p00b · HackerTrans

Also the one they do own (“chile crunch”) was ironically acquired as a result of their own infringement

> Momofuku acquired “chile crunch” in 2023 from the Denver company Chile Colonial, LLC as part of a legal settlement. Chile Colonial had taken legal action against Momofuku for “trademark infringement, unfair competition”, according to court documents.

p00b

2 anni fadiscuss

Right, but also porn is often a commercial engine for tech innovation (even if indirectly, as in this case), which in turn can be leveraged as a liberating force.

p00b

2 anni fadiscuss

That is not how this article explicitly defines “the 1%” in the first few sentences.

> the top 1%, defined by the Fed as those with wealth over $11 million

p00b

9 anni fadiscuss

For what it's worth, Great Scott Gadgets (Michael Ossman's group) put out a great series of primers [1] on Software Defined Radio (SDR) and the fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) a while back, that are some of the best I've seen out there to date.

[1] https://greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/

p00b

11 anni fadiscuss

“As soon as the tailor saw me he embraced me and started sobbing,” Mr. Zimmer said. “I have a bond with tailors. It’s not because I’m a tailor myself but because they know I care about how they experience their jobs.”

On a day like today, I am especially grateful for all the "Mr. Zimmer"s in the world who respect the craft, even if they're not a craftsman themself. The tech world needs more of this kind of guy.

p00b

11 anni fadiscuss

John Rauser of pinterest gave a wonderful talk about TCP and the lower bound of Internet latency recently that has a lot in common with what's discussed in the article here. Worth a watch I think if you enjoyed the blog post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8orjQLacTo

p00b

11 anni fadiscuss

Which was explained in the cited link.

p00b

11 anni fadiscuss

This definitely plays well with an idea I've pontificated on for a long time, to the dismay/annoyance of my close friends and colleagues.

The thought is simply that the process of iconifying anything (words, people, companies) inherently decouples the item from the original idea behind it. This introduces a dangerous implication wherein the icon can then be re-appropriated in support of literally any idea, including the antithesis of the original idea this thing was supposed to represent.

Everything from "Disruptive Technology" to "Christian" to "ObamaCare" to "Terrorist" (feel free to replace the last with Witch, Homosexual, Communist, or an assortment of derogatory racial slurs, depending the era you're discussing) is subject to this sort of propagandizing via the iconifying process.

Scary stuff, and very important to notice and discuss now, before "Freedom of Speech" becomes simply another of the icons.

p00b

11 anni fadiscuss

Relevant: http://ldln.co/#howitworks

p00b

11 anni fadiscuss

I couldn't resist curiosity and had to analyze that apod image just to see...

  Average Color (rgb): 62, 45, 51
  Average Color (hex): #3E2D33 
  Average Color (visual): http://i.imgur.com/xDBeHqu.png

  Source: http://pastebin.com/vckL3AP6
  Credit: http://charlesmartinreid.com/wordpress/2012/08/python-image-averaging-and-color-averaging/ (with some cleanup)

p00b

12 anni fadiscuss

Update my Twitter profile? Come on, for all the work that obviously went into create a cool product you could have taken an extra minute to properly set the oauth permissions.

p00b

12 anni fadiscuss

> I just bought a new TV...The only problem is that I’m now afraid to use it. You would be too — if you read through the 46-page privacy policy.

Wish I had the money to drop hundreds of dollars on a product, and figure out what it does afterward...

p00b

12 anni fadiscuss

Correct. Original link: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=cRYvK4jb

"OP" here is just mirroring (presumably for increased traffic) instead of linking to the true OP on pastebin.

p00b

12 anni fadiscuss

Funny that this is how I find out fb's ipv6 has their name in it (pinging their url)... :)

2a03:2880:2040:7f01:face:b00c:0:1

p00b

12 anni fadiscuss

Very cool experiment, and even cooler visual results!

One thing though - the tilting of the scene from the phone's perceived variance of the gravity vector is not due to centrifugal force, but due to inertia.

In other words, it's the same reason you're pushed back into your seat when you accelerate, and slam your head into the dashboard and spill hot coffee in your lap when you lock up the breaks.

p00b

12 anni fadiscuss

Cool idea. What does this have to do with Public Transit though? It seems to me that a better description would be "Uber meets /Private/ Transit"

p00b

12 anni fadiscuss

An awesomely thought-provoking essay indeed.

“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

I just wanted to point out for those who were as inspired by this "Thomas Jefferson" quote as I was, that it was not actually TJ who said this, but a man named Coleman Cox [1].

[1] http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/

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