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People vs. Tech(cacm.acm.org)
2 points by 7402 5y ago|0 comments
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One Way to Get People Off the Streets: Buy Hotels(nytimes.com)
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The Summit-Obsessed World of Ham Radio(outsideonline.com)
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by 7402 6y ago
This is not applicable to most projects, but my choice for simple lightning-fast prototypes on my local network is HTML + CSS + a shell-script CGI app calling unix tools. The server runs on the same machine I do development on. No stack, no
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by 7402 6y ago
I am baffled by the first paragraph, which begins "Getting a good college education turns out to be a lot easier than it used to be." Can he possibly be saying that cheating in a class to get a high grade is "getting a good e
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Carmakers Strive to Stay Ahead of Hackers(nytimes.com)
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by 7402 6y ago
"Gödel’s theorems, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics" Bah. It drives me crazy when people use scientific or mathematical principles as psychological metaphors, without understanding what the
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by 7402 6y ago
Aww. I got excited when I first thought it was New Jersey. Yeah, the bbc.com source should have tipped me off. If it had been nypost.com ...
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by 7402 6y ago
I wasn't conscious of how much I used my hands in conversation until I started doing Zoom meetings, and found myself uncomfortable until I found myself raising my hands so that gestures were visible in the camera.
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by 7402 6y ago
I felt that there was a similar U-shaped curve for the classic Mac system as well. I started using Macs around the time of System 4 (when the System and the Finder had separate versioning schemes). For me, the peak of elegance and usability
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by 7402 6y ago
Get rid of the OOM Killer.
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by 7402 6y ago
This could be considered a subset of the more general problem of trying to figure out when two points on a graph are meaningfully different, as opposed to just visually different. In my early physics training the importance of putting error
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Assigning Blame for the Blackouts in Texas(judithcurry.com)
35 points by 7402 6y ago|73 comments
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by 7402 6y ago
> And her response was, "Yes, duh, that's what little boys and girls do" That's what primates do. See Chimp "Girls" Play With "Dolls" Too—First Wild Evidence , https://www.nationalgeogr
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The evolution of Covid is not random(rationaloptimist.com)
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Once Upon a Time There Was a Big Bubble(nybooks.com)
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by 7402 6y ago
I was confused by the above until I realized that "narc" was probably being used as an abbreviation for "narcissist." I've only ever seen "narc" being used as a slang term for a government narcotics agent.
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by 7402 6y ago
When I was employed at one particular place for six months, I woke up in the middle of the night with a nightmare most Sunday through Thursday nights. It didn't take a lot of analysis to figure out the implications of that pattern. Eve
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by 7402 6y ago
Aside from my enjoyment of the subtle humor expressed in the above comment, I find it interesting that there was no way to express either approval or disapproval of it without that action being subject to misinterpretation. I sat frozen fo
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by 7402 6y ago
You can be imprisoned for up to 5 years for lying to a federal investigator. It's up to 8 years for offenses that "involve" international or domestic terrorism. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text&#x2
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by 7402 6y ago
The world is a better place when someone can disagree with another's opinion, and yet still take pleasure in their happiness.
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by 7402 6y ago
Well, it certainly was a few decades ago when I was in my twenties. I was in Washington D.C. as tourist, walking around, seeing the sights. Having been educated in a typical U.S. public school of the time, I thought to myself, "Gee, as
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by 7402 6y ago
I don't see that option; I just get "You must log in to continue."
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Paranoid password printing with a Raspberry Pi(7402.org)
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by 7402 6y ago
I sold a domain name for the first and only time through sedo.com a few years ago, and it went very smoothly. They had a very reassuring process. I don't know how they are now, but they do still exist.
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Sandboxing a third-party macOS app to restrict writing to one folder(7402.org)
1 points by 7402 6y ago|0 comments
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by 7402 6y ago
Sigh. The old licenses looked nice.
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FCC to require email addresses on applications for amateur radio licenses(arrl.org)
55 points by 7402 6y ago|68 comments
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Proofreading a Stoic: Seneca's on the Tranquility of the Mind(7402.org)
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Laggards Help Decision-Making(physics.aps.org)
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