Google existing. Ever use Tensorflow? Or... use 8.8.8.8 as a DNS server? Or... Gmail? or Learn something from watching YouTube? One has to pay the bi
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by damon_c 4y ago
In fact, if you visit his IMDB page: < https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000175/ >, you'll see that right at this moment, the population of a medium sized city is employed producing content based on his writin
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by damon_c 4y ago
Check out NuCypher (I work there) It attempts an approach at dealing with this. https://www.nucypher.com/network It's open source, decentralized, there are hundreds of providers... and it doesn't rely on trust. A
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by damon_c 4y ago
Probably the main innovation is in how many people have access to those things compared to in the 1950s... Sure, the rich people of the 60s had cars and dishwashers. Now many more millions of people do.
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by damon_c 4y ago
The context for this belief has only existed for about 10 years now.
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by damon_c 4y ago
Games run in many different contexts. The difference is that instead of your game state/achievements/assets being controlled by a balkanized industry of competitors seeking to lock you into their platforms, it could be stored pub
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by damon_c 4y ago
As a member of an open source community involved in one or more blockchain projects, I can attest that many of these things literally are indeed free.
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by damon_c 4y ago
People are doing useful things with public distributed databases and cryptography as well. Unfortunately it has been largely overshadowed by the greed. This is an artifact of human involvement. Mathematics implementations and new data sto
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by damon_c 4y ago
This whole thing was like if there was a jQuery bubble back in 2008 or so. jQuery came along and was amazing and useful and enabled a whole bunch of great new ways to do things and made a lot of stuff much easier. Now imagine it also enabl
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by damon_c 4y ago
That "Big Dig" in Boston is probably a good example. It was like... 10 years past its original schedule, wayyyy over budget... but I don't think anyone in Boston wants to go back to before it. https://en.wikipedia
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by damon_c 5y ago
I raised (or rather shared in raising) a kid in a 2BR apartment in Manhattan with no yard. We also happened to have a weekend/summer cottage in the suburbs. It was near the beach and had a yard and bikes and all those wonderful suburb
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by damon_c 5y ago
> What's the practical difference in outcome for the artist between selling an NFT and selling a print? With NFTs, the artist gets the money before they're dead!
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by damon_c 5y ago
The time is almost upon us where I can finally convert my '81 Jeep Scrambler!

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