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Metafilter comments vs. Youtube comments
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13 days ago
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Geeky things to see in San Francisco without a car?
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2 weeks ago
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"Is it possible? Sure - my wife and I met on day 0, moved in together on day 2, were pretty sure we'd get married by day 7... and got married on day 885...." [
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2 weeks ago
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What goes up...
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Last month
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"I'm currently working on parametric texture generation in my academic life. Steerable pyramids are the neatest thing I've seen in a long time - you can give it a piece of a texture, and it'll (to varying degrees of success) give you "more"..." [
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Last month
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"Does anyone, after all the evidence that's been amassed, really believe that the oncoming flameout in this thread is hot enough to melt steel?" [
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2 months ago
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"miagaille and I are taking the California Zephyr from Chicago to San Francisco at the end of August, in a sleeper; memail us at some point after that and we'll have stories then!..." [
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2 months ago
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"... any visual stimulus projects slightly different images into each eye because the eyes are in different places on the head. By the process of stereo vision, the disparity between these images is used by the brain to infer distance. Because each..." [
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3 months ago
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"You just had to disappoint us all by letting on that the parrots are only metaphorical, didn't you." [
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3 months ago
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"If you think "Haliburton" sounds evil, I think you're falling into the trap of confusing your pre-existing associations with a word with the word itself - in the same way that people often think that every single word is an onomatopoeia..." [
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3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Fodor, eh? So are we all going to evolve into carburetors?
Yes, I know about Meaning Postulates. It's still funny." [
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4 months ago
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"In the sub-basement of what was once an industrial park, the server continued asking questions to the void. The network was long-gone--the ethernet cables vaporized right where they emerged to the surface--but this didn't stop the server. It had a..." [
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5 months ago
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"Amazon S3, now for the masses.
Amazon S3 has been discussed previously, but several user-facing services have appeared in the last few weeks that allow ordinary non-programmer end users to take advantage of it. One of the most useful of these..." [
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5 months ago
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"I recommend Jungle Disk. The actual data gets stored on Amazon's servers. I'm pretty confident that even if Amazon tanks, they'll do it in sufficiently slow motion that you'd be able to get your data back first...." [
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5 months ago
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"cmiller, you honestly think the type of person who would ask a question like this is going to be able to handle even five lines of python?" [
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6 months ago
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"Previously:
babyblog, babybook
How can I get my old dead blog on paper?
Can I turn my blog into a book
Turning HTML into a book
How to edit and print from..." [
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6 months ago
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"And I was with her when she went into a hospital for the first time - I was the one who made the phone call.
She ... self-medicated? with LSD from February to May, almost nonstop, though the sheer quantities involved weren't really appreciated by..." [
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6 months ago
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"I feel just fine acting silly around strangers.
You're not acting silly. You're acting like someone who wants to act silly, but doesn't really know how, and ends up acting like an annoying idiot.
Sorry...." [
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6 months ago
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"I'm a grad student in neuroscience at a major hospital. My adviser is a MD PhD neurologist. Every week, there's a morning case conference where all the neurology attendings and residents get together and present all the new cases that have come in in..." [
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6 months ago
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"CVCCVC[V][V|C]
cortex validates
mathowie validates
jessamyn validates
COINCIDENCE!!!!!!????!?@@@!?" [
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7 months ago
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Hark, which herald angel sings?
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8 months ago
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"See also.
I'm currently doing this with encfs+sshfs+rsync, myself. It works pretty well." [
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9 months ago
MeFi comment:
"The Wire shows this to be at least somewhat accurate in Baltimore.
And 24 shows that torture is effective." [
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9 months ago
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"Note from a color geek:
if possible, give RGB values
RGB is not an absolute colorspace - an 'RGB' value is meaningless, as there is no definition given for the three components.
What you want is an absolute color space like CIE or sRGB...." [
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10 months ago
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"Why are you asking us? Nothing we could possibly say is relevant. This is a job for your bank's customer service.
The only useful piece of information you're going to find here is "it would behoove you to be nice to the folks in customer..." [
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10 months ago
