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by davidb_ 1y ago
Great list that sparked my memory. The tmux scroll back issue was very frustrating for me, and ultimately what made me stop using it. What got me hooked on trying to use it - I do remember being amazed I could close my laptop, go home, and
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by davidb_ 1y ago
It is an advanced driving assistance system. It kind of drives your car for you (lane centering, basic obstacle avoidance, and adaptive cruise control all without you have to touch the wheel or the pedals) as long as you’re looking forward
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by davidb_ 2y ago
If you're considering a similar pattern with Flutter rather than ReactNative, they call it "add to app" and there's a couple good talks on how others have approached this [1], [2] from the recent FlutterConUSA, as well a
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by davidb_ 3y ago
Sideloading is still blocked in the US in their new releases. Only allowed where mandated (EU)
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by davidb_ 3y ago
I had the same question. He says TestFlight, but he's handwaving some of the headaches of that. TF builds expire every 90 days. The other option would be an adhoc certificate, but then you have to collect everyone's apple id. Appl
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by davidb_ 4y ago
Are you getting useful content out of the 7B model? It goes off the rails way too often for me to find it useful.
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by davidb_ 4y ago
Agreed with the comments on the demo video music. It was startling. I'm pretty skeptical still as all your demo has shown is similar to what a boilerplate tool might do, but with more unknowns. You have to start somewhere, though, and
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by davidb_ 5y ago
I was educated in the US and took AP US History in high school. I don't recall a specific reference to Zersetzung within that curriculum, but the idea that life in East Germany was difficult due to Stasi oppression was covered. I don&#
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by davidb_ 5y ago
Any chance you have a source for the bicycle tire story? I'm keen to read more about it (and similar stories).
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by davidb_ 5y ago
> IBM, Bell Labs, GE; who else should be on that list? Intel felt quite a bit like IBM during my time there circa 2010. I wasn't familiar with this quote, but wow was that my experience at large tech orgs. I wish I would have known
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by davidb_ 5y ago
Not directly relevant, but I've had all sorts of issues, similar in nature, with other companies that use Zendesk and integrations with Zendesk. It seems surprisingly bad given its popularity.
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by davidb_ 5y ago
Combining this with Motion Amplification/Video Magnification [1] could result in some very interesting visuals and applications for factory equipment. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEoc0YoALt0 Explainer Youtube v
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by davidb_ 5y ago
I think with some filtering it definitely could be.
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by davidb_ 5y ago
> Flutter is still unusable on iOS Flutter is actively working on the bug you're referring to, and I think you're valid in bringing this critique of the jankyness of animations on first run, but the large number of Flutter apps
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by davidb_ 5y ago
But if you want that remote session to persist, tmux (or screen) are still super useful.
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by davidb_ 5y ago
I think so, and my evidence for that is I've been using tmux a lot less as I've done more of my development work locally. BUT - it still has plenty of utility when working on remote machines. So, I still use it every day. I'm
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by davidb_ 6y ago
FWIW, the cold start issue (which was hitting me with regular 10-30+ second delays for even the simplest of functions) has recently been "fixed" (at least, I'm down to <1-2 second cold starts). The specific issue I was run
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by davidb_ 7y ago
> Business is not about doing things right, it's about being profitable I find this line particularly insightful. It was the biggest lesson I learned in my transition from academia to industry. No one cared that my work was correct
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by davidb_ 7y ago
Have you tried laying aluminum foil loosely on the counter? I've heard that one works. I likely won't make much progress on it this summer, but in the winter when I pick it back up and make some progress, I'll reach out.
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by davidb_ 7y ago
I've got 5. I only actively use 3 of them. 1. Media player connected to projector running RasPlex - this software is outdated enough and buffers on some high bitrate content that I should buy a replacement device, but it still works we
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by davidb_ 7y ago
Currently it's just rumors that it will replace Android based on Fushia and Flutter's target devices. You can see a summary on [the wikipedia page]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia ).
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by davidb_ 7y ago
SubscribeStar servicing assholes doesn't make that level of collateral damage acceptable, though I do agree it is not surprising. https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/107369726493205299... > I am not
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by davidb_ 8y ago
Fair point. I probably should have found a better quote from Pinker. I chose him as his books "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" and "Enlightenment Now" seem to put forward the ideas of art as a
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by davidb_ 8y ago
The quote was taken from: https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-rubenstein/steven-pinker... I posted it to give context to the "debate" Pinker was engaged in. I don't have much of an opinion on whether or
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by davidb_ 8y ago
This article feels like a direct response to the ideas of Stephen Pinker, summed up by this quote: > one of the greatest epiphanies of the Enlightenment: that people are equipped with a capacity for sympathetic imagination, which allows
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by davidb_ 11y ago
I got feedback on this idea initially from the arduino subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/397ewc/what_do_you... After the Kickstarter launch, I posted an update: https://www.
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Here's How You Can Learn to Build DIY Robots and LED Cubes(thecreatorsproject.vice.com)
3 points by davidb_ 11y ago|1 comments
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by davidb_ 11y ago
That's a neat trick. Based on the article and rewatching the video, he's not actually flipping the coin. > In Section Three we prove that the angle ψ between M and the normal to the coin stays constant. If this angle is less th
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by davidb_ 11y ago
The one thing that bumped me was their API for selling customer/prisoner data. I'd like to better understand what their plan is there.
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by davidb_ 12y ago
The only feature it has is file sharing, but I quite like Seafile: http://seafile.com/en/home/

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