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Re:The Echo Dot was the best-selling product on Amazon this holiday se...
on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:17AM (#16014836)
If you want to roll your own server I believe there is a plugin for Home Assistant that can take voice input. https://home-assistant.io/
But I don't think either the Echo or the Google Home will connect to that. If you are running home assistant on a raspberry Pi, you could probably build that right into your own speaker.
Re:Disney to Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox
on Thursday December 14, 2017 @09:21AM (#15922389)
in stock
Re:People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts
on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @09:14AM (#15747922)
Pretty much what petercooper and wccrawford said. There are times when I have to roll back 30 seconds, but I've never caused an accident or failed to react to some other drivers poor skills. That said, everyone is different, do what works for you, even if that is abstaining!
Re:People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts
on Monday November 20, 2017 @02:09PM (#15742262)
First thing that comes to mind for me is desk clerk at a u-store-it facility. Lot of those places try to hire students because the student can study most of the time and deal with the occasional customer. You could conceivably have whole days without having to interact with a customer.
I'm sure there are other jobs that are like that.
Re:People Who Speed-Listen to Podcasts
on Monday November 20, 2017 @01:54PM (#15742167)
On the rare occasion that I can just sit and listen I'll use anywhere from 1.7x-2.2x. More commonly when I'm driving I rarely got above 1.2x. I just can't retain anything if I go faster while driving.
I hadn't heard of the silence skipping feature but just checked and my player of choice (Podcast Addict) has it. Just turned it on so I'll see how that goes.
Re:TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports
on Monday November 13, 2017 @09:58AM (#15686879)
Pretty sure they will be leveraging the tech casinos already use for face tracking.
Re:You Will Not Understand This
on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @03:58PM (#15656959)
Was addressing the suggestion that "takeaway pizza <city name>" would provide less than optimal results under certain circumstances described in other comments in this part of the thread. For example If I lived in Omaha Nebraska on the north side of Harrison street which also is the dividing line between Omaha and Papillion a search on "takeaway pizza Omaha" might fail to include the pizza place I can see across the street in Papillion.
Personally, I would do the search on maps and not include either the city name or "near me", but the discussion was about the regular text search and I was suggesting an alternate phrasing.
Re:Against a Tax Increase on Berkeley Students
on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:50PM (#15656275)
arguably, the tuition being waived does have a value and is given as part of employment compensation. How would it be any different that if my employer provided a free gym membership, which is considered taxable income even though it is money I never get.
Re:Against a Tax Increase on Berkeley Students
on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:29PM (#15656047)
Any more the largest "owner" of most publicly traded companies are mutual funds that are in turn owned by 401k/IRA accounts. So teachers, firefighters, police, union workers, office workers, government workers.
So basically you got that already.
Re:Against a Tax Increase on Berkeley Students
on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:22PM (#15655964)
They are not well defined terms and are meant more to evoke an emotional response. Progressive does mean that you pay at an increasing rate the higher your income is. A flat percentage tax (example everyone pays 18% no loopholes) should be neither progressive or regressive but most US liberals would still call it regressive because it would be if you consider the current rates as a baseline. A truly regressive plan would actually decrease rates as you went higher in income. Neither Federal or any state that has income taxes has a truly regressive tax schedule.
Edit: I suppose if you figure in sales taxes into overall tax burden you could call some states regressive. But that is not a feature of their income tax rates.
Re:Against a Tax Increase on Berkeley Students
on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @02:14PM (#15655863)
45% of households pay no or negative income tax at all. Remember some of them get more back than they would have paid, so negative taxes paid.
in 2014 the top 1% of income earners earned 20.6% of all income and paid 39.5% of income taxes collected.
the bottom 50% earned 11.2% of income and paid 3.45% of income taxes.
https://files.taxfoundation.org/20170201091804/TaxFoundation...
Re:You Will Not Understand This
on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @09:22AM (#15652617)
"takeaway pizza near me" Google knows where I am right now after all, I used waze on the drive here, and have an android phone. but even using the employers PC in front of me it knows where it is.
Note: I have hast a few instances where "near me" didn't work as expected.
Re:U.S. study links marijuana use to more intercourse
on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:04PM (#15570777)
> Eisenberg cautioned the study should not be misinterpreted as having proven a causal link.
So alternatively, people who are promiscuous may also tend to smoke more weed?
Re:Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it
on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:07AM (#15568366)
Well... if I was starting a new project that had to run on an MVS mainframe, I probably would in fact consider COBOL. But I'm relatively happy that I probably won't be in that position.
Re:Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it
on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:03AM (#15568338)
Also efficiency, you want the most often true thing first. Although it is more important in nested if's. Had a colleague write a If else nested 104 levels deep (pre COBOL II so no case structure available). We halved the run time of the program simply by making the four most common conditions the first four.
Re:Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it
on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:58AM (#15568276)
I got a nice stock offer to stay with a company doing COBOL for 3 years around Y2K. Of course I took it. By the time the three years had elapsed the stock price had more than doubled. I only eventually got out of COBOL because it was boring.
Years later I was between gigs and interviewed with a company that wanted me to go back to COBOL. I would have, but they lo-balled the salary, like I was going to take a $20K pay cut to go back to COBOL! Ended up staying in the Java world
Re:Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it
on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:48AM (#15568190)
Were you also moving from a mainframe to a server? I would have thought that Java on a mainframe would handle EBCDIC just fine, but I have never tried it.
Re:Don't hate COBOL until you've tried it
on Friday October 27, 2017 @09:45AM (#15568164)
PIC 9(3)V9(2) COMP-3.
Re:Useless design features in modern products
on Thursday October 26, 2017 @04:11PM (#15562565)
My first Smart phone (Palm Pre) fit in the watch pocket. Sometime I keep my remote for the garage door there. but yeah, lots of uses.
Re:Thruster for Mars mission breaks records
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:20PM (#15552008)
Ideally, you find fuel at your destination, or you have to take enough with you to get back. Or you make plans to stay...
Re:Thruster for Mars mission breaks records
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @12:04PM (#15551279)
There are a lot of variable not accounted for, like the mass of the ship(and cargo) you are going to attach it to. In theory it can keep accelerating as long as it has fuel, and the maximum speed would be related to the speed of the exhaust. At very high velocity we would have to account for friction with the interstellar medium, space isn't entirely empty just the density is very (very) low.
In the real world you probably have a destination in mind... and maybe want to come back. For one way mission, accelerate till half your fuel is gone, perhaps coast for a bit, then decelerate with the remaining fuel (maybe keep some reserves for maneuvering).
Re:Thruster for Mars mission breaks records
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:52AM (#15551145)
probabbly a little less
Re:Thruster for Mars mission breaks records
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @11:43AM (#15551055)
"...1.3 kW per square meter sun power constantly..." at Earth's distance from the sun. At Mars it is .715 kW. Inverse square law and all that.
Re:How did we create a society where we can’t afford to live in our ow...
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @09:48AM (#15550067)
Well, Kansas ranks higher than NY but lower than NJ in Pre-K - 12 and higher than either in Higher Education acording to USNews.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education (note the sortable columns in the table)
Of course I'm happy to point out that Nebraska ranks higher than Kansas on either scale.
Re:How did we create a society where we can’t afford to live in our ow...
on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @09:41AM (#15549991)
http://siliconprairienews.com/about/
Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and yes Kansas
Re:Dragon Helmet: Open-source collaboration that aims to create a high...
on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:42AM (#15499514)
I didn't watch the vid and only read the beginning of the page, part of their use case was that air pollution would be so bad you would need to filter what you breath so the helmet is partly environmental control.
I don't think it is going to be a big seller, but uh... good luck to them?
Re:Google's 'Advanced Protection' Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before
on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @05:19PM (#15495070)
Well, you should be able to encrypt the subject/body of the email without encrypting the headers, so the mail vendor never sees the content of the email, only the to/from addresses and such. But that encryption has to happen in the browser/application. ie Mailvelope plugin for Chrome and others like it. and I think there is an android mail client that will also do pgp/gpg encryption/decryption.
Re:Google's 'Advanced Protection' Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before
on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @04:45PM (#15494761)
Lastpass says on their FAQ that they wont support Fido U2f until all major browsers do, but that is on them not the key manufacture.
Re:Nearly half of US medical visits are at emergency rooms
on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @03:04PM (#15493813)
Try getting an appointment with one of only two pediatric endocrinologists in the city. Six month appointment lead time!
Re:Google's 'Advanced Protection' Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before
on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @11:09AM (#15491557)
It says that no non-Google app can currently access your stuff, but they are open to other apps being more secure.
"...limiting full access to your Gmail and Drive to specific apps. For now, these will only be Google apps, but we expect to expand these in the future."
https://www.blog.google/topics/safety-security/googles-stron...