DoofusOfDeath

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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I hope to never meet someone who's violated an iceberg.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
As someone who doesn't know much about Japanese culture, I find this really interesting. Can you elaborate a bit on which details would provide that info?
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
Thank you! That was driving me crazy. And now I see why I got confused: it's another phonograph-related dangerous-element fact that I learned from reading Theodore Gray's book, The Elements [0] [1]. Now if I could only remember wh
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I recall reading about using neutron beams to alter the chemistry of phonograph needles. I think the idea was to make them into a radioactive isotope that continually ionized the needle, so that it repelled dust. But maybe I'm remember
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> It's not bad leadership to hold down the costs of your key inputs. I think your point misses a crucial distinction. The issue isn't whether or not "holding down the costs of your key inputs" is good or bad, all oth
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
If someone running on a treadmill sounds like whales humping, he probably needs to go on a diet :)
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
Right, but IIUC it's the difference between a "transient" [0] and a "tonal" [1], which AFAIK is an important distinction for sonar operators. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_(acousti
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
The joke's context is Genesis chapters 1-2, so it wouldn't make sense to include a lawyer. Satan only shows up in chapter 3.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
Are you referring to the music that's (mostly?) Steve Allen's piano playing? Yeah, totally. I also never knew that Steve Allen was so good at piano. Before watching that video, all I knew about him was that he'd had a popular
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> Then you are working for nicer people than I was. Maybe. I also rarely meet with actual customers, and I'm sure that helps too.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
This doesn't surprise me. In general, underwater sound attenuates more quickly as you increase its frequency. Foot-fall thumping has a pretty strong low-frequency component. It's also repetitious, which (I'm guessing but don&
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
IIRC, "Principles of Underwater Sound" by Robert Urick [0] is considered pretty good. A textbook that's helpful for actually implementing ocean acoustics models is "Computational Ocean Acoustics" by Jensen et al [1]
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> I think it would be nice if something held my head and neck straight so I could doze off. Have you ever tried one of those inflatable around-your-neck pillows that are sold at airports? I've always wondered if they were worked.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
It sounds like different people have different concerns then. I only fly on business, and it's rarely a big deal if I have a several-hour delay because of a missed connection. However, I'm tall, and have a bad back and knees. So l
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
My pleasure :) But to my chagrin, I just realized that the reading cadence I had in mind wasn't Allen Ginsberg's, but instead Jack Kerouac's. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/3LLpNKo09Xk?t=197
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
From reading other HN discussions, I get the impression that a person's home-office setup is a big factor. I.e., good home office --> probably same or better productivity; bad home office --> probably worse productivity.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> financialization propping up abstracted processes of how to lead massive organizations as big blocks on diagrams instead of highly fractal, constantly shifting networks of ideas and stories repeatedly coalescing around people, processe
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
It's possible that he's both hypocritical and correct.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
The study doesn't mention caffeine, but I'm curious if it's a factor. Caffeinated drinks make me need to pee more often than non-caffeinated drinks. I'm curious if that reduces the amount of time that the bladder cells a
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
Tangent, but I'm sorry about your father.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
My humor-detector is going wild, but I can't figure out the joke(s). I really hope I just need more coffee.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
I think you're raising an interesting point regarding the CEO's focus vs. company performance. Friendly advice from someone who's learned this the hard way: If you edit your comment so that it's tone is a bit more friend
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> The real answer is: just fucking use email. I know of at least one large company that forcibly deletes emails older than N months, as part of their legal retention policy. (I'm assuming it means non-retention to limit exposure t
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> It’s a shame that people even contest the logic today when wholly uneducated people were fine with it hundreds of years ago. I'm not familiar with that place's history. Are we really sure that (a) that people was uneducated,
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
Good point. Still, I'm curious if that's been tested in court. My impression is that some commercial practices can be widespread, and still fail under eventual court challenge. I'm thinking of the U.S. case regarding the adve
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
IANAL, so I'm curious: would this count as a breach of contract with its customers? I.e., is an ISP implicitly contracted to route packets between its customers and the entire publicly visible Internet?
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
Meh. A real Evil Scrum Lord makes his victims enter the data by themselves into Jira.
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
The way the headline is written immediately reminds me of Betteridge's law of headlines [0]. I'm just guessing, but perhaps that led to the initial downvoting. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
> Is the good you're doing via whatsapp enough to outweigh how you could leverage 19B? That's a very good point. Still, with $19B on the line, I bet there's no shortage of people who would help me rationalize doing somethi
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by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
There's a saying that "Every man has his price." For me personally, I hope that I'll never be offered enough money to betray those who trust me. But I fear that my selling price is far lower than $19B.

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