OldGuyInTheClub

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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Orion had an update recently that broke my autologin to HN. I posted a question to their forum and they fixed it within a few hours. Incredibly responsive!
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
If that world comes to pass, it will become mandatory not optional and I would search for the nearest bullet to end it all. I would ask where Google is finding people to spout this codswallop but I know the answer.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I've appreciated four years of a government that at least tried to do good things. Not looking forward to the impending shitstormfront.
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A Detailed Breakdown of Core Collapse Supernovae [video](youtube.com)
1 points by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago|1 comments
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Goes into details most popular science channels leave out
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Yeah. I have him uBO-ed at home but when I occasionally look at HN from work (extensions not allowed) I am annoyed by the cruft.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I agree. I have a personal blog for s&g but based on what little analytics I do, almost no humans visit. The few blogs with regular posts never prune their blogrolls - 95% of those links go to long dead sites.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
cf. Doonesbury on Californian/Mellow-Speak: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1979/05/16
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Also on DDG.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
> some people, particularly in higher levels of management, just want to be spoon fed bullet lists and then feel like they’re making informed decisions. That caste likes to say, "I have people that do that for me."
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Tufte addresses that in the postscript. It is the first item in it.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
> If you can afford to use these connectors, you’ll also be able to afford to buy the appropriate tools to crimp them, even if only second hand – they are well worth it. I've had a chance to use some well-maintained, calibrated crim
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Heh heh. I think that's wrong but well played.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
At the tail end of my so-called career and I have learned it again and again.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
My experience: The higher you go, the dumber they get.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
I've loaned my hardcopy of this classic to many people in my industry. Regrettably it has not had any impact and Powerpoint still runs rampant. I am not a Tufte fanboy but this article hits perfectly.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Enterprise-grade at scale.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
And disciples "reach out", "touch base", and "circle back."
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Oh, hell yes. The anonymous author of "The Unendurable Horrors of Leadership Camp" agrees as well. https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2016/06/the-unendurable-...
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
2024 and 2009: https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishe...
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Likewise since I work in the field of actual optics. Made the list in 2019: https://www.lssu.edu/resources/about-lssu/traditions/banishe...
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Can't come soon enough for me. I hope it can get its program accomplished before the LEO satellite megaconstellations pollute the sky beyond repair.
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2025 Banished Words List(lssu.edu)
58 points by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago|70 comments
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
The annual list of words and phrases that have worn out their welcome.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Yeah... he hated the Ph.D. system, called it evil. He also said a great advantage of the Institute for Advanced Study was that he could work with postdocs - recent products of that same evil system. Source: Why I don't like the PhD sy
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Interesting. The Wikipedia page for his contemporary Littlewood lists a Doctoral Advisor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edensor_Littlewood Edit: The Mathematics Genealogy Project lists Littlewood as an M.A. as wel
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
From the title page. No Ph.D. necessary to be a legend in them days. ;-) G. H. HARDY, M.A., F.R.S. FELLOW OF NEW COLLEGE SAVILIAN PROFESSOR OF GEOMETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LATE FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Yep, that's the case in many parts of Southern California.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Imagine blocking the infestation of billboards on earth with a dynamic shade.
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by OldGuyInTheClub 2y ago
Thanks for clarifying! In that case, he and I have the same "problem" although at very different levels. I've written in other posts about Forth and Lisp that I would very much like to get over the hump of changing how I thi

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