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pinkunicorn | 10 years ago | on: Humanoid robots can’t outsource their brains to the cloud due to network latency

Pinging is a lot different from sending data. Its not just about words but also your actions. Try uploading an image to Imgur or a video to youtube! Humanoids probably have to do them. So entirely on the cloud is certainly not possible. Maybe do some precomputation on the humanoid and send the data for comparison with a larger dataset to the cloud makes sense.

pinkunicorn | 10 years ago | on: The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix

I don't use email to have lengthy period conversations.. Didn't even know it was a thing until now!

Almost all of my conversations are over chat and my primary usage of email is to sign up with sites or receive updates on my orders on Amazon/whatever. I haven't felt it as a curse so far. YMMV

pinkunicorn | 10 years ago | on: The Sign Up with Google Mistake You Can't Fix

This is exactly why I change email addresses every 1/2 years. I've forwarding setup from 3 of my old addresses to my current address and for all financial transactions I only use my current email address.

pinkunicorn | 10 years ago | on: Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether

In my case, yes absolutely you can say that. I don't use Facebook so that I can remain ignorant to a different personality that my friends and family have over there.

To give an example, one of my friends makes posts like a politician and thinks his views are always right - sometimes they are sometimes they aren't. But he is a friend with whom I don't want to have political discussions. I don't want to be the one criticizing him on his political views, but if I'm on Facebook that information is going to flow through me - I can't ignore it. So I choose to remain ignorant by quitting Facebook altogether.

pinkunicorn | 10 years ago | on: Douglas Rushkoff: I’m thinking it may be good to be off social media altogether

I don't use Facebook. But I'm noticing these trends elsewhere - in online Ads. I was browsing for "interesting things" on Amazon recently, one such thing was a hand powered torch light. It was interesting because it recharged via mechanical energy but I knew that the dynamo would be crappy and it would stop working after a couple of days. So just left it there.

Then, magically, when I was reading a blog which had Google Ads in it, I saw an Ad on the right which showed "Hand-pump based rechargeable batteries" and I was like "That's so cool! I want to buy it", then realized how Google's algorithm was influencing me to buy things that I didn't even know existed.

Somehow Google was able to make out that I'm interested in things that are hand-powered. I'd like to think it was random, but I know that's not the case.

pinkunicorn | 10 years ago | on: Is Redlock Safe? Reply to Redlock Analysis

I'm actually exploring the usage of Redlock in one my projects and the first question I've is - How can you count on a program to end in a given time? That feels similar to Halting problem. The only option I've is to use an external program to kill the program that's using the lock after the lock's expiration period.

pinkunicorn | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you deal with 2000 line functions?

Ah I do this with if() block folding in Vim.

In this case, the developer actually has return statements inside some if blocks. A general point that has stood out from all comments is to first understand how the function achieves what the function is trying to achieve.

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