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by Aloha 2y ago
While I'm not always thrilled that about the amount of monitoring United States Government does, as a United States Citizen, my government is at least marginally accountable to me - if enough of us are bothered by this policy, we can
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by Aloha 2y ago
A lot of them are not hoarding knowledge intentionally - they'll tell you the big pieces but leave out the connective glue - because its muscle memory.
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by Aloha 2y ago
I think it did get added to the NTSC Standards - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NABTS That said, there were several other competing standards offered at the same time including https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by Aloha 2y ago
The issue is, there isn't a paper trail - now TJ Watson wasn't a big leaver of paper either. He learned at working at NCR - but this was an era when international phone calling was prohibitive.
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by Aloha 2y ago
I remember reading this book when it came out in 2002 and the expanded version in 2012. It made a largely circumstantial case for IBM's involvement in the holocaust. Yes - the following things are true: * Germany used IBM Tabulating Eq
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by Aloha 2y ago
I think both origins are probably correct at the same time, as you well know, Texas is a big place, and communications/movements of people were very slow until the 20th Century. Black cowboy culture is kinda lost from the popular narra
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by Aloha 2y ago
Agreed. This article sorta outlines the complexity of slavery too. Yes, flat out chattel slavery was a dehumanizing system. It also created a legacy of complex family relationships that as often as not bridged race - and leave those famil
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by Aloha 2y ago
I love Kotkin!
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by Aloha 3y ago
For me at least, it means I'm striving a little less hard, I think is the best way to put it. I'm still searching for good things, and the next thing, but I'm also enjoying today for today.
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by Aloha 3y ago
Being content is like a drug. The fire reduces, but does go out, you feel warmth in the familiar rather than the new, and you find yourself beset, wondering whatever you did to deserve this joy. I hope to sone day some can say the same abou
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by Aloha 3y ago
This appears to be the original source - https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/06/13/a-disgruntled...
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by Aloha 3y ago
I dont really see the issue? The technology works, there is a replacement outlined, there is no shortage of floppy disks - even 5 1/4 ones.
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by Aloha 3y ago
I use a tool called Kuar for MacOS, which just allows me to encode whatever I like in it. I need to find a windows equivalent at some point though.
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by Aloha 3y ago
STP is basically magic - and being able to reliably optimize it to reduce reconvergence time makes you a magician.
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by Aloha 3y ago
We built the Taliban a whole lot of nice infrastructure. Maybe they'll be able to use it, probably not though.
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by Aloha 3y ago
I pretty regularly produce documents which are required by process but no longer have a consumer. I make them because I get yelled at if I dont, but the 'product' I output is basically useless - including for the original use (whi
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by Aloha 3y ago
If the retailer is still in business that data has probably been lovingly migrated twice, and is now in a sharepoint somewhere.
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by Aloha 3y ago
This needs a [2017] in the title.
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by Aloha 3y ago
The article is also from 2017.
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by Aloha 3y ago
The Somali Schilling has fascinated me for years - because it's living proof about how mediums of exchange work - all people have to do is believe that something is worth something. The something is unimportant, could be slips of paper
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by Aloha 3y ago
That presumed a whole lot of cloak and mirrors stuff I have not experienced.
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by Aloha 3y ago
HR is only on your side when your 'side' aligns with the broader company interest. They're not your enemy, but not automatically your friend either.
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by Aloha 3y ago
How does this reduce the number of parts on a car? Like, okay, you currently build a vehicle by dragging a hulk down a moving line. This says leave the hulk in one place, and bring the parts to it. It on its face appears to be less efficien
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by Aloha 3y ago
As someone who is familiar with doing things at volume - I dont see how this makes it actually cheaper - * It doesn't reduce labor costs * It doesn't reduce materials costs * It doesn't seem to allow them to assemble faster *
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by Aloha 3y ago
I'd imagine it was mostly just watching the automation systems run, and waiting to talk. I might be biased - but the tail end of the beautiful music era was probably a high point for FM Broadcast audio quality - it was the last point b
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by Aloha 3y ago
Man, I miss beautiful music being a viable radio format. It makes such great background music.
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by Aloha 3y ago
It was in part reference to "Any sufficiently advanced technology..." So, you worked for RCA.. here is a question that there is no good book on, but what killed RCA, and what was it like working there? I dont know what I think of
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by Aloha 3y ago
I work RF world pretty regularly, and I still consider the Superheterodyne Receiver to be tantamount to magic. Edwin Armstrong was a brilliant brilliant man.
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by Aloha 3y ago
Thats in part why I subscribed to the IPO - also, its 800 dollars a small stake, enough that if I lose half of it, I wont care.
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by Aloha 3y ago
You dont have to go to Stanford to get a decent job, or even work for Nvidia. You dont have to go to a top tier school, or even college at all to be a working (and decent) engineer. Going to Stanford and taking on gobs of debt is absolutely

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