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by gd2 5y ago
We should have learned by now don't NY Times articles about the City.
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by gd2 6y ago
I'm zero on this tech, but I'd like to see this type of project work.
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by gd2 6y ago
Does the article ever say what the setting we should change are, or is just saying that Yale has a leadership platform that it exercised for musicians during the pandemic? I'm rehearing with a group of highly amateur musicians, and get
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by gd2 6y ago
Don't like
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by gd2 6y ago
True even while gas is almost zero because not driving.
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by gd2 7y ago
I have Chromebooks. I'm now concerned and confused. The implications are not adequately explained.
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by gd2 7y ago
Seems like an important topic to discuss. Serious question, how do should I understand the concluding sentence/word, "But walk through parts of San Francisco today, and you get a different sense altogether: not an uncanny effec
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by gd2 8y ago
I'm not a gamer, but it * could * turn out to be a successful on-ramp for a large number of casual non-committed gamers.
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by gd2 8y ago
". I felt like I was hearing from Pelé that the key to becoming a great soccer player is wearing shoes." It was just a movie, but in a movie about Pele, one of the memorable scenes was he was playing with the neighborhood poor kid
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by gd2 8y ago
GAC currently has a nice display booth at the NADA show, National Automobile Dealers at Moscone Center in San Francisco, showing about 6 cars. Which is probably some sort of a confirmation of what the article says about them coming to US de
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by gd2 8y ago
Right, and it felt like 8 inches of blah, blah, some analysts might care about this history, before they got to the news of raising prices. Also agree about questioning why Google isn't pricing to create network effects.
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by gd2 8y ago
Tried out cloud computing. Went to the first lesson, clicked the link for the YouTube of the first video class, described as "What is the Cloud? Watch this lively video for a quick overview of the Cloud landscape. Though it's a c
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by gd2 8y ago
saw this tweet this morning. Text Good morning to everyone except @paulg, co-founder of @ycombinator, who just donated $150K to defeat a measure that will prevent 7,000 households from homelessness through eviction defense services & re
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San Francisco YC donation to defeat homeless prevention measure(twitter.com)
20 points by gd2 8y ago|12 comments
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by gd2 8y ago
I see one tech startup that changed addresses about 6 months ago. Is there a correction button?
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by gd2 8y ago
Wow, 360 Hacker News comments on a Chromebook article
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by gd2 8y ago
Should I pay 3X's as much to get only 10% more experience, is a great question. But if I frame the choice as, I could pay less than $0.50 / hour for better experience on something important to me, my calculus is different.
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by gd2 8y ago
I also remember that for a few season, MS did the vaporware thing. Spreading false rumors that they would be releasing a Surface in a few months that would cost about $200, and be better real computer compared to the new Google backed to
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by gd2 8y ago
Right, And this excellent little known Chromebook feature continues to get better. One can now throw tabs from one account context to the second logged in account. Left click on the top to the left of the tabs, (while the Chromebook is sig
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by gd2 8y ago
I also believe Google is experimenting with taking its customer support up a few levels, which for years was figure it out for yourself. With both Chromebooks and YouTube subscription, I've gotten very good support through chat inclu
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by gd2 8y ago
I'm just learning about LXC containers because LXC containers are part of the Chromebook Linux breakthrough.
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by gd2 8y ago
FIFA has the reputation of favoring the big market countries, and scandals happen. Did the model here include the probability of poor and biased referees? ? Anyway I'm looking forward to the World Cup, but wish it wasn't so early
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by gd2 8y ago
Maybe I gave up too soon, but I could not get either Android Studio or VS Code Studio running, because of ARM. I figure those issue get solved by people who know better than me soon. Anyone able to point to simpler instructions on how stand
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by gd2 8y ago
My experience is that Mexicans do have many words and phrases for sexual references, with a goodly number involving foods. But I haven't experienced, or remember seeing, it using to make a joke of foreigners. That would be more like
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by gd2 8y ago
Theme that I see is branding that besides engineering smarts, Google is likable, thoughtful, someone you'd want as your friend. Leading with the hamburger emoji to move the image of Google as more fun / regular human. and IMHO
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by gd2 8y ago
Also apps do get updated, and when they do they sometimes grow by almost a 100 MB. Repeat that X times, and the RAM on the phone turns out to be insufficient for larger apps of the new now.
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by gd2 8y ago
Hasn't this been going on for like 2 years? Or has the trend line made this more common.
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by gd2 8y ago
Glad that Apple is making an effort to re-engage with Google in the education market. In my limited experience, Apple is way ahead in apps that use the stylus effectively, but the Chrome App "Squid" shows that the tech is there f
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by gd2 9y ago
I like the physical simplicity of one hour equals a colored block. I've got minor quibbles so will modify it, but good idea.
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by gd2 9y ago
A key point - for me as a user unlikely to develop extensions- is buried some paragraphs down. "JupyterLab 1.0 will eventually replace the classic Jupyter Notebook. Throughout this transition, the same notebook document format will

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