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by killermonkeys 1y ago
Worth underlining that designers work very hard to understand the needs of the particular situation. Usually type designers consider the legibility of 3, 6, 8, 9, 0 (particularly 8 and 0) to be more important than between O and 0. But for c
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by killermonkeys 1y ago
The leaflet ( https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/B612-Leafl... ) explains the design thinking behind this. They call them "light traps", though I'm not totally convinced
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by killermonkeys 2y ago
What does it mean to have less active parameters (36B) than the full model size (132B) and what impact does that have on memory and latency? It seems like this is because it is an MoE model?
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
I'm about to give up on London and move to San Francisco. Both cities are experiencing 10%+ house price inflation and all the pain that goes with it. New York has experienced much the same since the 2008 housing crash. Cities are in, s
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
EFF continues awful tradition of confusing personal digital liberty advocacy with lame complaining about not getting things that cost money for "free".
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
This map and many others include digital/creative agencies. They may be startups in the sense of new companies, but if we accept that definition why not include every new lawyer, restaurant, or retailer? Agencies are contractors and th
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
For all this article's many faults, at least it is long-form and has more than two sources. I hope PandoDaily continues to support long-form journalism and I hope they inspire other tech blogs to do the same.
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
What exactly is misleading given there are several common algorithms used (cubic by Linux and compound by windows) and the gains are at least an aggregate 2x improvement on key performance metrics. One thing I do see is that it hasn't
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
It's a difference in approach that is tied to time: suburban American houses were mostly built after forced air central heating, and in that kind of heating insulation is "less" important (the air mass is mixed and heated tho
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
Amount of head on lager varies from country to country but it is hard to argue with a Czech given that they invented Pilsen lager. A good head has a different taste and adds a different texture to the beer and makes the carbonation (high in
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
No sorry the "man pushes his car to a hotel and loses his fortune" question from another comment.
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
Yes lack of dates has always been a big complaint at the Palo Alto MENSA meet ups.
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
I asked these questions until a year ago. Brain teasers were never ok. They are defined as things that require a single insight and/or domain knowledge and could be communicated in a few seconds. "Monopoly" is a perfect examp
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
Exactly as I read it. The translation is better as "Jana was baffled when the officials showed her a print out of all of her facebook correspondence." The article makes it clear they asked her a lot of questions before they presen
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
I was ready to say that angularjs plus mobile does not work based on our experience but at least your demo works well, though I think it has few bindings. I'll try it later in android browser on froyo and see if it can handle that. We had k
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Star Explosion is Most Powerful Gamma Ray Burst Ever Recorded(space.com)
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
We did something pretty similar to this when we didn't get into YC in W13: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115851397461982481700/posts/AUX1... On review, the meetings and advisory help were effective, trying to track a peer group of startups
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
It is impossible to judge the impact from this rant but I can certainly say that ownership of intellectual property is not a human right. Nor does the Berne Convention hold that it is a human right. Can we please ensure that every human bei
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
OP: I remember being in precisely your position when my last year's exams came around many years ago. I remember going from effortlessly succeeding in school to busting my ass to be mediocre in uni, too. The fact is that over the long run,
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
You can also opt out of the scan when you travel which registers your opinion. On average this adds about 3 minutes to the security time, though sometimes longer (up to 7) if other people are getting patdowns. In SFO they log reasons and in
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
ALL these tensions exist in a startup. In the 3 I have been in, all these issues arose to varying degrees. In my second we went to the coffee shop on Monday morning and talked really openly about what we thought of last week. It was great.
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
Accusing politics of being the downfall of some enterprise is a highly purist position. Politics is usually meant as "things that aren't coding that I don't like". Even political virtuosos still accuse blame politics when convenient. I have
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by killermonkeys 13y ago
Given that all work takes energy, it seems vastly stupid to call "a disaster". It also costs money to click cows, watch cat videos, make toast, and cuddle babies. Relatively speaking the impact is low. The intrisic value is based in the dif
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by killermonkeys 14y ago
Rather than try to replicate a really complicated set of conditions, why not see if ionized air blown at an object in a wind tunnel causes more pressure than non-ionized air? The crux of the theory appears to be that a cyclon of ionized air
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by killermonkeys 14y ago
I have a friend who uses a wood burning stove to heat his home. This article is so long on claims and insults and so short on facts and references that I would never show it to him if I wanted him to change his behavior. The only reference
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by killermonkeys 14y ago
Many on the thread say the reporters are over-reacting. They are not. What would amazon do? They would not consider this an issue, would respond in less than 24 hours, and would take complete responsibility. GAE is a pay service. I think th
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by killermonkeys 14y ago
"Earthquakes North Korea" != "nuclear tests North Korea" any more than "fire San Francisco" == "temperature San francisco"
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by killermonkeys 14y ago
We've been working Sharpen ( https://www.sharpenapp.com ), a site for sharing your creative pursuits. You can fork a project, like in GitHub, and cooking is pretty popular with our alpha users: ( https://www.sharpenapp.com/#!/tag/cooking ).
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by killermonkeys 14y ago
I've spent as much time hiring one designer as ten engineers. In that sense good designers are more rare and harder to discern. But they go and stay where they're respected (like engineers and everyone else) so I don't think this will chang
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by killermonkeys 14y ago
Without belittling the realization of ones own mortality which is a very healthy thing, the question here isn't whether a police state "makes us safer" (it probably does) but what level of trade off between civil liberties and privacy we ar

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