ratbr

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by ratbr 8y ago
Not a book but the novella “the machine stops” by E. M. Forster. I read this in the late nineties and it still pops up in my head frequently — especially in our age of the internet.
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by ratbr 9y ago
I found E M Forster’s novella “The Machine Stops” in the same league as the above: it is about the human condition, and technology is just a setup to talk about that.
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by ratbr 9y ago
An aside: the title is a great example of context sensitivity. On first glance, I interpreted the title as some serious bug in garbage collection algorithms/Systems (as in, they open some library that was an abandonware).
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by ratbr 9y ago
Remains to be seen how this impacts the US universities. Part of the incentive for the international students to choose the US over other countries for higher studies is because there are some seriously great professional opportunities afte
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by ratbr 9y ago
Sent. First world problem admittedly.
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by ratbr 9y ago
This is fantastic. The exercises are non-trivial enough to be useful. One minor suggestion: if you can have the favicon set to your gopher, it can be great. Mine is a potentially narrow use case, but after logging in, I pinned this to a tab
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by ratbr 9y ago
Serious question: what is an AI coprocessor technically? Some machine learnt models burned on a chip? Or some kind of a neural net with updatable weights?
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by ratbr 9y ago
In my experience, the notion of "change the world" has no age bar sadly. Also, "change the world" is often thrown about in arguably shallow contexts. But then look at how Facebook got started, and it is fair to say that
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by ratbr 12y ago
Sorry I never visited back. Yes, google tried it with Hangouts. Internationally, you can use Hangouts for wifi calling through google voice, but that did not work in the US for some reason last I checked. I design/write software; mostl
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by ratbr 12y ago
Fragmented messaging/phone calls and inability to have "seamless" conversations. For example: WhatsApp, iMessages, google voice, SMS, etc. Also for phone calls: FaceTime audio, carrier routed calls, google voice, Vonage exten
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by ratbr 12y ago
I am clueless about the right etiquette, but can anyone share some high quality publications in the similar vein? Mainly interested in "head content" that is not a book, but a set of relevant, contemporary articles around our trad
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by ratbr 14y ago
I think FB does not have to be a PayPal, and there are many good reasons outlined in these comments already why that is a bad idea. However, it can become some kind of market place. It already knows user locality, it already has people floc
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by ratbr 15y ago
Interesting. I am wondering how this is going to be better/different than a smart search engine, or a travel/review site that may be entrenched in its space for a long time and may have a lot of UGC around places. E.g. A google or yahoo sea
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by ratbr 15y ago
Interesting concept. I started in the SF bay area in the US, and did not see anything. Then I zoomed out all the way, and Australia lit up with notes :-) Do you plan to add a timeline? It can be interesting to see opinions about a place ove
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by ratbr 15y ago
Thank you. I was a little concerned when my MBP spewed out a list with this option. I tried a little look-up on why that is normal. From the manpage: When +L is followed by a number, only files having a link count less than that number wi