dwyerm

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by dwyerm 7y ago
This isn't a novel thing, as far as I can tell. A decade ago when I was working on routing of over-the-road trucking, our maps provider moved the entire United States a couple meters and it broke all our road restrictions. The problem
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Anything and everything made with Unity.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Only if you're the one paying. The ADA requires 'paratransit' service for persons whose disabilities prevent them from using accessible, non-commuter, fixed route bus service. In many cities paratransit is handed off to taxi
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Are player IP addresses stable enough to be used in this way? I've always considered my own IP to be dynamic, despite rarely changing.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Highly recommended by me, too: Zoz at DefCon 23, entitled "And That's How I Lost My Other Eye...Explorations in Data Destruction" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bpX8YvNg6Y
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by dwyerm 7y ago
...which is strange, since PTFE is naturally white. I think we've become used to seeing it on silver and grey frying pans. But that said, what's wrong with a dark-colored toilet?
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by dwyerm 7y ago
You might look through the source code for Wordcram[1]. It is built under Processing, and is relatively easy to understand, I think. [1] http://wordcram.org/
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by dwyerm 7y ago
I've been pondering the same economics on car-, bike- and scooter- shares. I'd love to know if Car2Go's ridiculous little SMART cars were treated better or worse than their Benz replacements. I wonder if Lime's electri
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by dwyerm 7y ago
What you saw as a positive feature, I saw as the death of Friendster. My friend added "The Burning Man" as her friend, and I suddenly had thousands of friends neither of us had ever actually met. The activity of this pool compl
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Or worse, if you accidentally find this feature, will you know what you just did? Or will you suddenly be dumped into somewhere that looks like it is still a web browser but has suddenly stopped responding like one. It reminds me of all
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by dwyerm 7y ago
I'm guessing that Mrs. B. was smart to stay out of the Denver/Boulder area. The Furniture Wars were fought in those foothills. You can still see the corpses of Weberg and Levits stores all down the interstate. Jake Jabbs took no
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by dwyerm 7y ago
There's also "This Person Does Not Exist[1]", which has been discussed a few time before[2], here. [1] https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Huh. It didn't even occur to me that they could also be using the app on my phone to do the same thing, and do it more accurately.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
We're changing to auto market into the cell phone market? Oh no. "Well, I get Free Miles(tm) with the Chevrolet, but it throttles at 70MPH and the radio only plays Pandoa. Or I can get the exact same car from Crysler, with no th
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Is your OS time at least battery backed? I can tell you that nightmares start when all your clocks go back to 1970 on boot, and you need a clock to validate certificates on boot...
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by dwyerm 7y ago
For what it is worth, I'm pretty sure that Amazon is already doing this at their Amazon Fresh drive-up stores. When you drive up, a sign lights up to say that your order is coming soon. The experience degrades a little bit if you arr
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Saving you from the clickbaity title: Debian etc, Suse, Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. The bottom half is filled out with Canonical, Google, RedHat, Cisco and Adobe.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
...or maybe even offer those features to Google Voice's dialer, as well.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
For me, personally, the way Amazon has captured me is more in the cart than in the fulfillment. Yes, it is nice to get things to my door practically overnight, but the fact that I can make that happen without typing my personal and financi
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Although I have a lot of stories from my time there, my view of this particular event was mostly from behind a desk. I don't think I can offer much personal insight to it. But I strongly recommend a video that covers the second race. N
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by dwyerm 7y ago
I did race operations for the Leadville Trail 100 for a decade, including when the Tarahumara first raced. The first year, Rockport was a sponsor and loaded them up with their best trail running shoes. The Tarahumara didn't perform wel
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by dwyerm 7y ago
In retrospect I also wonder why we didn't just do a bulk update. I think the problem was that we discovered the geocoding problem and started correcting for it before we understood where the problem was actually coming from. By the tim
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by dwyerm 7y ago
You are fortunate that lat/long is sufficient for your use-case. In my experience, the problem is that it isn't as exact as you'd think, especially when your measurement passes back and forth between reality, the idealized ca
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Same. I'm running an NEC E-series. The 'smart' features it has are an honest-to-god serial port for plugging it into automation. It's been a decent display to me. The only thing I would warn consumers about them is th
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, how do you think you missed the rest of the URL? I have a suspicion that the trend towards browsers being 'helpful' with the URL field is contributing to mistakes like these.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Did you miss the mandatory binding arbitration and class-action waiver in your terms and conditions?
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Well, personally, I had the "bliss" image from the Windows wallpaper collection in my head while I was writing this. But I'm cognizant that most of the photos of hillsides I took in Ireland had sheep in them.
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by dwyerm 7y ago
Agreed. The prices are meh. The discoverability is terrible and seemingly getting worse. I even feel like the customer service is also screaming downhill. Still, I'm nearly exclusive with Amazon because I give them money and they send
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by dwyerm 7y ago
This reminds me of Janelle C. Shane's work on AI[1]. Computer vision's been learning based on the photos that people take, not the visions that people see, and this is giving AI a preference for photogenics instead of reality. Peo
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by dwyerm 7y ago
If you're ever in my part of the world, you should visit the Connections Museum[1]. It is truly humbling to see how far we've come. At this museum, you can dial a phone, hear the 'thinking' of all the electromechanical s

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