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Programming by Punch Card(hackaday.com)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
No kidding. Actually, considering how mindblowingly huge but untouched the volume and area of our seas and seafloors are, "oceanically unlikely" is also a superlative I can get behind! 1.3 billion cubic km of water, the tallest mo
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by emptybits 4y ago
Exactly; car lengths vary by model, not by velocity. I get it. You'd prefer to use the phrase "car length" to not literally mean "length of a car" in this context. Apologies if I seemed pedantic but, as evidenced by
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by emptybits 4y ago
> One car length is way more than 15 feet to my mind, probably 40 feet or more depending on speed. A car length is, literally, the length of a car. It does not vary with speed. Exception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by emptybits 4y ago
So many strange and beautiful rabbit holes. Wikipedia claims Prince wrote the song Nothing Compares 2 U (famously covered by Sinéad O'Connor) about the author, Susannah Melvoin.
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by emptybits 4y ago
Last week's Lex Fridman podcast featured Andrej Karpathy (former director of AI at Tesla, founding member of OpenAI) and they discussed this aspect briefly also. The usefulness of neural networks has not ceased, despite researchers&#x2
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by emptybits 4y ago
1. This is an "old" resume. I'm not as old as OP's dad but I definitely recall putting my gender, height, probably weight, definitely "health: excellent", etc. on my resumes in the 1980s. Different times. Time
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by emptybits 4y ago
It's really different IMO. "Fire!" (falsely) in crowded theatre: Specific. Beneficial outcome unlikely and difficult to even imagine. Harmful outcomes nearly certain. Powerful AI codebase or service: Generic. Endless benefici
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by emptybits 4y ago
Freedom to speak and publish, even dangerous ideas, is also a right. Beyond the US.
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NamX at Paris Motor Show: Hydrogen Powered SUV Concept Using Removable Tanks(hydrogen-central.com)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
Yes, my question was honest. When I asked it, I did not see "further away" in the text of the post. Possibly it was added or else I misread it. As a motorcyclist, at night, I wish I had the appearance of a car in other motorists
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by emptybits 4y ago
How would such a misinterpretation be an actual problem? Less safe?
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Is Cheese Good for You?(consumerreports.org)
19 points by emptybits 4y ago|9 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
> There's a quote I cannot find that I miss greatly ... This is probably it: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." - Alfred North Whitehead (
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Canadian ransomware hacker sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison(cbc.ca)
7 points by emptybits 4y ago|2 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
In Canada, with sales taxes varing from 5% to 15% by province, we round to the nearest nickel on cash transactions. Non-cash transactions are rounded to the nearest penny as usual. Works fine IMO. Note that the rounding is to the nearest
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by emptybits 4y ago
Nice! That hourly data link ("*matrices") looks easy enough to parse. Thank you!
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by emptybits 4y ago
Agree. I have trusted the Environment Canada forecasts for years. Web and basic app. The government-issued stuff isn't as featureful or pretty as some apps, but I go back to it every time because its track record here (Vancouver) has b
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Federal judge halts Arizona ban on filming police within 8 feet(petapixel.com)
130 points by emptybits 4y ago|49 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
Blame me if it sounded like clickbait. I submitted with the verbatim headline ("..., says minister") but HN rejected it as too long. It was late, I was lazy, so I just removed the ", says minister" and carried on. I shou
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Finland will be self-sufficient in electricity in a year or two, says minister(yle.fi)
97 points by emptybits 4y ago|116 comments
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China's high-tech repression of Uyghurs more sinister, lucrative than it seems(cbc.ca)
10 points by emptybits 4y ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
Absolutely, but sports bars and VR chats aren't (yet?) "America's Favorite Family Outings", per TFA.
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by emptybits 4y ago
Article says the three components of going to a ballgame that have increased the most since 1960 are: parking (66x), soda (27x), and beer (19x). Pretty wild. So a suggestion: The American family parks somewhere cheap, takes public transit t
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Consider the Octopus and How It Could Change Our Ideas About Meat(theglobeandmail.com)
7 points by emptybits 4y ago|3 comments
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Is Seaweed the Next Big Alternative to Meat?(smithsonianmag.com)
3 points by emptybits 4y ago|0 comments
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NASA Perseverance Rover Spots Trash on Mars(petapixel.com)
2 points by emptybits 4y ago|1 comments
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“The Transactor” magazine, Commodore, 1978-1989(commodore.ca)
69 points by emptybits 4y ago|8 comments
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Diamonds Are Bullshit (2013)(priceonomics.com)
3 points by emptybits 4y ago|1 comments
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by emptybits 4y ago
Yeah, I recall that also. Apple itself published a biorhythm program.[1] (A pic and WAV file are there!) Many 8-bit computer demos showed off their hi-res graphics with a classic biorhythm plot of three overlapping sines. We know now thoug

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