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by Isamu 6y ago
Seems like there isn’t a variety of finishes available like there used to be? Finding the right finish is critical in card handling and close up magic.
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by Isamu 6y ago
Volume D is the code, it’s interesting because the literate programming approach where the raw code is transformed into a fully typeset version for printing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming Volume
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by Isamu 6y ago
> HN, for instance, can’t be zoomed in iOS Both pinch-to-zoom and increasing font size work for me in iOS Safari, what zoom are you talking about?
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by Isamu 6y ago
Right, Gates was relatively well off AND lucky to be hacking at the right time. Jobs was not rich at all but lived in the right general area AND was lucky to have the right interests to make friends with Woz.
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by Isamu 6y ago
Well even tech folk don’t read charts correctly, even if they understand a logarithm. I have seen all kinds of junk nonsensical charts in my career that somehow made it into reports, because nobody thought it was necessary to take the time
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Tachyonic Antitelephone(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by Isamu 6y ago|0 comments
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by Isamu 6y ago
“We will drive you to your requested shopping destination after this brief targeted advertisement for laundry detergent.”
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by Isamu 6y ago
> We develop a multi-risk SIR model (MR-SIR) where infection, hospitalization and fatality rates vary between groups—in particular between the “young”, “the middle- aged” and the “old”. Our MR-SIR model enables a tractable quantitative a
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A Multi-Risk Sir Model with Optimally Targeted Lockdown [pdf](economics.mit.edu)
1 points by Isamu 6y ago|1 comments
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by Isamu 7y ago
It’s true, it is mostly a software change to upgrade a cpap into a bi-level device more like a ventilator. The barrier is really about procurement, and if they are proposing to reuse devices then it is all about shipping them to a location
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by Isamu 7y ago
I will add that I think the argument being made is: it is received wisdom that if you don't ease the seam, you can't match up a pattern, and they are refuting that. If I understand this correctly I think this article is right, the
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by Isamu 7y ago
As a wizened old programmer AND a person who has once sewn his own dress shirt, I'm not sure what to think of this. I recall that easing while attaching the sleeve seemed unavoidable. That said I am glad this made it briefly to the fr
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by Isamu 7y ago
>whether their baths were with hot water I would be surprised if they were cold baths. (Source: Totoro, Spirited Away, every onsen fan-service anime episode ever)
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by Isamu 7y ago
> The problem is that monopolies aren't just bad because they raise prices, they're bad because they are monopolies. The specific harms raised are valid, but I get tired of this generalization. The Bell System was an example of
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by Isamu 7y ago
I never looked before but "ls /dev/bpf*" shows a lot of Berkeley packet filters. Maybe that reflects a movement toward user-space monitoring?
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by Isamu 7y ago
> we just need a serious typographer Well, that is why Hermann Zapf was commissioned to design AMS Euler. Knuth supplied the METAFONT and critiqued it in iterations by trying it out.
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by Isamu 7y ago
It should possible in principle to create a "printer" in Life that constructs a rectangular region filled with repeated stable objects (like blocks) or nothing, or some dithered density. If you are ok that it could never reach bet
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by Isamu 7y ago
>it feels a bit like cheating. Because you know that somewhere, somehow, the code you write is translated to assembly instructions. To the machine language. I think you should go all the way, show the machine code along with the assembly
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by Isamu 7y ago
>Looking at it this way, the popularity of superhero culture among aficionados of new technological entrepreneurship seems obvious. It’s a culture that celebrates individual agency at the expense of the collective. Ah there you have it,
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by Isamu 7y ago
Woz worked for HP, it was his dream job as an engineer. It was a big deal for him to give up his dream job to start Apple with Jobs.
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by Isamu 7y ago
SIGSALY was an unbreakable voice scrambler that relied on early digital techniques, pretty interesting: https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/rebuilding-a-pi... IIRC, it was unbreakable because it amounted
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by Isamu 7y ago
Heh, yeah but it's an adversarial problem. Do you assume the other bots are going to "do the right thing" and not intensify the panic? Maybe not. Maybe you just act on immediate information and try to optimize your position f
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by Isamu 7y ago
Also because of algorithmic trading. You don't want to get into an accelerated get-out-now spiral.
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by Isamu 7y ago
First you are told "serverless" doesn't mean there is no server, because in fact you are using servers, it's just that administering those servers is somebody else's job. Now apparently even setting up a server your
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by Isamu 7y ago
"Same" just isn't as fun as saying "Isomorphic"
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by Isamu 7y ago
I got the message on my desktop. Because my monitor is configured portrait, not landscape. When I stretched the browser into a second monitor, it came to life. So it's the browser window dimensions, apparently. But it was still unneces
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by Isamu 7y ago
If it is all possibilities of 12 beats and below, then presumably it includes a measure + a partial measure of even 7, 9, 10 and 11-beat measures. But for an example: "Turn it on again" by Genesis is a 13-beat verse. The chorus I
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by Isamu 7y ago
> thought that the web will bring freedom, understanding and equality to the world. We were wrong. Now we have to fix our mistake because we're the only ones who have a chance at doing this. SOME thought the web would bring those go
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by Isamu 7y ago
Wow, I completely forgot about that fact. So the play triangle was an arrow saying "tape is rolling in this direction" and fast-forward and reverse double triangles were "tape is rolling fast" in the respective direction
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by Isamu 7y ago
An old scout trick to get water out of the air is to use a plastic sheet to make a "solar still", moisture condenses on the underside of the sheet and is collected in a cup. The environment provides the energy and moisture.

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