RRWagner

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by RRWagner 2y ago
I was one of the "peeps" testifying to the California Assembly committee that promptly made Net Neutrality a CA thing even if not yet Federal.
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by RRWagner 2y ago
What caused what most people perceive as inflation is really greedflation that, quite simply, was caused by it suddenly becoming acceptable to raise prices "because everyone else is" and corporations piling on by saying to themsel
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by RRWagner 2y ago
Rabbit-hole ahead: is there a connection between tooth-loss and amnesia? Is it just coincidence that forgetting early memories coincides with a total tooth change-out?
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by RRWagner 3y ago
What is the difference between AI scanning existing art, and creating new images informed by the prior art, and a person touring galleries, looking at the works of living artists, and creating new works influenced in style, color, framing,
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by RRWagner 3y ago
A very good concise insight
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by RRWagner 3y ago
Try Blockscad3d.com It's a block language where you program the object rather than manipulate shapes. It works well for my brain. Ymmv
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by RRWagner 3y ago
When you have your own kids you'll discover that the secret rule is that it takes 2 kids at least twice as long as it will take their dad (for a variety of reasons; experience, distractions, lack of focus, etc.). 3 kids even longer. A
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by RRWagner 3y ago
Likewise.. I expected a burial site with the accomanying artifacts that somehow they knew that woman would never really want in the afterlife.
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by RRWagner 3y ago
I posted that as a feature request 13 yrs ago. (ID 570442) following on bug ID 471231 from 15 yrs ago. It seems to be intractable.
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by RRWagner 3y ago
When I had cataract surgery I specifically requested and gat this - one eye for distances and the other at about 18" for computer use. I very much like it. Adaptation felt immediate.. while I was waiting for glasses to arrive I felt li
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by RRWagner 4y ago
Maybe this: https://snap.berkeley.edu/
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by RRWagner 4y ago
And why do we recognize graduates of higher education in the 21st century by making them wear clothes from 500 years ago?? I know "why" but somehow it would be more forward-looking if they were even wearing Starfleet uniforms.
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by RRWagner 4y ago
I love HN topics+comments. Not only is it it my daily reading, but I can easily imagine a high school or college discussion class centered on it as part of a truly liberal education.
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by RRWagner 4y ago
500 ft in rural areas that still have buildings and structures of some sort, but FAA regs for private pilots state,"may fly at less than 500 feet when over “sparsely populated areas,” as long as the aircraft is not operated closer than
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Code Execution on Starlink User Terminal via voltage fault injection(hackster.io)
2 points by RRWagner 4y ago|0 comments
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by RRWagner 4y ago
>> growth in wages for the upper 30% of society... Which just means that the 1% can then extract as much of that 30% as possible returning the 29% right back tonwhere they effectively were before the growth (not to mention anyone that
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by RRWagner 4y ago
HyperStudio, hypermedia authoring for schools, inspired by HyperCard but very different in many ways. (I was the initiator and team leader)
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by RRWagner 4y ago
And then there was HyperStudio on the Mac. I'm pretty sure it had native color before HyperCard. Later versions were able to export as html5. Ted Nelson remarked, "HyperStudio was a paradigm challenge of a serious nature"
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by RRWagner 4y ago
We view stars through the same atmosphere as the sun. Why aren't stars orange when near the horizon?
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Windows UI for a Website(selinazawacki.com)
2 points by RRWagner 4y ago|0 comments
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by RRWagner 4y ago
I have a bunch of .moov video files from the Mac that I've been trying for years to figure out how to view again. QuickTime on the Mac no longer recognizes them, even though they were originally QuickTime movies. Maybe even from the
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by RRWagner 5y ago
Well put. The problem with hyper-stimulating digital gaming imho is that everything else becomes un-interesting. Kids used to be able to get enjoyment from a wide range of simple (and tangible) things, but that list seems to be shrinking.
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by RRWagner 5y ago
I didn't see where the VCA hospitals explained how tilting gives vertical information that is stated in the Smarter Every Day video. This was fun to see though, because watching my dog listening for movement underground (gophers, insec
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by RRWagner 6y ago
https://www.amazingrust.com/Experiments/how_to/Pyrophoric_Fe...
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by RRWagner 6y ago
>> Proprietary software rejects their thirst for knowledge: it says, “The knowledge you want is a secret—learning is forbidden!” Proprietary software is the enemy of the spirit of education, so it should not be tolerated in a school,
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by RRWagner 7y ago
This is all explained in the books of Joseph Davidovits.
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by RRWagner 7y ago
"cement" is just the beginning of a more fascinating journey into the work of Joseph Davidovits. I encourage anyone interested in this to read his books, including "The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved" and "Why the Phara
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by RRWagner 7y ago
>> The dearth of middle income jobs... References/data for that?
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by RRWagner 7y ago
My anecdatum is that I bought CREE LED replacements about five years ago and I've had to replace more than a few already as they have started failing.
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by RRWagner 7y ago
As a seller of little widgets that just started on Amazon a few months ago, that's exactly what I have just discovered this past week as Q1 2019 ended. I sell one widget for $25 and I have to file, and I sell $0 in another state where

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