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"I'm glad that you like the counting crows, especially the old stuff, but some new stuff too how about me, though personally I don't like the counting crows, especially the old stuff, but some new stuff too how about me that much. I'm just not a fan of interesting."

I don't have any real constructive feedback, but the bot definitely does seem to have trouble parsing multi-thought sentences.

This seems like a complete homerun for small to medium sized businesses like the one I'm working in now, provided that's a major focus and their specific needs are met (monitoring, backup, security).

I read Snow Crash once a year (usually I listen to the audiobook these days) but I'm thinking of switching up to the Baroque Cycle. I'm glad there's finally an unabridged Cryptonomicon audiobook - for a long time there was not.

That book kind of begs for the performance.

Jury Nullification?

It's just CC, not "open source," but there are plenty of places (i.e. Flickr) where you can share your assets for others to use. I've had people contact me about using some of my photos in books they're publishing (wasn't necessary, given the CC license, but gave me a warm fuzzy and was appreciated), and I've contacted photographers about using their work for a wedding invitation I was making. But many of the kinds of things that are actually useful have the kind of specific requirements that make them not fun to create and share for free, so Shutterstock makes lots of money.

Probably from a technical lawyery standpoint that's not enforceably clear, but from the standpoint of someone who uses paid creative assets as part of my regular work, it's certainly clear enough that I could feel fine using them and moving on with my life, and knowing if I was stepping over the line.

Is this effective at stopping attacks (given that it is public knowledge), or is it mostly a measure to annoy users into updating their passwords to something less cumbersome?

The beginning of this article reads eerily similar to the beginning of Greg Egan's Diaspora, though in a much more limited context.

Also you don't need an e-mail address to register, and some people don't care about karma, so some people like me just create a new account whenever my saved login info is lost for any reason. Not necessarily using throwaway accounts in the traditional sense, but not overly concerned about maintaining a single account either. I've probably made 6-7 Reddit accounts over a few years [and 2 HN accounts over a longer time frame].

No mention of the debug checkbox? That's one of the coolest parts of this to me.

Agreed, FTL is a rich and fun game where death is permanent and even a successful game could take little more than an hour, but the game still easily provides weeks worth of enjoyment.

He feels anti-corporate, quirky but not annoyingly so. He absolutely has his own brand so where it once felt refreshing now it just feels sandwich, but it's not to a point where that's a bad thing.

Run an A/A/B (or A/A/B/B) test, decide on traffic levels before you start the test, and let it run until you reach those levels before you peek.

I use it as a brain dump to think about what I want to write, and it seems to work. I write better when I have a decent plan about what I want to write, and I use 750 words to work through that plan. At 10-11 minutes for an entry, it's not a big commitment and it pays large dividends. That said, writing at 750words.com for me is different than "real" writing.

Interesting. I like my Root Beer (Hanks, when I have my druthers) very much, not sure I'd like it more if it tasted like it's "supposed to". Sounds like the government stole his root beer though, not a scientist.

To describe it would be to ruin it. Take the lollipop.

Yeah, that's what makes it different from just being a third party merchant on Amazon.

So "This is a very common attack on the Internet that we didn't do much to protect you against by default"?

It's a pain setting up two step authentication across a lot of services, but I guess iCloud is probably one that's worth the effort. Still I'd rather brute force was not an option.

Looks like it depends on gyroscope data gathered while capturing video in this case. But I agree that a solution like Microsoft's not commercially available Hyperlapse solution is more ideal when you have another camera or footage already shot.

One example: http://oddorama.com/2008/02/11/scamming-the-scammers-5-brill...

I've read Snow Crash yearly since I discovered the book some 14 years ago. I guess that's how I deal with the fact that Stephenson often doesn't know how to end a novel. I ached for a VR world like the Metaverse for a long time back then, but of course everything has always fallen well short of the mark. Maybe World of Warcraft came closest for me, to the degree I became immersed in Azeroth, but it was still obviously not the dream.

This sums up my thoughts exactly. The pilot-wave theory "...seems to me so natural and simple, to resolve the wave-particle dilemma in such a clear and ordinary way, that it is a great mystery to me that it was so generally ignored."

I don't run in experimental-physicist circles, granted, but I've definitely encountered countless cases of a clear, obvious, correct solution being brought up and summarily ignored for what proves to be a poor solution. The probabilistic theories have always made for good Science Fiction, but that should hardly matter.

As a Game Master we could see all these hidden communications betweens addons, and it would dwarf the amount of true communication a player would participate in. A raid group could be filled with 1,000 lines of addon chat a second, often contributing to lag that they would then complain about. Addons were powerful, but were certainly a source of many issues, and nobody wanted to hear that they needed to disable their addons to fix their issue.

Yeah, I've had no trouble dipping my toes in, trying things out, and then expanding beyond the simpler stuff to more advanced things. In a couple months my company has achieved some awesome results already, and we've been able to put together little fun promos like an Easter Egg Hunt that would have been much more complicated to do without (outsourced) back end support if we didn't have a tool like Optimizely to let us play around with our website.

The half hour savings isn't really a thing if people take the free lunch, eat it at their desks while they work, then go and take an hour "lunch" later in the day anyway (as happens with some at my office, though the free lunch comes just once a week).