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by preston4tw 10mo ago
It's obviously sad that an animal was killed in an accident, but the outrage towards Waymo and media coverage definitely seems disproportionate given statistical context, and I was pleasantly surprised that the article made efforts to
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by preston4tw 10mo ago
past the paywall: https://archive.ph/Axj2B
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by preston4tw 10mo ago
Valve / Steam presumably has good data on what controllers and peripherals people are using, so I'd imagine their port choices are based around that. Here's a June 2024 post talking about Steam Input and controller market sha
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by preston4tw 1y ago
https://archive.ph/BBbtH past the paywall
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by preston4tw 2y ago
past the paywall: https://archive.ph/pIEgu
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by preston4tw 2y ago
This is one thing I've been wondering about AI: will its broad training enable it to uncover previously covered connections between areas the way multi-disciplinary people tend to, or will it still miss them because it's still lim
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by preston4tw 2y ago
room presence detection has been a long standing challenge in the smart home / home assistant community. it's cool to see home assistant used and adapted for this use case.
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by preston4tw 2y ago
https://archive.ph/pUXpu
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by preston4tw 3y ago
It's been somewhat surprising Twitter has remained as highly available as it has been despite all the firings. It makes me wonder what the cause of this outage was, for being a relatively short one. Is it a sign of things to come, or j
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by preston4tw 3y ago
I thought it was an interesting read and it would be interesting to hear a summation of why you left the industry. It also made me consider the possibilities for a sort of vertically integrated debt collection company. Someone that's h
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by preston4tw 3y ago
CA will make money if home prices increase from current highs due to supply constraints and if owners sell triggering the capture IIRC. CA now has a +$300m financial stake in that outcome. $300m is probably peanuts compared to the upside of
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by preston4tw 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Z2FKB
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by preston4tw 4y ago
IANAL but wouldn't a judge look at that and just say it's wage fixing with extra steps?
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by preston4tw 4y ago
There's a fun trashy sci-fi novel I read years ago about how potentially devastating it would be if a plastic-eating microbe got loose: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2368220.Mutant_59 It reads like a su
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by preston4tw 4y ago
Yeah, I'd imagine in many respects he's unqualified to be a good CEO since he, as far as I can tell, essentially stumbled sideways into the role as co-founder. There's the upside of the CEO being a creator themselves but the
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by preston4tw 4y ago
I always thought it was awesome that a company to support creators was creator lead. I came across Jack Conte in 2010 before Patreon existed. He was a music creator on YouTube that made what he was calling Video Songs, songs with each instr
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by preston4tw 5y ago
I would never self-host email based on what I saw during the portion of my career as a web hosting Linux sysadmin. At one point I half-seriously offered to pay for Gmail for Business for all our customers out of my paycheck. Email is THE cr
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by preston4tw 5y ago
I relatively recently read a biography on John D. Rockefeller and this reminds me of some of the things Standard Oil did with rail companies to gain a market advantage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil#Monopol
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by preston4tw 6y ago
I relate to a lot here which is why I wondered about a support group. I've come close to self destructing a number of times but lucked out. I also struggle with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. By 7th grade I would ignore what
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by preston4tw 6y ago
I'm currently 35 and I was ID'd as a gifted child, so this paper caught my attention. There's a section that discusses outcomes based on whether gifted children were allowed to skip grades or not, and my personal experience l
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by preston4tw 7y ago
> There are thousands of interesting people in tech. It's impossible to know of everyone. Totally! If you aren't familiar with who Jessie or Bryan are yet though I think you're in for a treat. So keeping in mind these are
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by preston4tw 7y ago
I follow Jessie and Bryan both on Twitter and at least with what Jessie has been exploring since she left her last job, this seems like a natural progression. It trips me out to see other people in the comments that don't know who Jess
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by preston4tw 7y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to extend open source software licenses and include morals clauses.
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by preston4tw 7y ago
Two things: mods can we get the title updated to reflect the publish year of 2014? The second is that the codeswarm link in the article is dead. This project on github is the closest thing I can find to any remnant of the project: https:&#
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by preston4tw 7y ago
Any reason you picked that sensor over others?
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by preston4tw 8y ago
This may be of interest to you: https://www.pyinstaller.org/
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by preston4tw 11y ago
Hey, thanks for taking a look. This is spot on. Most of the technical questions are aimed at startups / software shops that are hiring for growth / large enterprise companies with tons of IT. They become less relevant if you'
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by preston4tw 11y ago
Hey, one of the authors here. While there is some prior art we (me and gravyboat, the other author) felt that this is an improvement upon what's out there, especially the part where it's collaborative with the community as a GitHu
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by preston4tw 11y ago
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20150906101549/http://super-memo...
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by preston4tw 11y ago
I frequently joke that Gentoo (really any source based Linux distribution) promotes climate change.

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