Kaibeezy

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Downtowns Are Full of Empty Buildings. Universities Are Moving In(nytimes.com)
3 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|3 comments
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Ah. So, astronomers discovered these amazing extreme objects in deep space, named them a dry string of alphanumeric, and then, starstruck by the last few random (are they random?) letters, gazed in awe and wonder at those and saw… words.
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
“Mysterious Nature article about the/a ‘Tasmanian devil’ space explosion baffles readers by failing to explain why it/they is/are called ‘Tasmanian devil/s’” Hypothesis 1: So named because of rapid spin combined with
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Publicity like this should really help. How many people would even be aware of it? Well, clearly a number of people in the music world, but not many outside it. Now a few more.
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'No one else is saving it': the fight to protect a historic music collection(theguardian.com)
71 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|27 comments
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
I got clobbered for pointing out flaws in a deceptively good-looking project at an 8th grade science fair. The kid had basically been pre-anointed as the winner, but there were serious methodological shortcomings. Then again, I have sought
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Adverts and misspellings. A double whamois.
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Researcher discovers identity of mystery figure on Led Zeppelin IV cover(uwe.ac.uk)
2 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|0 comments
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
But… You kind of know basically how long an average literal foot is, right? Within an order of magnitude at least, and surely a lot more precisely and usefully than that. A 5-foot monster will be a few times bigger than a house cat, a few t
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Tweaks definitely needed. Perhaps I leaned toward what would be fine for my familiar non-location/time dependent work, already very flexy. Not true for most people, of course, but things change. How’s this? 72 primes plus 50 fillers: (
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
OK, not liked. But why?
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Seriously. Our current mess of a calendar has ~104 weekend days, plus several fixed and floating holidays. Replace all that with: - the 72 prime number days - add the days that end in 0, that’s 108, perfect, and gives several 2-day “w
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Weeks? Months? These are conventional constructs, not givens (unless lunar). Days 1 - 365.whatever. Non-prime number days are “business”. Prime number days are “le weekend”. Done.
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Nick Clegg compares AI clamour to 'moral panic' in 80s over video games(theguardian.com)
3 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|0 comments
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
I want to be the person in the monkey suit who said "We're going to need a bigger boat."
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Empty office spaces can be converted to residential – but it won't be affordable(theconversation.com)
2 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|0 comments
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
I’ll be old pretty soon, but I’m used to crap like usernames and passwords, and needing to log in, update, reboot, juggle remotes, etc. I can’t imagine losing my sense of that paradigm. My Silent Generation (pre-Boomers) parents struggled w
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Agree. CNC aluminum or wood, even acrylic, even for just the front face, would be a lot nicer too.
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
https://archive.ph/A8ZoR
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A Brief History of a Problematic Appetizer (it’s squid)(nytimes.com)
32 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|10 comments
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Export Controls on Advanced Computing and Semiconductor Manufacturing Items(bis.doc.gov)
67 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|72 comments
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Lord Dundreary(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|0 comments
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Water under the dam at this point, what what?
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
The number of times they referred to the “experience” as “crazy” or “insane”. The interviewer chucking in dundrearyisms (OK, maybe just situational code-switching) like “crib” and “right on, right on”, and “mama taught me right”. Parody of
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Write your Congresscritter.
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Came here for “cromulent”. Was disappointed. But you’re not.
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
https://archive.ph/XN2wE See also - Visualizing a summer of extremes in 7 charts - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37776542
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I'm a Climate Scientist, and September's Warmth Freaked Me Out a Little(nytimes.com)
5 points by Kaibeezy 3y ago|1 comments
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Please point to some of your favorite examples of this “creative explosion”. Here’s one I posted several months ago on intentional camera movement photography: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34858318
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by Kaibeezy 3y ago
Microdistraction. That’s a good way of describing it. For those of us prone to hyperfocus, it is a macroannoyance. Slack started doing something lately that I can’t figure out how to stop. It jiggles or re-sorts the channels occasionally. V

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