sbdaman

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by sbdaman 7d ago
>Beauty is subjective. Yes. >Nothing is "genuinely beautiful". Not sure. >You can't just call something beautiful Yes I can. >and have everyone agree that it is in fact "beautiful". Of course not.
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by sbdaman 7d ago
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Ontario university sues YouTube prankster for viral videos filmed on campus(nationalpost.com)
3 points by sbdaman 4mo ago|0 comments
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by sbdaman 4mo ago
It's because he's not a philosopher and is wading into a long-standing philosophical debate and hand-waving away all the actual issues in contention.
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by sbdaman 4mo ago
Physicist writing on the hard problem of consciousness. It's like a caricature of annoying physicists.
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by sbdaman 7mo ago
It predicts what you are going to type as you type. It has a tendency to add words to the end of a message when you hit send.
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by sbdaman 7mo ago
Keep autocorrect on and turn off predictive text. Makes the experience way better.
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by sbdaman 8mo ago
Given it's set to generate random pages on the site, is there even any possible explanation for this that isn't sketchy?
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The American Kitchen: How It Became What It Is Today (Gift Article)(nytimes.com)
3 points by sbdaman 10mo ago|0 comments
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by sbdaman 11mo ago
I've shared this on YN before but I'm a big fan of this piece by Kenneth Taylor (well, an essay pieced together from his lectures). The Robots Are Coming https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/kenneth-taylor-ro
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by sbdaman 1y ago
>but when you multiply it, it becomes significant. Does it?
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by sbdaman 2y ago
There is also a widespread cellular outage. It's very, very difficult (near impossible) to reach anyone in the country right now.
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Anatomy of a Murder(magazine.atavist.com)
2 points by sbdaman 2y ago|0 comments
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We Are Who We Eat With: Food, Distinction, and Commensality(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
2 points by sbdaman 2y ago|0 comments
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by sbdaman 2y ago
The title here suggests they're watching you shop and entering items into a list as you go (which would be ridiculous). It seems to actually just be low-paid workers spot checking to ensure the "algorithm" got it right?
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by sbdaman 3y ago
Sorry?
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by sbdaman 3y ago
Never thought I'd see CP24 on HN
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by sbdaman 3y ago
For fun: run your local government's site through this.
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by sbdaman 3y ago
You can buy a Roku remote for like $5.
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by sbdaman 3y ago
Surprisingly nice website.
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by sbdaman 3y ago
What the hell is a Chief Evangelist?
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by sbdaman 3y ago
Yeah. If you were decently high ranked in any popular video game at the time, you had to make sure you didn't share a username between Skype/the game, or you'd be DDOSed endlessly.
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by sbdaman 3y ago
Does anyone remember Skype resolvers? They were incredibly popular from like 2011-2014.
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by sbdaman 3y ago
Interesting name choice
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by sbdaman 3y ago
Etsy store generator
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by sbdaman 3y ago
I wasn't criticizing any of the companies I listed.
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by sbdaman 3y ago
I work in post-sec and this is very common practice. There are few key players that tend to capture the majority of schools in the States/Canada for specific tech solutions. Blackboard/Canvas/D2L for LSMs, Shibboleth for SSO,
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by sbdaman 3y ago
Ontario plates run from AAAA-001 - ZZZZ-999 and are about to hit D series. https://www.licenseplates.cc/ON
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Investor Charged with Kidnapping ‘Crypto King’(nytimes.com)
2 points by sbdaman 3y ago|0 comments
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by sbdaman 3y ago
This is just an Income Share Agreement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_share_agreement

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