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by ompogUe 13d ago
Wonder how much this was influenced by both drivers and riders gaming the system. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IYaBPIwope0
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by ompogUe 14d ago
Not sure where this was ever a mainstream narrative. I guess if by mainstream culture you mean some sort of thin-skinned incel echo chamber. Which, yes, those "men" are pretty weak and pitiful, but I've never seen and calls t
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by ompogUe 14d ago
I guess if you want to live in a hateful society, you'd accept it in the interests of hateful free speech. Kind of a race to the bottom, though. However, if you look, for example, at the history of constitutional amendments over the ce
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by ompogUe 15d ago
Seems he's neither benevolent nor omniscient if he didn't know we'd "rebel", and then was so shallow about punishing us for it.
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by ompogUe 15d ago
Did a similar thing where I had a neighbor who raised dobermans and rottweilers - it's a bit difficult to code with 8 or 9 large dogs barking in the yard outside your window. Set up an amp and speakers that would pump out ultrasonic no
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by ompogUe 25d ago
Yes, go back to sleep. I will always be out of fashion when the hip look is being an ostrich with it's head up it's butt.
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by ompogUe 25d ago
If we're joking: A Roman walks into a bar and says, "Can I have a martinus?" The bartender asks, "Don't you mean a martini?" The Roman responds, "If I wanted a double, I would have asked for it."
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by ompogUe 25d ago
Does hardware count? Like a Roland VT-4?
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by ompogUe 25d ago
Hear, hear! Cadillac using Led Zeppelin broke something in me. I'm on the fence with the Beastie Boys getting used in movie fight scenes. They said they'd never do ads. Elevates the scenes, but it also elevates the IP of Disney an
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by ompogUe 1mo ago
Nope, the pure evil award goes to Stephen Harper. He literally auctioned off and trashed decades of paper scientific research reports to get rid of all of those pesky climate statistics.
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by ompogUe 1mo ago
Craziest part of the dolphin story is before he got the NASA funding and subsequent debauchery. In the 50s when he started to study them, he learned that you cannot open up their brains while they were still alive and poke at them. Apparent
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by ompogUe 1mo ago
Reread this within the last 3 months. Read originally as the first book in my Industrial Design coursework.
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by ompogUe 1mo ago
This has been a self-deprecating joke in SW Louisiana since at least the 1970s. But an oil rich Acadian and "hollow statue" said in a Cajun accent.
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by ompogUe 2mo ago
Once again, see Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. Foresaw exactly this. Written in 2006, takes place in 2025.
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by ompogUe 2mo ago
Really, the original vision 20+ years ago (i.e. Rainbow's End), was that the user would have an overlay of the world they wanted to live in. Where your pub might appear to you to be swords and sorcery world, with an orc for a bartender
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by ompogUe 3mo ago
> says that it's easier to change the world by inventing new technology than through democracy It had a better ring to it to me when Buckminster Fuller said essentially this. He was trying to do it through design rather than control
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by ompogUe 3mo ago
My understanding was that they don't shut immediately upon touch to avoid false positives (leaves, water droplets). They only close up a second touch (something alive). They actually count. Also, talks about the cells softening, but fa
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by ompogUe 4mo ago
Was on a team that was trying to sell AltaVista a social media presence (before facebook/myspace/etc). Our people were mostly using Google, but we still wanted the client. One of the "moderation experts" on our side (i.e
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by ompogUe 4mo ago
As the owner of a Juno 106, I can't disagree. In the 90's, to me, it was Panasonic video gear that I found amazing. Had to take apart a couple of toughbooks tonight, and they are great little machines. Although, to me, what I&#x27
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by ompogUe 4mo ago
What I remember is the big box book stores coming to town and putting the independent and smaller stores out of business. While I did appreciate having access to stacks of modern computer manuals, it didn't last long: once the mom-and-
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by ompogUe 4mo ago
Gratuitous Beastie Boys homage: "Gratitude" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdJ5e70Q8mw
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by ompogUe 4mo ago
Something I discovered looking back at some old sites: "pages" defined by URL params don't always make it into the Wayback Machine.
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by ompogUe 5mo ago
The only Apple product I still have is a 2010 ipad 1. Only use it as a clock, violin tuner, and workout timer, but am amazed it's still going like an old volkswagen.
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by ompogUe 6mo ago
I wonder if Paul remembers that his company (Apple Corp.) had several trademark lawsuits[1] against Apple Computer over the name. Which is why System 7 had a alert sound called "sosumi". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by ompogUe 6mo ago
So, Google's browser says downloading a tool to download files from Google's servers is "Suspicious"? Not surprising.
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by ompogUe 6mo ago
^This. A large % of jurisprudence is in just trying to keep up with how tech disrupts society.
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by ompogUe 6mo ago
Reminds me of Motown's James Jamerson [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jamerson
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by ompogUe 6mo ago
I thought the AR UI in "Rainbow's End"[1] made more sense than hand gestures: with digital clothing, all of our movements become controls. And we each train our inputs according to our own slight tweaks and movements. Also, p
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by ompogUe 7mo ago
I only use authenticator with an old phone next to my work computer. No sim card, minimal apps. Don't do work apps on my main phone, especially InTune.
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by ompogUe 7mo ago
>> Abstractions often really do speed up production, but you pay the price in maintenance later on. > What? I don't know what this means. Good abstractions allow us to better maintain code. Maintaining something that hasn&#x27

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