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> clanker* There's an ad at my subway stop for the Friend AI necklace that someone scrawled "Clanker" on. We have subway ads for AI friends, and people are vandalizing them with sl…

Those two scenarios are only comparable if you isolate happiness and taxation and completely ignore things like social services and inequality. I think you're referring to Nordic c…

It's not intuitive at all, you click the timestamp and the URL changes to the anchor for that comment. Here's the one you copy/pasted: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/ques…

The primary source is his blog post linked in the article: https://medium.com/@bjax_/a-tale-of-unwanted-disruption-my-w...

The entire US policing & carceral system arguably traces back to slave patrols. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-...

Related, the challenges sound designers face in making dialogue audible. What seem like simple problems (make car climate control buttons easy to use, make the speech in a movie ea…

If I got rid of Ada Twist Scientist, I would fail my 5yo's keeper test.

My kids are 1 and 3, going to work at the office was definitely the easier part of my day before WFH started! I consider it a good week now if I'm mostly attentive in all the meeti…

There will still be non-air-conditioned subway cars in New York City this summer.

I live in NYC with my wife and two kids in a 1 bedroom unit in a prewar building. I've never been to the Tenement Museum and it sounds like I don't need to.

> report them just to see what will happen You realize that if the post is removed, that "seeing what will happen" has a real consequence for the poster, right? If feel like that's…

Connection spam is LinkedIn's business model, it's not likely to go away.

I'm not confident a fee structure that incentivizes Google to not be wrong will work that well.

I do this with a patio box, but added a door sensor that transmits to our alarm/home automation system and triggers a recording from the camera aimed at that area and a push notifi…

Ikea sells a $8 tool set that includes three sizes of Pozidriv bits - and other bits that perfectly fit their various connectors. It's well worth the cost if you're planning to ass…

I second this recommendation. I've been there and saw that camera, as well as the one at Disney Studios in LA. I think the third of the original three cameras from Snow White is at…

When I was using an early Makerbot (wow, seven years ago now) the preferred materials for extruder-based 3D printers were ABS, which toys are made of, and PLA, which is used for fo…

I love the idea, and I'd be interested in buying with a few tweaks. - I tried both a high-density (Manhattan) and a low-density (Very small, rural town) location. I had trouble fin…

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In Brooklyn, I got rid of half a bike (missing front fork and seat) by setting it outside for about 20 minutes. I guess you could say I got rid of the first half by setting it outs…

New York City, NY, USA - Various engineering positions. - Full time. We're growing our NYC team with open front-end, back-end, devops, UX, and leadership positions. Our stack is mo…

It's ABS, the same plastic that some 3-D printers use, so they should be able to just chip it up and feed it right back into the hopper for the molds.

In the transcript of the June 2011 meeting between Schmidt and Assange, Schmidt also makes a reference to 'The Banality of Evil' ( http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-S…

> "Instead of the romantic illusion of film, we see the sets and makeup for what they are. The effect is like stepping into a diorama alongside the actors, which is not as pleasant…