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Darren Stone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Once men turned their thinking over to
machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted
other men with machines to enslave
them." - Frank P. Herbert, Jr., 1965
"The programmer, like the poet, works
only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles
in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination."
- Fred P. Brooks, Jr., 1975recent activity (1,004 total)
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Hey, thank you and thanks for using it!
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Appreciate that. In theory, a company's offering should improve over two decades and hundreds of millions of user interactions. (If it's paying attention.) I have moved on so credit now go…
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> if you don’t do anything and just park and leave, you get a bill in the mail for the time your car was parked, based on license plate recognition. No signups, no parking tickets, just park and le…
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Nope. IVR (voice & touch tones) has always been an option. i.e. "Enter the location number on the sign. Enter how many minutes you wish to park for." We invested a lot to ensure dumbphon…
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About 22 years ago, we began doing our best to obsolete those things. To the degree you want to pay for parking, lol, the preferred device has long been in your pocket IMO!† Cofounder, PayByPhone he…
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Thanks for sharing! So the article stretched with "device that communicates".
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> “Then I insert a rod — we call it a nail or a rod — that goes inside the bone. The rod is magnetic and it has gears. Then there’s an external device that communicates with the nail. And over time…
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"8 IR illuminators per eye" Honest question: is there any reason to be concerned about such near and constant IR illumination directed at one's eyes?
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> that's a pretty big correction Well only geographically. It's still Russian military radio traffic discussing murders of civilians, is it not? Just maybe not in Bucha.
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"a mosaic of 25 individual images is needed to cover the entire Sun. Taken one after the other, the full image was captured over a period of more than four hours because each tile takes about 10 …
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Yup. ARTIST_ID does not have a 1:1 relationship with ARTIST_NAME over time. Another example... from 1976 to present day: Johnny Cougar → John Cougar → John Cougar Mellencamp → John Mellencamp. Close e…
4 pts
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Seems plausible. Similarly, a computer scientist may be bad at writing computer programs. (And this may also surprise someone outside the field.)
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I'm interested. So defer is one of the handful of achievable goals I find Zig interesting and hold some hope for it. Easy to call C from Zig or Zig from C. And Zig can also compile C and target…
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"There's not an English word for that" comes up when discussing the flavours and smells of regional cuisines. Makes sense. Examples: "the fifth taste" ( umami in Japanese or …
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> Rational people quickly become emotional about parking ... Thinking about parking seems to take place in the reptilian cortex, the most primitive part of the brain responsible for snap judgments …
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Thank you, I can see why this could actually become practical. I was prematurely wincing at what I thought was watered down use of the word solution but that's just pedantry on my part. Cheers.…
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The 1779 Euler puzzle: "Six army regiments each have six officers of six different ranks. Can the 36 officers be arranged in a 6-by-6 square so that no row or column repeats a rank or regiment?&q…