orls

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by orls 2y ago
Exactly - all the anti-Boeing sentiment in the comments here (while deserved) should also be directing some ire at the funding and contract structures being used for these projects (I.e. “cost-plus” contracts). They’re just bad policy if yo
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by orls 2y ago
This is fascinating, thankyou!
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by orls 2y ago
That may be true, but having customers who want to only use products from one company doesn’t make that company a monopoly, which is the topic sitting behind this article.
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by orls 3y ago
Parent post said putting people into orbit . Those companies do short suborbital flights.
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by orls 3y ago
They didn’t say more old people were _entering_ the work force. People already in the work force are aging.
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by orls 3y ago
That sounds more like coil whine, which is “normal” sound (i.e. moving air) from components vibrating rapidly. That’s not what this paper covers (= more like people’s brains “imagining” sound due to RF triggers) The reason you remember adul
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by orls 3y ago
There’s also a history of using ‘X’ as the designation for eXperimental planes, e.g the X-15. I always assumed that was the inspiration for the use in tech branding like Google X - conjuring up images of skunkworks, etc.
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by orls 3y ago
I always felt that the DS9 relationships between Cardassians & Bajorans was a product of the time when the show was written, and had stronger overtones of the 1990s Balkans conflicts and Israel/Palestine than anything else. (Thoug
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by orls 3y ago
Yup — as someone who grew up with Wipeout and lots of d&b/electronica album art, these are giving me strong nostalgia pangs.
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by orls 3y ago
I assume in this case it’s “Out (of) The Box”
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by orls 3y ago
This reminds me of [Up-Goer Five]( https://xkcd.com/1133/ ) - similar vibe but a different constraint (most common thousand words only)
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by orls 3y ago
“Recognise speech” / “wreck a nice beach” can sound similar (if you allow for some imprecisions, slurring, accents, etc, like noisy real-world data has). The relevant term here is _phonemes_, the individual chunks of sounds that make t
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by orls 4y ago
People who fit into <some racial/ethnic/age/gender bucket> spend more time looking at <x products>, fed to advertisers who can tie it to swathes of your other online activity Even if it’s _theoretically_ coarse da
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by orls 4y ago
> our efforts in applied ethical machine learning, as we invest to make Mozilla products more personal I can’t be alone in thinking this is pretty much the _last_ thing I want from Mozilla.
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by orls 4y ago
I refuse to believe this one wasn’t snuck in to the outputs by a human: > Tesla Co-CEO says the autonomous vehicle ‘is for chancers’
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by orls 4y ago
Exactly. A paper notebook might not have those security features, but it’s also a lot harder to end up with reams of confidential info in a paper notebook in the blink of an eye, on a whim; or to transmit that data to arbitrary third partie
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by orls 4y ago
That’s not the point they’re making, I think - they’re giving praise and kudos to the post above, saying they’re better than “very average” if they’ve pulled off that ascent 6 times
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by orls 4y ago
Not OP, but I happened to see a good video on this recently: https://youtu.be/2SuvO4Gi7uY In short, it’s an algorithm for procedural generation of tiled content, like 2d/3d game maps.
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by orls 4y ago
Userbars in forum signatures.
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by orls 5y ago
The article doesn’t even mention UK broadcast television content – it’s more about big-shared-screens vs small-personal-screens. And the author is an American, resident in New York afaict. Even though the Guardian is a UK-based paper, not
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by orls 5y ago
Wow, that’s a hell of a website. I love that amongst various gadgets and toys, there is not just one but _two_ Spanish holiday home rentals. (But given the amount of CCTV equipment they carry, I might think twice before renting a villa from
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by orls 5y ago
> If you look at how SARS-CoV-2 initially spread in the US, the WHO was not wrong. The US banned travel from China, but continued to allow travel from Europe. The first major outbreak in the US, in NY, was brought in from Europe. It’s wo
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by orls 5y ago
His video on Sibelius is highly recommended if you want more UX laughs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKx1wnXClcI
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by orls 10y ago
No; that Portainer is for, in short, running `docker build` tasks remotely on a Mesos cluster. Unrelated work, same ecosystem. Both projects just named themselves based on an extension of the shipping-container analogy - "things that
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by orls 11y ago
Fair enough (although, we're far from the only ones using it as a shorthand, and fuller job specs are available in the link). It's more the latter. Some examples of the tech we're playing with in that area: Chef, Jenkins, Mes
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Wonga founder Jonty Hurwitz backs data startup Duedil(growthbusiness.co.uk)
2 points by orls 15y ago|0 comments
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by orls 15y ago
While this article certainly has a reasonable core point -- that the 'oddness' of using Siri in public is unsettling, and could dent the pickup of voice control through embarrassment -- it's hard not to argue the opposite too: that had Siri
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The Real London Tech Startups - Infographic(duedil.com)
3 points by orls 15y ago|0 comments
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by orls 15y ago
Every time I stumble into a religion "vs" science debate, I tell the participants to look up this page (or at least this term). Falsifiability underlies the scientific method, and it's the element of 'Science' that's normally not appreciate
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by orls 15y ago
For those that didn't see, Issues were enabled on Linus' Linux kernel GitHub project for a short while. In barely any time at all, an issue appeared -- some trolling along the lines of "Can't run M$ Office", followed by a bunch of amused +1

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