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by devindotcom 5y ago
Egghead Software, which I visited a lot at the time because my parents' office was right around the corner, was at I think 4th and University, or somewhere around there. KOMO and the other stations are adjacent to downtown so it would
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by devindotcom 5y ago
If you read the story "The Porter and the Three Ladies of Baghdad" (I think... this is from memory) the women (the escalating beauty of whom as the porter meets each is incredibly phrased by Burton) eventually are fooling around w
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by devindotcom 5y ago
I did not know this exists. Can't wait to look it up and read it, thanks.
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by devindotcom 5y ago
I find Burton's translation incredible - though certainly it is also fantastical and archaicized. For a first reader I think it might be a bit daunting, but honestly I love it. Like any ancient work, it's worth hopping between a f
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by devindotcom 5y ago
It's real, but I wrote this years ago. If you read the post a former warehouse worker explains how the ambassador job actually worked. Guessing it got reposted because of Amazon's other bad attempts at PR in recent weeks. Lots of
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by devindotcom 5y ago
I was going post that link but you beat me to it. When I wrote that it was as I suspected, disingenuous but not wholly invented - these were real people being bribed with cold cuts to parrot scripts, if I'm honest I might have done it
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by devindotcom 5y ago
No, no direct optic nerve interface. That isn't feasible with any technology we know of. The nerve bundle, like the spinal cord, is incredibly dense withe fibers. There's also pre-processing and network stuff that goes on in the r
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by devindotcom 6y ago
In older retinal prosthesis work it was a microelectrode array, basically dozens or hundreds of tiny electrodes piercing the retina and running a current. In this case the dots turn light into current so when you shine a light on them they
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Yeah, this would be for blindness that's upstream from the nerve, for instance an opsin deficiency or something that makes the light-sensitive cells in the retina not work. The underlying (actually overlying since the retina is kind of
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by devindotcom 6y ago
This is a really cool approach - I covered it yesterday and here's the EPFL news post as well. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/18/quest-for-prosthetic-retin... https://actu.epfl.ch/news&#x
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by devindotcom 6y ago
What a fun bit of history. Incidentally, I was looking into the possibility of hosting my own MUD a while back and it seemed rather complicated for someone without web deployment experience. I do wish there was a simpler way to do it and cu
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by devindotcom 6y ago
I wrote about it back when they showed off the first one here in Seattle. Not sure how much they've updated it but it's largely RGB cameras in the ceiling and weight sensors in the shelves: https://techcrunch.com/2
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by devindotcom 6y ago
I believe there is at least one prominent exception in the hair cells in the inner ear. These are not replaced once they rupture - producing the distinctive tinnitus sound at the frequency they monitor. Or perhaps I'm mistaken in this
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Psychiatrists are doctors who prescribe substances that have been closely studied - but their effects may be easily and specifically understood, their mechanisms may not be. Lithium is a great example - very effective treatment for bipolar.
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by devindotcom 6y ago
I did a minor in neuro and had a very similar experience. Fascinating and useful but it was always slightly alarming when the professor would answer a question with "I don't know.. no one knows. That is far beyond the limits of ou
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Journalists do check the credentials of the people they include in articles like this. They don't just take randos at their word. These people are anonymous to you but not to the journalist. If you simply don't believe the writer
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by devindotcom 6y ago
There's also a very well reviewed film about Hampton out just recently called Judas and the Black Messiah.
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Melville was already an established author after Typee and Omoo - Moby Dick was sort of like a Sgt Pepper situation. People expected a sea story and they got something quite a bit different. Or imagine if Tom Clancy wrote ten Jack Ryan book
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by devindotcom 6y ago
We dilated on the x-mode piece of this if anyone feels like drilling down a step: https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/28/x-mode-location-google-app...
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Curious whether there are/were plans for a VLC-lite that eschews the many more advanced features (transcoding, streaming, etc) and focuses purely on playback with as little overhead as possible? Maybe I missed this discussion already b
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by devindotcom 6y ago
The narrative isn't "fake." The worst you could say is it's an oversimplification of the forces and systems at play, and if you've watched any of Curtis's films you'll know that even the simplification is
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by devindotcom 6y ago
In case you're wondering why this is circulating, Google had it on their cloud blog a couple weeks ago: https://blog.google/products/google-cloud/just-desserts-baki... I wrote it up around then too. Haven&#x2
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Reddit is almost certainly covered by 230 in this instance. RH is a tougher question, but I'd argue they are probably fine. If either has liability (particularly RH) it will be under other laws or rules.
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Interesting way of looking at these terms. If you want a bit of a higher level look, check out the SF Encyclopedia! I've found a LOT of great books and ideas just skimming through this: http://sf-encyclopedia.com/catego
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by devindotcom 6y ago
If a fish ate the plastic, would you say the plastic is in the fish? Or is it still in the water, because a fish is in the water? Which industry would have written that headline?
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Lot of riots got "declared" here in Seattle too, usually after the cops rushed a stationary peaceful group, and many breakdowns of projectiles and aggression by protestors were publicized by police. But a huge amount of it turned
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Honestly, that comparison is very disingenuous just from the information on the site you just linked: Fox News: "Overall, we rate Fox News strongly Right-Biased due to editorial positions and story selection that favors the right. We a
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by devindotcom 6y ago
FYI if you read on in the twitter thread cited by the story, this has been walked back as bad communication by the company. They say they intended to allow any customer who wants FB and Twitter to be blocked by the ISP to reply to that emai
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by devindotcom 6y ago
I was wondering this myself. It seems like a natural extension of the film scanning and editing process that they could put out an HD 4:3 version. As usual it probably comes down to cost and money - as Simon writes, it was hard enough to ge
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by devindotcom 6y ago
Interesting, we didn't have this issue during the virtual events and interviews I did - I used a separate USB mic, not a mic on the camera. So it did didn't occur to me. But it seems quite correct that this could be an issue, and

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