Isamu

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by Isamu 7y ago
Well, in 1983 I was waiting all day for my program to load from floppy. Then maybe I had to swap disks out and wait again. But yeah, if you had one of those awesome 10 Meg drives, things would load fast! Then you would run out of memory if
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by Isamu 7y ago
I agree, I hope it catches on.
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Actually it is the case that attractive, passion positions like actor, musician, and the like are compensated poorly on average, especially when they are not protected by unions. That's because of the surplus of people wanting to do th
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by Isamu 7y ago
They are teaching them about blockchain applications specifically. This isn't about market fit. They appear to be attacking the VERY widespread problem of people applying a blockchain solution where it doesn't necessarily add valu
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by Isamu 7y ago
Title and subtitle speak of transformation and change, but the abstract only mentions "employee engagement": >It’s a common misconception, both in businesses and in management articles and books, that a sense of purpose is what
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by Isamu 7y ago
Do they accept REMOTE employees?
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by Isamu 7y ago
>also known as shaojiu As I understand it, Soju in Korea and Shochu in Japan both derive from this historically, and in turn shaojiu derives from simple grain distillation that came from Mesopotamia.
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by Isamu 7y ago
>but like everyone else I’ve had my share of obvious beliefs turn out to be false. Refreshing candor! Wish it held true that more people saw it through to discover their obvious truths didn't hold up.
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by Isamu 7y ago
Hey, looks like Mitsuwa is in NJ and Chicago; good to know!
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> the government in Hungary has “systematically dismantled media independence, freedom and pluralism, distorted the media market and divided the journalistic community in the country, achieving a degree of media control unprecedented in
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As it happens I will be in Brooklyn soon, thanks for the tip!
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by Isamu 7y ago
>common fermented foods (kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut, tempeh, natto, miso, kimchi, sourdough bread) I can get everything on that list easily at a non-specialty store except for natto. I haven't seen it, but I admit my ability to rea
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by Isamu 7y ago
> bullshit to say it's not a failure So you agree with the article? Because the words "fail" and "failure" appear some 31 times. Same discussion with the recent Space-X failure during a pressurization test. Argum
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by Isamu 7y ago
I hate "Here's Why You Should Too" articles but it's worthwhile trying DDG. You may enjoy having a less menacing overlord in your browser.
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by Isamu 7y ago
>DDG is Bing Eh? Maybe you are saying that because they serve ads from Bing? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo : >DuckDuckGo earns revenue by serving ads from the Yahoo-Bing search alliance network an
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First Census of Wikipedia Bots and Their Interactions with Humans(stevens.edu)
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by Isamu 7y ago
>but crop yields remain constant Some, not all, crop yields have been stalling in recent years. I think Tyler's point was maybe the increasing cost of research and effort to keep moving the yield curves up, such that it may be stall
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by Isamu 7y ago
(from the slides) >I learned Emacs in September, 1983 >It is now November, 2019 >...that’s over thirty six years! >An amazingly long time. Hmm, I think I learned Emacs around the same time. Yes, sometimes I think it is weird tha
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Most of the time such "features" are about addressing the detractors who say they will only facilitate drug deals. Because, you know, that's one major way to shoot down any public goods.
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Not quite the same as click bait.
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>The unreasonable effectiveness of X These are just allusions to classic "unreasonable effectiveness" papers, probably starting with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness... >n my
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>you were stuck in raw mode, and had to reset the terminal session Man I forgot about all this terminal wrangling stuff. Thanks for the memories!
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This is an interesting design variant, where the wrinkle-resistant dresses are designed specifically to be folded down into very small packages. So the packaging is integral to the approach. I initially expected something like Issey Miyake,
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by Isamu 7y ago
Interesting non-answer: >29. For each year since 2009, what is the total amount that Apple has accepted from Google for the right to be the default search engine in Safari and in any other Apple products or services? Please identify the
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by Isamu 7y ago
Interesting that it starts off with the advantages Apple gives Safari, as similar browser issues were a focus of the antitrust proceedings against Microsoft.
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> why would both of these editors be developed in such a way that they are downright inconvenient to use on the hardware on which they most frequently ran? As other comments note, they were developed on earlier models or non-Dec termina
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by Isamu 7y ago
The Na'vi Shaman by Disney is the best example. https://robots.ieee.org/robots/navishaman/ Previous generations of animatronics lacked the fidelity of motion that this one has. Disney's experience with C
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by Isamu 7y ago
Excellent takeaways: >AI excels at some tasks, but can’t predict social outcomes. >We must resist the enormous commercial interests that aim to obfuscate this fact. >In most cases, manual scoring rules are just as accurate, far mor
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>if you can imagine yourself acting similarly dumb, don't go. Funny, all the people I know that do dumb things can't imagine themselves acting dumb.
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>More than a century ago, Belgian information activist Paul Otlet envisioned a universal compilation of knowledge and the technology to make it globally available. He foresaw, in other words, some of the possibilities of today’s Web. No,

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