Isamu

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by Isamu 4y ago
Sources for that contention? On my mother’s death certificate there was a space for the proximate cause of death, and following that there some cascading “due to” lines to be optionally filled in. There’s no “with” area. It’s not free form.
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by Isamu 4y ago
I’m not sure people are getting that the display is tracking your position, recognizing you, and displaying in such a way that you see something different and customized from people to your left and to your right. They see their own customi
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by Isamu 4y ago
>Wooldridge holds out hope that a “wiser,” “remoralized” meritocracy, cleansed of nepotism and elite hoarding, is still possible. He points to the success of Asian countries like China and Singapore newly committed to their own forms of
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by Isamu 4y ago
One of the things to like about the Bored Ape Yacht Club characters is that they are deliberately satirizing the buyers. An ape because it is non-thinking, with stupid money to spare, buying an NFT out of boredom rather than interest. Actua
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by Isamu 4y ago
>explain our design rationale every day to people that have zero design backgrounds. The better we do this, the better we're able to do our job. Exactly, the really good and professional designers I worked with spent a lot of time t
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by Isamu 4y ago
Ha, me too, I turned off images back then and it made everything snappy and very pleasant. I just wanted the text, the information. It’s weird though- people want all the nonsense. More and more that is the primary use of the web.
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by Isamu 4y ago
So what are the credible news sources?
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by Isamu 4y ago
I used it very extensively and still found myself confused sometimes with complicated situations where I would have to unpack and then pack the results, or vice versa. It’s powerful and terse, you can use it in so many situations to accompl
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by Isamu 4y ago
I don’t think you have experienced the politics of high level executives in mega corporations. This is exactly the most plausible part of the story. Some legal executive likely jumped to some conclusion before talking to Rob to get all the
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by Isamu 4y ago
The paper may be more interesting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.08837 Limit cycles turn active matter into robots Abstract: Active matter composed of energy-generating microscopic constituents is a promising platform to
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by Isamu 4y ago
Cursive was still taught when I was in school. With ball point pens. This was the case for many years after dip pens were retired. They stopped teaching cursive handwriting. Full stop.
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by Isamu 4y ago
Most of his wealth is not liquid, it’s his ownership of his companies. It doesn’t represent his pay.
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by Isamu 4y ago
Wish I could upvote this more. >I feel alone and misunderstood in my own field, philosophy. For example, I was told today that talking about pressing problems in AI technologies while leaving out the issue of superintelligent machines is
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by Isamu 4y ago
I remember this from a Planetarium laser light show where this was narrated and there were cool projected abstract visuals. Must have been in the 70’s. That’s entertainment!
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by Isamu 4y ago
Many researchers are just cranking out papers to meet some metric, and a Data Availability Statement (DAS) is just a bit of boilerplate to make your paper seem more plausible. I think this paper shows that it is just more research theater,
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by Isamu 4y ago
>worked hard at playing your manager No. Instead of working until my head exploded (and my manager telling me I wasn’t showing “a sense of urgency”) I focused on doing the right thing, and part of that is helping your manager succeed.
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by Isamu 4y ago
>Now I just work hard enough. My review from management actually got much better once I stopped knocking myself out working too hard and instead worked just enough. That was a pivotal moment for me. That and also learning how to manage y
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Cryptosat (Blockchain in Space)(cryptosat.io)
2 points by Isamu 4y ago|1 comments
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by Isamu 4y ago
Would like to know more about the airfoil, how it was designed. Article just says it is “undocumented”.
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by Isamu 4y ago
Back in the bad old days, the counterculture was more identifiable because the mainstream was so much more narrow than today, choices were fewer and counterculture weirdos huddled together for warmth, you could find clusters of them. Now so
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by Isamu 4y ago
In general, both.
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by Isamu 4y ago
>there’s really no such thing as a natural resource. All resources are artificial. They are a product of technology. And economic growth is ultimately driven, not by material resources, but by ideas. I think this bears repeating. It is c
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by Isamu 4y ago
Not quite. It is because it is a threat to “national security” because of unspecified “huge potential for military applications”. But the real menace is that it is the open internet bypassing government control. That’s always a threat to “n
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The grave insult of being sent the proper tools to perform a complicated task(daringfireball.net)
41 points by Isamu 4y ago|30 comments
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by Isamu 4y ago
>No startups addressing these issues. There are lots of green energy startups. And startups around ways to consume atmospheric co2. What are you looking for?
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by Isamu 4y ago
Yes! I remember seeing this at the time and we discussed this at work as we were thinking about a similar controller with a serial cable. We ended up using the Palm for a few years, it was priced right and easy to develop for, and didn’t ta
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by Isamu 4y ago
I didn’t see any discussion of the beginning of globalization, the decline of American manufacturing jobs, the decline of union jobs. The 70s were the beginning of the end for heavy industries in Pittsburgh.
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by Isamu 4y ago
>Wood, stone, pretty much everything is stronger than concrete. Hang on, compressive strength is very, very high. Tensile strength is much lower so that’s why we add rebar and mesh.
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by Isamu 4y ago
Real lunar regolith is not available for experiments like this. However you can buy simulated lunar regolith, it’s very expensive but not nearly so as the real thing.
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by Isamu 4y ago
Does anybody have a recommendation for learning two-handed longsword technique? Not that I made my daughters full size wooden practice claymores or anything. I’m asking for a friend.

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