MrTonyD

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by MrTonyD 9y ago
I love not having a cable bill. I get the free over-the-air channels on my channel-master DVR, and I've recently started listening to audiobooks on my iPad. The number of books and diversity of books is just amazing (and great for long
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by MrTonyD 9y ago
I was recently reading that there are estimated to be 6 billion people in the world who want jobs, and estimated to be 2 billion jobs. So advice to "leave your employer" reflects a very narrow world view - a view from those having
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About 20 years ago I first heard about co-ops, and I thought it was a great idea. So I literally bought every book on the subject that I could find (spent many hundreds) and read all those books. There is a long and rich history of co-ops w
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This study is consistent with another internal study that I read about. Essentially, working conditions, bosses, crazy hours, generally unreasonable expectations, and lack of appreciation all combine to make an unpleasant work environment.
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It is sensible to thing the care about what other people think. We live in a society - and there are norms, standards, and values associated with our community. We shouldn't want to be people who can ignore the genuine values of our co
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I've often thought that those who make decisions for society should be required to pass a test to show they understand all sides of an issue. It is absurd to me that politicians are currently allowed to make the wide variety of decisio
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That's true - I asked about that and they said that they could sometimes reuse the tube if they were planting in a similar configuration - otherwise they just discarded the tubing (it is very cheap - another advantage of their system.)
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Go visit the UCSC agroecology center farm. They have been using variations of this technique for years. I was surprised when I saw it too - I'd thought that it would need to be more complicated.
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And they adjusted for low water pressure by poking a few more holes for each plant nearer the end of the the poly tube. By avoiding "nozzles" on their tubing - which would require pressure to operate -- they greatly simplified the
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This seems way, way too complicated. Just last weekend I visited a 30 acre University farm - where they teach agroecology and have graduates worldwide who are running farms. I noticed that they were just using normal water spigots at differ
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by MrTonyD 9y ago
Well, old concrete, even pre-"quick set" has been found to be much more "durable" (colloquially speaking - not really an engineering term.) And in most applications it isn't concrete's compressive strength whic
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I'm no expert, but I've read that their use of volcanic rock is a major factor - since "pumice" has a swiss-cheese like surface, and that tends to add strength to concrete. Also, they used incredibly little water in thei
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Wouldn't surprise me...Steve fired me more than once. He was volatile. I learned to mostly ignore him, and just do the right thing.
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Great line from Podcast: "the world may change. You never know what is going to be tomorrow considered inappropriate." Somebody needs to explain to Conservatives that their values may be deemed harmful to our community, and they m
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When I got my job at NeXT computer I remember Steve Jobs saying to me that there were only two people there without degrees, and he was one of them (and I was the other.)
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I remember reading an article describing how college costs can be explained by an analysis of supply and demand. There have been a variety of historic reasons for demand rising at different times - mostly related to unemployment and lack of
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My complaint is that Colbert's humor reflects wealthy New York values - and he never makes jokes about the actual problems which caused many to vote for Trump (yes, some Trump supporters are racist - but many have real issues with the
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I thought I would never use the math that I was taught in college - then I did some work on Pixar's 3D library (matrix algebra) and PDF rasterization (lots of geometry). I did some curve fitting and FFT when I was interfacing a UI to a
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Guess you haven't heard about the 1% with most of the wealth? If so, then I don't think I can offer you any advice.
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Was it Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky who described these types of arguments as: "fighting over the scraps". The point being that we are missing the bigger picture - the massive bulk of the money is going to the rich and we need to f
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I was lucky to have a University class where we studied studies - constructing them, running them, and evaluating them. We went through many historically important studies to understand them better. Our conclusion? Lots of studies are very
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And I was reading that most "capped" underwater oil wells are actually leaking oil - and there are many thousands. So oil is silently killing incredible amounts of sea life. So, while I regret the loss of animal life to wind turbi
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I just decided to dump Atom - I discovered that it gets very slow as file size increases (to the point where it could be described as "broken".) Makes me glad that I write most of my code in C and do most of my editing in vi.
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I was reading that Finland does preferential buying from companies based on financial transparency - given what I've seen in Fortune 50's where I've worked (offshore stocks to hide income and avoid taxes by both senior execut
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Most of my comments while I'm developing aren't FIXMEs or TODOs - sometimes just state, sometimes just tracing, ... Trying to figure out semantics for all those scenarios seems like a waste of brain cells - I'll stick to XXX
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Steve talked about a lot of things - and even more to his direct reports. But the only people who would have proof are also people who would never talk about it. I also worked for a direct report of Bill Gates and a direct report of Larry E
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by MrTonyD 10y ago
I don't even know where to start. At the 10,000 foot level, a description of a page fault might sound like an index miss, but the similarity ends there. Data access typically doesn't work at the page level at all - pages only move
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I worked on projects for Steve and reported to his direct reports. One would have to be very naive to think that this isn't just typical business practice. Or do people really fall for that "free market" stuff that we are bei
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Back in the days there were backroom deals to get Adobe on Apple platform. Steve would meet with Adobe executives and trade them cash and offshore stock (untraceable, of course) so that they would port to Apple. All the development for Appl
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Well, I agree if by "played the politics" you mean "were willing to force it on users". The other alternatives to the init system were rejected because, in general, init was good enough. Not perfect - but not worth the

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