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deepinthewoods··on Sixto Rodriguez has died
There's a part in the documentary where they're interviewing the record label owner and when they ask him about it he immediately flips out and ends the interview.
deepinthewoods··on Sixto Rodriguez has died
I dunno about that, every time Sugar man or I Wonder started playing when I was growing up, someone would tell me "This guy isn't famous anywhere else! No-one even knows where he is!". I must have been told this factoid 20 times when I was a teenager.
deepinthewoods··on The Story of Sugru
FYI you can make something very similar by mixing silicon sealant and chalk powder/cornstarch
deepinthewoods··on How Dwarf Fortress is built
This is just "copying to a flash drive" with extra steps.
deepinthewoods··on How Dwarf Fortress is built
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_ma...

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/q-a-dissecting-the-deve...

deepinthewoods··on How Dwarf Fortress is built
You forgot to mention the "click on this one specific checkbox or your source code is now leaked to the entire internet forever" part. So actually, not that simple and potentially much much worse.
deepinthewoods··on Be My Eyes
Lights in the UK have a small cone on the bottom of the button box that turns when the light is green https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-ouch-22706881
deepinthewoods··on Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0
Tax rates on the rich are at historically low levels. Rich people would still get UBI but the top level tax rate would effectively cancel it out (and more). Current welfare wastes a lot of money on admin/staff/fraud investigations and none of that would be needed with UBI since everyone gets it.

People would still want money. UBI isn't going to be enough for a lavish lifestyle, people will still want to work. It would make lower-paying activities like art/open source more viable though.

deepinthewoods··on Amazon warns Alexa Echo Buds earphones pose overheating safety risk
Yes! Just search eBay/AliExpress. They work and sound great. I get the appeal of having nice things, but earbuds? They're tiny plastic things that just sit in your ear and could easily fall down a sewer grate at any moment.
deepinthewoods··on Office Parties Feel the Chill
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
deepinthewoods··on Drip
>We charge 5%, in addition to any fees from our payments partners.

>We will help creators securely transfer subscription and payments information to other subscription platforms. Creators will also be able to download and export their subscriber information and any content they have posted to their Drip page

deepinthewoods··on Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 845 processor
>except no news site has any confirmed specs.

Because there IS no news. This is not news. This is an announcement to announce that the actual announcement is tomorrow.

deepinthewoods··on The Poor Man's 3D Camera
http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-postmortems/ Or http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-game-design/

Might interest you

deepinthewoods··on Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot
You've both zoomed out in your browsers. Press CTRL+ a few times until you get back to 100%. Article takes up half the screen for me in Chrome+FF, 100%zoom @ 1440p.
deepinthewoods··on What Is It Like to Be Nice to Everybody?
I just noticed the "web" link no longer defeats the WSJ paywall. It is not acceptable to link to them any more IMO.
deepinthewoods··on Show HN: A fork of sudo with Touch ID support
It's not as if every 3 letter acronym has one canonical definition. Googling a 3 letter acronym is almost impossible without adding at least one of the full words. The "ATM machine" pattern seems to me to be the most concise way of removing that ambiguity. It's interesting how language evolves.
deepinthewoods··on iPhone 7
>I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it.

Audio latency used to be a HUGE advantage for IOS vs Android. It was their biggest USP in my opinion. Android has been improving but it's still not there yet. If the next ipad has this it will be the end for musicians using IOS.

deepinthewoods··on One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence: 2016 Report
Google already use asics http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/5/19/11716818/go...
deepinthewoods··on Show HN: Every Twitter and/or Facebook user has a public message board here
Haha, that's the reasoning google when they rolled out g+ and that worked out great for them.
deepinthewoods··on How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_modifier
deepinthewoods··on Lithium-air batteries: Their time has come
>...prototype stores twice as much juice as the lithium-ion cells the Gigafactory will turn out, and which could eventually do better than that.
deepinthewoods··on Robot Builder Constructs House in Two Days
>At the end of the boom is a hand which grabs and arranges the bricks, securing them with construction glue instead of cement.
deepinthewoods··on I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
Op hasn't answered any of the comments asking this. I'd like to know if he even bothered changing the name and location of the rape victim.
deepinthewoods··on I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
> and asked me to take lots of pictures of her for my memory

For his memory. Clearly it wasn't a "tell my story!" Kind of moment. Even if it was, she'd been raped the day before then tried to flee the country with no money, got arrested and thrown in prison. She was clearly in a very vulnerable state and the writer was the first friendly face she'd seen. He admits he didn't contact her before posting her face all over the internet. The pictures have been taken down now btw.

Edit: OP says she asked him to tell her story. I still think he should have asked her at a time when, you know, she wasn't at the lowest point in her life.