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by feadog 7y ago
You mean a CarlyRaeJepsen monad? A "Call Me Maybe?"
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by feadog 8y ago
HN user 'feadog' wonders if your username is a trad reference or an early music reference.
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by feadog 8y ago
sidenote, sometimes this does happen, and it almost always is full of the most comically hateful people: see voat I'd feel much better if reddit and twitter were even handed with their condemnation of comically hateful people. As som
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by feadog 9y ago
great accommodations all over this heavily-touristed island for €35-55/night. Used to be about half that pre-Euro!
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by feadog 9y ago
Staying in AirBnB I don't feel safe at all and 80% of the AirBnB's I stayed had one problem or the other. This is almost the direct opposite of my own experience.
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by feadog 9y ago
web-scraping and the like always seemed like a problem that could be done fairly elegantly with distributed systems. Elaborate?
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by feadog 10y ago
base 85 also has the interesting property that 4 original bytes fit in 5 encoded bytes. Still useful for Javascript, as the bit shift operators work on 32 bit "registers".
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by feadog 10y ago
I wrote a base 92 encoder for the Javascript game I'm working on: http://www.emergencevector.com/ It's pretty easy to write the decode for the 0-91 integer in Javascript. if (ch == "!") { r
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by feadog 10y ago
I beg to differ. It's a very fun to drive retro stylish car! (I'm an owner.)
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by feadog 10y ago
Hydrogen powered cargo ships have already been made as well. However, I'm not sure if hydrogen generation on board ships has been explored yet. Who knows... it may be possible for ships to run without ever needing to refuel if generat
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by feadog 10y ago
You can already buy a portable box that lets you combine the power from two different circuits that are out of phase with each other, to get twice the power. I saw a post by a Tesla owner who uses it to get effective Level-2 charging from f
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by feadog 10y ago
Practically everyone can plug in their car at night, and with nothing more sophisticated than a $10 outlet timer, fuel up the fleet no problem. Even that expense should disappear. My Fiat 500e lets me set a timer to start its charge.
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by feadog 12y ago
Something that's a standing desk/tilted drafting desk form factor combined with good palm/elbow/forearm recognition would immediately address the "gorilla arm" problem with such interfaces. Combine that with Re
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by feadog 12y ago
Anyone in the East Bay?
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by feadog 12y ago
Some folks at Microsoft were trying to circumvent this with Singularity OS being based on something like CLR. Then everything could dynamically interoperate with everything on a programming language level. http://xkcd.com/92
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by feadog 12y ago
I've been looking for something like the game that is described in the post for awhile. The kind of complexity that comes out of having N different damage types and M arbitrary, incompatible equipment slots is fun, but it's not ne
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by feadog 12y ago
So they could implement SpaceWar on the PDP-11.
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by feadog 13y ago
I think there are cynical claims of police overreach and actual police overreach in Oakland, CA. I think cameras would help with both of these.