jakob223

Joined 12 years ago

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524
Submissions
71
Member since
Jun 6
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jakob223; my proof: https://keybase.io/jakob223/sigs/LnFIFJRS0VoJmym96aEYdw3V5xEtv1TyS1nVNpgfCzk ]
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Recent submissions

Comment · 5 years ago
Not when moving at any significant speed - most of the sound of a vehicle going faster than 10mph ish is tires.
Comment · 5 years ago
As far as I can tell Apple has not released an update for my Airport Express since 2018 :/
Comment · 6 years ago
It's on everyone. But our political and economic systems don't encourage the producers to care about the ethics of their products unless the consumers care.
Comment · 7 years ago
The emphasis on a lot of these sentences is all wrong; I wouldn't want to listen to an audiobook by this engine. It's still super impressive/terrifying though.
Comment · 7 years ago
If Exxon and all the other fossil fuel companies had not spent large sums of money to suppress climate research, perhaps we would have started moving away from fossil fuels and become concerned about climate change sooner, or be more concerned about the impending climate catastrophe.
Comment · 7 years ago
I imagine that that difference is going mostly to recoup R&D costs at e.g. Impossible right now, who is making the patties.
Comment · 7 years ago
Pineapples are fun! I for one appreciate the encouragement to purchase fruit more often
Comment · 7 years ago
Most of the examples in the video they had the subject record the audio separately from the generated video. In one or two of them they cite some audio-generating thing.
Comment · 7 years ago
The flavor text provided by the organizers made it sound like they intended there to be an easier solution - that way you only need to visit a location in one of North America, Europe, or Asia to solve the first three keys.
Comment · 7 years ago
The later keys are expected to be harder, so if someone is able to get 400 of them total, it would be very surprising if they were stuck on one of these first three.
Comment · 7 years ago
Dropbox does an AJAX request when you enter your username, and it's fast enough that when you get to the password field it's already greyed out if you use SSO.
Comment · 7 years ago
Why is the fee only on yellow and black car rides, rather than on all cars? Shouldn't we prefer non-private vehicles on the street instead of ones that will do parking?

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