Complexicate

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by Complexicate 5y ago
If you still have the Brother printer, try disabling IPv6 on the Brother printer. I remember this issue from a while back. Some update happened, and then wireless printing stopped working on some iOS devices. It happened to a colleague&#x
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by Complexicate 5y ago
Wow! You're not kidding. I just did a quick search and found this [1] It's the exact same 1 minute scene from UK and US. The UK is constructive criticism and wholesome banter. The US version cuts the playful banter as if he&#x
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by Complexicate 5y ago
And from The Oatmeal: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people_2021
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by Complexicate 6y ago
Agreed. However, I smirked a bit when I read your comment, since this is ultimately coming from Microsoft. Let's hope some of this mentality seeps into other Microsoft projects
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by Complexicate 6y ago
Spot on about using little to no text. TedX has a pretty good style-guide about slides [1]: What goes in my slides? •Images and photos: To help the audience remember a person, place or thing you mention, you might use images or photos. -
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by Complexicate 6y ago
As someone who (finally) went from employee to small business owner, I wouldn't wait for "someday". Start the process while you're still working now. Take the time to learn everything you can to make this happen over t
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by Complexicate 6y ago
This is very close to Richard Feynman's explanation of the scientific method: https://youtu.be/kBqemHR49-c?t=33 " Guess -> Compute Consequences -> Compare to Nature / Experiment / Experience /
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by Complexicate 6y ago
There absolutely is a reason. Microsoft's reason. Scaring users away from independent software distribution means more people will use the Windows Store.
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by Complexicate 6y ago
A 2011 study identified 13 DNA variations across 11 different genes that could be used to predict hair color. This seems like a clearly recognizable inherited trait, based on a large influence of certain small pieces of DNA. The abstract m
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by Complexicate 6y ago
mi ken toki kepeken toki pona. taso ijo sona la ona li ike. mi wile sitelen e lipu sona la mi ken ala pali pona e ona. taso jan li wile toki lon pilin lon ijo pona la jan li ken toki e ni kepeken toki pona. Translation: I can talk using T
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by Complexicate 6y ago
Let it go. Let it go. Misleading titles never bothered HN anyway.
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by Complexicate 6y ago
> Isn't the opposite of spread - hoard? Only in the 2nd sense (ie: "getting" something in a knowledge area). The 1st sense (... understanding and accepting ...) cannot be hoarded, since it is not given to you from someone
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by Complexicate 6y ago
I'm glad you prefaced this with "(now)" ie: hindsight. There's always a considerable chance that tests of the untested / unproven will remain inconclusive, even if there's some evidence we should find somethin
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by Complexicate 6y ago
The first paragraph summarized 3 different ways: We asked neurologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists about human decision making. * The neurologists focused on stimuli and the brain. * The psychiatrists focused on the behaviors of indivi
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by Complexicate 6y ago
I love this... "...mov, which copies data between the CPU & RAM, can be used to implement a transport-triggered-architecture one instruction set computer, allowing for playing Doom..." Click on "Doom" link and read:
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by Complexicate 7y ago
Ogden's Basic English [1] with 850 words [2] and a simplified grammar was an attempt at making an international auxiliary language from English. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_English [2] https:/&#x
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by Complexicate 7y ago
The human brain is horrible at building truly accurate 3D representations of the world. Our mental maps are constantly missing a magnitude of details while tricking us and creating approximations to fill in the blanks. Easy examples of thi
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by Complexicate 7y ago
I have never read italics as whispering. I usually read it as emphasis or stress. I read ALL CAPS as shouting. I read bold as important. I only see bold as aggressive if emotionally charged language is bolded (ie: marked as important by
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by Complexicate 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with what everyone else is saying: "Truly incredible", "almost unbelievably great", "REALLY amazing", "unprecedented", "I love it", "the attention to detail is ex
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by Complexicate 7y ago
The Bloomberg article exacerbates the bigotry many Japanese have against their own fellow citizens. In the caption of the first picture: "She’s not all Japanese, but she was Miss Universe Japan 2015." Yes, she is "all"
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by Complexicate 7y ago
"most ... readers don’t absorb the intended knowledge. Failure is the default here." All I could think while reading the article is, "If this medium is so ineffective, why is the author using it to transmit his information?&q
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by Complexicate 7y ago
"...how does an organization ensure the task still gets done?" With something almost stupidly simple and low-tech: checklists. (I'm reading "The Checklist Manifesto" right now, and the points it makes seem to fit pe
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by Complexicate 7y ago
I agree with UX, but scalability has a working solution in the Lightning Network. However, that needs major UX development... Bitcoin also needs fungibility: "Fungibility is the only property of sound money that is missing from Bitcoi
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by Complexicate 8y ago
Not good enough. As an "Opt-out" with no password required, there will always be cases of unintentional purchases. This is obvious. IMO a company should be obligated to give refunds if their default settings are this way. Reduc
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by Complexicate 8y ago
He meant "1,500 億". 1,500 oku yen = 150 billion yen. I don't know about the rest of your post, but that part is cherry picking something out of context.
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by Complexicate 8y ago
According to Montessori theory, it's ages 6-12 years old (the elementary years). That's when their mental development is naturally focused on fairness, what's right/wrong, social groups, justice, rules, etc. They begin
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by Complexicate 8y ago
This is what I've been telling my grandmother to do, but for some reason she keeps using Facebook instead.
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by Complexicate 8y ago
typo on front page: Superclass makes it easier by "gathing" It's a good idea. I'd like to see this succeed.
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by Complexicate 9y ago
They aren't poorly funded. I live in a suburban / rural area. The public schools here get ~$15,700 per student. Good private schools here charge ~$10,000 per student, and yet offer much better education with 2/3 the fundin
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by Complexicate 10y ago
WebMD talks about breastfeeding vs formula. Their listed benefits of breastfeeding include resisting illness, lower % of SIDS, a correlation to higher cognitive function, and lower occurrence of other diseases. They then list benefits of f

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