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by ingsoc79 23d ago
As a teenage nerd downloading and playing videos on his Pentium II with a 14" SVGA monitor this Onion article cracked me up https://theonion.com/new-5-000-multimedia-computer-system-do...
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by ingsoc79 11mo ago
Yep, they also used 3D building data for correcting position in urban canyons: https://www.uber.com/blog/rethinking-gps/
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by ingsoc79 1y ago
Seems unlikely that a Christian nationalist would be roommates with a trans person, no?
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by ingsoc79 4y ago
PEX was banned, but the ban was lifted in 2010.
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by ingsoc79 4y ago
...or suffer a more pedestrian fate of getting vaporized by bored Klingons.
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by ingsoc79 4y ago
Yes. Seattle had multiple chop shops scattered around the city, including this one dissecting cars under a bridge: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/is-chop-shop-operating-plai...
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by ingsoc79 6y ago
Yes, as it establishes the potential bias of the article author. If this article was written by typically a pro-nuclear author it would be much more noteworthy.
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by ingsoc79 6y ago
While not the entirety of the under-representation situation, the pipeline is absolutely the biggest contributing factor. Take a look at any CS class today and you'll see a sea of white and east/south asian faces, an almost no
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by ingsoc79 6y ago
If you need me to explain to you how mobs attempting to burn down police and court buildings is indicative of advocating violence towards police officers, then you've got bigger problems then your misreading of my response.
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by ingsoc79 6y ago
Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, and many other US cities saw mobs attempting (and in some cases, succeeding) in burning down police precincts and courthouses this summer.
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by ingsoc79 6y ago
While the NYT has always had its share of bias claims, since Trump's election it appears that even the facade of balanced reporting is taking a back seat to their editorial agenda. You have editorialized headlines[1] that incorporate c
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by ingsoc79 6y ago
I couldn't disagree more. The idea of denying the HN community an opportunity to read a touching and deeply personal story—simply because its ending isn't palatable to you—is incredibly selfish.
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by ingsoc79 7y ago
Schrödingerona's virus
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by ingsoc79 7y ago
Dim sum restaurants can do this well because they can crank them out in volume. A stack of 4 piece dishes gets snapped up quickly as the cart makes its way through the floor. It's also why the larger dim sum palaces are usually so mu
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by ingsoc79 7y ago
My parents sent me off to college with a laundry disk, and I remember thinking I should visit my physics professor's office hours and ask how it worked. In retrospect I'm glad I didn't.
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by ingsoc79 7y ago
No doubt it's an interesting product, and if they provide a good SDK for it then a lot of researchers and tinkerers will be happy :).
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by ingsoc79 7y ago
The MyoWare sensor is a popular component for DIY projects ( https://www.adafruit.com/product/2699?gclid=CJLytM3U0dICFQGT... ).
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by ingsoc79 7y ago
As someone who works with EMG, the hype CTRL-Labs has been pushing regarding their tech is over-the-top ridiculous. In short, it's a wearable band that uses electrodes to measure your forearm muscles' activity (electromyography, o
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by ingsoc79 8y ago
It's certainly true that some minorities are underrepresented in tech. A lot of the irritation you're seeing comes from the repeated accusations and implications that this is due to some unspoken policy of discrimination at tech
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by ingsoc79 8y ago
One look at the website of Seattle's Garfield High School (34% black/latino) CS Club website pretty much sums it up: http://www.garfieldcs.com/ The makeup is similar at the college level: sitting in on CS courses
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by ingsoc79 8y ago
The head tax was a poorly thought out law that would have inflicted a lot of collateral damage on Seattle-based businesses without trillion dollar market caps. It was broadly unpopular here for that and a number of reasons, in spite of wid
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by ingsoc79 8y ago
I take the bus from my neighborhood, transferring to light rail at the UW station.
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by ingsoc79 8y ago
Mass transit is a viable solution to people only when it's more convenient than cars. When the hassle of driving and finding parking is less than the extra walk/transfers/etc of taking transit, most people will drive. If yo
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by ingsoc79 8y ago
The reason the streetcars went away in the US was because of competition from cars, which, not coincidentally, were beginning their rise to dominance ~100 years ago. GM and Ford were in the process of killing streetcars the moment the Mode
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by ingsoc79 8y ago
> These things seem quite different from each other. Two things that are often considered "undesirable" by the people living near them. That's why there's room for skepticism when self-described YIMBYs actively root f
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by ingsoc79 8y ago
Of course it's important to distinguish between the YIMBYs and the Yes In Your Backyard types, who typically masquerade as the former. You'll find them on discussion boards enthusiastically supporting development and/or san
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by ingsoc79 9y ago
Great point. So much of our daily driving relies on the exchange of subtle social cues with other drivers.
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by ingsoc79 9y ago
I'm speaking more of the current state of the self-driving cars I've been in - future improvements will likely narrow the gap or eventually surpass human abilities in most scenarios. How or when is the main question.
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by ingsoc79 9y ago
The main problem with self-driving cars is that they can't "read" humans' body language. A human driver can see pedestrians and cyclists (and other cars) and have a rough idea of what they're likely to do in the ne
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by ingsoc79 9y ago
They're mostly based in California, though they recently acquired Group Health Cooperative (largest healthcare provider in Washington State).

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