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Truth Extraction(theatlantic.com)
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When interviewing someone for a more senior position, I would always ask, "What was your worst [work-related] mistake?" If they couldn't come up with anything, they were either lying or they just coasted through their previou
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Replacement of MacOS Server: Calendar, Contacts, and Mail(7402.org)
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Injured Maryland turtle recovers in a Lego wheelchair(washingtonpost.com)
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Artificial Intelligence and Ethics(harvardmagazine.com)
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They'll take my copper phoneline away when they pry it from my cold dead fingers
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Search for answers to housing crisis(eastbaytimes.com)
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by 7402 8y ago
CQ does not mean "Who's there?" It means "Calling any station." The abbreviation for "Who is calling me?" is QRZ? And it's "Ham," not "HAM."
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A Perfect Target for Cybercriminals(nytimes.com)
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This was the part that absolutely stunned me: > Last fall, the night before daylight-saving time ended, an all-user e-mail alert went out. The system did not have a way to record information when the hour from 1 a.m. to 1:59 a.m. repeate
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by 7402 8y ago
Well, a little searching revealed the following: * CA Penal Code §21510 Carrying switchblades > 2 inches illegal * CA Penal Code §171 Knife with locking blade > 4 inches illegal in public buildings or meetings * CA Penal Code §626.10
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Billionaires and bacteria racing to save us from death by fertilizer(grist.org)
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In my freshman physics class (1972-73) that price was a brief ethical issue. The professor said that for a midterm we could use one page of written notes and a slide rule. One student asked if he could use a calculator instead of a slide ru
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Climate uncertainty monster: What’s the worst case?(judithcurry.com)
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‘I Want to Burn Things to the Ground’ behind psychology’s replication crisis(chronicle.com)
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"I've never liked the term "computer science." The main reason I don't like it is that there's no such thing. Computer science is a grab bag of tenuously related areas thrown together by an accident of history,
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by 7402 8y ago
See also "Harary's Law" < https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/26/not-science/> , which says that any field that has the word “science” in its name is guaranteed thereby not to be a
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Lessons from the Cave(climbing.com)
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sonic.net (and pair.com, for hosting) are two companies where I have always been delighted on the few occasions when I had to call tech support, due to the intelligence and effectiveness of the people on the other end of the line. It's
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Make Your Daughter Practice Math(nytimes.com)
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Well that would having been annoying in the days when I published a little iOS app that took all the information from a contact list and reformatted it into a pdf file so it could be printed out in a wallet-sized address book. My app had no
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FCC Cites Baofeng Importer for Illegally Marketing Unauthorized RF Devices(arrl.org)
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I like my flip phone because it cost $40, I get prepaid service for $9 a month, it holds its charge for a week, I can drop it and it still works, and no one is going to hit me on the head and take it away from me. On the other hand, it&#x27
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by 7402 8y ago
On home server, CalDAV and CardDAV (instead of iCloud)
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I almost never click on a link where the title is the same as the domain name, e.g., "The Story of Foo" where the link is "thestoryoffoo.com" Such links seem to me to be usually publicity-seeking rather than information-
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Snapshot Work of Art(nybooks.com)
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by 7402 8y ago
I would be delighted to get a free nice-looking speaker that I could disassemble and hack and use for my own purposes!
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How the Startup Mentality Failed Kids in San Francisco(wired.com)
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What to do about lonely older men? Put them to work(washingtonpost.com)
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Have You Ever Seen Someone Be Killed?(nytimes.com)
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