Isamu

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by Isamu 5y ago
The silicon is grown in a process that produces long cylinders that are then sliced into wafers. Silicon is not molded, cast or extruded, so the shape is result of the growing process. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cz
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by Isamu 5y ago
Unpack the word “effective” used here. It is still the case that ordinary cloth masks are less effective than higher grade masks. As a health official you are weighing the question: do we advocate a sub-optimal approach on the grounds that
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by Isamu 5y ago
Agreed. > I've increasingly felt that people here are disconnected from reality in a way not seen in previous years. Well, I don’t think that is surprising given the rise of popularity of HN. The early days had people interested in
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by Isamu 5y ago
This being HN, I honestly thought there was a 50% chance that this would be about the game console. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey
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by Isamu 5y ago
Moebius, of course. Right now I really love PTSD by Guillaume Singelin.
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by Isamu 5y ago
Does anyone remember the days when internet media companies didn’t want to censor anything? Because after all it costs more and puts them in a position where nobody is satisfied? And do you remember when they were called onto the carpet by
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by Isamu 5y ago
Each of these predict food production will decline starting soon, although the optimistic ones forecast a recovery in production. Any idea why the imminent decline in food production in all cases? It’s as though they are expecting global fo
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by Isamu 5y ago
Yeah, I have an EE degree but have only worked in software, and I have to say you can bring any kind of mathematics to the job if you have the imagination to find the places where it is an advantage. I sought areas where I could learn more
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by Isamu 5y ago
So I think Google is definitely motivated to keep malware off of its app store. It’s bad for business. But we see the malicious apps from time to time anyway. Likewise Apple is motivated to keep malware off the app store. Again it’s a bad r
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by Isamu 5y ago
It wasn’t like there were other theories of information at the time. He established a very neat theory for the first time, and showed a very intriguingly idea of entropy that proceeded naturally from it. He showed how the information a chan
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by Isamu 5y ago
I guess it is largely forgotten, but computers used to have a front panel with enough switches to enable you to input a full word into memory, and step forward. This is how bootstraps could be entered if you didn’t have a bootstrap device.
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by Isamu 5y ago
Well grep is 47 years old. Still it took many years and many authors to reach a more or less steady state, because PEOPLE CANNOT STOP TINKERING. This is, by far, the reason software doesn’t get finished. Keeping some software extremely simp
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by Isamu 5y ago
Amnesty International is just a mouthpiece of NATO?
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by Isamu 5y ago
What about cookies? You can’t even have a proper wedding without a full cookie table.
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by Isamu 5y ago
> without offering a way to continue the discussion It is asking asking a legitimate question in a neutral manner. It’s not supposed to be a microaggression. Asking a legitimate question should provoke discussion, unless discussion is fu
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by Isamu 5y ago
Or just “what about <showstopper>?” All you have to do is bring up the issue that you think kills the idea, you don’t have to issue a judgment. If people can’t see that it kills the idea, then either you are wrong and it can be mitiga
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by Isamu 5y ago
The Alcohol House at the Carnegie Museum of National History can sometimes be open to the public and well worth a visit. It was originally built as a separate building because of the significant fire risk. https://carnegiemnh.org
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by Isamu 5y ago
> In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people. Not all cranks are in this category, but there are a few.
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by Isamu 5y ago
Another is the difference in interest in video games. The thinking has been that video games just haven’t been tailored to girls’ interests. Which actually is admitting a gender distinction. Anyway I tried my best to find games my daughters
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by Isamu 5y ago
>declares plastics toxic I didn’t see where in the article that plastics in the environment were shown to be toxic. Can someone help point to the study this is based on?
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by Isamu 5y ago
The brain, right? Without which there is no embarrassment.
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by Isamu 5y ago
Very interesting peek into this opaque topic, so much so that I thought I should forward this to someone I know... only to realize they are one of the authors (lol).
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by Isamu 5y ago
This is about concentration, focus, and it is absolutely a skill and not really taught. Beyond that, introspection is not really taught either. That is, so I have been thinking about this thing a lot, am I being honest with myself about wha
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by Isamu 5y ago
Often however police departments have been allowed to keep money extracted through fines or property seizures. While I imagine the laws around this vary, near where I live there was an infamous speed trap that managed to rake in piles of fi
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by Isamu 5y ago
Cool approach, and I am glad to find out there’s a manga dataset out there for academic use! http://www.manga109.org/en/
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by Isamu 5y ago
> the streams of thought that led from Torricelli to Newcomen were meandering ones A very interesting history showing the development of ideas, rather than the narrative of a lone inventor. You hear assertions that there’s less innovatio
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by Isamu 5y ago
I came here to mention coppicing as well. In medieval Europe forests were highly managed or farmed, and this technique produced a steady source of straight poles that were used in various diameters.
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by Isamu 6y ago
Why would lab grown tissue have parasites?
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by Isamu 6y ago
Hey, this article got me interested in 1-d cellular automata at the time. Before that it was Von Neumann’s self replicating cellular automata and then Conway’s Life in the 70’s
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by Isamu 6y ago
Combine with Vanta Black for the “greyest grey”

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