resu_nimda

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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Lithuania is about 16 million acres, so that would be about 0.4% which is a lot but doesn’t seem too far out of the ordinary. There are 50,000 and 60,000 acre tracts owned by separate logging companies near me, and that’s a small part of on
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
From what I've read there's a lot of credit attributed to the manager of the first KFC in Japan (who eventually became CEO of KFC Japan), and they started a "Kentucky for Christmas" ad campaign there in 1974. I took a bi
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Arguably this started decades ago when they successfully established the KFC Party Barrel as a traditional Christmas meal in Japan.
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I wondered why they would create so many unnecessary blocks. I had interpreted a "census block" to be an arbitrary unit, but it seems to have originally designated actual city blocks. In 1990 they decided to divide the whole count
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
That’s true, though I suspect in that case it would be a known object with ample evidence (a la Rendezvous With Rama) or undetected. It’s definitely possible to imagine a scenario where a handful of people or “the government” somehow witn
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I’m not familiar with the book, but 1) I don’t think the analogy of ambling around our backyards holds for space travel. Space is vast and largely empty, it would be astronomically unlikely for anyone to casually wander over to earth from a
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I’ve been intrigued by Artificial Life for a while; I feel like it’s the way forward for GAI. I think the ML approach leaves out a lot of what is required to develop interesting intelligence. The main challenges I see are: 1) With any given
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Yeah that makes sense. I guess I figured they could have processed the spoken audio, not that the actors would have actually talked like that. I was just fooled by the fact that their TTS sounds more passably human than any other I've
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
It did work in English though. Maybe not as well, but I do remember noticing in the original Animal Crossing that there was some correlation between the sounds and the text. Even if it was just the timing and intonation, it could definitely
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Agreed. CSS is a more of an artistic design task than a programming one. You have to have the mindset of a sculptor, meticulously chipping away, fiddling with tiny bits as the figure gradually takes shape. Now that I think about it, I feel
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I can't remember the last time I opened a native email or word processing application on desktop. I much prefer the web experience. What makes it the wrong tool? What's the point of these silly rules? You want to build application
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I like to think in terms of "cycles" in a similar manner, except that there are multiple overlapping cycles of different periods (some closer to weekly/monthly), all summed together. On any given day you will be in a somewhat
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
The second richest person in the world should arguably be held to an even higher standard, also for the benefit of the public. I say this as a huge fan of Elon's companies. But dude, just pay your damn taxes.
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
It really feels like there should be a well-funded startup attempting to tackle this problem by now. A central service where you can easily manage many subscriptions, with integrations into other websites. There are a lot things I would pay
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
> There's a perverse irony in the way your responses here exude condescension while ostensibly trying educate and inform about the sort of things that people respond to. That's a fair point, and later last night I regretted hav
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
> Wrong. It seems clear you all like making assumptions and treating them as unshakeable truth. Can you explain, then, why 1) your original post was devoid of any such language, and 2) you dismissed my suggestion, which added some, as be
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
You could add that "I'm asking because the process of typing an off-topic comment on a forum and waiting for replies strikes me as an inefficient way to get an answer to this question, and I'm genuinely trying to understand t
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
This is exactly like a new, or student driver. While I agree with your overall point, this is not true. AIs often fail in very inhuman ways. Their "thought process" and learning capabilities resemble ours only superficially. Tha
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
It comes off as condescending. Generally, being incredulous of the way someone thinks isn't a respectful way to engage with them (I'm sure most of us are guilty of it at times, but usually in frustration with people that we have a
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Mark Rebillet is pretty good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRpUr5iQPIY
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I think of programming as most similar to writing. This may be more true of userland application development than things that are more purely mathematical or low-level. But even then there are parallels. At the end of the day you are creati
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I also inferred that sentiment from the title. "Strapped" paints the startup as a struggling underdog, "poaches" paints Apple as a big bully, "NP" paints the court as indifferent to the plight of the little guy
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Are you insulted by any business that has video cameras? Metal detectors? Security personnel? Are there any measures of protecting one's business from theft that you find acceptable? To be honest I'm not a huge fan of DRM either b
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I always liked the scene featuring Oblique Strategies in Richard Linklater's Slacker : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWBS0dTpWUM
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
It wasn't my intent to say that people designing serious systems don't like flashy things. More just that a lot of UI designers and projects posted on HN are focused on lower-stakes applications that can accommodate more artistic
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
What arguments can be made to support adding of unnecessary decorations? Because without them, the world would be a totally unremarkable place. :) I think there is a lot of value to the images of SpaceX astronauts in their sleek suits, an
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I think it’s a somewhat orthogonal issue. I think you can approach the design of a serious interface with the F-15 philosophy while also incorporating aesthetic sensibilities. Yes, some people may end up designing serious interfaces that su
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
It really depends on the context and the use cases. The F-15 cockpit is an extreme example of a very complex interface that needs to be highly performant under intense life-or-death conditions. Most UIs that people design, including this li
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
Having heard this sentiment a lot during my gaming days (and as well in the context of books vs. movies), I've always felt a certain amount of shame for not being able to get into text games. Is there something wrong with my imaginatio
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by resu_nimda 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. The behavior of the max() and min() functions is perfectly well defined. The terms "maximum" and "minimum" are well defined. If I were using those terms I would likely consider the case w

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