OliverJones

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by OliverJones 5y ago
I love these E-Ink guys. They've been plugging away for a quarter century and their stuff keeps getting better.
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by OliverJones 5y ago
I saw a demo of one of these Linotype machines long ago. It totally fascinated my ten-year-old self. IIRC, I tried to get the operator to give me a line of type. He wouldn't -- something about lead being toxic.
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Country-based IP blocks at content providers (Netflix, other streaming services) relate to their content licensing. They may have purchased the rights to distribute the film in question in the US, but not in Spain, for example. Sure, inform
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by OliverJones 5y ago
By this logic, we'd also rename awk to something more "meaninful" because the names of Aho, Kernighan, and Weinberger are just historical artifacts. They are indeed, but we're talking about a real-world "we all talk
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Excellent. This light-mode holdout wishes for a white-background tournament.
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Figuring out how to mine this safely seems like a decent project for the Department of Energy's ARPA-E project. It's worth an evaluation at any rate. https://arpa-e.energy.gov/ Surely there are some National Lab
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Vehicle electronics have some real environmental challenges as well. They have to function correctly * after they've been parked outdoors in Death Valley all day. * after they've been parked at -40 degrees for a long time.
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Take the case of motorcycle helmets. Not wearing a helmet increases the risk of traumatic brain injury in a crash. And, people living with TBI get a lot of care at the expense of federal and state taxpayers. Would a "libertarian"
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by OliverJones 5y ago
There's a strong strain of (bogus) piety in conservative American Christianity that thrives on pages, sites, and media branded as Christian. "Wow, I can get my ticket punched for the stairway to heaven just by visiting the Jesus
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by OliverJones 5y ago
There are many reasons to be skeptical of how the military might USE this kind of reactor. Ill-considered foreign deployments conducted by contractors without exit plans could cause many problems. But, there are fewer reasons to to be skept
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by OliverJones 5y ago
With respect, this author misunderstands Edward Tufte's use of the term "Chart junk." Chart junk isn't just pointless decoration on charts. It's also misleading or missing scales, deceptive or inept ways of represe
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Yeah. Those of us who patent stuff when employed are pretty darn close to "owned entities." Part of the filing process is assigning the patent rights to the employer. Can an AI sign a patent assignment document or a work-for-hire
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Here's another reason to quit social media: the lords of the engagement economy make money off "mimetic desire" -- off your envy of me and my envy of you. The more anxious they can make me and you about measuring up to each
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by OliverJones 5y ago
It's interesting for this white american guy to learn a little bit about other cultures' prejudicial tribal structures. (That's my attempt at neutral language for what american sociologists call "structural racism".
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Read the first chapter of _The Fifth Discipline_ by Peter Senge. It describes this lumber situation fairly clearly, for a different product (trendy microbrew beer).
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by OliverJones 5y ago
The automated email from Stripe is just weird. No, zero, disputes? That's uncanny. I've run a Stripe.com integration (for a SaaS business). A few times a year somebody disputes a charge. It's usually because they looked at
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by OliverJones 5y ago
What's the difference? This Opal has a good quality lens. f/1.8 is a large aperture. That means it can gather a lot of light. Six glass elements probably means it has good geometric and color distortion characteristics. The specs
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by OliverJones 5y ago
As often happened in early 20th century archaeology, Wooley's crew was a bit sloppy handling the tablets they found: they boxed them up and took them home to try to figure them out, corrupting their order. Kind of like, I suppose, rea
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Pi-Hole on my domestic private network.
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They can probably recruit plenty of subjects from longtime residents of Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA, and Ipswich, MA, USA, where the disease started to take hold. This is good stuff. I hope they make it through efficacy (Phase 2) and safety
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In the bike-parts and other speciality manufacturing businesses, there's a fourth barrier to entry for new competitors: reputation for quality. Quality matters a whole lot for the kind of products PNW makes. Not every cyclist has the a
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by OliverJones 5y ago
An interesting parallel: the early days of the Internet assumed universal competence in a way like this piece describes. Postel's law says "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." Relying on compet
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If the epoch in this proposal were changed to something closer to the present day (2000-01-01 or the UNIX epoch) the format could easily recover some bits from the time fields to put in the PRNG-generated "node" fields. I wonder w
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by OliverJones 5y ago
This article contains two suggestions: 1. heat pumps rather than resistance heating: move the heat where you want it instead of creating it from scratch. 2. timeshifting electrical load. Figure out how to add and shed it on demand. The seco
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by OliverJones 5y ago
Hmmm. Their customers for Windows are large orgs -- enterprises, universities, governments. This is going to drive them crazy. Again.
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I know what "fascist" means. "Authoritarian" might be a slightly better epithet for the current president Bukele. His party recently voted, in the assembly, to fire five supreme court judges who opposed Bukele. https:&#
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Yup. Indeed. A group I'm part of had a fatality in a canoe race back in 1991 because of exactly this. It happened in a channelized stretch of river where the dam stretched wall to wall. The vertical eddy is called a "keeper"
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I sure hope this goes better after the sale to a private equity firm than FogBugz did. I'd hate to see my investment of time turn to smoke.
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Read Geoffrey Moore's classic "Crossing the chasm." (The title is no metaphor for your prospective customers.) It will give you a framework for thinking about introducing a new product -- early adopters, and all that stuff. A
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A question for you, Mr. Jewish hacker, a serious question, if I may. The Commandment in Genesis 20:10 spells out the Sabbath rule. "But the seventh day is a sabbath to [the holy name]; you shall not do any work — you, your son or your

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