RichardCA

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by RichardCA 3y ago
I remember an old PBS Nova episode from the 70's. Someone used a PDP-8 to build an icon-based chat mechanism. The chimp caught on pretty fast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwZWWsc5xDk#t=32m
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I think there is a hypothesis going on, that the Earth has an above average quantity of gold because of some novel cosmic event, e.g. neutron star activity that just happened to be in our neighborhood ~5 billion years ago during the formati
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Anyone who didn't start during the CRT era, when you couldn't even count on curses support in the terminal. The "everything is a printer" abstraction started because PDP's that ran V7 Unix at Bell Labs really did us
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Just last week I was asked to provide some possible screening questions to recruit for a Devops role. I figured this would be good: "How do you pass a parameter to a Bash script so that the script will exit with an error if it's n
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Was the subject of a classic Monty Python bit in one of their books in the 70's. https://greatwen.com/2012/11/20/how-to-take-your-appendix-ou...
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I'm no expert, but there's a lot of misinformation around this point. Apparently there is no 100% reliable test apart from spectrometry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE51TMRJn8U
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by RichardCA 3y ago
This is a topic of debate in my current job. We use Jenkins Multibranch Pipelines and don't want to discard all that work, but we also don't want developers doing release management based on the Jenkins UI/UX. It seems logica
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Never thought I'd have a reason to post this on HN. Don't skip the comment section. https://youtu.be/U_gLDF2dGLY
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Not sure if anyone has posted the Regina Elsea story yet. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-al...
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by RichardCA 3y ago
When they introduced ads (2012 I think), they also removed the ability see a feed that was a direct reflection of your social graph. They also jumbled the feed so you can never return to the last thing you were looking at, unless you explic
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by RichardCA 3y ago
The "Russian Dashcam" videos are horrific these days, basically snuff films and yes that includes children. I'm the kind of person who likes realistic war movies and the like but this is on a different level. I won't pos
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I'll defend "Sleep With Me" as the quintessential Gen-X movie. We all knew these personality types, or were them. https://youtu.be/AecBtibhNoI
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by RichardCA 3y ago
It occasionally kills people. It can be lethal in enclosed spaces. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-03-07-mn-3546-s... https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/asph
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by RichardCA 3y ago
The reason ideas like Intelligent Design don't get any traction is because the people who promote those ideas never provide any details. If you make an assertion that a process can't work without divine intervention, the burden of
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by RichardCA 3y ago
"Real Programmers don't play tennis, or any other sport which requires you to change clothes. Mountain climbing is OK, and Real Programmers wear their climbing boots to work in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the midd
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Yeah I agree. I actually had the same thought as the author, use the example of wave/particle duality in Physics. The problem is most people don't understand that (how to grasp the paradox and have the right intuition about it) an
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by RichardCA 3y ago
> ... the ads are just encoded directly into the video stream There has to be a reason why they haven't done that already. Perhaps they haven't worked out a reliable way to track ad impressions in the continuous stream. Perhaps
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by RichardCA 3y ago
It's called "a posture of shallow cynicism" that adds nothing to the discussion.
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by RichardCA 3y ago
It started when a few different style guides made the change in 2020. https://news.ucdenver.edu/is-the-b-in-black-capitalized-yes/
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by RichardCA 3y ago
It's nearly always a strawman, waiting for someone to come along and rescue it with a steelman. And that seems to be what Bergson is trying to do. I mean yes, of course, the undergraduate Physics student is being handed a packet of met
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by RichardCA 3y ago
The Samsung Watch 4 Classic had a rotating bezel, gave it a nice look and also practical. https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-watch-4-classi... The lack of a bezel is probably part of why the Pixel Watch is so dam
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by RichardCA 3y ago
It's not a minor nitpick. The author mis-explains what futures contracts are in a very fundamental way. There's an NPR article about this same topic: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/1
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by RichardCA 3y ago
Once you get past Abilene or San Angelo you're getting into the eastern reach of the Chihuahuan Desert, so around 4 hours. Some maps put it west of the Pecos but that's not the official line, to be fair different maps seem to put
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I just got through watching Johnny Mnemonic with my wife (she likes Keanu Reeves movies as far back as "A Walk in the Clouds"). It plays much better today, as retro-futuristic nostalgia, than it did during its run in theaters in 1
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by RichardCA 3y ago
The story of Franklin's role in the history of Physics almost never gets told properly. The PBS Mechanical Universe series did a good job with it, given that they only had 25 minutes to work with. https://youtu.be/N72oY
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by RichardCA 3y ago
It's like the article a few days ago about the Air France 447. We expect a competent pilot to form a situational awareness model, but then discard that model when confronted with novel information. Sometimes they have to do this in a m
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by RichardCA 3y ago
https://youtu.be/BPazh2kDdvA
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I think it's also the ability to have a deep bench of coding talent who just get to work on the toolchain. Most companies ration that talent to the product, shipping features that drive revenue.
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I got it to work in an acceptable way with an 8BitDo Pro 2. I control the movement of "Tron" via the right stick and the aiming cursor with the left D-pad. The main thing I notice on the environmental version is the Sark voice act
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by RichardCA 3y ago
I grew up watching the Project Universe show on PBS. It was hosted by Ed Krupp, no one is a more tireless Astronomy educator than he is, and he knew a lot about Archeoastronomy (to the point of writing books that are primary references). Th

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